Edera

I love this as it is my local restaurant. It is very classy, everyone is well dressed and the staff are polite and punctual. The truffles are always good as is the veal. Similarly the wine is very high quality. I am not entirely sure why this restaurant is less than 4 stars in some peoples eyes. It is a small yet strictly professional organisation that among other locals I will always love.

I was taken to Edera by a colleague and his lovely wife whilst on a business trip to London. As a New Yorker who has eaten at many, many Italian restaurants, I was disappointed throughout the evening.
Service was spotty at best. We ordered the sea bass for two and was told that it was off the menu. At the price point of Edera, that was something that should have been communicated when we were given menus.
I had the special appetizer of duck pancetta with almond salad. Not sure about the pancetta part, but the there was duck lardons on top of greens with a sprinkling of chopped almonds. The table next to me had the buffalo mozzarella on tomatoes, but the reason I did not order this appetizer was that the tomatoes looked under ripe and tasteless.
The wine ordered by a bin number met with confusion and a few consultations on the proper selection. I did not see the price of the bottle, but it was average at best.
My main of osso buco was tender, but the sauce was very light on flavor and looked more like the gravy from a NY diner on a hot open roast beef platter.
Desert was okay, nothing special, as my panna cotta was rubbery. Double expresso was well pulled. Our waiter, who looked like the manager, did send out limoncello on the house after we asked for the bill,
Overall, the food lacked any real taste and the service was not wonderful considering the price point. I would hope that you could do better in London with a decent Italian restaurant, but I cannot recommend Edera.

My local favourite — and the most consistently excellent meals I have had in London. This is a local gem — a place where chic Holland Park families, couples and friends come for a delightful experience. They menu changes throughout the year — if you happen to be there when they have the wild boar ragu, make sure that you order it – it is spectacular.
The wine list is excellent, with some amazing (and very reasonable) choices from Argiolas.
The service is warm, and non-​intrusive. The staff remembers me, my favourite wine, and greets me even on evenings when I am just walking home.
Keep it up, Edera. You have won my heart

I went here for the first time about 7 years ago. I remember it was nice. I went back a second time recently, and boy, was I disappointed. Too too long to seat us despite our reservation. Never offered tap water after the overpriced fizzy water bottle was finished. £12 for a small, unremarkable melanzane (auberjine) parmesean starter? Rip off £14 for an unremarkable veal Raviolo main course comprised of a mere 5 pieces of ravioli? More rip off. I wasn’t offered parmesean cheese with my ravioli. The rest of our table began their meal (at my insistence) while I tried to flag someone’s attention. I finally got someone’s attention and asked for parmesean cheese and red pepper flakes for my ravioli (red pepper flakes are as italian as tomatoes, fer chrissakes). After 3 or 4 minutes the parmesean cheese came and left. I waited more minutes and finally flagged down the same member of staff to ask about the pepper. He said it was coming. Why didn’t he tell me that when he brought the parmesean so I wouldn’t assume it had been forgotten? A few more minutes and rather than dried pepper flakes they brought fresh chopped chile peppers. I can’t fault them for trying but this isn’t what people mean by red pepper flakes in an Italian restaurant. In total I waited nearly 10 minutes for both the cheese and the pepper, by which time my ravioli was nearly cold. Other annoyances: I was seated in the front, right next to the coffee grinder, so I occasionally had to listen to the sound of coffee being ground 2 feet away from my head. The menu is in a very small font and the restaurant was dark which meant I got a headache trying to read the menu. Use a bigger font, please? Most people don’t have ²⁰⁄₂₀ vision. Also, a little discreet background music wouldn’t hurt the atmosphere, and would be a nice distraction from the coffee grinder. There are too many better, less expensive or similarly priced restaurants nearby to excuse this bad experience. Won’t be going back a third time.

My favorite Italian place. Used to live just around the corner, and now when I am back in London I always make a point of coming by for a meal. They have black truffles year round. I would highly recommend the truffled beef carpaccio to start, then the risotto with truffles and a bottle of Casanaova Di Neri Brunello. Amazing.

