Tachinomi izakaya(立ち飲み居酒屋) means a Japanese casual standing food bar. So tachinomi pizzeria, kitchen Bisshon, clearly took advantage of the cool side of a Japanese traditional eatery and nailed it with handmade pizzas. kitchen Bisshon is technically an apartment located on the ground level in a retro ally that has no signs of pizzerias or even izakayas (except for discreet store signs).
An alley where kitchen Bisshon hides.
Inside kitchen Bisshon. Japanese uchiwa fans with a maiko/geisha name were on display below handwritten menus.
Inside kitchen Bisshon is a cozy, hip standing bar with handwritten Japanese menus on a wall (Italien beer Birra Moretti/モレッティ for 700 yen/$5.30 was one of the drink items on offer). Japanese uchiwa fans (京丸うちわ/Kyomaru Uchiwa) with a maiko/geisha name, which sort of function as business cards of maikos/geishas, were also on display (can’t order them here). There were eight pizza items on offer: Margherita, Romana, marinara, quattro formaggi, carbonara, Napolitan (Japanese Italian ketchup spaghetti dish-inspired toppings), mix (peppers, salami, olives), and a specialty of the month (it was vegetable omelet when I visited with a group). We ordered five pizzas and each took about 3-5 minutes to be cooked.
Margherita (マルゲリータ). 1100 yen/$8.40.
Quattro formaggi with honey (クアトロフォルマッジ). 1300 yen/$10.
Mix (ミックス). 1300 yen/$10.
Carbonara (カルボナーラ). 1300 yen/$10.
kitchen Bisshon’s pizza menu.
All the pizzas we had at kitchen Bisshon were great. It was probably the best carbonara pizza I had in Japan. For the pedigree of the pizzas, they were not Neapolitan pizzas. They could be New York pizzas or California pizzas. But I would rather call them downright good Japanese pizzas because it’s in Japan! Grazie.
A lit store sign of kitchen Bisshon.
kitchen Bisshon | 京都府東山区弓矢町13番地 白扇マンション 103号室
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