FARO

About

On the tenth floor of Shiseido’s Ginza building, FARO treats Italian cooking as a platform for contemporary tasting menus. The restaurant’s identity is innovative rather than regional, and its dedicated vegan course gives plant-based diners a serious parallel experience instead of a shortened adaptation.

Courses are the point here: carefully paced sequences, modern plating and a dining room small enough to keep service controlled. The Shiseido setting adds a distinct Ginza polish without pushing the room into grand-hotel scale.

FARO is reservation-led, smart casual and adults-only under its current policy, making it better suited to a planned dinner than a spontaneous stop.

The operating pattern is deliberately narrow: lunch only from Wednesday to Saturday, dinner from Tuesday to Saturday, then Sunday and Monday closures plus seasonal breaks. Combined with the tenth-floor Ginza address, 28-seat limit, smart-casual policy and no-child rule, it reads as a tightly staged tasting-menu room rather than a flexible Italian dining room.

Highlights

• Innovative Italian tasting menus in the Shiseido building
• A dedicated vegan course alongside the standard experience
• A compact 28-seat, non-smoking dining room

What to order

• FARO tasting course — The standard route through the kitchen’s innovative Italian cooking.
• Vegan tasting course — A dedicated plant-based sequence rather than a last-minute substitution.

Good to know

• Lunch operates Wednesday through Saturday; dinner operates Tuesday through Saturday.
• Smart-casual dress is expected, and children are not admitted under the published policy.
• Reserve ahead and disclose allergies or plant-based requirements during booking.

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