Vecchio Parioli

It is authentic in a rustic way. For example, the chicken liver soup I ordered is quite like a mama style home soup and it contains a big portion of livers. But it is too large that I felt quite fed up already after this appetizer. The pasta is Al Dente but seafood coming with it is mediocre or lack of complexity. I still like it, but the flavor could be further improved to contain more elements. Tiramisu is homemade and quite alcohol heavy in taste. In sum, a good choice to experience homie cuisine. Maybe not for formal occasion.

Quaint little Italian with the classic dishes. Service was good and fast. My tagliatelle alle vongole was perfectly cooked - Al dente as expected, with light chilli and clams were not overdone. Most importantly shells were not smashed up which I have had before elsewhere and was not a great experience. Quite a good portion. I really enjoyed my partner’s mushroom risotto too. Nice quick bite after work and gym workout Happy to come again.

I love the vibes of this unobtrusive Italian ristorante tucked away near Barbican underground. I love its homey and authentic feel and of course, I love the authentic Italian home cooking taste and generous plateful of dishes definitely worth another visit next time we're in that area of London have to mention too how welcoming and accommodating the front of house staff are

Excellent food and service. My main dish was quite large. Nice wine selection. We had an organic red that was quite tasty. Not too busy on a Friday night, so the place was not particularly noisy, which is something I greatly appreciate.

A truly terrible risotto - basically stodgy rice with no flavour - I felt cheated by having to pay for this. On more of a positive note the house wine was excellent and so were the olives. Both of which were sorely needed to provide some flavour. The rest of the food was okay and service was very good. Generally, for what appeared to be an authentic Italian restaurant one expects... A herb to be used occasionally.

Great find after swimming pool and workout and still opened till resonably late time. I appreciate they serve trout, we had a really nice dinner.

Lovely little place with great food! Special thanks for not laughing at my Italian. : We'll be back for sure. P.S. The duck breast with orange sauce blew my socks off.

The service was good. £14.50 for a linguine alle vongole. But I expected more, the pasta was a bit too hard and I didn't feel it was particularly delicious.

Came on a Friday night, was served what looked like hovis white bread and the antipasti was wafer thin £2 ham from Tesco , told the waiter I’d never been felt like a fool of in a restaurant before, and he was defensive and unbelievably admitted it was from Tesco as they were low on supplies. Surely just tell the customer you’re out of antipasti, and not charge £10 for it. Olives were also admitted to be from Tesco. My girlfriend was also convinced the pasta was just a pasta mix from Tesco and she had 3 mouthfuls. At this point, we were so shocked, we ended up just laughing in disbelief and had a 5/10 min chat with the waiter at the end of the meal to give him our thoughts. We asked for the service to be removed which we never do, and he said brexit was the reason for hovis bread. Where I sympathise more than ever at rising costs, it was a real middle finger to the customer how many corners this place cut corners. Probably the worst meal I’ve ever had in London. My anger however, is aimed at the management, who put their staff through this ordeal. We also saw another table angry at them for similar reasons. Surely just say it’s out of stock instead of insulting people spending hard earned cash £80 in our experience, instead of serving Tesco items. I said to the waiter, if I wanted to eat Tesco food, I’d spend £10 at Tesco, not £80 on a night out at a restaurant. Please avoid this excuse of a restaurant. You’re likely to have an awful experience. They didn’t even offer to take anything off the hill, hence the asking us to remove the service charge. A total and utter con.

AMAZING Great service& lovely food. I ordered dinner to take away, the waiter was really nice, polite and with a lovely smile. Food was cooked in a very short time which is great! I ordered spaghetti carbonara and they gave me for free a portion of salad and bread. Price £10.5 AMAZING

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