manteca 49-51 Curtain Road, London EC2A 3PT

"Can’t be missed Italian restaurant in London. Serve unpretentious Italian food, unusual taste yet delicious! Good service , staff are friendly. Sharing concept so portion relatively smaller, can try more variety. Booking in advance a must as they usually packed. Suggest start earlier as some popular dishes sold out quickly. Their menu changes depends on available fresh ingredients - like opening blind box every time…worth to go once a while. Definitely will come back again !"

"Everything is incredible here! The pasta is especially outstanding: flavourful, the perfect texture, and super interesting ingredients. They make even the cabbage crazy tasty. The staff is super friendly and joyful, genuinely happy to share their restaurant with you. Sit at the kitchen counter and order as much as you can!"

"My only criticism of this place is that portions are “too small”, because everything is just too delicious. Our table of 4 was practically fighting over who gets the last piece. Everything we had on the menu was fabulous. One of the rare times when you taste a dish that actually makes you go WOW!! Service is also super accommodating, the waiters/waitresses really know their menu and gave great recommendations. Can’t wait to come back to try everything else on their menu."

"Incredible! Fantastic service. Love the focaccia (we ordered it along with the house made ricotta, which surprised us because it was not very salty). Also the kale rigatoni - the rigatoni pasta had the perfect texture and the sauce was bright and light. And can't forget the brown crab pasta, which was sparkling with black pepper! Washed everything down with a fizzy house lemonade."

"Excellent dinner and service! Pastas are the stars of the show and great for sharing. Special mention to the duck parpadelle and kale & chili pasta. All the desserts were delicious, especially the almond cake! I'll come back when the menu changes."