#5 in Bath • England

Sotto Sotto

Modern Italian $$$ Bath, England

Bath's best Italian — handmade pasta, a stone cellar, and a wine list that treats Italy with proper respect.

About Sotto Sotto

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Sotto Sotto sits beneath North Parade in one of Bath's most atmospheric cellar restaurants: exposed Bath stone, candlelight, arched ceilings, and the warm smell of a kitchen where pasta is rolled and filled daily. The restaurant has built a loyal following over many years by delivering genuinely accomplished Italian cooking in a setting that is beautiful without being precious.

The pasta programme is Sotto Sotto's heart: tagliolini with Devon crab and chilli; pappardelle with wild boar ragu aged for forty-eight hours; ricotta-filled tortelli in sage butter that makes the case for simplicity as loudly as any complex dish on the menu. Secondi are equally accomplished — whole sea bream baked in a salt crust; slow-braised lamb shanks in the Sicilian style; ossobuco that arrives at the table with a gremolata of such freshness it recalibrates the entire dish.

The Italian wine list runs to two hundred labels with proper regional depth — Barolo from Langhe, Fiano from Campania, Vermentino from Sardinia. Sotto Sotto is the kind of restaurant that makes you mourn Italy while celebrating it, which is the highest compliment an Italian restaurant can receive.

Best Occasion Fit

Sotto Sotto is a reliable first-date choice and an excellent birthday restaurant for groups: the cellar setting is romantic at any table size, the pasta format allows sharing without formality, and the wine list has enough to please a range of palates and price expectations.

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