Amico Bio

At first I thought that a vegan Italian restaurant was a bit too niche and probably going to be a bit of an anticlimax but this certainly isn't the case when you walk through the door and enter a really warm and cosy environment.

Very nice food here but fairly over priced considering the very small portions that you receive. It's best to attend Amico Bio with a group of friends and treat the evening as a tapas experience. The restaurant houses a shop where you can buy different oils, flours, beans, and other savoury and sweet snacks (again, overpriced as most trendy East London places are but I'm not going to change the world in one review...!).

Staff can be a bit annoying - waiter didn't stop talking to us...

Probably wouldn't attend in a hurry but Groupon are now doing 2-can-dine offers including wine/prosecco, starter and main (starter can be replaced with a dessert, I think) for about £25.

went for dinner there with my wife on a friday evening. i'd say it was good and bad really. we had a few starters and antipasti which were simple, well presented and tasty. deep fried cauliflower in batter, tofu with a cucumber and mint salad and arancini are to be recommended. however, both our main courses were disappointing. i had pasta with chard and chili and it seemed like that was literally all it was - quite bland tasting, a very watery sauce - if there was a sauce at all, and no noticeable seasoning. it's rare that i have to add salt to a main course in a restaurant but i felt it was a necessity here. it was the same for my wife. seven pounds is a reasonable price to pay for a main course but in this case i felt it was overpriced. my wife also asked a waitress a fairly simple question about the food and the reply was 'i dont know'. not good. the wine was very nice though