Armandos

13-03-2009
Chris Hauge  0 

Total rubbish. I suspect these past reviewers are the owners, or the owners mates. Lasagne "flown straight in from Livorno" - you must be kidding.

I can honestly say that this was the worst pasta I have ever eaten, anywhere, ever. It tasted like they'd microwaved it. My girlfriend found her food equally awful. I felt sick afterwards. I live round the corner (Bolingbrooke rd) and have walked past this restaurant on many occasions, often thinking that I should check the place out. What a mistake. What is the point in paying to go to such a restaurant, when you can go to Tescos and buy their cheapest pasta and cheapest sauce and cook a meal for yourself that is ten times better?

What an awful place. I never felt obliged to write a restaurnat review until visited Armandos. Avoid it like the plague.

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16-09-2008
lilyheinemann

The food is fantastic here. On weekdays they do all pastas on the menu for �5... I had the olive and anchovy tagliatelle which was the best pasta I've ever had in London

16-11-2007
Roifield MyVillage

Village life urban style is alive in this corner of W14. Richmond Road�s parade of establishments survives off the back of the ever growing legion of home workers and the odd Shepherds building resident that wants to avoid the bustle of The Green and the predictability of Shepherds Bar. Wandering down Richmond way I was pleasantly surprised to find the restaurant open for chow at 3.15pm. On entering the checked tabled cloths jostle with small tables, its all a bit nip and tuck for space.We were seated and served by the chef, his whites a testament to his toil in the kitchen that day. Expect service that is prompt and straight forward at mid afternoon sittings as you are probably going to be dinning solo as we were. Anyway the menu is classic Italian, with a noticeable lack of Pizzas. My lasagne tasted as if it had flown straight in from Livorno that lunch time, however my dinning companion�s soup of the day had all the charm of a tube ride from the Campbell�s soup factory.Armando�s sits next to the now vacated Chez Moi, its enduring success is probably down to the fact the restaurant feels and is home spun, there are little and no airs and graces here. Our meal and two drinks came to a very economic �13. Fine dinning its not, charming dinning it is.