Amerigo Vespucci

Personally I would say if your looking for a real Italian Restaurant on the Wharf.. Amerigo Vespucci is the one.
Friendly service, waiters and waitresses are always bend over backwards to see for your needs.
Food is Great, Daily Specials are excellent, Good Italian pasta which is delicious… You really could be sitting in a restaurant in Italy.
Value for money… Not at all that expensive compared to other Prices on the Wharf and you really do get a good portion of food.
If the sun is shinning, then book early to get a table outside… Great river side views. Staff remember you and we even get a complimentary drink on the house…
Web site does offers, sign up to there News letter, For instance, last deal I got was a complimentary Antipasto starter.. Well worth it!
Love this place.
Think they are doing some work to the out door area, Covered bar area, possibly getting ready for the Olympics… Looking forward to seeing the outcome.
Thanks Amerigo

Went there last night with my husband. Started with a very good kir + bread and olives as the sun broke through the clouds – lovely! Bottles of olive oil and balsamic vinegar left on the table so the dipping saucer could be topped up ad lib. Starters of mushroom bruschetta with goats cheese and mushroom risotto were both wonderful, great flavours and good ingredients. Followed these with aged steak and a veal chop, sides of oven baked parmesan mash (which was really wonderful) and french beans. Meat of good quality and cooked as ordered. No room for pud but coffee comes with amaretti and biscotti. Add in an excellent bottle of Barolo and the total including service was a very reasonable £128. Service was attentive but unobtrusive – so many places find this difficult – which just added to the general sense of wellbeing we had by the end of the meal. Lovely quiet part of the Wharf serving real food – bliss! We'll be back.

It's local for us..We used to frequent it a lot…but not so much lately… And when we do go it's more because we have a ‘feel sorry’ sentiment towards this place rather than going out for a good meal . It used to be an OK place…It used to be our nearest italian,,,,..The staff used to be Italian …They used to be rushing around…They used to be busy…they used to cook a decent bit of food…you can see where I'm coming from ? The cooking standards have gone downhill. The menu needs changing..The staff need educating about the menu and they need to speak English. All in all it's a crying shame. There is roon at the Wharf for a good Italian. ( no Jamies is not ! ) Perhaps it has got oo comfortable with the expectant lunch runs and the good location ? .. But for weekend dining it's needs to sort itself out ..I'd love to see the returm of the old restaurant that was…sonner rather than later…or else it will lose more and more customers.

My fiancee and I have just returned from dinner at Amerigos where her main course of grilled salmon was very dry and my scallops very much overcooked and rubbery, including, surprisingly, the roe. (Ruining the roe, in my view, requires a particular degree of culinary talent!)

With 3 fruit juices, no starters, and no desserts or coffees (largely due to our disappointment at the mains and our consequent desire to escape other offerings a.s.a.p.!), and with sides and a bottle of quite good Sauvignon Blanc (called Wit's End, costing around £28 and, perhaps ironically, recommended by the waiter who also appears to have misheard when I ordered just a glass of it!) the bill came in at around £86. Service (the charge for which was approx. £8) was at best extremely average. We are not sure that we will return any time soon which, given that we once rated this restaurant fairly highly, is sad.

Nor were we asked at any time during or after our meal whether we enjoyed it so we took this as a further sign that noone really cared; that, on reflection, seems a fair summary of our treatment during our visit to Amerigo.

(Incidentally, when we returned home and set about writing a review for the website ‘www.restaurant-guide.com’ we were surprised to discover that it
“no longer publish[es] ‘reviews’ that are negative. Unfortunately this is due to the consistent misuse by too many correspondents. If you have had a poor experience, then we always recommend airing your complaint at the time or, failing that, writing to the restaurant directly afterwards.”

We beg to differ, particularly in the case of a restaurant which shows no interest whatsoever in what we thought of our meal. In such cases, our preferred course of action is not to return (and, occasionally, to contribute a review like this!

We also question the value of any review website which refuses to publish anything but positive feedback: unless the site owners/editors clearly state to their readers that they adopt such an approach, they lay themselves open to a charge of providing a one-sided and, therefore, misleading picture to those who may rely on the reviews that they publish.)

I would highly recommend this restuarant if you are in canary wharf.. well anywhere in london really…

We came to london for a surprise visit for my mrother in law's 50th birthday all they wasy from scotland and we called the restuarant to confirm and they reserved us a table had balloons and even made a cake for him.. the food is amazingly good and its the best italian we have ever been too…