Santini Restaurant London

29 Ebury Street, London

Tel: 020 7 730 4094

Santini is a smart Italian restaurant located on Ebury Street, not far from Victoria Station. My colleague described it as a Russian hangout and certainly the diners in there were dripping in gold and speaking something other than English.

The place is a little ostentatious but once you get over the initial bling, the place is really rather nice.
Service is swift and efficient but the food is on the expensive side. Starters are in the region of £15 and the Lamb Shank special that I had for main course was £25. It was nice but nothing special.
My colleague asked for some truffle shavings on his Pappardelle starter and the waiter brought ouot a whole truffle to show him, supposedly, we assumed, to show him from what specimen his shavings might come from. Imagine our surprise when the bill came at the end of the evening and we had been charged a whole truffle at £35!

Apart from that, which took the average spend over the £80 mark with service, it was a perfectly good meal. I just don't think I'll be back anytime soon.