Pizzeria Mama

Unique Italian with Japanese twist.

The restaurant is a part of the House Mama Hotel. It has a lovely atmosphere with open kitchen style and modern Japanese decor. With light music, It's a good place for a date.

The menus consist of some classic italian but mostly Italian with Japanese flavour and ingredients, and i think Mama has done that very well. All the dishes we tried were delicious, especially the crab pasta. The seasoning was spot on, which highlighted the sweetness of the snow crab.

The price is reasonable, and the service is good. Some staff can speak English well and there are English menu.

This place is popular, and there was a bit of a queue when we arrived. Luckily, we did book ahead from its website. So i would recommend you to save time by make a reservation in advance. You can also order a takeout pizza via its website.

Good pizza in Kyoto. Very friendly staff. The crust is thin style an has great flavor and texture. We had a margarita pizza and a 4 cheese pizza with fig. Both really hit the spot after a week of Japanese food, which has been great. We walked from the hotel. Take out is also available

We wanted something different and we found this place. Japanese pizza!! In fact it's probably the best Japanese pizza Ive ever tasted

We were very fortunate because we walked in and got seats. On their online booking system, the place was fully booked out. We are a party of 8 so we really lucked out.

We ordered 2 pizza, pasta and 2 meats. Let's start with the pizzas.

I got a half and half of the spring onion pizza and the mushroom bacon pizza. I have never tasted so japanese tasting pizza before. The ingredients were so fresh, the dough is springy and chewy yet easy to bite and the flavours were deep. The peppers were sparingly sprinkled to give the mushroom pizza a nice little burst of spice.

The sukiyaki pizza however was the real deal. It tasted EXACTLY like sukiyaki. You can never imagine sukiyaki there on a pizza but they've done it. They should get some kind of an award for the pizza. I recommend eating as large a mouth as possible because the different parts of the pizza have different flavors.

We ordered crab pasta. Real tasty crab. The spaghetti was done al dente.

The deer main was especially yummy. Not gamey and very fragrant. The meat tastes especially good when the rude deer in Nara snatched the biscuit from my hand.

The beef was very tender and tasty to the bite. Escargot butter is such a genius idea.

Mama is a gem in arashiyama.