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manteca London Reviews
Amazing to watch masters at work
Sat on the bar/larder counter watching the team craft some amazing dishes. Service was top notch and they had a fantastic selection of dishes.
Rum from it, very bad!
Very very bad esperience. Everybody shold run from it. Orders cane wrong, more than once …and the manager was very unfriendly, did not admit the mistakes. As I said, rum from it.
Solid dinner, friendly service
I visited with a friend for dinner on a Tuesday. They were really busy. We were seated on the ground floor where the tables were pretty tightly packed together. More than that though I found the table to be quite awkward in design, with a tree trunk
Just perfect!
As a chef, I can confidently say Manteca is one of the best dining experiences in London. The attention to detail is exceptional, the team is enthusiastic and knowledgeable, and the service is flawlessly efficient. Their house-made salumi, visible in
Great service, great food, and great ambiance.
Went to this location with my aunt and British friend and we were very satisfied. Steak - YUM, Pasta -YUM. Every happy
Brilliant flavours and great service
This is a small dish restaurant so a great place to go with friends so you can have a taste of lots of different things. We did exactly that and every dish was either great or exceptional. The potatoes, the foccacia, the mussels, the hogget sausage,
The service was very good, but the food was incredibly
The service was very good, but the food was incredibly lackluster and overpriced. The focaccia was over salted and the ricotta had a strong, overpowering, lemon flavor. The menu also rotates so I couldn't order one of the pastas I wanted. As for
Best part of the meal were the nduja mussels.
I normally don't like nduja but my love for mussels overcame my antipathy to nduja and i was pleasantly surprised. Mussels were enormous gobs of lusciousness. Despite the very generous portion I could easily have devoured the same amounts again.
Wonderful 2nd visit from 150 miles away will be coming again thanks
We sat at the counter and watched as our dishes were prepared. So professional the food was simple yet fantastic. Table 07
Superb service and lovely food!
My eldest sons birthday and engagement announcement ! Wonderful food, nicest mussels and duck pasta I have ever had. Our waitress Natalia was so helpful, and brilliant The tables upstairs are defo the better ones (hot tip, would have been disappo
Superb
Super restaurant. First time visiting and was a bit wary of the small plates approach but absolutely well worth it. Every dish that arrived was superb. Staff were excellent.
Delicious food, especially the pink fir potatoes.
The ragu pasta was great, as well. Great restaurant!
Great place for a couple dinners
We had an amazing dinner at Manteca in London, guided by the incredible Natalie who was super attentive and precise in recommending the best dishes. The atmosphere was cozy and perfect for a date night, and the fresh pasta was absolutely outstanding
The ambience and vibes were great! However, the food left a
The ambience and vibes were great! However, the food left a lot to be desired, which was disappointing since it came so highly reviewed. The pasta was very undercooked and hard to bite into. The selections from the grill took an extra hour to come ou
Hyped up below-average food and bad service
Extremely disappointing experience and below average meal. Does not live up to how it positions itself. Having only a few days in London, I tried to hit some spots that have been praised for their boldness and originality. Manteca was the biggest le
Great Italian spot in Shoreditch! Start with the focaccia &
Great Italian spot in Shoreditch! Start with the focaccia & ricotta and pair with the kale salad + 2 pastas. This split between 2 people is perfect. The chitarra verde was my favorite pasta & loved pairing it with a fresh green salad for some
Overall restaurant was decent.
The ambiance was nice and the service was good. However, there were some major hits and misses. Overall I'd say some items were just completely lacking flavor. I tasted almost no rosemary in the rosemary focaccia and no chili in the home made ri
one of the best meals i've ever had in london .
.. really good pastas and solid food just generally! a relief. sit upstairs!!!!
Overrated Customer service is great.
Sitting at the bar is great. The fried olive is a great surprise. But that's kinda it. The Brussels didn't taste that fresh. While the pomegranate and duck slices were a nice tough, the Brussels themselves were flat. Brown crab pasta wa
This place has been on my radar for quite some time.
The finishes are modern and trendy, but it is not overdone! The seating arrangements are a bit crowded, so getting up and moving around can be tricky. However, the whole experience feels very intimate. The staff was super kind and helped us select ou
Disappointed
Buzzy and vibrant but chaotic! The drinks service was especially poor. Food was fine but didn't feel very special in all honesty.
Timing
Dinner booked for 7.45pm, extremely busy frantic restaurant, staff were pleasant. But 40 minutes to get a cocktail? We had our starters by then. Not impressed
Incredible pasta and focaccia
I had a stellar dinner at the counter at Manteca. The service was friendly and casual, exactly what I was looking for on a solo dinner while traveling for work. The fresh focaccia is incredible, light, chewy, savory, and doused in a light olive oil t
Italian small plates - sublime.
This has to be one of my favourite restaurants in London, we celebrated my daughters 21st Birthday here and everything hit the spot. The service was attentive but not intrusive, and really friendly, the food in short, was delicious, we had a mixture
Amazing food
Amazing food! So glad we got a booking, a place not to be missed in London! The staff were quick and attentive, we will be back next time in Europe!
