The Times
Giles Coren enjoyed a simple and rustic meal at a rather newer Italian outfit, while pointedly taking a side-swipe at such “hallowed examples of the 1980s/1990s London Italian restaurant boom as the River Cafe in Hammersmith and Riva in Barnes. Both so simple and rustic that you can eat in either for little more than a million quid a head.”
Casa Felicia, he said, “got everything right” from the outset – and at attractive prices: vitello tonnato was “a steal” at £17, while two “dreamy” pastas, spaghetti alla nerano and rigatoni carbonara, cost £18 and £19.
Giles could – perhaps should – have stopped eating there. The poached gurnard that followed “didn’t quite come off for me”, while his tiramisu “felt a little heavy, a little fridge-cold”.
Giles Coren - 2026-01-04
