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The most beautiful restaurant in London – from the outside

The Criterion in Piccadilly has a cursed location. It’s lucky I love rotting beauty

30 April 2016

9:00 AM

30 April 2016

9:00 AM

Batman owned the Criterion in The Dark Knight, but could he do anything about British Telecom? Savini at Criterion, an Italian restaurant, waited four months for an internet connection and telephone line as they prepared to launch this year; when it arrived they gave BT what must be the worst review in the history of telecommunications: ‘This wouldn’t happen in Italy.

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Savini at Criterion, Piccadilly, London W1J 9HP, tel: 020 7930 1459.

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