Santo Remedio

Santo Remedio

We started Santo Remedio in 2013 running pop ups and supper clubs to bring the flavours of Mexico we love and grew up with in Mexico to Londoners.

Our food is inspired by the taquerias, markets, homes and celebrations of Mexico.

We import speciality ingredients like Pasilla, Serranos and grasshoppers from Mexico to give our dishes a true taste of Mexico.

Our dishes are influenced by time spent living in Mexico City, the Yucatan and Oaxaca.

http://santoremedio.co.uk

Santo Remedio, Tooley Street - Samphire and Salsify

We visit in the first few days of opening so a smaller menu is running and the upstairs dining room isn’t open yet.

There’s an open bar at the front with high stools and a small dining room out the bank, which is where we sit, at a table topped with a whopping cactus.

Again, it’s cooked in orange juice and this time with a spice called achiote which sends the chicken a bright orange.

We make use of the specials board and go for the soft shell crab tacos (£11).

I had no doubt Santo Remedio would be just as good as their previous restaurant – and it is.

A First-Look at the Brand New Santo Remedio - Eater London

Mexican taqueria, “cantina and comedor”, Santo Remedio is one of this year’s most anticipated restaurant openings.

After nearly a year without a fixed location, they are back: Eater London was given an exclusive first look at the site, what Diaz-Fuentes describes as “the evolution of Santo Remedio.”

Santo Remedio’s new cantina Laura James The restaurant, over two floors, is bigger; the kitchen will have a greater capacity for Diaz-Fuentes to prepare a a much broader range of traditional Mexican dishes, from different regions of the country.

The new bar tiled with the upcycled tiles they destroyed from the old site Laura James One thing that is new to the site is a charcoal grill, which Diaz-Fuentes told Eater London will be used for “chicken, lamb cutlets, fish and octopus in achiote.

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Tacos were actually one of the less successful things at the first incarnation of Santo Remedio and it’s clear the kitchen has worked hard to make them better.

The tortillas used in this first batch of tacos suffered from flaws that would eventually be remedied in subsequent meals – reasonably nutty in taste, but nowhere near as fluffy and soft as they would eventually become.

Santo Remedio’s flawed track record in tortillas finally came to an end in their tuna tostadas, a dish I’ve had little time for in the past.

Santo Remedio’s tuna tostada puts every other version of this dish (that I’ve tried in London) to shame.

The creamy, elastic and salty Oaxacan-style cheese made a welcome repeat appearance, joined by sharp onions bolstered by an equally sharp sauce laced with zingy citrus notes.

Santo Remedio, London: lovely 'home-made' vibe

Santo Remedio, London: restaurant review | Jay Rayner | Life and ...

Meal for two, including drinks and service: £60 All too often in the food world, the war of expertise becomes a lumbering battle between the Real Thing and the Good Stuff.

After a meal at Santo Remedio in London’s Shoreditch, full of lightness and brightness, colour, punch and enthusiasm, I am willing to acknowledge that the same applies to Mexican food – that right and good are the same.

The tangled meat in their pork tacos, dainty things the size of coffee-table coasters, have been simmered in orange juice and Coke before being shredded and piled with salsa verde.

Mole, as explained to me by the American Mexican food expert Rick Bayless, is an extraordinary thing: part sauce, part condiment, a testament to the controlled burning of multiple ingredients to produce a flavour which is both many things and only itself.

This year it was held at Ceviche Old Street, which is both not far from Santo Remedio, and also offers up a modern take on the food of another part of Latin America, in this case Peru.