E T London
46-50 New Oxford St, London, WC1A 1ES Directionshttps://www.yell.com/biz/e-t-london-london-1746199/#view=map
Open today
11:00 - 22:00
Our location
Business overview
Giotto Italian Restaurant near British Museum
Traditional Italian Restaurant near British museum
Products & Services
child friendly
fish & seafood restaurants
italian takeaways
pizzas
Parties are welcome
Italian restaurant near Tottenham court road
wheelchair accessible
Reviews
12 Jun 2014
Lovely Italian
4
This is a lovely little Italian restaurant. It has a family run, cost atmosphere and I particularly like the salads (doesn't matter which you choose, they're all good) as well as the pasta, which is always cooked just right. Well worth popping into if you're in the area.
21 Mar 2014
26 May 2009
Uninspiring
3
Quaint as this restaurant may be, and despite the friendly accommodating staff and the just about reasonable price, I left Giotto with mixed feelings about the quality of the food. 4 of us dined here midweek. The restaurant was quite busy, but we were found a table within 10 minutes.
Two in the party had vegetarian/vegan (minus cheese) pizzas and were very happy with them. One had quite dull vegetarian pasta. I had a mushroom risotto, and, although it wasn’t the worst I’ve had - some of the Prague restaurants score 1 out of 5 for this dish – I don’t think I’ve had a poorer one in the UK. The tiny black specks may have been mushroom; impossible to tell by the look or the taste, with any degree of certainty. The long grain rice and a short cooking time didn’t allow the dish to develop the characteristic creamy texture or the rich flavours of a risotto cooked with carnaroli or arborio. I would say that what I had was rice boiled in water rather than stock (perhaps fortunately for this vegetarian as I had forgotten to ask whether chicken stock wasn't used), to which had been added reconstituted dried mushroom flakes. Very disappointing!
However, when I saw dishes being taken to other tables, such as prawn salad starter consisting of half a dozen Tesco once-frozen prawns with two pieces of iceberg lettuce, or thee slices of finely sliced melon naked on the plate, without further garnish, I was reminded of some of the unimaginative restaurants to be found in busy tourist locations in the major Italian cities. I think, on the whole, that we chose fortuitously. I may go back to roll the dice once more but I’d be much more likely to try another restaurant in the area.
Two in the party had vegetarian/vegan (minus cheese) pizzas and were very happy with them. One had quite dull vegetarian pasta. I had a mushroom risotto, and, although it wasn’t the worst I’ve had - some of the Prague restaurants score 1 out of 5 for this dish – I don’t think I’ve had a poorer one in the UK. The tiny black specks may have been mushroom; impossible to tell by the look or the taste, with any degree of certainty. The long grain rice and a short cooking time didn’t allow the dish to develop the characteristic creamy texture or the rich flavours of a risotto cooked with carnaroli or arborio. I would say that what I had was rice boiled in water rather than stock (perhaps fortunately for this vegetarian as I had forgotten to ask whether chicken stock wasn't used), to which had been added reconstituted dried mushroom flakes. Very disappointing!
However, when I saw dishes being taken to other tables, such as prawn salad starter consisting of half a dozen Tesco once-frozen prawns with two pieces of iceberg lettuce, or thee slices of finely sliced melon naked on the plate, without further garnish, I was reminded of some of the unimaginative restaurants to be found in busy tourist locations in the major Italian cities. I think, on the whole, that we chose fortuitously. I may go back to roll the dice once more but I’d be much more likely to try another restaurant in the area.
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