Rigatoni carbonara in a glossy egg and guanciale sauce, topped with shaved parmesan and crisp guanciale

Pasta

Rigatoni Carbonara

Egg yolk, guanciale, parmesan and black pepper. No cream, no shortcuts — the sauce is brought together in the pan and it goes straight to the table, because carbonara does not wait.

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Ravioli filled with braised beef in a red wine sauce with sautéed mushrooms, being finished on the pass

Made in house

Ravioli al Barolo

Braised beef folded into pasta we roll ourselves, finished in a red wine sauce with sautéed mushroom and a touch of cream. It is the dish we would order if we sat down on our own night off.

Freshly baked cornetti and pain au chocolat on wooden boards along the coffee bar, espresso machine behind

From ten in the morning

Cornetti and an espresso

The day starts the way it does in Italy — pastry on the counter, coffee at the bar, no rush about it. Plain, chocolate, pistachio and jam, out while they last.

A negroni over ice with an orange peel, beside bottles of Cinzano Rosso vermouth, Campari and Poli Marconi 46 gin

At the bar

Built the Italian way

Campari, vermouth and a proper Italian gin, stirred down over one big cube with a strip of orange. Bitter, cold and not messed about with.

A bottle of Terre di San Leonardo 2021 red wine standing on a table in the restaurant

The list

Bottles worth sitting down for

The wine list is chosen by people who drink it, and it runs from an honest house red to bottles like this one. Tell us what you are eating and we will point you at the right glass.

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Off the specials board

Whatever the chef found that week.

These change with what is good and what comes in, so they are not on the printed menu. Ask what is on when you sit down — the specials go up on Instagram first.

Linguine with mussels, prawns and squid in a light tomato sauce, plated on the pass
Tagliatelle with crab, cherry tomato and fresh basil on a blue ceramic plate
A seafood pasta on the table with three glasses of Italian white wine and their bottles behind
Warm chocolate fondant with caramel gelato, being dusted with icing sugar

Come and eat.

No booking, no fuss. We are halfway up Silver Street, open from ten.

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