Cacio & Pepe - London

Had high expectations. But was let down. Nice Italian environment. But Erica was haughty. The write up about her on their website is a woman who is passionate about her food and everything. I expect all Italians do. But sadly, this was missing during my visit. She sashayed around and did not appear interested in you. A confident woman no doubt, but I am not sure whether it works when you need to establish a relationship with your customers. Especially when your restaurant is not ‘way up there’. Anyway. Her choice. The food is ok. Not surprising good or bad. In fact, the octopus appetiser is a let down. Four slivers of fried octopus on a huge bed of mashed potatoes. Not impressive. I will take that out of the menu until they can do a proper chunk of octopus. The fish is ok. But the fish head has a strange smell (as no olives masked the smell of the head). The pasta is good. In fact, most tables ordered the pasta. I should have just sticked with that. 3 stars out of 5. One point five for Erica’s handling of her customers (no warmth, very Italian take it or leave it). 4 for the server’s (did not get her name. Around 1.6m tall with a ponytail) presence or mind. Zero for the octopus. Three for the fish (more if the fish head has no smell). And four for the pasta. Not exciting for me. But you decide.

The service was perfect. They were attentive and helpful. The range in flavors in the dishes we got, was great. Great fish and all of our pasta was perfect. Yummy breads and olive oil to start with. My wife and son couldn’t stop talking about how good it was.

We visited late after we could not make the time of our booking. We were welcomed like list travellers and the hospitality turned out to be excellent. Staff were attentive and engaging. The real strength of the restaurant is the food on offer. Extremely tasty and well presented. This restaurant must be one of the top Italian restaurants in London.

Excellent experience! Wonderful food cocktails- great serving. We had the meat and cheese platter for appetizer and the quality was amazing! Definitely recommend

The worst food I have eaten. I ordered a Mozzarella served with asparagus, cherry tomatoes, orange and crispy ham salad £16. What I was served was a bland buttata floating in oil with basil. A slither of ham and asparagus. See picture. Very disappointed