Eat Out London!Briciole
Italian deli in Marylebone, London with a café-bar, trattoria & restaurant serving delicious Italian cuisine at affordable prices. Reservations online.
Briciole, Italian deli, café-bar & restaurant - Marylebone, London - Briciole Restaurant, London
Briciole is an Italian trattoria, café bar and deli under one roof, in the heart of Marylebone.
The menus are inspired by favourite dishes from Latium and sit alongside other Italian classics and new dishes.
The knowledgeable Italian staff are is on hand to recommend both food and wines.
The light open space features the gastronomia section of the deli and the café bar at the front, with the restaurant at the rear and an outside area for al fresco dining in warmer weather.
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Briciole, Italian deli, café-bar & restaurant - Marylebone, London ...
Briciole is an Italian trattoria, café bar and deli under one roof, in the heart of Marylebone.
The menus are inspired by favourite dishes from Latium and sit alongside other Italian classics and new dishes.
The knowledgeable Italian staff are is on hand to recommend both food and wines.
The light open space features the gastronomia section of the deli and the café bar at the front, with the restaurant at the rear and an outside area for al fresco dining in warmer weather.
Reviews on Briciole, the Italian café bar & restaurant - Marylebone ...
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Briciole, 20 Homer Street, London W1 | The Independent
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My friend Jon and I perched on stools while the maître d', Umberto Tosi, a charmer with a Father Ted hairstyle, brought our drinks with murmurs of in that relaxed Italian way.
Our bruschetta came with burrata cheese, aubergines and olives – crunchy and milky and fine, though Jon was unimpressed: "The aubergines are a bit non-committal," he said.
The main event – what in any other trattoria would be the primi e secondi piatti, rather the seventh or eighth one – was pasta followed by meatballs or sausage.
A side-dish of verdure grigliate – aubergines, red peppers, courgettes, carrots – provided some colourful companions, but still... The only real highlight of the meal was my polpette fritte in agrodolce, namely sweet and sour fried meatballs, done Palermo-style.
This Italian wine bar serves excellent small sharing plates such as calamari fritti and spicy pork and beef meatballs.
Review of London Italian restaurant Briciole by Andy Hayler in ...
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A salad of goat cheese, walnuts and beetroot (£4.50) was pleasant if a little heavy on the cheese, though the beetroot was a good foil for this (12/20).
A salad of tomatoes, green beans and avocado (£5) had ripe avocado and tomatoes with good flavour (13/20).
For the main course, taglialini (£15) with porcini had well made pasta with good quality mushrooms that were carefully cooked (13/20).
Native lobster (£20) came with tagliatelle and also had excellent pasta made from scratch, and tender shellfish (easily 13/20).
For dessert, tiramisu was enjoyable, though the coffee flavour was rather tentative (12/20).
Briciole - review | London Evening Standard
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The restaurant Latium in Berners Street, W1, often receives praise for good value but its chef Maurizio Morelli and manager Umberto Tosi at their new venture Briciole seem to have become official patrons of eating out.
Consequently, on my first visit at lunchtime, I started with the vitello tonnato, sporting pink, tender veal under the tuna sauce studded with capers, and my friend chose mixed salad with beetroot, goat’s cheese and walnuts (£4), a gastropub cliché with an Italian accent confined to the vocabulary of rape rossa and formaggio di capra — but generously served.
At dinner on another occasion the seafood sauce for tagliolini didn’t have the fresh ozone sparkle you might hope for.
Next time I might go straight to the salsicce stewed with borlotti beans or served in tomato sauce alongside polenta with pecorino cheese.
Arguably even more interesting to know about is the comprehensive Italian wine list marked up with admirable restraint from a glass of prosecco to a bottle of Sassicaia.
Briciole | Restaurants in Marylebone, London
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A wide-ranging selection of small plates, first-class salumi, cheeses, pastas, grills and other mains drawn from all over Italy made ordering fiendishly difficult.
We tried to sample some of everything, and soon our table looked pleasingly crowded and varied, as a proper Italian meal should.
Some dishes are downright peculiar, some disappointing – a plate of meatballs with peas looked like little mounds smothered in a bright green smoothie, and our cannoli was too thick and unwieldy.
But gnocchi with pork cheeks, red onion and peas was spot-on, and a sausage served with polenta flew us straight back to Italy, the fennel singing out from the sausage’s dense porky flavours.
This is rustic Italian cuisine at its most honest and inviting – the real deal in a crowded, often disappointing market.