In Japan, Christmas Eve is the biggest date night of the year. While fried chicken is the standard entrée for at-home Christmas parties with friends and family, starry eyed couples instead go out to dine on fancier fare, with Italian food being a perennial popular choice for dinner on
In Japan, Christmas Eve is the biggest date night of the year. While fried chicken is the standard entrée for at-home Christmas parties with friends and family, starry eyed couples instead go out to dine on fancier fare, with Italian food being a perennial popular choice for dinner on December 24.
However, though spaghetti is the signature dish at Tokyo restaurant Pia Pia, you’d be best off making reservations for you and your sweetheart elsewhere. That’s not because Pia Pia isn’t ritzy enough (although it is a pretty casual place), but because the restaurant explicitly forbids couples from eating there on Christmas Eve.
In what’s become an annual tradition, lovebirds will be turned away at the door on December 24. To quote Pia Pia’s official staff blog:
“This is the owner of Pia Pia. Thank you for your continued patronage.
In regards to the Couple-Excluding event we usually hold on December 24…this year we’ve decided to do it again.
We have received strong complaints, such as ‘This is discrimination against couples,’ and ‘Quit being stupid,’ and as many employees take the day off on the 24th, we wondered if we could pull off this large-scale event.
