デモゴルゴンのローストビーフパスタ/ [Demogorgon] Roast Beef Pasta
was horrifically garnished spaghetti available for 1,650 yen from July 6 2022 to the end of that year at the Shibuya Fukuras location of Pronto, a “microwaved lukewarm pasta kind of place”.
Part of a Stranger Things promotion, the themed menu largely featured archetypical United States cuisine (milkshakes, pizza, off-brand waffles) to represent the show’s midwestern setting. In a slight break of form however, the roast beef pasta looked supernatural.
Squid ink darkened the tomato-ey pasta (further obscuring the broccoli and other mix-ins) while five slices of roast beef radiated into the fleshy flappy shape of the namesakes’ menacing maw. A more realistic demogorgon prop posed nearby, mouth agape in hunger or maybe just shocked at the diners’ human-on-monster munching.
The restaurant’s “Stranger Pronto” decor was all photo-ops, (re)creating dramatized tableaus of small town Americana in Shibuya, Tokyo. Customers likely would have travelled the busiest pedestrian crossing in the world to access the restaurant and it’s set pieces of fictional rural Indiana. The grass really is greener on the other side!
