Pimlico, Italian Restaurant Guide

This “good-value” Italian “with excellent-quality cooking” and “always-welcoming staff” near Westminster Cathedral in Pimlico “stands out in an area with not much else”.

All-day Italian-style eating, inspired by the grand cafés of Europe and the culinary traditions of Venice, is the aim at this ground-floor venue in a hotel near Victoria station and its sibling in the Battersea Power Station development’s new art’otel. Both can still be an “asset to the area”, offering a “buzzing” setting, “amazing breakfasts” and “decent dining proposition”, but there was also a high proportion of disappointments this year – in particular, poor service in both locations.