Aldo Zilli’s “pleasant” enough veggie-Italian closed its doors just before this guide went to press; we’re told that they’re actively looking for a relaunch site, ideally in Soho.
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Press Reviews (2)
Marina O'Loughlin (1st April 2010)
1/5 stars
“Do I think Aldo Zilli gives a monkey’s for the vegetarians of this world? If the food on our plates is anything to go by, not even vaguely”. Yet more criticism for this “bland, narrow, alomost empty” Soho veggie, where the “greasy and tasteless” cuisine is marked by its “slimy horridness” - special mention to fried tofu resembling “a ceiling tile in clumsy drag”. “I don’t blame the chef for what we ate, I blame Zilli, who breezes through the place frequently enough to realise how rubbish it is”.
Matthew Norman (14th March 2010)
Oh dear: “[i]n so many regards is Zilli Green a total shocker that it's hard to know where to begin”. The critic's scathing disappointment with this Soho veggie ranges from the “oppressively narrow” and “freezing cold” interior, to the “huge mark-ups on dead cheap ingredients.” After a main course that’s “lazy, pointless and dementedly oversalted”, the critic and his guest leave feeling “cross, peckish and reflecting that the most authentic thing about this excrescence is its name. The Zilli pun speaks for itself, ztoopid”.
Marina O'Loughlin (1st April 2010)
Matthew Norman (14th March 2010)
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