Joe Tomei here with your Funky Place Friday post. There are a lot of pizza ovens…

Joe Tomei here with your Funky Place Friday post. There are a lot of pizza ovens places popping up all over and I’m not going to try and rank them (though the position of unpaid pizza oven researcher here at FPF is open).

But there is one pizza oven place in Kikuchi which lays on the funkiness. I was a bit too busy enjoying the Kikuchi made(!) cheese and thinking it would be great to have one of the craft beers on the menu to ask what exactly the name of the place is. The tabelog entry at https://tabelog.com/en/kumamoto/A4303/A430301/43006669/ has Naporipittsukenkyuujoiruforunodoro, but the sign suggests that the name is Il Forno D’oro or Oven of Gold, though I love the tabelog ‘Kenkyuu jo’ (research center)

The Funky Place Friday map is at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qUH94Bac7Hr939b7_8gtvebaJZffGRsX&usp=sharing