Via Monte Tina

Via Monte Tina
Phone: 082-247-3031
3-12 Fukuro-Machi, Naka-Ku
GPS: N34º 23.589' E 132º 27.716'

Quick Jumps...
About the restaurant
Walking directions
Helpful information about the restaurant
English menu
How to order food here in Japanese
Favorite dishes amongst your colleagues
Pronunciation guide
Japanese Phrases - at the restaurant

About Via Monte Tina
Hours: 11:00am-2:30pm and 5:30pm-10:30pm

Lively and convenient Italian restaurant just off of the Hondori mall behind Parco. Popular for their incredible lunch buffet deal at just 900 yen. Includes pizza, spaghetti, salad, bread, ice cream and more. Dinner menu is extensive.

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Walking directions
From Tenmaya corner:
Walk south down the busy Chuo dori street. Make a right (cross the wide street) at the 2nd light. Walk to the end (you're in the Hondori mall now), and make a left. You'll see the Parco department store ahead of you. Go around Parco to the right. Continue walking south past Parco, past the Subway sandwich shop on your left. The restaurant is on next corner after the Subway, on your left.
From Rihga Royal Hotel:
Walk south towards the Sogo department store. Cross the main street and continue south along the streetcar line. Make a left into the Hondori mall (at the first light south of Sogo). Continue walking east on the Hondori mall until you arrive at the large Parco department store. Make a right at Parco. Pass the Subway sandwich shop on your left. The restaurant is on next corner after the Subway, on your left.

Helpful Information
Average price: 900 lunch, 1000 to 2000yen for dinner
Accepts Credit Card: Yes
English Menu: Yes
English speaking employees: Yes, a little
Seating: Western style tables
Fork Available?: Yes
Non-Smoking section?: No
Child seat: No
Restroom style: Western
Atmosphere: Lunch is popular, crowded, dinner ?
Accepts corporate accounts: No

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Via Monte Tina

Lunch: Buffet (tabehodai or baikingu) 900 yen (plus 200 yen for drink) 11am to 2:30pm only
elementary school children 500 yen, infant (>3yrs but not in school), 300 yen

Dinner Menu

Assorted appetizers (zensai) any 5 items for 800 yen, 8 items for 1300 yen, or 350 yen each
1. Spinach and parmesan cheese omelet (horensoto parumezan chizu omuretsu)
2. Smoked white fish and winter vegetable (kamburi no kunsei to fuyu yasai)
3. Small onion and barsamikio (kotamanegi to barusamiko)
4. Homemade hacota cheese and fresh tomato (jikasei hakota chizu to furesshu tomato)
5. Raw ham from St. Daniel (sandanieru san nama hamu)
6. Emilia style lasagna (razania emilia fuu)
7. American eggplant ala Biata (beinasu no arabiata)
8. Kaponata (kaponata)
9. Blow fish and vegetable maranade (fugu to yasai no marine)
10. Scallop muscle carpacio (hotate kaibashira)
11. Young chicken with cream sauce (wakadori no kurimu ni)
12. Italian vegetable brusquette (itialia yasai no burusuketta)
13. Local octopus with tomato sauce (jitakono tomato nikomi)
14. Mushroom marinade (kino kono marine)
15. Two kind of Italian salami (italian sarami)

Antipasta (more zensai)
Baked shrimp with wild salt and herb (ebi no genen kosoyaki), 550 yen
Madai carupacco with mustard (madai no caruppacho), 550 yen
Rice crocket (okomeno korokke), 350 yen
Japanese beef carpacco with ricola (wagyu no carupacco brukorazo en), 680 yen
Baked super hot giant shelfish with herb (sazae no atsu atsu cousou pankoyaki), 480 yen
Steamed clam with wine (asari no wain mushi), 580 yen

Fish
Various fishes dinner, 1400 yen minimum

Salads
Seafood salad (umi no sachi no sarada), 580 yen
Fickle salad (kimagure sarada), 550 yen
White fish crispy salad with barsamiko sauce (madai no kari kari sarada), 650 yen
Fresh tomato salad (fureshu tomato sarada), 530 yen

Meat Dishes
Oven baked Kyushu chicken with vegetable ragu sauce (satsu ma jidori no oven yaki yasai no ragu sousu), 1250
Many layers of raw ham of baby beef (koushi rosu no saruti boka), 1250 yen
Beef tongue with Porccini mushroom (gyu tan no nikomi kikorifu), 1000 yen
Baked Kyushu chicken with herb (satsuma jidori no kousou yaki), 1200 yen
Milano style veal with tomato sauce (koishi no mirano fuu katsuretusu kekka sousu), 1180 yen
Baked ordinary grade lamb with bone with herb (honetsuki kohitsuji rousu no kousou yaki), 1350 yen
Beef sirloin with ricola herb (gyu saaroin no rucora zoe), 1300 yen
Toscana style grilled assorted items (beef, veal, chicken) (amiyaki no moriawase Tosukana fuu), 1480 yen

Bread (pan)
Garlic toast (garikku tousuto), 280 yen
French bread (paane), 180 yen
Bread with anchovies and mozzarella cheese (anchobi to motsurera no hasamiage), 350 yen

Pasta
Tagliorini (thin)
Pasta with crab with cream tomato sauce (watarigani no kuriimu tomato sousu), 1080 yen
Pasta with tomato sauce with basil (bajirikoiri tomato sousu), 880 yen

Linguini
Pasta with seafood with garlic sauce (umi no sachi no gariku sousu), 980 yen
Pasta Bongore, 930 yen

Penne
Arabiata, 920 yen
Gorugonzora, 930 yen

Fettuccini
Smoked salmon with cream sauce, 930 yen
Meat sauce, 980 yen

Spaghetti
Peperonchino, 850 yen
Carubonara, 950 yen
Mushroom with bacon with Japanese sauce, 850 yen

Risotto
Squid ink Risoto (ika sumi no rizotto), 950 yen
Seafood Risoto (umi no sachi no rizotto), 980 yen
Parmesan Risoto (parumesan no rizotto), 930 yen
Porchini Mushroom Risoto (poruchini dake no rizotto), 980 yen

Pizza
Margerita (basil, tomato sauce, and mozzarella cheese), 900 yen
Napoletano (anchovy, tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese), 900 yen
Marinara (oregano and garlic), 850 yen
Monta (Monta Tina original w/ham, egg, mushroom, and mozzarella cheese), 980 yen
Fungi (with mushroom and mozzarella cheese), 950 yen
Quattro Foromagio (gargonzola , fontina, mozzarella and parmesan cheese), 1050 yen
Bologna Style Calzone (meat sauce, egg, mortadela sausage, mozzarella cheese, and ricota cheese), 1050 yen

Deserts and Dolce
Tiramisu, 480 yen
Espresso pudding, 360 yen
Aphogato aru cafe, 450 yen
Seasonal tart, 400 yen
Cream of burure, 380 yen
Seasonal machidonia, 470 yen
Pana cota, 350 yen
Gato chocolate, 370 yen
This months special, see board

Drinks: all kinds of coffee, espresso, cappuccino, latte, etc. Also various wines and liquor available.

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How to order in Japanese:

Lunch is easy... you don't have to ask for anything. It is usually assumed that you'll be having the buffet. Help yourself.

For dinner, just ask for the dish in the Japanese pronunciation above. Say onegaishimasu after the dish's name to indicate "please".

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Favorite dishes

The lunch buffet can wipe out your diet in a flash. Delicious and plentiful.

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