Italian restaurant near Myddelton Square, Clerkenwella 27-minute walk to Fiena

Myddelton Square is a residential public garden square, built in the 1820s and 1830s, with a playground and many trees. The houses have exposed brickwork in a Georgian style, with high-ceilinged ground and first floors. In the centre stands a large Gothic Revival church. Writers have called it Islington's best adornment of the New River Estate, and stylistically the most cohesive square in the district.

The land belonged to the New River Company. By 1818 the company had decided to develop the estate, including a residential square and a church, on a large field known as Butcher's Mantells, near the Upper Pond reservoir where Claremont Square was built at the same time. The estate was laid out by the company's architect and surveyor, William Chadwell Mylne, who also designed St Mark's Church in the middle of the square.

It was first referred to as "Chadwell Square", then named after Sir Hugh Myddelton (1560–1631), the Welsh entrepreneur from Denbighshire who completed the New River and later became Royal Jeweller to James I. Background from Wikipedia's Myddelton Square page and Wikipedia's Hugh Myddelton page.

The New River is an artificial waterway opened in 1613 to bring fresh drinking water to London from Chadwell and Amwell Springs near Ware in Hertfordshire. It was completed by Hugh Myddelton and run for nearly three hundred years by the New River Company; today Thames Water still uses a large section of it. The New River Path follows as much of the old course as possible. Background from Wikipedia's New River page.

It's about 2.0 kilometres, around 27 minutes on foot (walking route from OpenStreetMap). The route leaves the square towards Amwell Street and King's Cross Road, then follows the streets west toward Gray's Inn Road, Sidmouth Street and Judd Street. Making a day of it? See our posts on Percy Circus, Exmouth Market, Argyle Square and the Postal Museum.

Morning: breakfast is served daily from 08:00 to 14:00, with coffee all day. See brunch near King's Cross.

Lunch and dinner: the main menu starts at midday. Try the Linguine Fiena, a Diavola pepperoni pizza, or the Whole sea bream. Finish with Tiramisu. See our pasta, the grill and our outdoor seating.

Guests often mention the cooking. Nasipa wrote: The food was tasty, fresh, and really well prepared. (Nasipa, Google review) And Ayub: The food was outstanding — fresh ingredients, beautifully cooked, and full of authentic flavor. (Ayub, Google review)