This place was located about 4 blocks from my hotel so I decided to give it a try. It's is a small…read morebut a classically unique place. A lot of charm that you can only get from a small family owned business. Lets start with the good. I got a chicken dish that comes with a side of pasta and a salad. I decided on a red sauce. It was pretty good but had to many half tomato's in it for my liking. This is totally a personal preference. Its good.... just a little off for me. The chicken was tender and prepared perfectly. I have a few complaints but I think they might be directly related to my culture (being an American in London). Both my water and soda were served warm. When I asked for ice I was kind of looked at weirdly. I was then only given a few ice cubes that melted fairly quick. I just left it at that and drank warm water. Over all, excellent and worth a try.

Really nice, small & cozy restaurant with candle light and inside topical Italian…read more Good choices on the menu, and very big portions with a excellent taste! So a big eater must be definitely here, and rich with products. Very friendly people and I really enjoyed my visiting there :)

Ridiculously overpriced for what you get…read more It was pretty flavourless sharwarma. It's £11 for a large and you basically get some under-seasoned meat. They definitely saw me coming. Won't be returning.

Formerly Andy's - which churned out kebab's, Laras in now a casual but smart restaurant selling…read moremeze and Mediterranean food (including kebabs) and has a sophisticated feel about it. Now don't get me wrong this isn't an upmarket top restaurant but it fills the gap between kebab shop and full blown restaurant. It is the sort of place that you want to go to get good food with a nice atmosphere when you just want to chill out and not have to make too much of an effort. For there part they do everything without too much fuss and looked after me during my visit very well. Food and wine are all reasonably priced and ranges from meze to pasta to fish to casseroles. Ideal if you want something on the go or somewhere to chill and eat before plodding off home having filled your belly and drank some good house red.

Listen. If this gaff was in NY and you were on holiday there…read moreand stumbled across it on some intrepid manoeuvre to Queens or Brooklyn, you'd be raving to all and sundry about this place you found in Brooklyn or Queens that nobody else had ever heard about and was one of the best kept secrets in NY. Well you're not on holiday in NY. But you live in London. And Hammersmith isn't intrepid like Plaistow or some Godforsaken place. It's fairly central and packed full of great places to eat. In fact, in this one 200m stretch of the wide pavemented bit of King St W6 I'd say there are five very good restaurants, plus a couple of more dodgy additions. And a Pizza Hut. So competition for the local Hammersmith groat is fierce. L'Amarosa is the place you rave about because you think you've discovered it. Seductively lit, all mahogany, mezzanine floor and wine glasses that ting. Even the typography is seductive. This is what you want a proper Italian to be. Flowers on every table. Art on the walls that isn't a blight on your evening. Friendly relaxed service that makes you feel like you're the only ones there when in fact they are often full and never mob handed when it comes to staff. Le Gavroche this ain't. But I defy the aforementioned to whip up a plate of pasta as moreish and satisfying. The owners cook and serve. And you feel the love with every plate. Excellent small local places like this can't exist without that love. It's too much hard work. But the chef loves his pasta, you can tell. And the maitre 'd loves serving it, you can tell. The true sign of a good Italian is one where have never heard of the pasta on offer. Fact. I suspect the good places make up the names just for people like me. Toofie. Pacceri. I ask just in case it's not pasta at all. It's all explained gleefully. The menu is small. Another good sign as far as I'm concerned. Three dishes in the pasta section, plus a few in the char grilled section and some nicely put together starters. Courgette with Romesco sauce was pretty and tasty. The aubergine and tomato tortelloni had punch. The white chocolate pannacotta a delightfully elegant way to finish. But by the time you go the menu will have changed. What won't have changed is the love. It's an 'order two bottles and settle in' kind of place from which, if you're in a window seat, you can plot future meals at Potli or Saigon Saigon directly opposite. But the night will always belong to L'Amarosa, a place Hammersmith people will want to keep secret but absolutely worth the trek if you're from the wrong side of the tracks. A seductive, elegant reward for your intrepidness.

