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Our dish — the plate we'd order here first

Gnocco fritto and house cured lardo

  • TechniqueCure

Gnocco fritto, puffs of fried dough, draped with lardo, cured pork fat, made in the house. The opener we'd want first.

Also on our table

  • A fresh pasta each
  • Or the chef's menu for the whole table (£65)

Ombra

Venetian · Bethnal Green

1-5 Vyner Street, London E2 9DG

  • Food + wine

A Vyner Street trattoria making pasta fresh and curing its own pork, with bread from Forno, its own bakery, and a short list of mostly natural wines. It cooks with the season.

The proof, in the house's own words

Why the gnocco fritto

Strong evidence

We'd add

Our runner-up

Tagliolini, house cured guanciale and morels

Tagliolini with the house's own guanciale, cured pork cheek, and morels. The pasta, its garnish moving with the season.

  • Guanciale cured in the house
  • From Italy or small farms

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