Ave Mario
One of the West End’s most fun places to eat. In a high-ceilinged, bottle-festooned Covent Garden space best described as the collision between a Florentine mansion and Studio 54, conversation is loud and staff is overworked, but the family-friendly food is filling, high-spirited, and on point. Seated in circular booths, you’ll eat airy warm focaccia, piquant cocktails, massive soft-doughed pizzas, lemon pies topped with head-turning towers of merinque, and best of all, La Gran Carbonara, which is homemade spaghetti alla chitarra for two basted tableside inside a giant wheel of pecorino cheese. Ave Mario perpetually chaotic and popular for good reason, but if you fail to arrive with a booking, the crowd starts thinning out around 830 pm. Two-course lunch menus are £23 and 3-course pre-theatre menus are £34.
One of the West End’s most fun places to eat. In a high-ceilinged, bottle-festooned Covent Garden space best described as the collision between a Florentine mansion and Studio 54, conversation is loud and staff is overworked, but the family-friendly food is filling, high-spirited, and on point. Seated in circular booths, you’ll eat airy warm focaccia, piquant cocktails, massive soft-doughed pizzas, lemon pies topped with head-turning towers of merinque, and best of all, La Gran Carbonara, which is homemade spaghetti alla chitarra for two basted tableside inside a giant wheel of pecorino cheese. Ave Mario perpetually chaotic and popular for good reason, but if you fail to arrive with a booking, the crowd starts thinning out around 830 pm. Two-course lunch menus are £23 and 3-course pre-theatre menus are £34.
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