Lume Restaurant & wine shop

"Lume is the kind of low-lit, low-key neighbourhood spot that makes you want to live within walking distance, and find a way to make sure that the staff never let anyone else sit at your corner table on a Sunday night. The food here is broadly Italian with Sardinian influences—the handmade pasta and the bottarga in the white crab linguini set it apart from most other neighbourhood restaurants. The other thing that sets it apart is the extensive wine offering which is among the best we’ve had at a restaurant in this part of town." - heidi lauth beasley, jake missing, rianne shlebak

"A little along towards Belsize Park, this largely Sardinian restaurant is a disguised heavyweight of the city’s Italian scene. Its real knockout blow comes in the pasta section, where a changing array of three-to-four dishes are judged al dente, with a pappardelle luxuriating in a gamey ragu, or malfadine getting to know truffles and cheese handsomely." - David Paw

"Lume is the kind of low-lit, lowkey neighbourhood spot that makes you want to live within walking distance, and find a way to make sure that the staff never let anyone else sit at your corner table on a Sunday night. The food here is broadly Italian with Sardinian influences, and pasta dishes like their excellent cocoa pappardelle with venison ragu, and the linguine with smoked eels, sea urchin and foie gras, set it apart from most other neighbourhood restaurants we can think of. The other thing that sets it apart is the wine offering, which is among the best we’ve had at a restaurant in this part of town. Expect a massive selection, an array of very serious glassware, and lots of thoughtful swirling." - Oliver Feldman