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DaisyBailey

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Hello,

I know this is a bit random but I wanted to post a message about Signoria on Lordship Lane, the new (ish) Italian cafe/restaurant opposite the French House. I used to live in Italy and really miss no-frills, well-priced, decent, Italian cooking but this is it (Il Mirto's is also really good but more for the evening).


The owner,Maurizio, is Italian and really accommodating. The chefs are Italian so the pasta is perfectly cooked and having been in a couple of times, this is my new favourite place to take the kids for lunch or get some work done while not spending an arm and a leg. The coffee is also really good and there is free WiFi. Fyi.


I just wanted to share as not many people seem to know about the place/have tried it.


Thanks a lot,

D

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Mrs TP

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It took them a while to get their act together - they were painfully slow at first and I fear haemorrhaged many regulars of the previous set up. However, we went in over Easter for lunch and it was lovely and service much faster. The owner made one of my girls a gorgeous strawberry milkshake - over judged the ingredient quantities and so gave me an extra glass for free. Food was lovely and a step up in quality from previous set up although v similar offereings. Would love to see that place heaving again having been going for 17+ yrs and new team seeming settled.
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movingeast

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Hi, I grabbed lunch here this week - ordered a pasta alla norma, which is veggie.


Penne pasta, light tomato sauce, Fried aubergine and cubes of mozzarella. I felt that the sauce was under seasoned - it needed salt and a pinch of sugar, in my opinion. But it was perfectly pleasant, the service was one, and I noticed several other Italian people who are obviously regulars which was lovely to see.


I noticed they had a sign for a home-made meatballs, and I can never resist a meatball so I will definitely be going back to try them.

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Polytunnel

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My friend Dave & I are regular customers at Signoria ! In fact we are there at the moment. Dave had the lasagna, I had the tomato soup ....... this restaurant is so very good. Lovely food charming people & the coffee is just the best. Most definitely worth a visit oh and don't forget the gorgeous meatballs !!!!!
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Each time I have been to this eatery, the staff have been heavenly and the sustenance is delectable. I went a month ago and took my companions and we were content on having a dinner of starters! Expert Essay Writer Was so great and the server was so obliging in getting my companion some additional lemon for her water. Every one of the starters are brilliant.
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Flintstone

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Without doubt, the Sign?ria is a welcome addition to Lordship Lane and since its arrival has been getting better and better. The food and drinks are excellent, the staff are always friendly and attentive, and the ambience is relaxissimo. One feels one can pop in for a hasty caff? or to enjoy a full Italian meal; and being satisfied that the visit was well worth it, there is the assurance that another visit will soon be made.

Where to find the ristorante in Lordship Lane? Well, it is opposite the Co-op and the red ? in its name shows where exactly you should head to.

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Michael Palaeologus

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Yes and press-ganged nine innocent, naive and innocent Forumites to make similarly positive comments in support of a new ED business.


This runs against the normally negative and destructive comments about local enterprises that the Forum holds so dear and as such is to be condemned.


Anything else positive and constructive we can p*ss on while we are at it?

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moondancer

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I counted 5 'regulars?' one newby ish and 3 fishers - RPC's instincts are legendary - besides, she is literary and recognises - 'we are there at the moment' would read 'we are here at the moment' if in fact they were.


The next recommendation is in restaurant speak as though it has been translated.



The initial post suggests that the fisher at one time worked for Michael Caine


Who is being destructive or negative? and ready to be condemned?


There is a difference between a bona fide restaurant/cafe experience which people want to share and 3

dubious postings, remarked upon.


As one erstwhile and missed poster here opined : "they never learn, do they?"

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KidKruger

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stopped going there when after 4 or 5 successive weekends the early Sat morning sandwich I'd been popping-in for for years just wasn't being made as requested (and agreed). It was a simple sandwich, but the person serving just didn't understand enough English to execute it I guess, although I was told each time it would be as requested.

In the end I can't make weekly cash donations and not get what I want, there's loads of other places to get it. So I did the loyal customer bit and it wasn't working (for me).

I'm not that fussy, but get the simple stuff right, right ?

Also there was a server with rotting teeth which put me off, that's just wrong.

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Sue

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I don't think moondancer was having a go at you, RPC?


And yes, that post from Flintstone reviving the thread after eight months sounds like one of those effusive paid for "reviews" you get in local papers, rather than the usual kind of forum post. But what would I know?


It's a shame, because they have the opposite effect on me to what is presumably intended. It puts me off going to the place in question.


It's the "crushed and devalued" thing all over again ......

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moondancer

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Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> moondancer Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > RPC's instincts are legendary

>

> I find your post quite catty.

>

> Of course I could be wrong in this case, and I

> apologise if so, but in my 10+ years on this forum

> it's been a very regular occurrence.



an astonishing analysis !!!

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moondancer

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Sue Wrote:

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> I don't think moondancer was having a go at you,

> RPC?

>

> And yes, that post from Flintstone reviving the

> thread after eight months sounds like one of those

> effusive paid for "reviews" you get in local

> papers, rather than the usual kind of forum post.

> But what would I know?

>

> It's a shame, because they have the opposite

> effect on me to what is presumably intended. It

> puts me off going to the place in question.

>

> It's the "crushed and devalued" thing all over

> again ......



Thank you Sue, good sense and a correct reading of my post.

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