Josh Green
Really enjoyed our meal at this fun neighbourhood place. From the outside it looks nice enough but inside its really lovely, plenty of space but also not too big. The food is really fantastic, we had baked mushrooms, Greek salad, lasagnati, sage and butter ravioli, and cheesecake for dessert. The wine, especially the dessert wine, was great. Can't fault the service either, really friendly. Great little place.
Hannah Sierp
Friends of Flavours is a charming Italian restaurant in Penge. We had such tasty food this evening: goats cheese salad with raspberry dressing and walnuts and baked mushrooms in Gorgonzola sauce served with garlic bread to start. Our mains were incredible - the Lasagnati (with beef Bolognese cream, Mozzarella & Parmigiano) and Ravioli spinach and ricotta in butter, Parmesan and sage sauce - were really beautiful plates of food. Dessert - the Bruno cheesecake - was so creamy and delicious and the dessert wine sublime. Service was very professional and charming and I really enjoyed the music too - a great evening.
Roberta Mclaughlin
Really lovely and helpful people and the food was absolutely delicious. It was our first time here and will definitely not be our last. So nice to have such a lovely restaurant in our area.
Zee
My friendly recently moved in the area and we decided to try this restaurant which was a short walk. We all agreed it was beautifully decorated and is a cute lunch or date location. The staff were nice and were quite happy with our meals. Especially the tiramisu which we shared since we were so full. I would highly recommend.
Christine Smith
Cute restaurant off main Penge High Street. My Milanese chicken was great - huge piece of chicken in a crispy batter. Delicious. But I wasn’t so keen on the linguini with cherry tomatoes as the tomato skins remained in the sauce. Hub enjoyed the pollo cacciatore which was again huge. For big eaters.
Gerald Tessier
A second visit to this restaurant. Enjoyed both times. The italian dishes are very good. Service was good, although they gave my friend the wrong prawn dish for starters, but it was changed quite quickly. My linguine main course was quite substantial.
The wine list is good and we enjoyed two bottles of the falanghina, which was very drinkable. The cost was just over £150 for 3, including service.
Gary Mack
What an amazing evening. The staff were wonderful. The food is delicious and the wine is very affordable and Delicious. It was our first time this evening but we might have to go back in time days when the Fiano wine comes over from Italy. What a find.
Craig M
Lovely cosy family restaurant with great flavours, good portions and super cooking. Warm and friendly. Highly recommended.
Tracey Fowler
Had a great meal this evening, great food, fresh fish and lovely service. Will be back!
Matt Simpson
Absolutely fabulous meal last night with friends. The carbonara was incredible. Served but jolly happy waiters. Thank you!
A Webb
Food is presented very nicely, great menu and fantastic service, extremely accommodating and friendly. Really inviting restaurant - from what we could see highly popular with families and easy to see why. From personal taste ideally they would serve at least 1 alternative lager to Peroni (maybe bottles of Moretti as an option!?) and perhaps make the lighting a little more subdued later on to add to the atmosphere. Regardless; it's a lovely little place with varied and unusual Italian flavours, all very fresh ingredients with authenticity and cooking to match. Highly recommend.
Sue Allen
Superb restaurant. Excellent food. Great service. Will definitely visit again.
Debbie Hustwitt
Absolutely gorgeous food. Excellent friendly service, lovely atmosphere.
Pete Innes
Lovely food, warm service, always friendly. Overall great value. One of the best restaurants in the area
Lanre Coke
They deserve 5 stars. Great food, great deserts, excellent customer service, great atmosphere.
Terry Mcfadden
Great atmosphere and good service we had a lovely evening with good food would highly recommend this restaurant
Jessica Underwood
Really lovely local restaurant in Penge. I've been a few times with a friend, and I've never had a bad meal. The pasta is always fantastic. Good starters and dessert as well. Very friendly staff. Would recommend if you're in the area.
Lukasz Rymczuk
Very good restaurant with authentic italian food, good service and reasonable prices!
