Daily Mail
Tom Parker Bowles was less than impressed by a new Italian restaurant puzzlingly named after an inland town in Piedmont while claiming to offer an escape to the coastline of Amalfi, near Naples.
“Money hasn’t just been lavished on the place, but splashed and flashed and frittered and thrown”, he said, resulting in a “Berlusconi boudoir where the rococo lap-dances the baroque… a place so over the top that it makes Sexy Fish look like St John.”
Dish after dish arrived slathered in caviar, lavished with truffles or embellished with foie gras, while the less flashy offerings were just dull, dreary or “eminently forgettable”. “‘Alba Ristorante delivers indulgence in every mouthful,’ coos the website. Urgh. Indulgence il mio culo.”
Tom Parker Bowles - 2025-03-23
