The one draw-back to Ealing’s world-famous pizzeria, Santa Maria, has always been that it’s “nigh-on impossible to get a table”, well, now they’re adding a second branch in Chelsea. The 25-cover site is located just off the King’s Road and will open on Friday 8 April with a 50% off food soft launch offer until […]
Jay Rayner likened its concept to an “Italian Ikea concession” while the Indy’s John Walsh compared a visit there to “wandering into a peculiar branch of McDonald’s”. Yep, Jacob Kenedy and Victor Hugo’s (of Bocca di Lupo fame) latest venture Vico got a bit of a rough ride when it opened in Cambridge Circus in August […]
One of the capital’s most revered Italian restaurants, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in April, will close at the end of December with hopes of relocating. Enoteca Turi, a fixture in Harden’s London guide since 1995, has been serving up “beautifully cooked regional cuisine” plus a wine list “about the size of the Encyclopaedia Britannica” […]
Avista Italian restaurant at the Millennium Hotel London in Mayfair, has an extremely tasty offer for Harden’s readers. Book a table at this elegant dining room throughout November and get 20% off your total bill. Enjoy modern Italian cuisine from Avista’s new executive chef Arturo Granato, who hails from from the Amalfi coast, and previously worked […]
Australian-raised Italian brothers Gabriel and Marcello Bernardi bring an Antipodean approach to their motherland’s cuisine to London with Bernardi’s, now open in Marylebone. The 120-cover all-day restaurant and bar on the corner of Seymour Street and Seymour Place, occupies two floors of a restored Victorian property in Portman Village. As well as an open plan dining […]
We’ve teamed up with family-run wine shop and enoteca, Li Veli, to offer one lucky reader the chance to win dinner for two with wine. Enjoy two courses of authentic Puglian cuisine at this southern Italian restaurant in Covent Garden’s Long Acre, complemented by a bottle of house wine. The restaurant, which opened last year, is a […]
This summer Italian bar and restaurant Cucina Asellina are launching a unique ‘Bottomless Prosecco & Unlimited Pizzette’ offering. The £20 pp menu is available for a 90 minute sitting Monday-Sunday, 4-8pm, and can be enjoyed either on the terrace or in the dining room. Accompanying the bottomless prosecco is a pizzette menu, created by head […]
Upstairs at the Ten Bells duo Jarrod Cooke and Giorgio Ravelli head further east to a Homerton rooftop with this Italian restaurant and bar, also boasting a bbq on Sundays. The menu at Brooksby’s Walk will focus on sharing plates and features many of the pair’s signature dishes from their days above Commercial Street’s famous (nay, […]
Angela Hartnett’s Café Murano in St James’s may not deliver many shocks when it comes to its simple Italian food, but the venue has quickly become an SW1 staple. So news from the chef that she is to open a second outpost in Covent Garden on 29 June will definitely please the restaurant’s fans. Café […]
One of the capital’s most revered Italian restaurants will celebrate 25 years in business in April. Enoteca Turi, a fixture in our London guide since 1995, has been serving up “first-class regional cooking” plus “a massive selection of carefully chosen Italian wines” for a quarter of a century. Its Putney Bridge-side location, while a little […]
