"This modern Mediterranean restaurant in Clerkenwell feels like a dinner party hosted by someone with serious opinions on Diptyque scents. You can use the sleek, Scandi-ish-feeling room a few ways: solo at the counter with its nifty fold-out stools, along the banquettes with friends and parpika-heavy mussel pil pil, or cosying up in one of the booths with a plate of salt cod churros." - rianne shlebak, heidi lauth beasley, sinead cranna
"At Morchella, you can eat dinky little bites of spanokopita, clink glasses of cloudy Greek white, and open hidden drawers to find David Mellor cutlery that’s begging to get into some salt cod churros. Yes, the Mediterranean restaurant on the edge of Exmouth Market is very aesthetically pleasing. But its small plates game is top-tier too." - jake missing, heidi lauth beasley, sinead cranna
"Set in a converted former bank, Morchella sports a small but well-stocked wine bar to one side, offering largely natural and biodynamic options that the wine list describes as either ‘Classic’, ‘Coastal’ or ‘Funky’. On the food side of things, the menu has a Mediterranean slant and is designed for sharing – although if the spaghetti alle vongole is available, you’ll be loath to give any up. Service is bright and breezy, while the great value lunch menu means you can dine without breaking the bank, so to speak." - Michelin Inspector
"Morchella is a chic and airy restaurant and wine bar serving modern Mediterranean food you could snack on for weeks. Think, wonderful spanakopita or juicy mussel pil pil, glasses of cloudy Greek wine, and sea-scented vongole. Bigger plates, like salt-baked poussin, are perfect for candlelit evenings in one of the cushy booths at the back. This wine bar is good-looking—green-tiled kitchen counter, nifty fold-out stools, views of the room and chefs—but it has a lot of substance as well as style." - sinead cranna, jake missing, heidi lauth beasley
"Chef Cameron Dunlap announced via Instagram that the restaurant has taken a break and is letting go of its restaurant space so the project can evolve into a more mobile/popup model. Dunlap wrote the pause is intended "to refocus on the dream of foraging and farming as much of the menu as possible, and reaching new levels with our food and the experience," and for the time being the concept is popping up inside Bonne Chance with additional pop-up dinners planned around the city." - Dianne de Guzman