The Best Central London Restaurants

Rosmarino

Address: 1 Blenheim Terrace, NW8 0EH
Telephone: 020 7328 5014

This posh St John?s Wood dining room experienced difficulties just over a year ago, when its management was taken over by the group that owns Islington?s Metrogusto, but the problems now appear to have been ironed out & it?s back to being a ?really great? local restaurant with a nice line in contemporary Italian cooking. The ?classy? food might include a ?regular special? of lobster linguine, a ?pretty? dish of cuttlefish with saffron potatoes & confit cherry tomatoes, toothsome venison with a punchy red wine sauce & a warm polenta cake with fontina cheese oozing out of its centre or a millefeuille with citrus fruit. The ?pricey? wine list offers a guided tour of some of the very best of Italy?s vineyards. A note of caution, however ? service can be, by turns, ?charming? or ?aloof?.