Ben McCormack

"You’ll need to be sitting outside to be aware of the Thames flowing beyond The River Café’s kitchen garden – but on a sunny day, there’s nowhere nicer to be in London than this legendary restaurant’s courtyard, as summery a slice of la dolce vita as the kitchen’s famous lemon tart."

Simonseeks

"If available, try their Italian twist on the classic English dessert summer pudding, made with berries cooked in valpolicella wine."

Tuba Satana

"I wanted that summer pudding to be my friend, I wanted to hug it, devouring every bite, Semsa was surprised to see me eating that much sweet and being amased by it. Nowadays, that summer pudding is my imaginary friend."

Aurelia van Lynden

"We started with Bruschetta – a simple favourite of mine. Good bread, delicious sweet tomatoes and excellent olive oil. Sometimes it’s easy to get simple dishes wrong. Here they got it right."

Elisa Ashenden

"The Lemon Tart is like a spiritual experience with a spoon! Thin crusty pastry and incredibly tart lemon filling. Served only with a dollop of fresh thick cream, this is the best Lemon Tart I have ever tasted in a restaurant and I will continue to order it every time I come!"

Elisa Ashenden

"Silken and paper-thin pasta, filled with a subtle pumpkin centre that was not dominated by the taste of cheese. Although this dish was not an explosion of taste in your mouth, it was beautifully simple, fresh, delicate and much as you would find in exceptional home-cooking by some rustic Italian mamma!"

Janelle Maczonis

"It is sort of like a soaked bread pudding, but with lots of juicy, tart berries and red wine. Delightful. I will definitely be trying to recreate this in my kitchen. It’s a quintessentially British end to the meal."