Viva Verdi

I went to the Tate Modern last week and after it decided to have dinner in the area. Accidentally discovered a restaurant/wine bar called Viva Verdi. Staff was really friendly and I was really surprised by the quality of the ingredients. Got a lovely burrata cheese as a starter accompanied by a nice glass of white wine. After decided to go for an home-made lasagna: delicious. The atmosphere was really pleasant. Great value for money.

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Andrea
10 Overall rating
Food 8 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Tuesday, December 08, 2009

An extremely disappointing evening here this week.

While the staff were generally very friendly, they were very hit and miss. It took ages to get our drinks - a bottle of wine, nothing complicated. We had to ask three times, and the first waitress spent 10 minutes cleaning cutlery instead of bringing it.

The menu was really short and unimaginative - pasta with pesto, lasagne and ravioli in tomato sauce. Nothing you couldn't find in Tesco's chiller cabinet. I was hungry and wanted 3 of the boards of meat and cheese. Tiny. £9 for three slices of spianata, a couple of slices of prosciutto crudo, and three little pieces of pecorino. And they didn't have any real bread, so I had to have the flatbread. I would have been hungry within 30 minutes but my friends gave me some of their dinner.

My companion's lasagne looked like it had been mashed up for a baby. Another friend had the cotoletta milanese, which tasted of nothing like veal, more like tasteless chicken. It came with aubergines which were extremely vinegary.

The wine list was ok and reasonably priced.

Very very disappointing and I won't be going back.
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mattsay - View all reviews by this user
3 Overall rating
Food 2 | Service 2 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 3
Friday, October 30, 2009

I had lunch there last Thursday with two colleagues. Luckily I made a reservation in advance cuz the place was full. It has a vibrant welcoming atmosphere and the waiting staff are pleasant attentive. The menu offers a fantastic choice of Italian products (with a selection of PDO/IGP products) and wines with a terrific value for money. It was all fresh, nicely presented and special. Everything remembers the Italian tastes. I will definitely return.
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Luke 63 - View all reviews by this user
10 Overall rating
Food 9 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Sunday, October 04, 2009

This place is great, especially when they do freebie nibbles (Tuesdays?) whilst you have an aperitif and peruse the menu. The cheeses and hams are absolutely different class and the wine list is great - no filler there at all.

I guess the downside is that it looks a bit stark - not really somewhere you'd envisage settling in for an evening rather than a quick snack and out - but in my experience this is easily overcome once you've started making a dent in the prosecco.
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Richie
7 Overall rating
Food 8 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 8
Wednesday, June 10, 2009

i'm surprised this place hasn't had a review yet. it's been open since late 2008 and has become a favourite lunch spot for my colleagues and i. piadinas are very good and its a reasonably priced spot for after-work drinks and charcuterie. service hit and miss but generally ok. be aware its less of a restaurant more of a cafe-bar, so quite relaxed and unfussy. would recommend for a quick bite.
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John Gates
7 Overall rating
Food 8 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 7
Tuesday, June 09, 2009