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The Riva Degli Etruschi Restaurant is a place for people
who are at home in Italy and with the Italian cuisine. Seconds
after you sit down, your glass is filled with wine. There
are 130 wines on the wine list, listed by region, and 30 grapes.
The two young Italian chefs make their own bread, rolls, fantasy
desserts, and delicious liquors. The splendid menu embraces
pheasant, pigeon, rabbit, and venison. Typical dishes are
roasted eel with green olives, capers, sun-dried tomatoes
and polenta; veal fillet flavored with rhubarb and honey,
served with fried celery, turnips and paprika; and sugar-beet
gnocchi stuffed with sea bass, with garlic and lettuce sauce.
Upstairs, under the roof of the same old house that was demolished
to make way for this smart new building, there is a tavern
serving antipasti, cold dishes, and foccocia sandwiches. Meat
is roasted on a spit and there is wine by the glass.
The Italian Embassy considers the Riva to be one of Tokyo's
best Italian restaurants
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