Last week we were in London for a wedding and took our family to LAmorosa for dinner the evening…read morebefore the service. What a disappointment! The first clue was that there was only 1 other table occupied on a Friday night. The service was terrible. From getting no dishes for a table of 8 forolives and bread, we asked the server for plates. She brought 2. We then asked her to bring one for each person. She plunked bottles of water and wine on the table without serving them. She wanted our dinner order even before she asked about cocktails. The whole experience was abysmal, although itself was fine. We travel to London often and would never go back. I don't like to write a negative review. I always look for the positive, but this is an exception. How they were ever recommended by Michelin for an award, is beyond me. The following week we ate at a Michelin restaurant in Tuscany, and it was outstanding. Joseph DEVLIN

AMAZING food! My partner and I were staying in Chiswick for the week and decided on a whim to try…read morethis place out. I had a beef meatball dish called Sheftali and he had a roast lamb dish called Kleftiko. We also each had a Greek salad and split an appetizer of the fried calamari that came with a house made dipping sauce that was seasoned unlike anything I've ever had but was absolutely fantastic! The restaurant is clean, well decorated and inviting and every bite of food we had was top notch, generously portioned and reasonably priced. We're trying it again one other night before returning home...and this time we're saving room for the baklava for dessert!

Our mini family reunion of 10 came in. It was a Sunday and they accommodated us without a…read morereservation at 3:30 pm which was very appreciated, however, the general attitude seemed as though we were inconveniening the establishment. We understand that it was extremely last minute. My family just wanted to treat Peter and I to a nice dinner and this was the closest place. We did have a plan b, therefore, if they truly could not accommodate us we would've understood. I just did appreciate being treated like an inconvenience. The food itself was awesome, very flavourful and well prepared. Of course I have a soft spot for humus.

Tunisia! What do I know about Tunisia? Nothing! So I thought I'd try out Adam's Cafe and be a…read morelittle more worldly:) The first thing I wanted to know was, why is a Tunisian place called Adam's Cafe? Like the previous reviewer, I thought it sounded more like a fish and chips type of place. I asked the staff there who were happy to tell me that the family who owns the restaurant had a baby named Adam at the time they were opening the place and it's named after him. Cute! So let's talk food. I was keen to try North African cuisine so I overdosed a little on the appetisers. I started with the chorba which is tunisian soup with lamb, vegetables and pasta. I love me some soup so i was pretty happy with it and in chilly London weather it was hearty and comforting. Then we all tried the tuna brick which certainly makes an entrance. It's a beautifully presented brick of tuna and eggs wrapped in a huge fan of crispy filo pastry. I have to say, there was more egg than tuna in there and even though it was kind of magnificent to look at, it was disapppointing to eat. We also had the Doigts de Fatma (Fatma's fingers) because how could we not? They were basically a samosa/sambousa/pastry with stuff in it and were decent but pretty average. My friends had the mixed grill and I tried it but was not impressed at all. I wouldn't come here for the grill. For my main course I ordered the lamb tagine based on the previous reviewers recommendation. I probably shouldn't have though because it's stewed with prunes and sultanas, neither of which I like, and I really didn't like the overly sweet sauce at all. The lamb itself was very tenderly cooked, but I just couldn't get away from the sauce taste. If you like prunes and sweet sauces though you will probably like it just fine as they really did try to cook it to tender and spiced perfection. I think if I order a different stew/tagine next time I will probably be quite happy with their chefs skills. The service was slightly awkward and I wouldn't really say they were very friendly , but I think I would be willing to come and try it one more time based on how much effort their chef put into the tagine.

This restaurant has some really good North African cuisine.Although only open in the evenings its…read morehas great service and very reasonably priced menu.The vareity of food served ranges from simple grilled fish and meat to the more earthy romantic Tagines.Amongst the starters there is fish soup,grilled spicy lamb sausages and Pastilla-a really pleasent and aromatic Moroccan Dish made from Sweet Chicken,Almond and Filo Pastry Pie.The main courses have a wide range of tagines-7 of the best one are the monkfish,tomatoes,Peppers accompanied by saffron potatos and nicely garnished with coriander. On this occassion I had a whole grilled sea-bass with french fries and a divine tastira sauce or you can eat with one of the kitchen's legendery couscous dishes. Desserts menu consists of tartelette aucitron,an orange fruit salad, with dates, crepe berbere ( a morrocan-styled pancake with a honey sauce0. You can bring your own wine,corkage is 3.00, there is a very short wine list starting at 9.00