“Tucked-away behind Bart’s”, this meat-free Italian is “such a good concept”; it’s a “shame, then, that it doesn’t quite deliver” – the food “may sound fantastic”, but the results can be “rather patchy”.
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So here we are in a pretty backwater on the fringe of the City, in premises which look rather like a traditional wine bar-cum-bistro (which is precisely what it was until very recently, under the n...
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Fay Maschler (29th April 2010)
3/5 stars
The owners of this Italian vegetarian restaurant in Clerkenwell “want you to enjoy fresh produce trucked in from their organic farm nears Naples”, the critic tells us. The premises “have a homely air” and service is “delightful”, but on the menu “the arduous face of vegetarianism presented itself.” After enduring “the devil’s work that is seitan” (wheat gluten) and an artichoke frittata ressembling “a sort of beige envelope”, the critic concludes that the owners “should slip a fillet of fish, veal escalope and chicken al mattone... onto the menu. We could still appreciate and laud his cousins’ vegetables.”
Fay Maschler (29th April 2010)
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