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Carlotta celebrates third anniversary with speakeasy-style Italo-American jazz night in Marylebone

Carlotta celebrates third anniversary with speakeasy-style Italo-American jazz night in Marylebone
Carlotta celebrates third anniversary with speakeasy-style Italo-American jazz night in Marylebone

Big Mamma’s Marylebone restaurant Carlotta will host a one-night-only Italo-American Jazz Night on Tuesday 12th May to mark its third anniversary, transforming the venue’s top floor into a speakeasy-style setting for the special occasion. The London restaurant, known for its retro Italian-American fare, is offering a four-course set menu priced at £64 per person, accompanied by live jazz.

The evening will open with a welcome drink, followed by a selection of dishes the restaurant has become associated with since opening in 2022. These include Cocktail di Gamberi, a prawn cocktail inspired by 1980s Italian-American cuisine, homemade fettuccine served with black truffle, and the restaurant’s Chicken Parmigiana, layered over San Marzano tomato sauce. Dessert will consist of the restaurant’s Wedding Cake, served with limoncello.

Carlotta forms part of the Big Mamma group, the French-founded restaurant collective that has expanded across Europe with venues serving Italian cuisine. The Marylebone outpost opened in May 2022 and was the company’s third London site, following Gloria in Shoreditch and Circolo Popolare in Fitzrovia. The restaurant has since become known for its Italian-American influences, distinguishing it from the group’s other London sites, which lean more towards traditional regional Italian cooking.

The anniversary evening will offer limited seating, with a small number of tables positioned closest to the live musicians. Organisers have described it as an intimate gathering combining the restaurant’s heritage recipes with live entertainment, rather than a large-scale celebration.

Italo-American cuisine, which developed among Italian immigrant communities in the USA during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, has enjoyed renewed interest in London’s dining scene in recent years. Dishes such as Chicken Parmigiana, Shrimp Cocktail and layered pasta bakes – once considered distinct from traditional Italian cooking – have featured increasingly on menus across the capital.

The jazz performance will run throughout the anniversary dinner at Carlotta, with musicians moving between tables. Limoncello will be served at various points during the meal, in keeping with the southern Italian tradition of offering the lemon liqueur as a digestif.

Bookings for the event are now open.

Food Desk

The Italo-American Jazz Night takes place on 12th May 2026 at Carlotta, 77-78 Marylebone High Street, London W1U 5JX. For further information or to book tickets, visit the restaurant’s website here.

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