The River Café

Iconic Italian restaurant in London since 1987. Designed by Richard Rogers, with riverside garden terrace, open kitchen.

River Cafe

Lunch Monday to Saturday: from 12.30pm Sunday: from 12.00pm Dinner Monday to Saturday: from 7pm All 7pm bookings are until 9pm.

Due to a planning restriction our guests must leave by 11pm on Monday to Thursday and by 11.20pm on Friday to Saturday.

For 5 or more please use our booking request form or contact the restaurant.

For Sunday Lunch bookings please call the restaurant on 020 7386 4200.

To make an enquiry please fill in a booking request form or contact the restaurant.

http://www.rivercafe.co.uk

review of London Italian restaurant The River Cafe by Andy Hayler ...

The wine list offered selections such as Jermann Vinnae 2016 at £58 for a bottle that you can find in the high street for £19, Rocca de Montegrossi Chianto Classico San Marcellino Riserva 2011 at £95 compared to its retail price of £36, and Antinori Tignanello 2013 at £220 for a label that will set you back £86 in a shop.

For dessert I had summer pudding, which was pleasant enough but could have had a bit more of the juices of the fruit.

As ever at the River Café, you sail through the meal thinking that this was a very pleasant experience.

Then the bill arrives – with one of the cheaper wines available between three people, and one person only having a single savoury course, the cost per head was still £81.

If you shared a modest bottle of wine, then three courses and coffee would typically set you back around £100 or more per head after service.

The River Café Review | Bon Appetit

GO HERE: for the Sunday lunch of a lifetime.

Ruth Rogers’s legendary Italian “canteen” in the hard-to-get-to Thames Wharf may be pushing 30, but it feels as vital as ever.

The tables are filled with a who’s who of London’s most interesting people, who come regularly not only for the flawlessly simple, seasonal Italian food, but also for the impeccable service.

If visiting in summer, ask for a table outside.

Having a boozy lunch here on your way to Heathrow (you’re practically halfway there!)

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Carolyn's puntarelle alla Romana was a helping of sliced chicory shoots with anchovy, chilli and red wine vinegar, very fine and fresh-tasting.

My other daughter, Sophie, was enraptured by her spaghetti con granchio, which mixed crab, chilli, fennel seeds and parsley to magical effect.

If they want to flavour a red mullet with thyme, or a turbot with rosemary, they shove a whole branch inside it; if they're cooking a piece of chicken or lamb, they'll marinade it for days.

Sophie's mullet reeked of thyme, the anchovy and olive sauce was a sexy, puttanesca touch, and the pigna beans made a nice al dente companion.

The partridge itself was succulent and the potatoes roasted with rosemary, and soon a whole orchestra of flavours surged around my taste buds.

As restaurants go, it's important – and it knows it: the River Café ...

Even so, it possesses the River Café — it is not a café — a famous and influential Italian restaurant.

It feels as if it takes more than an hour to get to the River Café from anywhere that is not Hammersmith.

The River Café was founded by Ruth Rogers and the late Rose Gray.

To celebrate the River Café’s 30th birthday last year, Lady Rogers gave an interview in which she said: ‘I don’t get angry with people who don’t know what asparagus is’.

The baskets of carrots clinging to mud in Shoreditch; the heartless renovation of industrial buildings; Google HQ; Heathrow Terminal 5; CBeebies — they are all, oblivious or not, descendants of the River Café.

London restaurant review: The River Café - Telegraph

As part of his latest television programme, Jamie's Ministry of Food, Oliver is showing them 10 basic recipes to teach friends.

Anyway, you can see where Jamie picked up his "pass it on" idea: the River Café, the west London restaurant where the young kitchen hand was transformed into a televisual phenomenon.

Jamie's whole career has essentially been about passing on the idea of the River Café.

This was as self-consciously modish as New Labour and everyone has been crying out for that party to rebrand, so why not the River Café?

Diana enjoys a hefty helping of coscia d'agnello ai ferri (£28): chargrilled, marinated leg of lamb with salsa d'erbe and really fleshy verdura mista of zucchini, basil and peppers.