Double diary disaster! My diary says we went to Vito’s, Janie’s says we went to Positano.
I believe Janie’s diary, because I recall going to Positano, on Battersea Park Road, just once, with mum for mother’s day.
I think mum was displeased with the 14:30 slot we were offered at Vito’s, so Janie went in search of a suitable alternative that served Italian food of the kind mum liked – i.e. calves liver.
My recollection is that Janie and I actually thought Positano a bit better than Vito’s, but that the waiters there fawned a little less than the Northcote Road Italian waiters, so we never returned to Positano, while Vito’s got our business quite frequently until mum died.
10 years on (June 2019), Positano is gone – what was Positano is now a Sushi Cafe.
Vito’s is also no longer with us. Indeed that Nappy Valley eatery is, in June 2019, appropriately, the Bertie and Boo Teahouse and Theatre. We’d never have got mum out of that place in its new incarnation, with all those babies and toddlers to coo over.