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135 Whitecross Street, EC1Y 8JL Full details & map

Grill: Vegetarian

 

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Posted: Jan 29 2010

Defiantly non-corporate despite its City postcode, this combination deli, lunchtime takeaway spot and compact vegetarian restaurant offers interesting salads (such as beetroot, watercress, walnut and honey), imaginative sandwiches (smoked mozzarella and aubergine in piadina, an Italian flatbread) and hot takeaways (risotto with plum tomatoes, wild garlic leaves and parmesan). It's less atmospheric in the evening (gentler lighting might help) and the miniature courtyard housing three tables is cute but far too cramped. The Med-influenced menu hits the occasional flat note - nutty-textured veggie sausages were too sweet and the colcannon wasn't heated through - but a simple butternut squash and saffron risotto was tasty and generously portioned.

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Address

Carnevale

135 Whitecross Street EC1Y 8JL

Transport Barbican tube/Old Street tube/rail/55 bus

Telephone

020 7250 3452

Carnevale website

Meals served 7am-8.30pm Mon-Sat; 10am-5.30pm Sun.

Main courses £3.50-£5.

Credit cards MC, V

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Comments & ratings 4/5 (Average of 1 rating)

By pauline - Mar 26 2010

this used to be the only place in london to get good coffee. sadly, when it changed hands, coffee and food quality plummeted and when is parmesan vegetarian.

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