On a balmy evening of honking traffic and fumes in central London, I escaped into what felt like an open-air bar in an Italian piazza, or one of the most magical of Venetian eateries. The walls seemed to glow in the light of a dusky sunset, and dinky table lamps glowed warm like candlelight. Walking through the doors felt like entering a new country — somewhere cleaner, softer, and with much snazzier tiling.
Cicchetti Piccadilly, one of the best restaurants in London for lovers of Italian cuisine, first opened in 2012 by the San Carlo group, has now moved to 172-173 Piccadilly, a stone's throw from The Ritz, and sports an entirely new interior by award-winning design studio Fettle, the mastermind behind Cicchetti Knightsbridge and Isola in Marylebone.
