Five years after popping up in London as part of food writer Daniel Young's Young & Foodish's Spaghetti Wednesday, top Roman chef Arcangelo Dandini is back, this time with a permanent restaurant.
Garum is the chef's 60-seater restaurant in Queensway which opened rather under the radar last month. With it, Dandini is hoping to share his devotion to Roman food with Londoners - "to bring the best ingredients in an extreme simplicity of food making and flavour epiphany."
If you haven't heard of him before - and we'll admit to being similarly uninformed - the chef is the fourth generation of a family of Roman restaurateurs. He has three restaurants in Rome - one devoted to street food, another a traditional bistro and Chorus - his latest - which is a mixture of both.
In London, the menu includes, in addition to pasta, dishes like:
- Baccala croccante - deep fried cod served with aioli
- Carciofo alla Romana - Roman-style artichokes cooked in garlic, mint, white wine and EVO oil
- Polpo Arrosto - roasted octopus with cauliflower salsa, hazelnuts and mortadella
- Fegato di vitello alla Giudia - Roman-style veal liver with onions
The wine list was put together by the restaurant's GM Francesco Fantinel, who spent seven years working for The Ivy group. His list here is both exclusively Italian and all-natural. There's also an extensive cocktail list too with drinks including a Roma Milan Torino - their take on the Negroni.
More about Garum
Where is it? 68 Queensway, London W2 3RL
When? Open now
Find out more: Visit their website or follow them on Instagram @garum_london
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