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Marco Finanzio (Umberto Espresso Bar)’s pasta and wine bar, Sandro boasts a casual a la carte offering with a few crowd favourites – like charry mortadella skewers – and three rotating pastas. But it’s not strictly Italian: smoked baba ghanoush comes with crudites and crisp flatbread, and there’s a sumac-spiced pavlova with strawberries and creme fraiche.

The neighbourhood bar is as much a place to flit in for a quick Campari soda and a snack as it is to settle in for a few hours, perhaps with bottle of Alberto Oggero’s appropriately named Sandro nebbiolo, from Piedmont.