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Rating: 3.9

Location: 167 Fifth Avenue, W10 4DT, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 8969 9853

Tags: Italian, family & home feel, good value, intimate, friendly, comfortable

Italian food delicious and rusticAmazing place, run by husband and wife Avi and Simonetta Reichenbach. Food is utterly simple with the perfect bare minimum of ingredients. It is very like the food you get in Italy, as opposed to the food you get here in Italian restaurants: it's the freshness of the ingredients you're tasting more than anything else. You really need to eat antipasti and piattis primi and secondi and don't forget desert. The house wines are both good and Avi keeps a good selection of dessert wines.

All the carpaccio starters (we've had beef, tuna and swordfish, the beef with a celery puree and the others with olive oil and lemon juice) are succulent and perfect. For primi all the pasta is homemade; we've had spaghetti bolognese, seafood risotto and mushroom gnocchi all of which melted in the mouth. For secondi we've had steak saltimbocca (with pancetta, sage and mozzerella), swordfish and beef with artichokes, all mouthwateringly delicious. Desserts include possibly the best tiramisu we've ever tasted plus homemade ice creams, cakes and bombes.

Restaurant is calming and intimate (and is named after Avi's mother, Ida /EE-dah/, who taught him to cook. Avi and Simonetta will come and chat to you at your table. Do not miss this!

Tel: 020 8969 9853. Meal for two with wine, water and service about £60. Cards accepted.]]> Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:43:25 +0000 /review/uk/london/restaurant/1o62q7x/ida276453685 meejahoar Italian family & home feel good value intimate friendly comfortable 51.531933 -0.210893