Little Italy

I went to Little Italy a few months ago with my girlfriend and have mixed feelings about the place. Situated on Soho's Frith Street it is the heart of a really buzzy and lively area of London. An area in which you are spoilt for choice for dining, especially with Italian restaurants, you have to be doing something right to survive. Little Italy is a restaurant, bar and club. In the latter two it succeeds, in the former, not so. As a restaurant, the first thing you'll notice is the abundance of staff waiting to wait on you but somehow unwilling to do so or be helpful. Then there is the food itself, which is grotesquely overpriced at about £30 per head excluding ...  Read the complete review

Went in, with my partner. Excellent lay out and lots of on hand staff very interested in themselves. We ordered £30 meal. And got charge £60. Lots of hidden charges which they do not show on menu including four cover charges - one for coffee, one for the starter, one for the table and another for the alcohol. Bad food and total rip-off. The waitress was more interested in her attire than the customers! Would be suprised if this restaurant lasts the ...  Read the complete review

Little Italy in Soho should be really nice and normally I would recommend it to you. But I got food poisoning on my last trip there, so a word of warning (I suspect the cured beef in truffle oil). I had the set menu, which for £30 is quite expensive. There was bruschetta and olives while we mulled over the menu, four or five starters, four or five main courses, dessert was plates of cake and ice cream for you to help yourself (FAR too much) and coffee to finish. The set menu and the food were very nice (apart from the beef). Main coure was lamb, beautifully done. The menu doesn't cater that well for vegetarians, however - they were restricted to the ...  Read the complete review

This little restaurant hides among the bars and pubs of soho but when you walk through the groovy little bar, down the stairs into the restaurant, you enter a whole new world. The staff are all italian and as good-looking as you would expect, and they are attentive to your every need. The manager is quite a character and is always checking up to see if you are happy. The menu is sadly limited but the food is pretty damn good so i guess that makes up for it. I am told that the seafood dishes, especially the prawns, are stunning... but to be honest, thats not my cuppa tea. The best thing about Little Italy is that they are not in a hurry. At ...  Read the complete review