Celebrating a special occasion with a large group of people, from the outset the fresco style ceiling of the establishment threw me right back into the Sistine chapel, beautiful. Secondly the decor around the tables felt relaxed and formal yet gives that rustic Italian style that makes you feel you can relax with family and friends without feeling like hushed tones are all that is allowed. Finally on to the food. I begin my review with the first course, a antipasti bruschetta and arancini there is not much more to say here than splendid, well balanced flavour profiles, nothing overpowered one another, I enjoyed the fact your bruschetta was served separate so it allowed everyone to top there toast with the amount desired personally. And on to the main courses, I’ll begin with the positives, I ordered the quadrelli con agnello, I was mesmerised by this dish, wonderfully braised lamb, gorgeous sauce all elements sang to me as if they were from the voices of choir boys in St. Peter’s basilica. Unfortunately we move on to the dish that really fuelled this review, when an Italian states on a menu “just a simple classic” well that’s what you expect, I was horrified to find what I could only describe as a plate of spaghetti with pancetta and a sauce that I can only assume was made with cream, I speak of course of the classic carbonara, however a classic one to me is, spaghettoni/ linguine, with an egg yolk, guanciale, pecorino and black pepper in the sauce. Unfortunately this dish contained none of the above to my knowledge, I can only assume the stain of yellow across the top is the egg yolk sauce the chef forgot to make the dish with, unsure no idea what parley is doing anywhere near a carbonara. Alas after tasting many carbonara in Rome and other places across Italy, this just didn’t have the hallmarks that you come to expect, it lacks the punchy flavours and intense fattiness from the guanciale. Would be great to see if this dish could be brought up to the same level of the rest of the menu tried, finally it would of helped the carbonara if the comically sized pepper grinder could of made up for the distinct lack found in the recipe, but alas it failed to. Bar this one staple pasta dish the restaurant and food is delicious, I just feel it lacks the 5th star for this mishap, I am excited to come back to and explore further across this menu, and delve deeper into the Italian wine selection. Duncan