Tabelog ratingha-na is a tiny Italian restaurant run by a husband-and-wife team a short walk from Kokusai-dori, and its cooking is built on Okinawan produce. Lunch sets open with a heaped salad, sometimes with handama, a purple Okinawan leaf, in a balsamic dressing reduced with beet sugar. The two signature pastas are a light mentaiko (spicy cod roe) cream buried under a dome of shiso leaves, and a 'white' Bolognese of Yanbaru island pork, also served on fresh chitarra. The restaurant was selected for Tabelog's Italian WEST "Tabelog 100" in 2023.
Reviewers return again and again to the mentaiko-shiso pasta and the white Bolognese, and several call them the best pasta of their lives. The oversized salad and warm walnut bread appear in almost every lunch review. At dinner the antipasto platter is the star, with the pâté de campagne and bruschetta singled out. Many also praise the warm, attentive service from the owner's wife.
Dinner comes with rules. The antipasto platter can only be ordered when you book by phone, pasta is served only from 19:00, and each table is limited to two pasta types. One diner was asked to switch to what other tables had ordered. One reviewer found the service condescending, and another describes repeated price checks before a disappointing wagyu steak. Some find the seasoning salty, and popular dishes sell out late in service.
Reviewers in 2024–2025 paid about ¥1,320 for a large white-Bolognese lunch set and about ¥1,400 for the mentaiko set, each with salad, bread and a drink. A large portion is 1.8 times the regular amount of noodles. A 2024 diner was quoted ¥3,500 plus tax for the wagyu steak. Expect to spend roughly ¥1,400–3,000 at lunch and ¥5,000–6,000 a head at dinner, including a seat charge and a compulsory drink. Lunch is outstanding value for the portions and standard, and dinner is fair for the quality.
- Getting there: about 10 minutes on foot from Makishi Station, Miebashi Station or Prefectural Office Station on the Yui Rail monorail (563 m from Miebashi). It is near the crossroads down the road opposite Hotel JAL City Naha, on the ground floor.
- Booking: by phone on 098-862-3073. Booking is strongly recommended. Some days the restaurant takes reservations only, though late walk-ins are sometimes seated.
- Children: children are welcome, but families with children can only book for the same day.
- Payment: cash only. Credit cards, electronic money and QR payments are not accepted.
- Dinner rules: there is a seat charge and one drink per person is compulsory. Pasta is served from 19:00, and the antipasto platter must be pre-ordered when you book.
- Seating: 19 seats, including sofa seating and a tatami room. There are no private rooms and no private hire.
- Smoking: non-smoking inside, with a smoking area outside.
- Parking: none on site, but there is coin parking nearby.
- Language: no foreign-language menu was seen in 2023.
- Timing: hours are short and dishes sell out. Hours may change, so check with the restaurant before visiting.
