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Description: "Authentic and fresh" Italian fare has made this yearling, off Bond Street "a useful addition to the West End"; despite the odd let-down, it usually delivers "excellent value in a pricey area".
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Phone: 020 7493 7050
Website: http://www.viacondotti.co.uk
Open: Lunch Mon-Fri 1200-1500, Sat 1230-1500 Dinner Mon-Sat 1830-2300
Dress code: Casual
Good for: Good food, Ambience.
Payment options: All major cards accepted
Via Condotti on Conduit Street is unapologetically Italian
Via Condotti on Conduit Street: clever, huh? And that little namecheck of Rome's famous shopping street isn't the only clever thing about this new Italian on a site that has huckled off a number of pretenders, including Nico Ladenis.
For a start, there's the menu - vividly, unapologetically Italian, without even a nod to the Anglicised trat. So you get intriguing pasta shapes such as candele - like long, thin, openended cannelloni - and rustic ingredients such as rabbit and long-stewed baby octopus.
Breads roam over Italy, from Ligurian rosemary-scented, home-baked focaccia and Sicilian pane casarau to unsalted Tuscan bread (all fresher than you often get in the homeland).
Chef-patron Pasquale Amico's cooking is assured, performing a shade below the capital's finest Italians, but pretty good nonetheless: a succulent bunny was stuffed (as is currently modish) with its own innards and rosy little lamb chops came with balsamic onions. Only a somewhat workman-like prawn risotto let the side down.
The place is understatedly clever, too: a soothing palette of beiges with quality linen and vintage posters - just the right sort of luxury for an area infested with the Euro-loaded. A joint venture between front of house Richard Martinez, Amico from Campania, and redoubtable restaurateur Claudio Pulze, this operation has the legs to keep on running.
Details are correct at the time of publication - please check with venue before booking.
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Was looking for good Italian food in Mayfair for serious business lunch.
A friend suggested Condotti.
Masterful and attentive service with fabulous home-made pasta.
One had the roast lamb.
Utterly superb. Well executed Italian service.
We had the upstairs room (see picture here) to ourselves.
Will definitely return.
Full marks!
- Michael Fishberg, London, England
