This week’s Weekend Inspiration comes from Venetian restaurant, Polpo. Polpo has restaurants in Soho, Covent Garden and Clerkenwell and serves delicious Venetian fare, from meatballs and spaghetti, to cichetti (Italian nibbles) and fritto misto. They also do a mean Campari Spritz, for which I have been scouring London for one as good as I had in Venice. I recently lived in Venice for a month for the Architecture Biennale, and while having withdrawal symptoms from the rich Venetian pasta and mout-watering seafood, I was given the Polpo cookbook. It is beautifully illustrated with ethereal images of Venice and includes all the classic dishes I sampled while I was there. The book itself is also a beautiful object, with exposed stitching on the spine and a drawing of an octopus on the front, as seen below. I can’t wait to try the spaghetti vongole and the zucchini shoestring fries shown in this post.
