OSTERIA MBARE Clapham, Sunset Lounge

I celebrated my birthday at Osteria Mbare last summer with a dear friend, we had the Bottomless Carbs and Bubbles. For £40 you can enjoy an hour and a half of unlimited refills of Prosecco and the chef’s daily special pasta dishes, which seems excellent value for London. We were presented with a new pasta dish every 15 minutes or so, these were sized appropriately to the amount of diners on the table and were ideal for the two of us sharing. It was nice not knowing what the dishes were and finding out when they arrived. All but one of the seven dishes were meat free, the other one having seafood. Despite being a meat eater this actually made a nice change, the sauces were delicious without the need for meat to be included. My favourite pasta was the green pea fusilli which had a really unique flavour. The bottomless Prosecco was a nice feature of our meal as well, the waiting staff were regularly topping up our glasses. There was orange juice available as well to make mimosas, the only slight downside was that they had run out of the peach purée to make bellinis. The staff had seen my birthday card on our table and were really thoughtful and attentive to surprise me with a vanilla panna cotta with a candle and Happy Birthday sung to me. This was a really sweet touch and made the meal, on top of what had already been an amazing experience. The décor in the restaurant was really nice, on one of the walls they had full Aperol, Campari and Crodino bottles lined up on display. There were windows in the ceiling which gave a nice natural lighting, and trendy large lightbulbs hanging from the ceiling above the stairs downstairs. I would definitely recommend this experience and plan to return 😊