I am happy to report that as of this this Monday a brand new Neapolitan & Italian restaurant has opened on Green Lanes - in front of Finsbury Park, just after Homebase, in the place where the (short lived) Vegetarian cafe/restaurant was a few months ago.
I've just tried it for lunch today with husband and toddler and it was very nice. The young owners are very friendly and keen on giving locals genuine Italian food.
I will write a longer review on the restaurant section soon but for the moment I just thought it would be nice to give some good news here - that there is now more variety than before on Green Lanes. We should probably make sure we support them - I think they have a chance of doing well as they offer something very different from anything else around here but of course locals need to go and eat there!
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There have been rave reviews for this place but when I went last Saturday afternoon I was a bit underwhelmed. Sorry about that.
Was the chef out buying provisions and left it up to the waiters? Homemade lasagne was ok, probably authentic but a bit thin. £2 corkage charge was fair, though I am assuming this is per bottle not per person, since I was on my own.
Choice of two sweets - rum baba and nutella cake. I went for the cake which is as you might guess a dry flan case with nutella spread around it. Really dry, £3. Really it would have been better not to serve that, but be imaginative boys - some ice cream to go with it?
Nice coffee. I took away 'Meatballs' which were homemade but more like a couple of small burgers on a 'bed' of salad. No sauce - £5.
I haven't recommended it to my friends yet, may go again but not inclined. Was I just unlucky that day?
Dug
Good to have some balance. Let's hope standards aren't slipping.
Apparently things will be on the change anyway. By all accounts the Turkish owner, Ozzie, has the lease on the place next door to. I'm told he's plans to turn the current cafe into a deli and open next door as a restaurant.
My wife and I went there two weeks ago with 5 friends of ours. The food was great, as was the service.
The way I look at it is this.
They are not michelin starred. They are definately not perfect.
The kitchen is smaller than my own but they can still cook wonderful rustic meals for 7 people, all on time, all hot.
They do not have the largest servings. but that is why you should order the side dishes!
Yes the meatballs are dry but this does not mean they are not meatballs, rather a style of meatball from an area of Italy. By the way order them with with aubergines and youll have the sauce you crave.
The bill was tiny
The service was great
No cockage was included and boy did we drink
It is also a cafe that sells very nice coffe.
The mozzerala is the best I have ever had anywhare.
It is welcome change to have the opprtunity to try authentic italian food in an area doninated to the point of sufforcation by Kebabs. Many of which are really quite standard. And I'm sure if blindfolded very few of us would know our Flame from our Anteplillier
I'm sorry the food did not meat your high standards.
Im sorry this is not Locanda Locatelli.
But rather than speak badly of the place behind the safety of a computer monitor I do hope you will pass on your thoughts directly to the staff of I-borboni rather than just this website. they will be grateful of the input.
Way to go HOL as soon as something nice comes along we go and slag it off. Fingers crosed it'll close down and become bookies.
No cockage was included ! Wha'?!
Oh now TB, just because it's Italian. Don't raise our expectations unnecessarily.
Absolutely Hugh! I think people are entitled to give their opinions on a new place and I'm sure that the owners will be more than happy to take on board any criticism that there may be. I recall that a largely enthusiastic review that I wrote for a local place was disagreed with strongly by someone else and La Vina (which I love) has also been criticised in the past on the site. I certainly don't think we should lay into someone if they don't share our enthusiasm for a place.
Incidentally, we have another example of a poster assuming that 2 members of a website = all 4, 000 members of a website. " Way to go HOL" - the site has no opinions, members do and they are entitled to them. Please don't go around saying Harringay Onlne does/doesn't like X or Y. It is a website, it's like saying your TV is criticising something...or is it a person on the TV? I hope you see the distinction.
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