Camerino
16 Percy Street, London W1T 1DT, www.camerinorestaurant.com
Is this the nicest restaurant in London? Quite possibly. I suspect it's not the best (read on), but it has a great menu, super-friendly but informal service (a rarity in this town), and a very red, but very cool interior. This coming from someone who doesn't usually go to Italian restaurants (the I-could-do-this-better-at-home syndrome...). As Italian restaurants go, it's not cheap, but Camerino offers a seasonal fixed menu two, three or four course menu, which is quite good value for money and offers a good selection of starters, pasta dishes, mains and desserts. See, for example, goats cheese with grilled asparagus, gnocchi with mushrooms (excellent!), baked cod with rocket salad, and orange tart with amaretto ice cream. If I have one complaint, it's that the menu suffers a bit from "over-rocket", which I think is quite a lazy garnish. And as a combination, orange tart and amaretto ice cream is a little weird, but both very nice on their own. But if you're bored of average Italian menus, it's certainly worth a visit.
Goats cheese and grilled asparagus
Gnocchi with mushrooms
Baked cod with rocket salad
Orange tart with amaretto ice cream
Is this the nicest restaurant in London? Quite possibly. I suspect it's not the best (read on), but it has a great menu, super-friendly but informal service (a rarity in this town), and a very red, but very cool interior. This coming from someone who doesn't usually go to Italian restaurants (the I-could-do-this-better-at-home syndrome...). As Italian restaurants go, it's not cheap, but Camerino offers a seasonal fixed menu two, three or four course menu, which is quite good value for money and offers a good selection of starters, pasta dishes, mains and desserts. See, for example, goats cheese with grilled asparagus, gnocchi with mushrooms (excellent!), baked cod with rocket salad, and orange tart with amaretto ice cream. If I have one complaint, it's that the menu suffers a bit from "over-rocket", which I think is quite a lazy garnish. And as a combination, orange tart and amaretto ice cream is a little weird, but both very nice on their own. But if you're bored of average Italian menus, it's certainly worth a visit.
Goats cheese and grilled asparagus
Gnocchi with mushrooms
Baked cod with rocket salad
Orange tart with amaretto ice cream
posted by CCT at 11:33 pm
2 Comments:
Hey you punk! Where are the pics of what I ate??? I agree with you that this is a great place. Also, may I please add that our waiter looked like Buffon (Italian goal keeper) and that the service was very nice? Not too over the top but just enough. Oh and also how the table next to us provided lots of entertainment with that pervy older man asking his signifincaly younger secretary why she couldn't find a good man to settle down with. This while he was plying her with drink and fiddling with his wedding ring, and as the night wore on and we were talking about world issues and he was moving dangerously closer to her. But this, of course, is not Camerino's fault. Laterz dawg
Well, my food was just much more interesting.... although you take all the credit for the goat's cheese - great choice.
Oh yeah, you had a better view of the next table. Readers: rest assured that Camerino's clientele does not principally comprise pervy older men and their young secretaries.
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