Taormina Bayswater is a traditional Italian restaurant at 19 Craven Terrace, a short walk from Hyde Park and Paddington. The dining room offers a warm, established setting for lunch or dinner, with a menu that moves through antipasti, pasta, pizza, meat and seafood. Familiar recipes and generous choices make it suitable for both a simple meal and a longer occasion.
Antipasti include chicken and Parmesan stracciatella soup, mixed Italian meats with marinated vegetables, chilli and garlic king prawns, grilled sardines, bruschetta and fried calamari. Pasta choices range from tomato and basil rigatoni to spinach and ricotta cappellacci, baked lasagne, beef ravioli with rosemary butter and black pasta parcels filled with Cornish crab.
Classic pizzas cover Margherita, buffalo mozzarella with basil, pepperoni Diavolo and Napoletana with anchovies, capers and olives. Diners can also choose chicken in lemon, cream or white wine sauces, grilled lamb cutlets, fillet steak and several veal preparations. Saltimbocca combines veal, Parma ham and sage, while the house involtino is filled with ham and cheese.
Seafood includes whole trout with butter and lemon, sea bass in fennel seed sauce, mixed fried fish, grilled tuna and king prawns cooked with tomato, white wine, herbs and garlic. Sauteed potatoes, fried courgettes, spinach, broccoli and rosemary mushrooms can be added alongside. The breadth of the menu captures the comfortable pace and variety of a classic neighbourhood Italian restaurant.
Address: 19 Craven Terrace, Bayswater, London W2 3QH, United Kingdom