Pleas use less salt
Everything I ate at this restaurant was too salty for my taste. Please use less salt while cooking and leave salt and pepper on the table. I wanted to eat the 'green pasta' I saw on social media so I asked the waiter for it. He said they didn't serve
Hygiene questionable
Every time I pass by this place, I see the chef and kitchen staff busy. In the mornings, their pavement is wet... whether it rains or not and the water is some sticky dirty liquid. Well guess what, one day I saw one of the kitchen staff on pavement t
Pretty Good!
Manteca is a lively, busy place serving up modern twists on italian food, all delivered in the 'small/large plates' format. The food is pretty good, and very nice wine by the carafe. Efficient and friendly service from our waitress. Prices not too ex
Appalling Service
The food at Manteca is average, but the service is appalling. I had the displeasure of visiting the restaurant yesterday evening and found the majority of staff to be disrespectful, inattentive and plain rude to both me and my wife. In particular, a
Fabulous food
Look, we could do without the noisy crowds and the pumping music and the tables are very close together. But the truth is that the food is so amazing that we keep coming back. They also handle my gluten allergy perfectly and the service is great. We
Food was excellent! Service was good! Vibe was good! We
Food was excellent! Service was good! Vibe was good! We thoroughly enjoyed our time there!
A soft 5, but the highs were high enough to balance the few
A soft 5, but the highs were high enough to balance the few things I didn't love. It's perpetually busy, even 2-3PM on a Sunday. Teetering on the edge of cramped but not quite there. Open kitchens and god bless them all because I couldn't do it. Ser
We sat at the bar and watched them cook.
It was like watching an episode of "the bear". Yes chef. It was a definitely a bit warm, but a fun experience until we got a live tapeworm in the fish we got. Of course that was taken off our bill and they comped our dessert. But honestly
AMAZING FOOD.
I've had the best mussel in my life here. The sauce is so flavorful but tbh it was a bit salty so the bread soaked in the bottom is rather inedible. Just try everything they can order tbh everything is try My server was yawning while speaking to u
Good food, vibe too cool for school
I booked a table at 5.30pm as this was the only time available. I contacted the restaurant to see if there was any later availability and was directed to the website -- which didn't work, so I decided just to go with the ridiculously early reservatio
Great restaurant experience
We sat at the counter and thoroughly enjoyed watching the chefs at work. Food here is very much ingredients-led; dishes showcase their components in a vibrant way, and the menu changes frequently based on what they can buy that's good. Their home-c
Great for gluten free options
Love, love, love this place and go there often. I have coeliac disease and they are great at handling it. They marked the menu to highlight dishes I couldn't have but could alter others so I could still enjoy them. They can offer nearly all of their
Excellent Food - But Probably Won't Rush Back
Went here with a group of friends. Very buzzy atmosphere, service was excellent - shout out to the amazing waitress we had. The concept is around sharing. Our waitress advised on how many plates for snacks, starters, main etc for the size of our grou
Doesn’t do what it says on the tin
Heard great things about Manteca, made a reservation 2months in advance and had a small table at the back! Service was very good and good recommendations. Menu reads well, food well presented but needs a little more oomph, it lacked seasoning in a nu
Outstanding italian food
I’ve been hearing good things about Manteca for quite a while now so it was about time we decided to pay a visit ourselves. Well I can honestly say that all the great things I’d heard were true. This was a fabulous dining experience where we enjo
Good food, small portions
Family of 5 (adult children) ate here one Sunday evening. A busy, crowded and obviously 'happening' place. Food was good. Not your standard Italian fare with tasty freshly cooked pasta. Service was spotty but fine. Some food took some time. Really
Over rated - fast service with small plates
Sat next to a dishwasher. Pasta was over cooked and floppy. Was not asked for second drinks during our meal. Starters arrived and waiter was so quick he spilt the starters on the table. Difficult to recommend this place just for over priced bread. De
Definitely worth a visit for the food!
Maanteca has been on my foodie list forever and finally managed to snag a booking for a Monday night and it was busy. The staff are friendly and service was good. So we ordered the foccacia which was yum and I wanted more but resisted. We ordered t
Awful experience
Visited the Shoreditch restaurant recently as wanted to see what the fuss is about. Left confused as people were actually queuing to eat in what is easily one of the worst restaurants I have eaten in over the past 12 months. Firstly the place is filt
NOTE my rating is actually 3.
6/5! Not to be over dramatic but I wanted to warn other people who consulted online food critique blogs too. I saw reviews showing pictures of pig snout and then came here to learn it's not on the menu. And pig tail Ragu- also not on menu. Nothing on
I'm giving it five stars for the food.
Incredible. Deer shoulder that melted in mouth. Pork ragout that was tremendous. Homemade ricotta and great bread. Excellent desserts. Really good wine list including Mexican wines from Baja and on-tap wines that really impressed. The ambiance was gr
Between 3 and 4 stars.
I came here with a friend last minute and we overall were happy with our visit.The vibe is immaculate - super cool and trendy but not stuffy. The sort of place you can go with friends, coworkers, a date, even solo. It was super buzzy and busy through
My partner and I visited Manteca on Oct 10th, 2022 and we
My partner and I visited Manteca on Oct 10th, 2022 and we were blown away by the exceptional food, wine and service. We especially enjoyed the duck liver parfait, the middle white pork chop (the meat and fat melts in your mouth) and the beef fat fudg
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