500 Italian Restaurant

One of our favourites - lovely inventive food and friendly service.

Charming people delicious food and excellent service. We went with our daughter and small grandchild and he was made very welcomed. Will definitely go back,

Still buzzing after another excellent meal at 500. The sincere friendly convivial welcome & service only bettered by the kitchen who offer up dishes of true perfection. The antipasta are wonderful, with the San Danielle and melon, & white and brown crab Carta music "lasagna" standouts, whilst the ravioli is ravishing richly delicious. The place to go for Italian, with a sublimely sardegna vibe, luxury at more than affordable prices!

Grazie mille a tutti! As ever 500 just as concisely, chic, Unitarian, and excellent as the vehicle it is christened after, perfect in every way. I recommend it, the food, wine and service consistently supreme, but don`t just take my word for it, book and try it yourself!

The food is very good and service efficient and friendly. The restaurant suffers from the usual noise because of the hard surfaces. Overall though very good.

As good as any West End Italian restaurant and two thirds of the price !

excellent food and great service. friendly environment with very helpful staff with allergy advice, i would recommend 500 easily. good selection of wines by the glass.

This is a lovely quiet restaurant with great Italian food

This is a fabulous restaurant, the food and service are superb.

Good food and service, and decent prices, at 500 Restaurant hidden away behind an unprepossessing front facing the street which you could easily walk past without realising that somewhere worth visiting lies behind it.

Great food and service. A real local hidden gem. Not the cheapest, but worth every penny. Please book as it gets busy and they were turning people away.

Starters were delicious but unfortunately the crab starter gave my friend a very bad stomach when we got home. The lamb and steaks were brilliant, my rabbit was ok but the sauce way too strong and mash too sloppy

It's not in the most prepossessing location, but 500 is worth it when you walk through the door. Service is great, it's a friendly family-run operation and the food is truly splendid. Burrata and fritto misto are stand-outs if you see them on the menu.

A fabulous evening - excellent, delicious food (was only planning two courses but ended up having three) and extremely good value. We will be returning soon.

The food is always very good here. The place is noisy though but that's the typer of place it is!! I especially like the wonderful olives they have

Pleasant intimate Italian restaurant. Good menu, food and service. Open on a Sunday evening which is not always the case with other restaurants. Must book as a small number of tables.

It's a lovely gem -- an oasis of Italian tranquillity on one of London's busiest roads. You feel like you've stepped into Italy. The food is exquisite. I went with a friend who has been to the best five-star restaurants around the world, and he thinks it's a brilliant restaurant that gets it all right: food, ambience, service, price. I can't recommend it enough! Mel

The food was amazing and the presentation equal. The service was overall really good.

Excellent, authentic and reasonably priced Italian food; fascinating wine; attentive and friendly service; attractively laid out; and situated in the centre of a vibrant, local community outside the frenetic confines of central London but also readily accessible-this restaurant is a real treasure which we are determined to visit again on our next expedition from Liverpool to London.

Superb authentic Italian food and great selection of reasonably priced wines. Excellent service. Panna cotta to die for! Highly recommended!

Delightful and welcoming service; excellent and generous food - some room for improvement on presentation perhaps. Good wine and very good coffee. Excellent value for money

We had a very warm welcome and the delightful chef came to our table. The food was really delicious and we heartily recommend this restaurant.

An excellent lunch which was unusual and filled with flavour. We asked to share a starter which the restaurant very thoughtfully split for us. The mains were delicious. We have been coming to this restaurant for many years it is always consistently reliable and a real treat. Thoroughly recommended

lovely food as ever. Excellent tagliere of mixed starters. Rabbit in balsamic very intense flavour and delicious strozzapretti with a red wine and beef ragu

Good quality food, fresh produce, friendly service. A great local restaurant.

This is my go to restaurant for a great meal every single time. The food is fantastic, I just cannot work out how they can price it so reasonably

Surprised by the little gem of a restaurant. I have been living in Upper Holloway for 5 years, and only discovered this place about a year ago. Food is exceptional.

We regularly visit Cinquecento and never have a bad meal. The food, service and ambience are all excellent. The menu changes with the seasons and serves wonderful Italian flavours with a twist. If this restaurant was in the centre of London, it would be three times the price. Wonderful value and fabulous cooking.

great local Italian - friendly staff and excellent menu - changes according to season and very good wine list - all Italian and covering the whole of the country

Great atmosphere & service , fantastic food Well recon commended

500 never ceases to surprise in offering excellent, high-quality cuisine from Sardinia. Love it, just love it.

Service was excellent but unfortunately the food was really not up to the standard we enjoyed last time; each of the four of us thought our vegetables badly cooked and our complaint was acknowledged but nothing done about it. Maybe Monday evening is not a good evening to eat here. Portions are huge but vast portions do not make up for food not cooked as well as it could be. I must say however the main part of the meal - the meat or fish - was fresh and well cooked, let down by the "sides". It was also comparatively expensive. We will not be returning - there are many better value restaurants around.

We had a Fabulous meal as always. Great restaurant, would highly recommend it.

Beef carpaccio, white truffle pasta and lavender pannacotta washed down with delicious vino nobile - what better way to spend a Friday evening

Food excellent! Best Italian food in London! Enjoyable every time!

We've been here many times. It's a wonderful restaurant. Great food, friendly, excellent service, never a disappointment. Highly recommended.

Excellent proper Italian food. They don't have a big menu, but they got some amazing dishes, I think some of them are authentic recipes from Sardinia and they were delicious. We also had some fresh burrata from Puglia, and trust me it was fresh. We will definitely go back.

third visit with the family great food and service each time. much better than a lot of more expensive italian restaurants in london. early dinning offer makes it fantastic value

An excellent small local Italian restaurant well located close to Archway underground station. It has an understated frontage and you could easily walked past. It is my second visit there, both times in the company of an Italian friend. It has a nice varied menu and some nice wines. The service is attentive without being intrusive. On both occasions I have thoroughly enjoyed the evening. I shall definitely visit again.

Delicious starter and the lamb cutlets were out of this world. Lovely wine and then Vin Santo. Yum. I cannot think of six more words.

Great food and good service. Could do with some mood music.

Excellent and authentic Italian restaurant with an emphasis on Sardinian food. Unusual menu and extremely good value. Highly recommend. A friend said he would travel to go there any time.

Our second visit to this lovely laid back and understated restaurant. The food is stunning and the choice of wines is excellent. Service is great and staff very friendly. Perfect for couples or a group. Faultless.

Best Italian food I have ever had. I keep going back and the food is always fantastic quality!

Fantastic food and great wine list. Thoroughly enjoyed dinner here!

A hidden gem within an easy walk from Archway station.Excellent food, delightful ambience. We have been here a couple of times, and will definitely return.

This is my local and I love it - terrific authentic Italian food, consistently good - I've been going since they opened several years ago and it's always been up to standard. Hard to beat in north London.

Good food as usual but poor service and the five chops we asked to be put into a doggie bag to take home????? Only 3 were found when we got home!

Probably one of the best Italian restaurants in London. It is a bit noisy but that means success. The cooking is as good as it gets, a seafood tagliatelle being superb as was the rabbit signature dish. A wonderful Italian wine list. Not expensive for the quality you receive. Attentive service. No wonder it can be difficult to book a table!

Another lovely evening at this fantastic Archway Italian. Really delicious authentic Italian cooking.