Japanese Italian on PCH: Redondo’s Unico Tokyo Pasta celebrates culinary fusion

by Richard Foss       There is a multilevel irony about the name of a Japanese-Italian fusion restaurant that opened at the beginning of 2025. It’s called Unico Tokyo Pasta, and as you might guess, the first word translates into English as “unique”. The word unique is not itself unique – it’s the same in French, English, and Italian, and comes from the Latin word unicus. The Japanese adopted the modern Italian word unico, and in Japanese pop culture it