Jump to content

Recommended Posts

Si Mangia


Went there for the first time on Saturday night and we thought the food was good. But overall the experience was just an ok one.


The food was very good but not great. It seems to do the basics well. There is a lot of fish in the starter menu, prawns, calcmari and scallops and a lot of chicken *too much maybe) on the main menu. No veal and only one meat dish on the mains menu being fillet steak (not counting the sausage dish). I had the calves liver pate for starter and meatballs with fettuccini for main, both were good. A bottle of Chianti was ?21 which was fine.


Unfortunately what was bad was it had two huge and noisy tables in the main restaurant, with about 15-20 people on each, one of which was a 50th birthday, so it was incredibly noisy. We had lots of happy birthday singing and the lights dimmed for a birthday cake to be presented, all a bit tacky.


Also I was sitting under a speaker which played a whole Bryan Adams best of album the whole time we were there, and played it loud. Run to you, Anything I do etc, all his 80s/90s hits. Surely something more Italian would set the Italian restaurant scene better.


If I were to try it again I'd probably try it midweek and hope to get a quiet night to experience it in a different light, but unfortunatley it seems to see itself as a party place on a Saturday night.


But it was absolutely jammed so why would they want to change?

Link to comment
https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7129-si-mangia-italian-restaurant/
Share on other sites

Mic Mac - Si Mangia usually gets a good write up here as a fair, middle priced, local eaterie. A search would reveal the full range of opinion.


My family and I use it regularly, not as a destination or special place but for good food, sensibly priced with friendly service. In my experience your noisy visit would be a one off.

Yes MP - they were completely fully booked so as far as running a successful business they are doing everything right. I have nothing negative about Si Mangia apart from the music and the parties on Saturday night. As I said I would recommend a week night visit rather than a Saturday night, I have only been once but will be going again soon prob for lunch with the children.


I had gone to a central London Italian for lunch on Friday and had a different Italian dining experience. It was small, little circular tables, white linen tablecloths, elderly Italian gentlemen serving. It was a little like the restaurants in the Godfather movies. If anyone wants a recommendation for an Italian in London its Biagi's Upper Berkeley Street in Marylebone. It's been around a long time. It has an independent feel to it and is not expensive. So perhaps my expectations were a bit high after that.

Mick Mac Wrote:

-------------------------------------------------------

> No veal and only one meat dish on the mains menu

> being fillet steak (not counting the sausage

> dish). I had the calves liver pate for starter and

> meatballs with fettuccini for main...


Mick, what on earth did they make your meatballs out of?

You do, you do. Sorry, am in a sleep-deprived faint hysteria today and was just making myself laugh, for which I apologise.


You are quite correct, pasta is not officially a main.


Were they nice meatballs? I like meatballs a lot and if they're of suitable quality, may venture down there (once I've been proactive enough to look up where it is).

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
  • Latest Discussions

    • Exactly what I said, that Corbyn's group of univeristy politics far-left back benchers would have been a disaster during Covid if they had won the election. Here you go:  BBC News - Ex-union boss McCluskey took private jet flights arranged by building firm, report finds https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3kgg55410o The 2019 result was considered one of the worst in living memory for Labour, not only for big swing of seats away from them but because they lost a large number of the Red-wall seats- generational Labour seats. Why? Because as Alan Johnson put it so succinctly: "Corbyn couldn't lead the working class out of a paper bag"! https://youtu.be/JikhuJjM1VM?si=oHhP6rTq4hqvYyBC
    • Agreed and in the meantime its "joe public" who has to pay through higher prices. We're talking all over the shop from food to insurance and everything in between.  And to add insult to injury they "hurt " their own voters/supporters through the actions they have taken. Sadly it gets to a stage where you start thinking about leaving London and even exiting the UK for good, but where to go????? Sad times now and ahead for at least the next 4yrs, hence why Govt and Local Authorities need to cut spending on all but essential services.  An immediate saving, all managerial and executive salaries cannot exceed and frozen at £50K Do away with the Mayor of London, the GLA and all the hanging on organisations, plus do away with borough mayors and the teams that serve them. All added beauracracy that can be dispensed with and will save £££££'s  
    • The minimum wage hikes on top of the NICs increases have also caused vast swathes of unemployment.
    • Exactly - a snap election will make things even worse. Jazzer - say you get a 'new' administration tomorrow, you're still left with the same treasury, the same civil servants, the same OBR, the same think-tanks and advisors (many labour advisors are cross-party, Gauke for eg). The options are the same, no matter who's in power. Labour hasn't even changed the Tories' fiscal rules - the parties are virtually economically aligned these days.  But Reeves made a mistake in trying too hard, too early to make some seismic changes in her first budget as a big 'we're here and we're going to fix this mess, Labour to the rescue' kind of thing . They shone such a big light on the black hole that their only option was to try to fix it overnight. It was a comms clusterfuck.  They'd perhaps have done better sticking to Sunak's quiet, cautious approach, but they knew the gullible public was expecting an 24-hour turnaround miracle.  The NIC hikes are a disaster, I think they'll be reversed soon and enough and they'll keep trying till they find something that sticks.   
Home
Events
Sign In

Sign In



Or sign in with one of these services

Search
×
    Search In
×
×
  • Create New...