Vegetarian Italian Restaurant London

Recently I visited London for a short break.  We went to Amico Bio on a Friday night for dinner.  The restaurant is lovely and has lots of vegan options.  The owner is a vegetarian and is Italian, so the food does have an authentic feel to it.  The food I would describe as rustic and wholesome.  My only complaint about Amico Bio is the vegan dessert option.  I do not get why the vegan choice is so poor.

For starters I had the cauliflower fritters and Paul had the Bruschetta.  The fritters were very crispy and tasted really good,  cauliflower works great as a tempura.  The Bruschetta was fine,  when we have had this before they used a much nicer bread,  the bread on this was good but not that great,  it was a ciabatta firm bread,  whereas before it was more of a focaccia style bread.

For main course I tried the pasta with sage and pumpkin.  I actually enjoyed this,  it was very filling and whilst I enjoyed the flavour of the sage I did not like the sage leaves,  they were unpleasant to chew,  I put those to one side and the dish was lovely.

Paul had a seitan sandwich with salad and chips.  The sandwich was really good, the seitan was pleasant and worked great with the salad and chips.  The chips were a little bit soggy, but they were made from real potato and did taste quite good.

The dessert was not great,  Paul ordered the only vegan dessert that was not ice cream,  the apple crumble.  It was basically over cooked apple with some cereals on top that reminded me of wheat a bix, coated with dusted icing sugar.  The cereals were not crispy,  this was not crumble,  it tasted awful.  I do not understand how you get an apple crumble wrong, it is such an easy dessert to make.  I do not understand why they are not good at vegan desserts,  vegan chocolate cake is so easy to make.   sorry to go on but it drives me a little crazy.  Vegans like cake.

We had vegan wine and vegan beer which were great, with good flavours.  The menu is varied and offers some really good options for vegans.  It can get quite busy so I woud recommend that you book a table.  They are located in London near the Barbican Tube Station.

www.amicobio.co.uk