Restaurants

Soho gets handmade pasta, charcoal smoke and a 300-bottle Italian cellar — Bocconcino has considerably more depth than location alone suggests.

Oxford Circus outside, prawns, sourdough pizza and Negronis inside: Amalfi is calmer and better cooked than its location suggests.

Rome lands in Knightsbridge with guanciale, Pecorino and slow-cooked oxtail — polished surroundings, gloriously unpolished appetite.

Tourist trap or genuinely good? Circolo Popolare answers with sharp pasta, loud rooms and one surprisingly convincing carbonara spectacle.

No Riviera posing here: €13 mandilli, stuffed anchovies and honest seafood make Le Caravelle a quietly clever Lavagna stop.

Smoke first, restraint later: Olle turns Shaftesbury Avenue into a Korean grill loaded with Wagyu, galbi and bubbling stone bowls.

Forget the endless lakefront menu: Momento keeps Mandello simple with changing Italian dishes, fixed prices and a compact dining room.

Come thirsty: Merano’s historic beer hall piles on pork knuckle, canederli and sauerkraut, then opens the FORST taps.

Dover gets spicy with Calcutta chicken handi, Goan seafood, biryani and tandoori smoke at this lively High Street Indian restaurant.

The original BEFED pairs spicy grilled galletto, ribs and house-brewed beer in the Aviano pub where the story began in...