The hideaway is pleasant and the food and wine good. Two snags though - the service quality and the noise levels.

We arrived at 7.15 and left at 11.15 and it took three hours to serve four simple but excellent courses to the six tables in the hideaway, everyone gets served at same time.

This meant waiting an hour between antipasto and soup and between soup and main course, etc.

Maybe there were staffing problems, however the gaggle of shreiking banshees at one table really put us off.

Perhaps they'd had too much wine with too little food but the lack of soft floor coverings or curtains in a cellar ambience meant that the noise levels were hugely accentuated and it proved hard to hear the person sitting with you.

We did feel that more attentive staff could have quieted excessively raucous customers.