Turkish Eggs
Amici Italian Restaurant, Courtyard & Wine Bar Kennington

Amici Italian Restaurant, Courtyard & Wine Bar Kennington

205-209 Kennington Lane London, SE11 4QE, SE11 5QS, United Kingdom

Pizza • Pasta • Italian • Brasseries


"Amici London failed to live up to its reputation. Even though they have an amazing patio with heaps of sun, the service was terrible! It took a long time for our drinks to arrive and even longer (1+ hour for our food to be brought to the table (even though we pre-ordered . The rosé was very watery, though pricy. The salad I had was very dissappointing. I ordered a burrata salad which consisted of a piece of burrata, literally 4 cherry tomatoes, a little bit of rocket salad and some pesto on top (which tasted like the pesto from the supermarket . Very plain though I paid £13!! I 'm not an expert but the burrate wasn 't creamy at all (it tasted more like mozzarella and even though I ordered a main, they served me a small portion. When I checked the bill they charged me for a main-sized portion (I brought this up at the counter but they wouldn 't recognize my problem as this is just the portions they serve and no one has ever complained about it . We ordered coffee for dessert for which we waited another 30 minutes. When we decided to ask for the bill instead and leave the coffee (as we had another appointment to go to the waitress suddenly decided to make our coffees anyway which we then were forced to get as a take-away. The coffee beans were burned and we paid the price of a regular/large-sized coffee but got served a small one. We mentioned all of the above and made note of our negative experience at the counter but we had to pay full price and (more importantly didn 't even get as much as an apology! I respect it being busy and the staff being a bit rusty after just another lockdown but I have never experienced such a hostile response when bringing my negative experience to the table. Hence this review."

MUD

MUD

141 Mitcham Rd, Tooting, London, SW179PE, SW17 9PE, United Kingdom

Coffee • European • Breakfast • Australian


"When Mud first opened I became a semi regular because the food was beautifully cooked and presented, and the coffee reliably great. Then I guess shortly before Covid I had a couple of bad experiences so decided they'd lost their mojo and stopped going. Couple of months ago I decided to give them another chance and it was just like the old days: beautiful Turkish eggs absolutely zinging with flavour; top notch coffee. And then I went today. Only four people in the place but I sat at my table for nearly fifteen minutes without anyone even asking if I wanted anything. So I ordered at the till. My flat white looked like soapy water and tasted almost as bad. My wild mushrooms took an age to arrive, and when they did they were there's no other way to say this revolting. There was no almost zero distinction in flavour between any of the ingredients (which is pretty hard to achieve given those ingredients include eggs, bread, mushrooms, pesto, sausage and onion jam). Worse, that all pervading flavour was basically the same as the name of the cafe: it tasted of mud. I actually had a bad taste in my mouth after eating it (well, half of it). Is this a hygiene issue? Not cleaning the pans enough? Ingredients? Cooking method? No idea. But it's sad how the same place can deliver a truly great breakfast one day and less than two months later give me one of the worst I've ever had. Somebody needs to ramp up the quality control in a very big way."