Sicilian Cannoli Sicilian Cannoli

Crispy pastry shells filled with sweet ricotta, chocolate chips, and a hint of citrus zest. Perfectly delightful Sicilian treat.

Fumo

Fumo

1 Waterloo Street, B2 5PG, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Wine • Pizza • Pasta • Steak


"I have been visiting fumo for 10 years, as a family and with friends we have always enjoyed it. Last night I had a terrible and upsetting experience. To start with we had to navigate through the terrible city Christmas traffic so we called to say we would be late, we were told no problem. Upon arrival we had to wait in a long queue to be seated which added more time only to then be told our table had been given away to a walk in. We were then found a table in the bar and told we could have it for one hour. No one offered to take our coats as they usually do, they started taking our plates away before we had finished eating and not once asked if everything was ok. We spent over £200 and this is how we were treated! In addition to this the noise was ridiculous and the toilets absolutely disgusting! We refused to pay the service charge and the bill was snatched out of my friends hand by the manager with long black hair and a beard (not sure of his name). He then out of spite charged an extra £200 to my friends card which she will not get back in to her account for 5 days. He stomped off when we said this needed to be resolved. We then asked to speak to the main manager, this person also spoke down to us, would not listen to our concerns and kept talking over us. At this point the other manager walked past and swore at us! We felt intimidated as a group of women and I have been left feeling upset by the whole experience. This was once a classy establishment and one of the nicest restaurants in town, I don’t know what has happened but I have read other negative reviews about the restaurant and this particular person so clearly there has been a change of managers.. the service has always been 5 star but things have rapidly gone downhill here. After enjoyed fumo for many years, I will not be returning."

Locanda Locatelli

Locanda Locatelli

The West End, 8 Seymour St, W1H 7JZ, London, United Kingdom

Tea • Wine • Pasta • Italian


"It wasn 't that bad. Just that they don 't have a set menu, tasting menu and the ambience didn 't feel lush. Even I don 't feel enthusiastic writing a review about this restaurant. BUT Staff service was amazing, the food preparation was paced well and the food itself were of big portions. I was probably rather bored. Perhaps because I had prepared so much beforehand what to order that I was a little too excited about it. Their menu on their website wasn 't even visually appealing to begin with just a bunch of letters. So for antipasti, I had 'creamed salted cod, mixed beans, pork belly and cicerchia puree. ' I was expecting an actual pork belly of the same measurement as in the photo but just thicker, with layers of skin, fat and meat, not a paper thin bacon leaf. So misleading. Their pasta, though, was an absolute heaven. So I had 'linguine with Cornish lobster, tomato, garlic and sweet chilli. ' ICYMI, that seemingly empty red orange plate was the pasta but I forgot to take a photo it was that good the smell had me really tempted! Since it wasn 't a main, which you 're supposed to add £5, I 'm guessing that was the reason why there were only lobster 'bits ' rather than actual lobster meat, perhaps a tail and/or claw. For mains, I had roasted sea bream and bagna cauda. You can have the actual fish or have it deboned as in the photos. I didn 't get to finish it because of the size but the complex flavours were an explosion in my mouth. I was expecting a saucer of bagna cauda on the side but I guess a drizzle on the plate was already enough. For dessert, I was already weighing on having tiramisu or pistachio soufflé but on their separate truffle menu, their zabaione got me convinced to try and understand how fundamental each flake of white truffle was. The cute little petit fours in the background were taken home in an equally cute, signature LL box. As I was sat facing the wall, for a suggestion, Giorgio should make his walls Instagram friendly. And arriving at opening time, I must say, it didn 't take long enough to fill the restaurant, considering I was really avoiding the suffocating crowd."