Italian
- Dine at Manicomio Chelsea and save 30% on your food bill
Long-standing Italian restaurant Manicomio in Chelsea is giving Hot Dinners readers 30% off their food bill.
Offer: 30% off food
Where: Chelsea - 85 Duke of York Square, London SW3 4LY
When: Every Monday and Sunday night during March and April.
- Lina Stores is bringing fresh pasta and late night negronis to South Kensington
18/3/24 - updated with the opening date
If you're a South Ken resident wondering what was happening to the old Le Pain Quotidien site on Exhibition Road, then we bring you good news, particularly if you're a pasta lover. This is going to be the seventh restaurant opening for Lina Stores.
Their South Kensington restaurant is going to be an all-day affair, opening in the morning for
... - Dine at Canto Corvino in Shoreditch and save 50% on your food bill
Enjoy a weekend dinner at this chic modern Italian in Shoreditch, saving yourself 50% on the food bill.
Offer: 50% off the food bill for dinner on Friday and Saturday
Where: 21 Artillery Lane, London E1 7HA
When: 8 March to 6 April 2024
- Café Britaly sees former Bocca di Lupo duo teaming up for a Britalian restaurant in Peckham
Updated 4/3/24 with menu and design details
Italian food purists keep scrolling, because what we're about to write may trigger you. A new cafe is opening in Peckham that will be embracing the "authentically Britalian" trend.
Café Britaly is the first project between chef Alex Purdie and Richard Crampton-Platt. Alex arrives here having most recently been senior chef at Bouchon Racine and, before that,
... - A Braccetto is a modern Italian trattoria in Earl's Court from the Spaghetti House family
12/3/24 - updated with the opening date
Almost 70 years after opening their first Italian restaurant on Goodge Street, the family behind Spaghetti House is getting ready to open a brand new place. A Braccetto in Earl's Court is being billed as a modern Italian trattoria focusing on regional Italian dishes.
And while the OG Spaghetti Houses are fully old-school, this latest opening is
... - Fish & Bubbles features seafood paninis from the La Mia Mamma team in Notting Hill
The people behind La Mia Mamma, Italian restaurants in Chelsea and Notting Hill which got a big push by featuring on Stanley Tucci's "Searching for Italy", are getting ready to try something different with their next opening.
Opening next door to their Notting Hill restaurant, taking over what used to be the La Mia Mamma deli, is Fish & Bubbles. This
... - Test Driving Belvedere - a restaurant too good to be left to just the well heeled residents of Holland Park
One of London's most beautiful spaces now has a restaurant team to do it justice. We popped into Holland Park to check out the glamorous Belvedere.
- Richard Caring is bringing Harry's Dolce Vita to Victoria
Richard Caring may be looking to sell off his Ivy restaurants, but that doesn't mean he's out of the restaurant business. Just after we've heard about his plans to re-open Le Caprice, there are now reports of him opening a new
... - The best pizzas and pizzerias in London
London's pizza game is STRONG, with some of the best pizzas in Europe (outside of Italy, of course) in the capital. For the pick of the crop, here's our guide to the city's best pizzas.
- Test of Time - we pull up a stool at the counter at Bocca di Lupo for a tour of Italy
Having just celebrated its 15th birthday, Soho restaurant Bocca di Lupo is still knocking it out of the park. We headed for the counter to see why it's now such an integral part of Soho's restaurant scene.
- Giancarlo Caldesi to open new Caldesi in Belsize Village
Just before Christmas, Neighbourhood restaurant Calici closed its doors in Belsize village, but it'll be back soon under a new name. It turns out, as first reported by the Ham and High, that celeb chef Giancarlo Caldesi will be taking on the space, making it the second Caldesi restaurant in London (there's another in Bray as well as a
... - Grasso is a genuine family-run Italian American restaurant that's just landed in Soho
It isn't often that a restaurant manages to open in the middle of Soho in a fashion that's so completely under the radar we have to wait for a reader to let us know about it. But that's the case with Grasso which threw open its doors on Dean Street just before Christmas. Even rarer, this is a restaurant that's entirely independent and family-owned.
The family in question are the McCaffreys. Seanie runs the restaurant,
... - Test Driving Daroco London - an Italian in new-look Soho (with an excellent dive bar)
Arriving in Soho via Paris, Daroco offers up an Italian menu that's backed up by a very promising basement bar. We went down to try it out.
- Mortimer House Kitchen goes Italian under Nessa chef Tom Cenci
After success launching Nessa in Soho, chef Tom Cenci is also taking on another restaurant by the same group, Mortimer House Kitchen. It'll be different to Soho's British menu though, with Mortimer House being a strictly Italian affair.
The menu is apparently influenced by Cenci's family summers on the Amalfi coast and includes:
- Zucchini caesar with parmesan and
- Tabisca Italian steakhouse opens in Chelsea
Opening very under the radar between Christmas and New Year in Chelsea is Tabisca, an Italian restaurant which started in Lecce. The original restaurant over there describes its offering as "dishes with particular attention to the flavours of Salento and Puglia".
The restaurant has an enormous menu featuring everything from crostini to meat and cheese platters. But the main focus is meat with
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