Historical version 19 of La Fermata, SE1 4TP (view current version)
- 88 Tower Bridge Road
La Fermata was an Italian trattoria on Tower Bridge Road in Bermondsey. It opened in mid-2008, but closed less than a year later.
As of October 2010 there appears to be refurbishment work of some kind going on in the interior, but we don't yet know if it will reopen as a restaurant or as something else.
As of July 2011, a comment on the London SE1 forums states that La Fermata has reopened, but we haven't confirmed this yet.
The information below is retained for people who want to know what it used to be like.
secretlondon visited for lunch in September 2008. They seem to have a lunch-specific menu with three set English breakfasts, sandwiches, salads, burgers, and a pasta daily special. I had the daily pasta special which was a choice of pasta with clams, pasta in a tomato sauce, or pasta with vegetables. I chose the vegetable pasta (£5) photo and negotiated to have a latte photo with the meal rather than the included can of drink.
The menu outside was the breakfast/lunch one. I picked up a flyer for the evening photo which had things like steak. They put the evening one in the window during the evenings.
secretlondon returned in October 2008 to try one of their English breakfasts. It was good photo and came with toast photo and either tea or decent coffee photo.
They are unlicensed but you can bring your own, for which corkage will be charged. There's one table outside (on the front pavement) which you could smoke at. Apparently you can book out the whole place if you have a large party.
Accessibility: One small step to enter. Toilets not checked.
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