• Italian• Bermondsey
Flour & Grape is a relaxed Italian-inspired restaurant on Bermondsey Street, home to some of London’s best casual restaurants including Pizarro and Casse-Croûte. The restaurant’s dining room takes advantage of being built on a corner, with wide windows great for people-watching as you eat, and comfortable booths upholstered in leather.
The restaurant, like Padella around the corner, is one of a few openings in the 2010s that puts fresh pasta at the forefront of the menu, offering delicious and great-value pasta dishes designed for the table to share, alongside a short menu of simple, delicious charcuterie, cheese, bread and snacks.
The site was originally home to upmarket Italian restaurant Antico. Founders Adam Czmiel and Nick Crispini reopened the restaurant as Flour & Grape in 2017, paring down the menu and taking advantage of Londoners’ renewed interest in fresh pasta.
Flour & Grape is part of the trend of restaurants who seem to believe they just invented the concept of serving high-quality pasta.
The spaghetti – a twist of hay-coloured strands – had been dotted with glistening, juicy mussels, cut through with garlic and white wine.
The dishes are the work of Adam Czmiel, former sous chef at Antico which sat on the site previously, and the quality will be nos surprise to those who frequented it back then.
Designed to keep them all together despite rising running costs, it sees their menu streamlined to a range of eight homemade pasta dishes, available to eat in or takeaway