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Hi Christopher thanks for the feedback on the winelist. I agree there are some wonderful white wines coming out of Itlay at the moment amongst however a big sea of mediocracy. We have featured over the last 18 months many niche and indigenous variety whites including some fabulous and award winning wines from elena walsch in alto adige. Despite best efforts and staff training sales are very very small. We decided then to reduce the list and feature a wine of the month. Currently in ED this is a superb Verdiccio from La Marche region. In addition every other month, provided there is interest, we are flying over a winemaker from a different region of Italy. Next month award winning winemaker Conti Zecca will be joining us from Puglia. If you are interested in Italian wines please come along - details are on the website www.localerestaurants.com cheers mark

Hello East Dulwich, East Dulwich needs a good Italian restaurant so that's what we intend to build on the site known as 'The Green'. We've been talking to Robert for 6 months about selling us the site. Me and my two business partners all hail from South London and have been in the restaurant business for 30 years and we think this is a lovely site in a great area. We want to build a vibrant busy restaurant, bar and function space but one very much a local for locals so we welcome your feedback. We'll be getting involved in some local activity too like the Goose Green Fair and the Dulwich Festival. For the foodies out there you'll be relived to know our chefs are Italian and our head chef lives just around the corner. He's a bit difficult and insists on everything being really Italian (no cabonara!) so we make everything fresh so yes, we bake own breads, make our own sauces and pastas and bring our flour, cheese and oils from Italy. We'll have a new bar too, but we'?ll be focused on cocktails and nice wines, not beer. We'll also have a private dining room for dinners and meetings. We change our menu and wine list 4 times a year. One more thing we spend our time working in the restaurant so if you decide to come along please say hi and we'll get you a Bellini! Proofs in the pudding really (in our in case our ragu sauce). Ciao. Mark, Mark and Douglas