Buganville Hiroo

Can't belive I hadn't reviewed here before. Have been coming for nearly 15 years on and off.
Came for a late lunch around 1350 - they shut the doors at 1400 and put the bill on your table at 1430.
We ordered the lunch set which comes with salad or appetizers plate, pizza or pasta and a drink for 2200 yen.
The quality of the food is great, pizza slightly small. Pizza dough is lovely and chewy.
Great place that has withstood the times and kept on producing great Napoli pizzas.

Found this Italian gem in the heart of Tokyo. After searching for what seemed like hours, we just happened to stumble upon Buganville. This quaint and cozy restaurant serves up some of the freshest and most delicious food I've ever experienced. The pizzas and pastas are all hand made from scratch and all the staff really make you feel at home. If you're staying in the area, make sure to add this delicious restaurant to your list!

Absolutely delicious!!! I got the prawn pasta and the salad. The pasta is hand made and the sauce is on point! The service is fantastic as well! Highly recommend it!!!

I have been coming to this place for about 20 years. The food was more or less consistent and the lunch deal good value for money.
Aware that the restaurant seemed to have survived quite a few ownership and staff changes over the years. Somehow subsequent owners managed to meet expectations of long term patrons. Great.

Until now. If you mess up the service people give you a second chance. If you serve garbage, they won't come back.

I ordered a papardelle al ragoût, a traditional meat stew based pasta dish which I have had many times over the years. It used to be good.
The latest rendering surprisingly didn't have any meat in it. The most meaty bite I had was the stem of a shiitake mushroom - not exactly enjoyable.
It looks like the management has failed to understand the principles of inflation: if you serve a meat dish and the meat costs more, then increase the price. I'll happily pay for it instead of reminding myself I am not at some cheap izakaya ordering gyu suji at 4am.

Don't serve a salty soup with large 4cm x 3cm chunks of fat and tendons and zero, literally zero meat. I do enough cooking myself to know that a ragoût requires a specific type of cut with some collagen, some fat in order for it not to end up to dry. Note the use of the word some. But what I shoved down my throat today is just gross.

Pizza for lunch was good . The place was clean and the staff gave good service.