What comes out

The plates

Albanian cooking with the weight on seafood. These are photographs of what the kitchen sent out, not a menu — nothing here is a standing offer, and what is on the grill depends on the day.

A whole grilled fish on a fish-shaped white plate with chips and a wedge of lemon, on a placemat printed with the Valentino Restaurant mark — A whole fish, chips, lemon

A whole fish

Grilled through, laid on a fish-shaped plate with chips and a wedge of lemon.

Linguine tossed with mussels, prawns and squid in a shallow white bowl on the printed placemat — Linguine, mussels, prawn, squid

Linguine and shellfish

Mussels in the shell, a prawn, rings of squid, parsley through the sauce.

Grilled octopus with lemon and two dark grain croquettes on a copper-glazed plate, a bottle of rosé and upturned glasses behind it on a live-edge timber table — Octopus, lemon, an open bottle

Octopus, grilled

Curled on a copper-glazed plate with lemon and two dark grain croquettes.

The placemats greet you in four languages — Albanian, Italian, German, French — and are drawn over with fish, prawns and lobsters.