Jamie's Italian

Be prepared to queue at busy times at Jamie's Bath branch, a Georgian building in the city centre, as reservations are taken only for large groups. It's on a couple of levels and it can get lively and buzzy, but plenty of enthusiastic staff ease the flow. As elsewhere in the chain, fresh, rustic Italian dishes are what the kitchen produces with a good deal of success. Raw materials are second to none: fish is delivered from Cornwall, for instance, and pasta and bread are made in-house. A board of salamis, among them English wild boar, crab or cockle linguine, or tagliatelle with truffle could precede the main event - fritto misto, say, a feather steak pounded wafer-thin with sage and prosciutto, or even a burger - with old friends like affogato and pannacotta bringing up the rear.