Description: This restaurant is located on the edge of the City nestled at the bottom of one of the many office towers in the area. It rather looks like a business office with dark grey brick walls, punctuated by windows into the open kitchen, and set off by white table clothes and white leather chairs. Not a very warm and homy setting. The menu prices are at the high end for an Italian restaurant. The bar area looked very trendy with lots of glass. But patrons in both areas were not confined to men in suits.
Service got off to a difficult start. I wanted to start with a glass of wine and my companions wanted a single malt whisky, then later we wanted a bottle of wine with our food. We had to order drinks by the glass from one person and the bottle from the sommelier. In sorting this out, we had various servers running back and forth. Plus, the person we were to order whisky from didn’t know what they had and walked off to ask. He came back and named four. Later, we found there were about 20 single malt whiskies available on the spirits list which we did not see until towards the end of our meal. It resulted in a long wait before we got anything other than water and some amazingly fresh tasting green olives.
The menu is southern Italian. I wanted the rocket salad but they didn’t have any rocket so settled for a mixed green salad. My companions had very tasty tomato and buffalo mozzarella, and crab and avocado salads. For mains, we had veal ragout on hand made pasta, roasted lamb with cannelli beans and rabbit stew, with sides of fried zucchini, green beans and sauteed spinach. My pasta transported me back to Italy. It was fantastic and the other dishes were almost as good.
We shared a panna cotta then lingered over the last of our drinks as the meal, which had started out rather rocky, had become a lot more comfortable by the end.
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