Lucio

Good atmosphere, good service....food not as impressive as it could have been. probably my choice of dishes.

In true Italian spirit I decided to start with a pasta instead of an antipasti. My choice goes to the Home made Ravioli with scallops and artichokes. This is altogether a promising mix! The result unfortunately a little less: yes for the good portion, appreciated the rich filling but the taste was a little absent and the pasta a little too average.

Main course: Veal involtini wrapped in pancetta with artichokes filling and spinach. Another promising dish...and unfortunately another little miss. Again portion good, spinach very good....but involtini overcooked and as result a little rubbery...artichoke taste again absent despite the generous amount.

Dessert: Wild berries in wine sauce and Ice Cream - I personally liked it and my other half preferred to leave it to me. Knowing her appetite for desserts I suspect that it was not for love! anyway that was a matter of taste.

Overall? very average and unfortunately cost does not do a lot to make you feel better. It is a good night out, pleasant place and lively but probably there are a couple of more italian places down the same road that for the same cost deliver the flavours I missed here.
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Luca
6 Overall rating
Food 4 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 3
Sunday, February 14, 2010

I never write reviews, but I like reading them to places where I go. On this occasion I like to make a comment referring to Mrs.T. We were having lunch on Sunday 4th October before the Chelsea-Liverpool match. I can say the food was delicious, we almost had the same like Mrs.T had and everything was mouth watering. I don't understand why Mrs.T didn't enjoy the lunch, perhaps she was upset, maybe because she didn't get the table next to James Blunt. We were sitting next to him and my daughter she got a beautiful autograph. Mrs.T "next time you feel like to go to Lucio let me know we go together and I can asure that you will get a delicious calamari, very good ravioli and a wonderful apple cake." I am not saying this to get a free meal from Lucio but it's the truth. I can not make a comment on the mocca coffee because I drink it at Starbucks, at Lucio's I drink a delicious espresso. The three course set lunch at £20.50 is a very good value for money
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Mrs Amanda Rogers
10 Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Thursday, January 07, 2010

My favourite Italian restaurent in London. Food is consistently good and I am always made to feel welcome.
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Hugh
8 Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 7
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

taking my mother and two children for lunch to celebrate her birthday i was looking forward to Lucio's nice decor and pleasant service, alas the food was AWFUL, calamari in ginger, spongey, tasteless and no sign of ginger, baked courgettes half cooked and the filling revolting looking and tasteless, no burratta left, replaced by a burnt piece of goat's cheese on a very tired green lettuce assortment, again tasteless, mushroom sauteed with potatoes adequate, then main course all pasta - except the unfortunate choice of the dreadful courgettes for Mother - very ordinary and ravioli particularly naff since the pasta was insipid and undercooked...finally the puddings ! well, a tarte aux pommes with ice cream was particularly terrible, looking and tasting more like some greyish lukewarm bread pudding..to top it all the mocca coffee had to be sent back, lukewarm and dull, waiter telling me they didn't know how to make this..why take the order then, therefore a hefty £90 later - we ordered no alcohol - i felt i HAD to warn potential customers, avoid at all costs, what a shame !
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Mrs T
3 Overall rating
Food 1 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 1
Sunday, October 04, 2009

Since it opened three years ago, Lucio's has in my view matured into one of the best, and the best value Italian restaurants in West London. Yes, at first, the staff were inexpereinced, but now have settled down, there is an eclectic mix of customers young and old, families and couples - and conspicuously often, many Italians. The two course lunch at £15.50 is extremely good value although I agree that It would be a relief to see a less expensive house white wine. The menu changes often, and there are many old favourites and new specialities which make every visit there a fresh experience. The dishes I have enjoyed include the light and crispy puntarelle salad, the rich and hearty pappardelle with hare sauce, the rolled paillard of chicken breast stuffed with spinach, excellent fish, and a very good seafood pasta. Lucio himself is a charming and attentive host, and if some thing is not right, he is on the ball immediately.

Bring back proper old-fashioned hosts, I say, and let's have fewer celeb chefs who aren't in their restaurant anyway, because they're appearing on tv tonight instead of in their kitchens
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Alasdair Sutherland
8 Overall rating
Food 8 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 9
Thursday, May 14, 2009

This restaurant is much better value during the day, they have the fabulous set menu, very reasonably priced for this high-end restaurant (we are talking the middle of Chelsea here). I think that it is about 26 pounds for 3 courses or thereabouts.

However, at night it is overpriced. An example: £13 pounds for the boring and underwhelming tomato/mozzarella starter salad. I have had better buffalo mozzarella from a supermarket, sorry. Don't mind paying £££, but it has to be a bit special for that starter price.

It is a very nicely appointed restaurant, but a bit stiff in the evening, due to very uptight, serious, bottoxed out, big haired Chelsea set (imagine many Joan Rivers and unnaturally polished people in there. They can't crack a smile otherwise their whole face would fall apart). Lots of old people, too (I guess they are the ones who can afford dinner prices, and an occassional "celebrity").

So this restaurant has two faces: daytime one, much cheerier and lighter, great food, which I highly reccomend, and the evening one, hmmm, not to my taste, both price, atmosphere and clientelle wise.

The owner, Lucio, is charming, though, a top class maitre d'.

Overall, well worth a visit, but if you are not loaded try to visit during lunch.
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Anita
7 Overall rating
Food 8 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 6
Wednesday, April 22, 2009