Rossopomodoro

50-52 Monmouth St, London, WC2H 9EP Directions

   Now closed Open Monday 12:00 - 23:00

Business overview

Cucina e pizzeria napoletana

Typical food from the South of Italy: a truly Neapolitan experience with delicious pizza and pasta.

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Products & Services

child friendly

credit cards accepted

italian restaurants

takeaway menus

Wood Oven Pizzeria

Southern Italy Restaurant

Reviews

Jolly place

4
The best thing about this place is the decor, lots of red which really lifts your heart. Rosso means red in Italian. Pomodoro is an Italian tomato.
I was very glad to see Prosecco on the menu. I started with a glass of prosecco. Although it cost more than a glass of white at most pub it cost less than the champagne at Hawtrey's in the Barn Hotel, Ruislip.
We could not get a non alcoholic beer for the driver. So I asked if they had a juice. Their juices were orange, pineapple and apple.
The starter of bread with a kind of salami did not not interest two of the four of us. Cured meats are not healthy and their bread and tomato is but it's unexciting as a starter.
Main courses were an improvement - the others had pizzas and pasta. I hate pizza and pasta but I really hate pizza, cheese on bread, like half a sandwich masquerading as a meal. I spent years living on hamburgers and pizza and now if I'm paying Italian restaurant prices I want some adult food, a piece of chicken or veal with saute potatoes, not just bits of bread and that awful Italian cheese. Anyway, I got chicken (not as tasty and juicy as freshly cooked barbecue chicken from Tesco supermarket) and potato - rather bland, not really exciting. Desserts seemed to consist of various concoctions with added Nutella. I could stick Nutella on fruit salad or cake or ice cream at home.
The double espresso was okay and I got brown sugar when I asked for it. Service was prompt though without any friendliness or verve. However, we had a great time sitting for ages in a very pleasant atmosphere. You could barely hear the background music. The toilets downstairs had a red row of tiles, very jolly. I forgave them for putting the toilet roll in the dust and not having a hook for my handbag because behind the basins were aromatic and colourful pot pourri which gave an almost heady high of aromatherapy.
In my opinion it is more of a pretty and pricey pizza place, than a proper restaurant. But the decor is jolly. Very pretty plates. The pizza eaters were happy and likewise the tiramisu devotees. Our host had been taken to this restaurant by an Italian and liked it enough to go back. According to the address card they have more restaurants in other parts of London, Italy and several other countries around the world.
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Not bad for a chain

2
Rossopomodoro is a successful chain of Italian Restaurants promoting Neaplolitan food. It has many branches all over Italy and has now launched in the UK .

The chain has wood fired ovens and make good Neapolitan style pizzas using quality ingredients.

There are also good pasta dishes and salads.

I tend not to like chains especially those that feature "Italian" food like Strada , Ask , Bella Italia etc but Rossopomodoro manages to produce simple and consistent food using good ingredients.
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Just like the rest

3
I don't really understand the supposed difference between Rossopomodoro and Pizza Express, except for the rather trickier name.

I found the pizza at Rossopomodoro to be slightly bland in comparison to that of Pizza Express and it was certainly no better. I'd say it was slightly less well cooked, the base being less crisp and tougher. I'd love to see really good Italian pizza in London but this isn't it.

The restaurant is rather better than the average Express. It's a lot less crowded with tables, making it a more pleasant place to sit for a while, though is also noisy and rather soulless with its bland, modern design.

For wine we had a bottle of the red Lacrima Di Christi which was quite palatable though unimpressive. This took the total bill, including a couple of bottles of water and service, up to £50 for two which I think to be rather over-priced for a slightly-above-average pizza.

Service was good, though I wasn't entirely impressed with being led to a table beside the toilets in an almost empty restaurant.

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Finally, authentic Italian food comes to town!

4
A friend recommended this place to me after my harping on about how good the pizza is in Italy when compared to the stuff we get served up in London.

I've been to plenty of Italian restaurants, but none have really captured the way that the Italians do it in their homeland. Until now.

This place was a breath of fresh air. The staff were reasonably helpful in the main and the menu was a sight to behold, all manner of dishes available.

You can see the chefs at work (with a very impressive mosaic-tiled pizza oven the centrepiece) and the place on the whole was very, very clean.

As is usual when I visit a place like this for the first time I opted for the four cheese pizza and my friend the margherita, because if they can't do the basics right then what hope do the others have?

The pizzas were delicious and just like those from Italy. It is the fist time I have tasted what I consider to be an authentic Italian tomato sauce on a pizza (on the margherita only, the four cheese has no sauce, nor should it do) in London.

The cost of the food was very reasonable indeed, although I found that the wines were a little on the expensive side (£25 for a bottle of average prosecco!) but on the whole I would say it is a reasonably priced restaurant.

All in all though, a nice lunch was had and I shall be returning in the not too distant future.
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