Elena Vicovanu
I have entered in this afternoon being passing by this area and asked for a take away starter and the angry chef recommend me to go to high street to grab a sandwich being to be busy doing nothing, in the restaurant were only 2 people. I was disgusted by his behaviour and also he was swearing in italian believing that no one can understand his language, terrible and poor education. Actually I through away the food because for sure he spitted on it. The 1 star is for the nice waiter which was very helpful. Better to avoid this place, really horrible personnel
Joana Condeco
I went to this restaurant for dinner on a Thursday night. From outside it looked good, and he environment inside was very warming. Everything was clean, no complaints from that point...Apart from a glass of white wine that was warm (which I made it cooler by putting the ice from my water), and everything looked okay. Well, this was until the food arrived...! First we order some calamari.. The calamari wasn't properly fried, which was a disappointment. I asked for the dipping sauce for the calamari which the waitress said they didn't have it… Well, I could have still eaten it without the sauce, however they were soggy.<br/><br/>I still thought my linguine alla vongole was going to be nice. Oh my gosh, I couldn't be more wrong… My boyfriend had linguine seafood which to be honest it was quiet tasty and it was a good portion. But the problems started with my linguine... I agree the linguine tasted good, but I only ate linguine because 80% of the clams (this is not an exaggeration) were closed. Obviously it is dangerous to open and eat a clam as they should open naturally when cooked. Even if not dangerous, it will be impossible to pick up a knife and open every clam, which by the way, were very small. So, as soon as I noticed that most of the clams were closed, I started taking them all (the closed ones) and put the them on the side plate. When the side plate was full of unopened clams I called the waitress and said this this was unacceptable. The waitress said sorry and took the plate with the unopened clams to the kitchen. I remained in the table with my half-eaten linguine with only a few clams in there. I expected that someone would come to me after removing the plate with the clams from my table. Unfortunately that did not happen. I kept eating my linguine (with no clams), and I due to the high level of dissatisfaction me and my partner decided to order the bill (the table hasn't been cleaned by that point), and go to a different restaurant. When the bill arrived to the table we realised that instead of charging £10.95 for my linguine, they charged £7. I very rarely complaint when eating out, but this time the diner was just unacceptable. I could not accept any charge for a dish like that and for the fact that no one came back to me with an alternative…<br/><br/>The proper manner of dealing with this case will be removing the dish completely from the bill. I explained to the waitress that it was wrong charging anything for the dish and instead of resolving the situation she said “I am sorry you did not enjoy your night, however I am only charging £7. You should have complained in the beginning of the meal and we would have offered a new dish." I could not believe in her works since I have actually called the waitress when my plate was still more than half full and complained about the clams. The waitress simply removed my clams away from the table and no one came to me after that. They just ignored me… And not to say that it took me some time to remove all the unopened clams from my dish… Again I explained to the waitress who handed our bill that this was poor customer service. Instead of trying to make us (customers) happy, she kept going on, arguing with us saying that the clams of my dish were like that because they were Italian (Seriously!?), and I could have opened them, and bla bla bla... She just didn't stop arguing with us... By that point my boyfriend stand up, said just want to pay the bill, but she should stop arguing with the clients (in front of all other customers). Himself is a manager of a 5 star hotel, and he explained that he would never do what she was doing with customers... I also asked for the manager, and found out that there wasn't a manager that night... How can a restaurant run without a manager or a supervisor around..?? Bad...<br/><br/>We paid the bill and we moved to a different restaurant, a really nice Sicilian pizzeria nearby, where we were very well welcomed. We told the staff about our horrible experience, and not they just laughed as they offered us for free (a big surprise), a full plate of seafood... amazing!! (And just to remember that the other restaurant refused to even remove the dish from our bill.. ) Well, we ended up eating the seafood, one pizza and 2 deserts from the Sicilian restaurant. If ‘Friends of Flavours’ would have been nicer, and more professional we probably would have stayed for desserts and coffee... but well, they thought £7 was worth it to make some customers unhappy... Well done!
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