It looked so promising: a new upmarket Italian (which are seldom done well), lovely room, excellent first reviews… and yet a bitterly disappointing evening – made worse by the fact we were entertaining exacting friends from NY. The welcome slightly indifferent, the Mojito bland, the inability to seat 5 people so one wasn't on a table of their own talking to no-one, patchy service – veering from overbearing to absent, the menu divided by fish, meat and veg rather than by course a non-starter, flavourless amuse bouche, minute starter portions, steak and lamb served out of a deep-ish bowl that's nigh impossible to cut and eat out of, not inexpensive mains at £25+ per dish… by the end we couldn't wait to leave – it was an all-round let-down. Yes, maybe they're new and teething, but would we go back? I don't think so.