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Artusi
• Italian• Peckham
About the restaurant
Set up by restaurateur Jack Beer in 2014, Artusi is one of a clutch of modern-feeling neighbourhood restaurants to have set up in Peckham over the last few years. The team behind it followed it up with Marcella in Deptford three years later.
Artusi’s focus is on fresh pasta cooked in a regularly changing menu of classic Italian recipes – think tagliatelle with ox-cheek ragu, and you’re on the right lights. These are complemented by flavour-packed but simply cooked sharing plates that make use of a supply line, including venerated grocer Natoora and butcher Flock & Herd.
Like many dining rooms in the East and South East London openings of the 2010s, Artusi’s has a clean, minimal feel, with sleek wooden tables and daily specials written on chalkboards. A kitchen counter is a great way to dine and can be hired out by groups.
Reviews from the Web
Critic reviews
The Infatuation
Artusi is a modern take on that neighbourhood Italian restaurant. It’s a small, casual place with menu that constantly changes. You’ll regularly find things like puntarelle and anchovy salad on the menu, along with very good pasta and plenty of meat in the mains
The Guardian
Everything else at Artusi does what it says on the menu. And it does so bloody well.
The Telegraph
Look, they can afford to experiment: that’s what their legion admirers want. Go in with a sense of wonder, and don’t worry too much about the flights of fancy.
The Independent
The Sunday lunch menu is refreshingly limited: always a sign of a confident kitchen. Two starters, two mains, two desserts. There are four of us – five if you include a bump – so naturally we get the whole lot between us.
Time Out
Artusi can be credited with being the place that made pasta trendy again. It may be hard to believe, but back in the noughties, you only ate pasta if you were a tourist, a student, a student tourist or occasionally an ageing Italian businessman
The Nudge
On entering, you’re more than likely to be greeted by smiling bearded men, or friendly bespectacled women in Breton tops.
- 161 Bellenden Rd
- SE15 4DH
- London
- +44 20 3302 8200
- Visit website
