Angela Hartnett’s new restaurant Murano in London has gained more praise by the capital’s food critics, with Time Out’s Guy Dimond saying its menu is “sensational”.
Dimond is impressed with the Gordon Ramsay Holdings-owned Italian venture giving it four out of five stars. However, he laments the prices at the Mayfair restaurant: “The prices are the sting in the tail – £55 for a three-course menu of essentially simple Italian food is roughly double what you’d pay in Italy, but this is the most expensive city in Europe, not some Umbrian backwater.”
Meanwhile, The Metro’s Marina O’Loughlin is somewhat underwhelmed by 12 Temple Place at the Howard Hotel and laments the fact that the restaurant is completely “deserted”.
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By Kerstin Kühn
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