Sorella

Italian restaurant in Clapham from the team behind The Dairy and Counter Culture.

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Sorella | The Amalfi Coast Comes To Clapham In A Sweet Little Spot

Sorella | Clapham Italian Restaurant The owners of Clapham’s critically beloved The Manor have opened a new restaurant.

It’s called Sorella, and it’s literally located in the space that was The Manor – a swap which happened when owner/chef Robin Gill (also of similarly vaunted The Dairy) was looking for the perfect spot for his new Amalfi-inspired Italian…before realising that he already owned it.

For dessert, you’ll have to – somehow – choose between their Pump Street chocolate fennel gelato; hay panna cotta quince; or a malted barley affogato vodka milk.

And if that gets you in the mood for a drinks, well there are… THE DRINKS The wine is all-Italian, and there are housemate liqueurs being poured into the likes of their Sorella Americano, with house vermouth, Campari soda; and the Manhattan to Clapham, whose bourbon bitters is offset by a little homemade maraschino.

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Amalfi-inspired Sorella takes the place of Clapham's The Manor ...

Summing it all up: It's farewell to The Manor and hello to Sorella, a new Italian restaurant from The Dairy group that'll be springing up in its place.

Inside, expect loads of food inspired by the sundrenched Amalfi coast, where chef Robin Gill spent considerable time learning the culinary ropes.

It's about to get an Italian facelift when Robin Gill transforms it into Sorella, with Dean Parker in charge.

On the menu, there'll be lots and lots of suitably sundrenched dishes inspired by Robin's time on the Amalfi coast, with plenty of interesting dishes that we like the sound of (see: fennel gelato.)

"Sorella will hone in on all that we love about the Italian attitude to cooking and eating."

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Sixteen years ago Robin Gill from Dublin, working at the time for Marco Pierre White in the kitchens of the three Michelin-starred Oak Room, decided that he’d like to go to Italy, learn Italian and also pursue a more unassuming style of cooking.

Sorella (previously Gill’s Clapham restaurant, The Manor) means “sister” in Italian and here the palpable sense of being part of a family.

“Everyone likes Italian restaurants”, I hear a customer remark as we weave through crowded tables on a Tuesday evening soon after the opening.

The menu adheres to the conventional Italian four-course structure but more compellingly the authentic Italian passion for pristine produce that is shared by head chef Dean Parker instrumental in agriculture and beekeeping in the restaurants’ investment in a Sussex farm.

Sicilian Nocellara olives fried in feisty crumbs contrast with a smooth cod brandade sandwiched between wafers of crisp potato and have shrugged off any association with or folk memory of leftover rice.

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For it’s a limited audience who will return to places like The Manor time after time, but folk will always want pasta.

Or, more accurately, they’ll always want a flute of rhubarb bellini, then a zinging bowl of fresh linguine with crab and fennel, after perhaps a bowl of breaded, deep-fried sweet nocellara olives and a helping of small, feisty truffle arancini.

That said, during the antipasti at Sorella, I did try to a take a photograph of a plate of jersey milk ricotta that came with a sticky olive tapenade in a deepest oxblood hue and a puddle of parmesan.

A side of crisp potatoes had gone through an irresistible, multiple-fried concertina process, so what you’re presented with is a plate of spud squeezeboxes to smear in any runny things present.

The last time I went to The Manor, I was in and out in 90 minutes and felt educated, but not wholly fed; this time, we stayed five hours and finally left carrying children delivered to the restaurant during the dolci by irate childminders who’d given up on seeing us again.