The food is great, but the location is random. I love this place for a last minute brunch party. Reservations are easy, and the Sardinian-​influenced menu sets it apart from the many Italian restaurants, but the odd location paired with high prices makes it feel like a Holland Park elitist destination. There isn’t much of an atmosphere, so it’s best to bring your own party here, but it’s undeniable that the food is spectacular, and the service is of the best.
Truffle brunches (namely truffled eggs in any form) showcase Edera in it’s best light, for sure. Check it out if you have the cash.

I ate here at the recommendation of the staff at the Kensington Hilton. Big mistake, since it took for-​ever. The main was excellent, so I decided to order dessert. After 25 minutes, I tried to get the staff to cancel my order and get the bill, but they weren’t paying attention to me. It eventually came, but 8 quid for a dessert that takes 35 minutes is a bit unreasonable.

This restaurant is odd. Very odd. Almost weird. The food is spectacular, don’t get me wrong, in fact it’s the reason I gave this place 4 stars. I think that just makes the whole thing even odder because you’d expect this sort of quality somewhere in Mayfair or Kensington.
The first thing that was odd was the lighting. It’s not dim or bright, it’s just not very well lit. If it were coffee it would be neither an iced mocha nor a piping hot americana, it would just be luke warm coffee. We had to ask if they were open when we first walked in because the lighting made it seem as though they were packing up for the evening.
The second thing were the staff. They were odd too. I was brought a bottle of Peroni in a wine glass. A wine glass filled to the very brim with beer… When it first arrived I thought I was missing a trick, that I didn’t understand that this is how things were done in some exotic part of Italy that had escaped my travels and that they were native to. My table and I looked at the wine glass full of beer blankly, wondering how I would lift it to my mouth without spilling it, then at one another in search of reassurance that this sort of thing was in fact normal. It isn’t, so I requested that the beer be poured into a pint glass or something of the sort. It was, and they were great about it, but it was kind of awkward asking them to do it.
The third odd thing was the deafening silence. No music, no chatter, just silence. Take a book, you’ll feel bad talking to your friends in here. I don’t even know how we ordered our food the staff were so quiet.
The fourth odd thing was the service. Honestly, this is not something I can explain without sounding mean. The service was good, very good, almost automated, but if you want a glimpse at a time when waiters are replaced by robots visit this restaurant. It was almost creepy.
The fifth and final odd thing to me was the logo. This restaurant LOVE their logo. Personally it communicated more Greek or possible Spanish to me. And what is that thing inside the «D»? Is it a leaf or a fish? In fact, I’m surprised the food didn’t arrive arranged in the shape of this restaurant logo. EVERYTHING was branded. From the wine glasses to the espresso cups. I’m surprised they didn’t brand me as i left. They aren’t even a chain! Brand is meant to be an asset, not something that alienates people. Very odd
I want to be crystal clear about this restaurants food. It is amazing. Spectacular. Can’t recommend it enough. I had fried squid and whitebait to start and the veal special for my main. I ended with a perfectly prepared (although heavily branded) espresso.
Edera! If you’re listening, lighten up (literally)! The food is amazing and the service is as efficient as a german car. Put some music on and celebrate being a great local with your customers.

I love this place we went last Monday night 23^rd Aug to celebrate our second wedding anniversary and they looked after us very well. It’s the third time we have been there and o thought that it may have no buzz on a quiet Monday, but no, there were enough people to make it a lively evening. My husband and I shared the calamari starter and I had clams and he had duck. We went up to Gelato Mio for an ice-​cream on the way home — lovely place 5 stars for food, wine and service.

During a brief visit to London, this place was recommend by the Conciege of the nearby Kensington Hilton. The food, friendly service and cool ambience was excellent. Will certainly go back when next in the area. Reasonably close to Shepherd’s Bush Tube Station

One of the annoying things about many restaurants is the lack of consistency of quality. Edera is consistently excellent in terms of both service and food. There is a nice balance between high table service and friendliness of the staff. I highly recommend the suckling pig when it is on the menu and I recommend any of the wines from the Agriolas vineyard in Sardinia, of which there are many on the wine list. It remains good value for money compared to other restaurants of similar quality. Well done Roberto!