Galician-Style Octopus Galician-Style Octopus

Tender octopus with paprika, olive oil, and coarse salt, served on sliced potatoes. Classic Galician flavors.

Connubio Da Fabio

Connubio Da Fabio

229 Muswell Hill Broadway, London I-N10 1DE, United Kingdom

Pasta • Coffee • Cheese • Italian


"This was our first visit to Connubio since we recently moved to Crouch End. We were very warmly greeted, seated, and shown the menus. The waiter a young guy with glasses was really friendly and helpful, giving us good recommendations for white wine to start us off (the Frascato). We then ordered the calamari to start; two lamb cutlets, a king prawn pasta, the sea bass as mains; and a side of mixed leaf salad. The calamari was delicious super fresh and soft and tasty. The pasta and sea bass were great too but we found the lamb cutlets to be disappointing. They were rather bland and without any depth or flavour, including the mashed potato with olive pate. On paper they sounded great but the dish didn't deliver. Our mixed salad also took so long to make an appearance (it still hadn't arrived when we were 3/4 through our mains) that we decided to cancel it We fed these two shortcomings back to the owner who genuinely seemed crestfallen about this, as it is his family run business. During the main meal, we had a wonderful red wine with the meal again recommended by the young waiter the Don Vito Prestige Salento. To round things off, we had the tiramisu. Oh. My. God. It was so good there's only one better that I've ever had. It was very light and we'll balanced between the coffee and the liqueur. Not overly sweet. Overall I'd recommend going to Connubio da Fabio. It has a lovely and classy vibe, friendly staff (although the female waitress tonight really just couldn't care less), and overall really great food. Just a shame about the bland lamb and the salad which had to be cancelled but everything else was great. The owner was kind enough to offer us a gesture of goodwill for our feedback. I will definitely come back again to try more of their food and wine!"

La Lluna Restaurant & Bar

La Lluna Restaurant & Bar

462 Muswell Hill Broadway, London, N101BS, United Kingdom

Cafés • Seafood • European • Fast Food


"Took my father here for fathers day. Some of the dishes were really nice and a couple were lacking flavour. The service was incredibly terrible. It soured the whole experience. I had to wave the waitress over to take our order when I saw that a couple that arrived after us were ordering. The waitress was not friendly at all and just walked off after i finished ordering so I wasnt even sure if she had ordered everything I asked for. The tortilla that we ordered hadnt arrived by the time we finished everything else. We waited for someone to take the empty plates so we could enquire about where the torilla was. No one came. I had to wave a waitress over to ask about how long it would take. She said she would check and left the empty plates on our table. She didnt come back and avoided my eye when she was in view. I waved another waitress over and she also didnt take the empty plates and said she would check on our missing dish but she did not come back either. Finally it came but there was no apology for the wait. The tortilla was stodgy...too much potato and too thick...it definitely wasnt worth the wait. I then had to wave my arm in the air to get the attention of someone to get the bill and also wave someone over, after waiting a bit, to take our money. No one was helpful or attentive the whole time we were there and I was gutted as it was supposed to be a treat for my dad. The beetroot salad wasnt great. Grapefruit and bland beetroot doesnt really go together. The crab and avocado was yummy, and the rosemary manchego was good. Although the food was good, I didnt rate the service or atmosphere."

Mas Q Menos Holborn

Mas Q Menos Holborn

272 High Holborn, London, WC1V7EY, United Kingdom

Meat • Tapas • Cheese • Spanish


"these are dotted around london and I was always thrilled by the facility. it looks like a deli with all the hanging jamon, then there is the tapas bar and also a casual sitting restaurant vibe. behind the bar, you will see the display of various Spanish meats and be ready to be cut, plated and served.With a friend in the city and a group of us want to entertain him, nothing completely fits like a tapas sharing experience. equipped with my taste card we drove to holborn for our reserved table. the Holborn site is large, open and airy. high ceiling, large windows above the front and beautifully spaced tables/sele. we sat in a corner that was good, as I knew, that we would probably get a little rainy. if you haven't seen a friend for a long time, of course, the wee, the remembrances are reappearing and the sweat burst. Having ordered a white and red wine from a Spanish wine list that ranged from aragon to toro, we studied the tapas menu for our choices. we went for every food group, with classy like pimento pardon and kartoffel bravas, to some lush gambas pil pil (king prawns in olive oil with garlic and chili). grilled chestnut mushrooms with Spanish blue cheese and garbanzo con chorizo (chorizo, kichererbsen, Piquillo pepper with pimento). a selection of Spanish cheeses and estofado de cerdo (a basque stew of slowly boiled pork, with carrots and carrots). it was a good cross-section of the food that was very tasty. it was enough for us four. I would be interested in a future visit, as there is nothing like Spanish meat. / mas q menos is a really relaxing place, ideal for getting friends. the service was nice, our waiter spoke about Spanish, recommended some dishes and led us through the wine list. we will definitely visit again and with off-food with tastecard, it makes the experience even sweeter."