Mister Bianco

Mister Bianco in Kew gets a few rave reviews on Urbanspoon as well as a 14.5 rating in the 2014 edition of Good Food Guide (together with the usual gushing, adjective-rich write-up).  Yes, the food was nice.  My "ricotta and spinach gnocchi" was a little different, and I'm told the barramundi and cotoletta dishes were good, too. I couldn't complain about the prices (at least, for the food), which were fair enough and in line with the quality we received.   Nor did we mind sitting upstairs where it was probably just a tad quieter than downstairs appeared to be (every little bit makes a difference) although the stairs are certainly challenging!

But there were a couple of small points.

The website doesn't reveal the winelist, and probably for good reason:  it's expensive.    And our waiter freely admitted that he wasn't familiar with the Italian wines on it.  A bit of a flaw in the service we thought, which was otherwise fine.

In relation to the deserts,  the menu said it was a "dark chocolate souffle", but in fact it was raspberry:  yes, very nice, but not as described and no explanation.