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59-61 Exmouth Market, EC1R 4QL Full details & map

Pasta restaurant: Italian

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By Time Out Editors Posted: Oct 28 2011

Santoré seems to divide opinion: some diners can't get enough of its authentic Neapolitan food; others can't forgive the occasionally tetchy service. On our most recent midweek visit, however, we were greeted warmly by the staff who happily recommended their favourite dishes on the menu. The place was packed with diners. As with many a good trattoria, the decor - unspectacular brown furniture with wine bottles and a pizza oven for decoration - means little compared to the food.

A generous plate of antipasti included at least ten items (from a moreish warm aubergine salad to own-cured salmon with pink peppercorns) - and was a gift at £8.95. 'I panuozzi' pizza, where the dough is first baked and then filled (in our case, with spring greens, mozzarella and porky fennel sausage), was simply delicious if just slightly burnt. Fresh fusilli pasta with clams and succulent Sicilian prawns was brilliantly spicy. Only the desserts of own-made tiramisu and sorbets were average. We're inclined to forgive the uneven service for such big-hearted food and prices.

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Tags: European, Italian, Central, Farringdon, Mid-range, Restaurant, Pizzeria, Pasta restaurant

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Santoré details

Address

Santoré

59-61 Exmouth Market EC1R 4QL

Transport Farringdon tube/rail or bus 19, 38, 341

Telephone

020 7812 1488

Meals served noon-11pm daily

Main courses £7.65-£15.95. Set lunch (noon-3pm) £8.95 2 courses. Set dinner (3-7pm) £12.95 2 courses

Credit cards AmEx, MC, V

Facilities

Tables outdoors ( 10, pavement ), Babies and children welcome ( booster seats ), Available for hire, Takeaway service; delivery service ( over £8 within 3-mile radius )

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Comments & ratings

By Giuseppe Scalzo - Oct 16 2010

As Italian I can say that Santore is the only original Italian pizza in London.
This review is crazy!
The reviewer is not able to understand what is a pizza and what is an english fake of a pizza.

When I read: ... "loppy wet tomato sauce topped with almost tasteless cheese and poor-quality pepperon"....I think that the the person who write it, is rating the pizza with an english taste...Tastelees cheese is delicious Originial mozzarella, that top the pizza. You should know that cheese on pizza is disgusting. Pizza has to have gentle taste with mozzarella (not cheese), and delicate fresh tomatoes, or light sauce.
The reviewer maybe like strong taste, but then it would have been better to go to eat to fake italian pizzeria... you can find everywehere in london...Except Santore, of course.

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By ale - Sep 1 2010

Santorè is absolutely amazing and the pizza is just fabulous. This is exactly the kind of pizzeria you would regularly go in modern Italy. Easy, welcoming, not pretencious, not kitsch. And again... the pizza is fabulous and the service is friendly and genuine. An authentic modern Italian choice!

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By mtt - Apr 22 2010

Please write correctly: "quattro stagioni" (double "t", only one "g"). In UK nobody answer me if I am asking something with the wrong accent: why you have not to write with correct spelling?