italian restaurants
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Monkeynuts said:
formerly of the Elephant and Castle, I believe it is now based on Jamaica Road, thanks to "regeneration"
highly recommended
La Barqua on Lower Marsh near Waterloo Station is good.
It has that nice slightly 60s-ish 'Italian Rustic' style of decor, ie quite dark, wall-hangings depicting wild boar hunts, bits of log sawn diagonally and then thickly varnished as signage over the bar and so forth.
I knew some Italians who'd moved to London. They talked about food practically all the time. If one mentioned an Italian restaurant they'd come across, the others would all ask "Do Italians eat there?" This is a good rule of thumb to go by.
It has that nice slightly 60s-ish 'Italian Rustic' style of decor, ie quite dark, wall-hangings depicting wild boar hunts, bits of log sawn diagonally and then thickly varnished as signage over the bar and so forth.
I knew some Italians who'd moved to London. They talked about food practically all the time. If one mentioned an Italian restaurant they'd come across, the others would all ask "Do Italians eat there?" This is a good rule of thumb to go by.
I wish I could remember the name of this place that an ex took me to for my 21st. It was in some part of London I don't usually go to, in North London somewhere, like Crouch End or Muswell Hill, you know, the kind of area nobody normally goes to. It was a little family run pizza place, pretty small, with a real friendly, congenial atmosphere. The pizza was top notch, one of the best I have had in London, and it was about 20 quid a head, including all the wine, beer, drinks, garlic bread, extras we got, so it worked out pretty cheap, and not only that, but when they found out it was my birthday they even brought in a cake and sung happy birthday.
I just can't for the life of me remember what it was called, but it was a patch above places like La Porchettas. I remember thinking, I wish all restaurants were like this.
I just can't for the life of me remember what it was called, but it was a patch above places like La Porchettas. I remember thinking, I wish all restaurants were like this.
secretsquirrel
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fruitimix said:ooh thanks, that sounds good- we were debating whether to go for mexican or italian, a combination of the two sounds great
Glad to be of service. They also do loads of daily specials and there's a little pot of homemade tortilla chips with homemade hummous to munch on when you arrive. Yeah, I know - a very confused place! Oh - and they do deep fried mozzerella as a starter. Always a winner.
craigxcraig
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guinnessdrinker said:formerly of the Elephant and Castle, I believe it is now based on Jamaica Road, thanks to "regeneration"
highly recommended
I was wondering where it'd had gone - just noticed that the entrance has been boarded up. This is my fav place for pizza - has anyone been to the new site?
gaijingirl
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Ms T said:
Arancia is another v. lovely restaurant in the strangest of locations. I imagine it is good value given the quality - but it's not especially cheap (or at least wasn't when we went there last year). I wasn't paying though and there was some pretty high-fallutin' wine ordering going on which probably bumped up the bill...
Ms T
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gaijingirl said:Arancia is another v. lovely restaurant in the strangest of locations. I imagine it is good value given the quality - but it's not especially cheap (or at least wasn't when we went there last year). I wasn't paying though and there was some pretty high-fallutin' wine ordering going on which probably bumped up the bill...
It's definitely within the OP's budget if you order the house wine though! I'd go more often if it was in a better location. I came across Arancia because it was started by the same people who ran one of my all-time favourite restaurants in London - a basement affair underneath the Arts Theatre in Covent Garden. God, how I loved that place - it was intimate and cheap and the food was wonderful. They had to close down because the theatre wanted to open a bar there instead, and Arancia was born. No idea if it's still run by the same people though.
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