There really isn't much to recommend the Victoria end of Belgravia. It's where Mrs Thatcher lives. It has the coach station. It has no newsagents. It has a pub full of braying rahs. Oh and it has two of my favourite restaurants ever. Damn.
Olivo and it's cheaper sister Oliveto are both brilliant examples of what restaurants should be about. Both Sardinian in flavour, the former does some serious meat 'n' fish; the latter great pastas, pizzas and a few fishy things. The waiters are cool, the wine is cheap and hangover-friendly, the tables are close together but somehow that doesn't matter too much.
Clearly the owner of these two lovely places has got sick of turning people like me away when I try (in vain) to book tables for 2 for the same day, and I see he's just opened a third restaurant: Olivomare (time to place your bets on what the fourth one's going to be called) - fish, fish and fish again. Sounds great. Only bad news is that according Time Out, they're already turning down bookings. Grr.
Olivo is on Eccleston Street, 020 7730 2505. Oliveto is on Elizabeth Street, 020 7730 0074. Olivomare is on Lower Belgave Street, 020 7730 9022.
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