Gotto Trattoria

Gotto Trattoria

Independent Trattoria in canalside Hackney Wick. Rustic Italian food with homemade Vermouth and craft beer on tap'

http://www.gotto.co.uk

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LOTI EATS: GOTTO TRATTORIA - London On The Inside

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With al fresco tables, a super light and airy interior, and vermouth on tap, you could easily believe you were on the Italian – rather than the Hackney – Riviera.

On the food front, it’s a changing menu of simple and unfussy southern Italian food, split across sharing plates, pastas, alla brace (barbecued meat) and desserts.

You could quite easily order exclusively from the small plates; the varied selection features olives, focaccia, cured meats, seafood and salads, including light and crispy fritto misto and moreish pork and pancetta bombette with cacio cheese sauce.

But you definitely don’t want to miss the pastas, especially the courgette flower ravioli…fat, juicy pillows of pasta filled with a zesty courgette cream topped off with generous shavings of Umbria black truffle.

Like the rest of the menu, the puds focus on clean, simple flavours…the goat milk ice cream with blackberries and balsamic vinegar was the right balance of sweet and savoury, and light enough to enjoy, even after all that pasta.

Gotto Trattoria Hackney | London Restaurant Review | DesignMyNight

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The chefs at this little East London gem have curated a menu of traditional dishes that, in tandem with the drinks list, are meant to make you feel as if you're in one of those cosy village restaurants in Europe that every yoghurt advert seems to be filmed in.

In an attempt to really test out the restaurant's mantra of simple Italian recipes made with fresh ingredients, we dove head first into the tagliatelle with prawns (£12) and the beef tagliata (£14).

The dish had plenty of bite, with the pan-fried prawns falling nicely off the shell and balancing well with the fresh basil and tomato sauce.

With both the seasoned meat and the cheese making my taste buds tingle with their punchy flavours, the rocket was on hand to bring the entire dish back to earth.

And that was, of course, down to the fact that Gotto Trattoria's charm and amazing dishes had completely consumed me.

Gotto Trattoria | East London | Restaurant Reviews | Hot Dinners

Grace Dent reviews Gotto: Perfect for those who demand a little St ...

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So far at Here East, two dining spots have opened; a ginormous branch of the canary-yellow millennial-magnet The Breakfast Club, and Gotto, a modern trattoria by the folk from Brewer Street’s Mele e Pere.

For a spanking new, hammered-together construction, Gotto’s designers have made a strikingly decent fist of creating a warm, authentic space sporting an open kitchen with sit-up dining, subdued lighting, quirky graffiti and home-made vermouths on tap.

Gotto’s dinner menu is changeable but expect robust pastas such as paccheri alla marina with surf clams, agnolotti with nettles, and paglia e fieno (yellow and green ‘straw and hay’ tagliatelle) with quail and girolles.

There are sharing plates of burrata, a somewhat al dente chickpea salad laced with zhoug and pretty octopus polpette on cocktail sticks, which are perfect to demolish with Gotto’s impressive stock of craft beer and vino.

Several things on this menu didn’t quite sing for me such as a simple but slightly anonymous carbonara and a lifeless vanilla torte della nonna, but this felt like early days in Gotto’s kitchen.

Gotto Trattoria | Restaurants in Hackney Wick, London

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The best thing about this Hackney Wick Italian is its canal-side position.

Maybe Gotto is trying to prove it’s street enough to be setting up shop in the Wick, since the people behind this restaurant also operate the slick Italian eaterie Mele e Pere in Soho.

Mele e Pere impresses most with its vermouth selection, and while that vast library isn’t replicated at Gotto, they do recommend a red or white aperitivo to kick off the evening or to pair with small plates.

Is Gotto your go-to Italian in Hackney?

But it’s bringing a bit of chic to a neighbourhood that’s rapidly changing, and although dinner didn’t rock my world, I’d quite happily return for a bombette and vermouth beside the canal.

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