Doost & Amici - Flavorful Dishes of Iran to Italy — Restaurant in London

Food was very good, and so were the drinks. Atmosphere was nice, and the staff was friendly. Even though there was a slight mixup with the order, the staff was apologetic, and it got solved quickly.

Having said that - the price was excessive for some of the portions we were given; especially for the Mazeh platter. The Mazeh platter is described as 4 starters alongside bread for £19. We received 3 small bowls of dips, and a small bowl of seasoned olives with 5 strips of bread. Whilst the dips and olives were nice, the quantity of bread left a lot to desire - leaving us eating spoon fulls of yoghurt and humus, not wanting to waste what was an already expensive dish. Overall, the general volume of the starters nowhere near justified the price notwithstanding the high quality of the different components.

The meal was generally very nice, but once again, the mains surprised us greatly due to the size of them. The barberry rice was nice, and was filling, but the other option we chose, the duck breast stew, was surprisingly small. Having looked at the menu we saw a reasonable price of £12 for a stew and so chose to order it. What we did not notice (and were not actually asked about by the waitress) was the £5 additional charge for rice (this being one of 3 options for sides - which were not listed as a pre-requisite for ordering this dish). This came as a surprise to us when checking the bill afterwords, seeing as the stew was rather small and so was the amount of rice, which again, was £5 extra.

The final bit of criticism is the ~12% service charge which was added to the bill - even after the mixup in our orders. I can understand a service charge, but in the UK a 12% seems excessive, especially after a mixup in our order.

Overall - good food, but overpriced given the...

This restaurant or RISTORANTE advertise itself as an Italian restaurant. Looking at the menu all the dishes seems to appear as Italian dishes. The bad news arrives when you actually receive the food and it gets even worse once you try it.

We ordered two TIRAMISU or at least this is how they call it.

For everyone who actually knows and tried a real tiramisu this is the furthest thing from it.

This dish stays at the Italian tiramisu as a football player stays at Stephen Hawking.

They truely are at the antipodes.

We received 4 biscuits, which were not lady fingers but more similar to sponge cakes instead, there was some whip cream instead of mascarpone cream, therefore no sign of eggs at all, chocolate chips and in a pot there was bad made coffee, mixed with milk. Once we called the restaurant to complain about the order a funny Indian voice tried to convince us that this was a tiramisu and that we should have tried it before complaining. Well we did try it eventually, just out of curiosity, and our response and suggestion is this.

Talking to the restaurant owner: we kindly suggest you try first the real Italian tiramisu and if you are capable to taste the difference between your "tiramisu" and the Stephen Hawkins of tiramisu, then, or you call your dish with a different name or maybe you just change job because this work indeed doesn't do for you.

Guys trust me DO NOT ORDER FROM THIS RESTAURANT they are just after money and they don't care at all to deliver you with good quality food or to give you a good food...

I think it may be the singular worst restaurant experience of my life.

The staff was nice but the food I had was very basic. The starter was a rocket salad or rocket, radishes, LL walnuts and feta cheese. It had no dressing but there was balsamic vinegar and olive oil on the table. It was garnished with a whole spring onion which was just confusing.

The main was some rice which albeit well cooked was mixed with dill and then a salmon fillet with absolutely no seasoning at all was pan fried and placed on top. I was served alongside more rocket. It was amongst the blandest things I've ever tasted. It was dry and entirely devoid of flavour.

I didn't want to be rude but when I saw the bill come in I nearly cried. The food had been so uninspired I felt as though they had reached into my pockets and robbed me blind. That's not to say it was expensive, but to say that it had offered me very little utility outside of being technically food.

On top of this we waited over an hour and a half to receive our mains which we had pre-ordered. They said it was because of the marathon but it's safe to say I won't be returning to find out.

Now this was just the Iranian dishes and apparently the half who ordered Italian dishes said that their food was nicer, but i chose what I chose and generally I expect restaurants to have a...