Cafe Murano St James
Italian restaurant · St. James's ·
Northern Italian fare with fresh pastas and seafood, great for dates.
Northern Italian fare with fresh pastas and seafood, great for dates.
"Cafe Murano is a very useful spot where you can eat some delicious Italian food and have a good, uncomplicated time. Sit at the bar if you’re coming as a two and are happy to have interjections from personable bartenders. But the bistro-like dining room at the back—wood-panelled walls, leather booths, and glowing lamps—is more group-friendly. Chatter drowns out any music, staff are happy to swoon over an excellent gnocchi with you, and shoppers release their grip on bags, swapping them for wine glasses." - sinead cranna, jake missing, rianne shlebak, daisy meager
"A TV chef’s restaurant on a busy corner of Covent Garden sounds like the makings of a tourist trap. But at Cafe Murano, chatter drowns out any music, staff are happy to swoon over an excellent gnocchi with you, and shoppers release their grip on bags, swapping them for wine glasses. Sit at the bar if you’re coming as a two, or the bistro-like dining room is more group-friendly." - jake missing, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna, daisy meager
"An offshoot of her Michelin star restaurant, Cafe Murano is a love song to chef Angela Hartnett’s childhood, and created with the desire for “a restaurant that you could drop into and eat in every day.” The result is an intimate bistro serving great and comforting Northern Italian fare. Molto poco, pop by for some vino rosso and hot arancini." - dn&co.
"Bermondsey’s Cafe Murano nails the fine balance of being fancy but not uptight, and classy but not too polished. The Italian restaurant covers pretty much every type of situation. And when the sun is shining, the huge windows are pulled all the way, making the window stools the best seats in the house. Date night? Sit side by side as you fork at tender gnocchi. A low-key lunch? Work your way through a bowl of mussels as you people-watch. You: one; hay fever, nil." - rianne shlebak, jake missing, sinead cranna
"Cafe Murano is parental catnip. It’s a pretty Italian restaurant in Covent Garden, and it’s run by Angela Hartnett, who no doubt your folks have seen on Saturday Kitchen asking celebrities to make omelettes or whatever they do on that programme these days. The food leans more towards actual Italian with the odd regional speciality, but more importantly your parents will love it and you’ll be able to get a glorious pasta-filled dinner out of it as well. There’s also a second restaurant in St James if your parents loathe tourists as much as you do." - david paw