Sorriso

About

Walk out of St James's tube station and there's Sorriso, standing proud like a sunny watchdog in front of New Scotland Yard. An intriguing upside-down T-shaped building, it was built in the Seventies as part of the original metropolitan police HQ, or so it is thought. Today it is a simple, affordable, good quality Italian restaurant regularly serving tasty treats to the likes of Charles Clarke and Clare Short, as well as other media players from Channel 4 HQ down the road. Top of the treats comes the buffalomozzarello and tomato starter, closely followed by the fisherman's pasta and, if you're really hungry, stincotto - a generous braised ham shank with berlotti beans. Check out the daily specials too. Last, but not least, the award-winning house wine is an affordable £10.95 a bottle. Sorriso,incidentally, is Italian for smile.

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Nearest

Accomodation	Jolly Hotel St. Ermins (0.06 miles) Crowne Plaza, London St James (0.22 miles) Grange Rochester Hotel (0.35 miles) Rubens at the Palace (0.52 miles) City Inn Westminster (0.54 miles)
Attractions	Blewcoat School (0.15 miles) London Scottish Regimental Museum (0.24 miles) Insfitution Of Mechnanical Engineers (0.24 miles) Guards Museum (0.24 miles) College Garden & Little Cloister (0.28 miles)
Pubs	Imperial The (0.84 miles) Zeta Bar (0.94 miles) Intrepid Fox (0.96 miles) Zanzibar (1.41 miles) Ivy House The (1.50 miles)
Train Stations	London Victoria (0.64 miles) London Charing Cross (0.78 miles) Vauxhall (1.04 miles) London Waterloo (1.20 miles) London Waterloo East (1.35 miles)