Bit of a mixed bag this one. Went twice soon after Osteria Stecca opened and was really impressed - lovely setting, great location (for me!) and also cracking value at £21 for two courses, £24 for three courses or £29 for four courses (sadly didn't have the stamina to do the proper Italian four-course job). Beautiful ingredients (a particularly gloopy mozzarella) and fun service, followed by some amazing petit fours with our coffee. At less than £50 a head with a glass of prosecco each and decent wine, quite a steal...

However, went back there on a Saturday evening to find that the menu option had disappeared and you could now only order a la carte - whacking the price up considerably (over £30 for 3 courses). Service was also a bit sloppier and the food somewhat uninspiring - and when it came to coffee, they'd 'run out' of petit fours. Guess they must have had all the reviewers in and thought 'job done'...

Still a nice place and I'll give them another chance, but bit of a disappointment...

Never could I have imagined that a London restaurant could make Fawlty Towers look worthy of 3 Michelin Stars, but this restaurant did on 25 June.
We booked for and arrived at 8.30. We were ushered to the unwelcoming bar as the waitress at the door rushed off to "talk to the manager" about our table. Eventually led to our table (vacant from when we arrived) 30 minutes later.
The most fundamental of mistakes plagued each and every aspect of the meal:
- when our waiter finally came to take our order, he first had to tell us four dishes were unavailable; then, when two of us ordered the fillet stake "medium rare", we had to correct the waiter when he said it that would be "with a bit of blood"
- two incorrect bottles of wine were brought before the one we ordered appeared
- one of us ordered the "asparagus lasagne" for a starter, but this came burnt, dry, and was the leftover from the corner of the oven dish. It was also an incredibly small portion (for £12). The response to our query about it was "all the lasagne is like that, that is how it is supposed to be". Nevertheless, it was quickly whipped away and replaced with a meat lasagne, that was similarly dry, coarse and tiny
- two of us ordered the tagliatelli with cep mushrooms and black truffles. the pasta wasa well undercooked, the truffles were old, tough and tasteless, and the sauce can only be described as brown stodge. both dishes were returned hardly touched, and we were not brave enough to try another starter
- as for mains, the veal cullet milanese seemed ok, but the fillet steak with foie gras, spinach and red wine jus was a joke. the kitchen had run out of spinach and red wine jus, so this was just left off, the foie gras was microscopically thin and overcooked, and it came without any veg at all
- only one of us tried desert - a "berry millefeuille" made of supermarket puff pastry and whipped cream from a can!
- uninterested wait staff and management completed a very sorry experience

Great food, a little more expensive than the average Italian restaurant but the surroundings make it worth it.