Grato

You're walking into Kensington Square and pushing through the doors of somewhere that takes its Italian cooking seriously but doesn't need to bang on about it. The room's all warm lighting and elegant simplicity—the kind of place where locals actually book rather than tourists stumbling past. The pasta menu shifts with the seasons, but expect proper handmade shapes doing what they're meant to do: carrying sauce, not stealing the show. Everything's executed with the precision you'd want from somewhere this neighbourhood-focused, and the wine list knows what it's doing without getting pretentious.