A note before you go: this shop is cashless only, and the writer’s bill came to considerably more than the listed menu prices — check yours. Prices are as of this writing (August 2026).
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SAVOY Tomato and Cheese on Tabelog (English) — opening hours, payment details and the Japanese address are kept up to date there, not here.
Drinkers, thank you for waiting. It is Hangover Meshi time.
Lunch this time at “SAVOY Tomato and Cheese” in Azabu-juban.
It used to be further over towards Roppongi. At some point it vanished, and I had heard it moved somewhere — but it seems to have relocated deep into the back streets. My first SAVOY in years, so expectations were high!
I wondered whether lunch without a booking would be impossible — no trouble at all^^
The split appears to be: booked upstairs on the ground floor, unbooked in the basement. Down we go!
Ordered more or less at random!
And after a while, this arrived.
We decided to share between us^^
A house-blend dough fermented and matured for 24 hours, blasted in the fierce heat of the wood-fired oven — crisp outside, chewy within, the ideal contrast. Tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella, basil, olive oil: delicious on that alone.
In the mouth, the bright acidity of tomato, the milky sweetness of mozzarella, the freshness of basil and the richness of olive oil all ride cleanly on the char of the wood-fired dough — the aesthetics of subtraction. Because it is simple, there is nowhere to hide!
And the compulsory choice for the heat-seekers: the “Diavola”. Diavola means “devil-style” in Italian, a fiery pizza topped with spicy salami.
SAVOY’s Diavola builds on the Margherita with hot salame piccante and chilli. As it bakes in the wood oven the fat and heat of the salami soak into the dough, giving it a powerful savour all its own.
Bite in: first the chewy 24-hour dough, then the toasty, salty meat of the spicy salami, the acidity of the tomato and the richness of the mozzarella in turn, and finally the sharpness of the chilli escaping through the nose. The polar opposite of the Margherita’s gentleness — a pizza that hits hard.
The pizza was delicious! But several things nagged — first, the power kept cutting out!
Resetting the breaker did not seem to fix it, and the lights flickered dramatically!
And the painful one, which I failed to notice: this place is cashless only, and when the charge landed later I had paid close to 8,000 yen. Yet checking the menu while writing this: 1,980 + 2,860 = 4,840 yen!
Perhaps those were pre-tax prices with a 50% service charge, or perhaps the water was 2,000 yen!
If you come here, do check the bill^^
May you meet something good to eat today too.
SAVOY Tomato and Cheese (pizza / Azabu-juban Station, Akabanebashi Station)
Tabelog lunch rating ★★☆☆☆ 2.0
I ate here and paid for it myself. Nothing on this site is a comped meal.
One more for the road?
