About 46 minutes by car from Naha Airport. This Italian restaurant is located in Yomitan Village in the central part of Okinawa’s main island. The restaurant, renovated from an old private house, has a good atmosphere, and its Italian cuisine using Okinawan ingredients is also well-reputed. It is one of the best Italian restaurants in Yomitan Village, where there are many Italian restaurants.
Point 1: What is the location of “Mintama”?
You have been eating only Okinawan food from the first day of your visit to Okinawa, but don’t you sometimes feel a craving for something else on the third day?
Min Tamama is a 2,000-year-old Italian restaurant in Yomitan Village, located in the central part of Okinawa’s main island.
It is located a little off Prefectural Route 12, which connects to National Route 58, but the location is easy to find. It is relatively easy to get to, taking only 46 minutes from Naha Airport.
The stylish exterior of the renovated Okinawan house. It is marked by a large tree, which must be 100 years old, with a red double-circled sign “◎” on it.
The restaurant is open in the evening, and if you go there at dusk, the interior is lit up to convey a warm atmosphere.
Point 2: What is the recommended menu for “Mintama”?
The menu at Min Tamama can be broadly divided into pizza, pasta, fritters, soups, and local dishes.
The restaurant used to offer non-Italian food and desserts, but due to the chef’s resignation, it is now almost exclusively Italian. Some of the menu items listed on gourmet food websites such as “Eat Log” are no longer available, so please be careful.
The most popular menu items are the “Fresh Tomato Pizza” and the “Gurukun Fritters.
The fresh tomatoes on top of the crispy thin pizza dough are melted with rich cheese and are excellent. (Half 968 yen, 1,848 yen per slice, all prices include tax)
The fritter of whole Okinawan fish, gurukun, topped with balsamic vinegar, is thick and very satisfying! The rich taste is addictive. (968 yen)
Other pizzas include anchovy, meat, arsa and shirasu, and pescatore, while pastas include salsa polonese, rigatoni with stewed fish, squid meat, and pasta with umi budou and crowfish, showing that Okinawan ingredients are also used well.
Point 3: What other Italian restaurants do you recommend in the same area as “Mintama”?
Photo: “Kaigan Shokudo Caprice
There are many other Italian restaurants in Yomitan Village, where Minatama is located.
To name a few, there is “Ishigama Pizza Bar Maruki,” which serves a wide variety of a la carte dishes in small portions in addition to its popular pizza, and “Yachimun Cafe Gujo,” near Yachimun-no-sato, which serves excellent stone oven pizza served on colorful yachimun, as well as delicious cafe latte, tiramisu and other dishes.
Many people also return for dinner to “bottle shop&beer pub Caprice,” which has a great sense of style with its exterior and interior design, craft beer, and resort atmosphere, and serves delicious curry and pasta lunch.
Try to find your favorite restaurant in Yomitan Village, a battleground of Italian restaurants.
