TinelloCategory: Bistro – Brasserie (££-£££)It is a hard job to be an amateur restaurant critic.  Always rushing off to the newest openings, which means, thanks to the new non-booking trend, queuing for hours in the cold, eating mediocre food in places hyped for inapprehensible reasons and then there is the constant fight against personal bankruptcy, alcoholism and obesity.Every zealous amateur restaurant critic needs a restaurant to rest, to regain his/her strength and to put the cornucopia of often questionable food trends into context.  Shortly, a place that constantly delivers, that doesn’t annoy, that doesn’t instigate rants, doesn’t rip off, that you can get a table at reasonably short notice and  that doesn’t include the service charge into the bill (I will forgive the overfilling of wine glasses in this instance).  One of my foodie refuges is Tinello.Delicious Olive Oil @TinelloLocated a 5 minutes walk from Sloane Square in an area with a high-density of overpriced and underdelivering restaurants, Tinello stands out.  Even though it has put up its prices up quite a bit recently, you can still have  a starter (from the ‘Small Eats‘ section) and a pasta main for well below 20

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