3 /5 Travelling Doc: The restaurant is located on a pedestrianised street with outdoor tables, though the setting is somewhat marred by a homeless person camped across the road.
On arrival, the dining room was nearly empty apart from one occupied table. No one came to seat up or greet us up to 5 minutes and this happened on multiple arrival of customer. It was on server manning the restaurant.
The space features green banquette seating, dark brown laminate tables, and a fake laminate floor. Black-and-white sketches and photos hang on the walls. The layout includes a large dining area with a central light well, a bar, and a staged corner with a mock “love lock bridge” and a bicycle blocking the stairs to the upper level. The atmosphere suffers from harsh, exposed yellow lighting and an uninspired colour scheme of green, brown, and grey.
The menu offers à la carte as well as a three-course set, which is good value but more food than we wanted. We opted for à la carte. The prawns arrived greasy and unappealing. The lamb was serviceable but gamey, oily, and mostly bone with a disappointingly small amount of meat. The accompanying salad looked limp and tired, while the chips were pale and under-fried.The prawn start was small and very oily which was not fully eaten.
The fish was dry.
Despite being presented as Italian, the food leaned more towards Turkish, with items like kofte and shish on the menu.
When we tried to order champagne from the wine list, it turned out they didn’t stock it, and the staff attempted to upsell a bottle of Bollinger instead—misjudging the price point for what is clearly a mid-market restaurant rather than fine dining.
Background music was Spanish, service charge was automatically added at 12.5%, and overall the restaurant felt like a confused blend of Mediterranean influences rather than a coherent dining experience.
