Italian-American Hospitality in Mayfair at Sparrow Italia The flagship restaurant of the Noble 33 Group, Sparrow is a ‘modern coastal Italian restaurant’ with one venue in Los Angeles and one in Mayfair. Opened for just a few months, Sparrow Mayfair occupies a large redbrick building in Avery Row, equidistant from Bond Street and Green Park […]
Luca – Restaurant Review
Italian Seduction in Clerkenwell at Luca. One of the places we’ve been meaning to try for a while, we were delighted to hear Luca Restaurant has reopened its doors after lockdown. Luca opened in 2016 to mixed reviews. Its ‘Britalian’ aesthetic left some confused, nursing bruised wallets and their cherished copies of The Silver Spoon. […]
Italian Afternoon Tea at Baglioni Hotel London
Baglioni Hotel, London – Stile Italiano I have a bit of a thing about afternoon tea. There’s nothing I enjoy more than spending the afternoon indulging in a glass of fizz, a cup of freshly brewed tea, sandwiches, scones and of course those all-important sweet pastries and cakes. While an Italian afternoon tea seems just […]
Trullo – An Islington Trattoria
Review of Trullo – an Italian in Islington: It was a grey, wet and miserable weekday and trekking halfway across London for lunch was not really high on my wish list. Especially to a part of the Old Smoke, I don’t know so well. I have an appalling sense of direction and even with the […]