Nagoya

Whether you’re a total noobie or are a piece of the local furniture, Nagoya is a city that continuously surprises. New restaurants, shops, and bars pop up all the time, and you can be wandering down a familiar street and suddenly notice something that you’ve never come across before. We all have our favorites, our haunts, our places that we like to call our own. In this JIS series, Nagoya residents share their recommendations so you can get to know this eclectic city as well as they do. Who? Adam Miller Recommendation? Piacere Mio Adam has been in Nagoya more years than he’d perhaps like to admit, and if you’ve been here for some time, you may recognize his name from his days writing for the (sadly) now-defunct NagMag, his own magazine Axiom, and his food reviews in Japan Times. Due to the latter, he is in an excellent position to give a restaurant recommendation. “Piacere Mio is an absolutely great place,” says Adam, “and a really nice Italian gent runs it.” On top of that, despite its size, it is a really cozy restaurant, with Italian bric-a-brac adorning the walls like you would find in a family trattoria in…