Location: Chatan, on the 58 north of Mihama village
Hours: not sure 9261888, http://www.obbligato.co.jp/index.html
There are three branches of Obbligato in Okinawa, each selling TexMex food. We ended up here after a couple other nearby places were closed. I had very very low expectations of this place. There was a mixed crowd on gaijin on their lunch break and Japanese people. Almost all the tables were full. We ordered the beef soft tacos (approx 600), the carnitas wrap (approx 700), and guacamole (300Y). This came with one of the blandest tomato salsas we have ever had, and bottomless ice tea. The soft tacos were made with flour tortilla, oily ground beef, lettuce, and cheese. The carnitas wrap was a larger flour tortilla with a few chewy chunks of carnitas, lettuce, and cheese. It was all edible, and not terribly different from other TexMex available on island. In this way, Obbligato exceeded my expectation. But it was not great by any stretch of the imagination. And we don't get the name - obligado means thank you in Portuguese, but in Spanish it means obligatory or compulsory. Hmmm.
