500 Italian Restaurant

A perfect meal, delicious, balanced, imaginative and exquisitely judged flavours. They've always been good but they are constantly getting better. Surely one of the best places to eat in north london!

Always excellent service and never fails to produce a wonderful eating experience. Their menu is genuine Italian dishes, cooked to perfection. This is a gem.

Great food, comfortable atmosphere, a real treat and local gem of a restaurant. Really enjoyed both times I've visited and looking forward to more meals here!

Great service with a very friendly waiter. We had a starter and main, both of which were delicious. The focaccia with olive paste given at the start of the meal was scrumptious

Food was fantastic (I personally recommend the gnocchi but must admit all dishes were great), staff were so friendly and seriously great tiramisu, amazing little gem at top of Holloway Road!

The best restaurant in the are by far. Food never fails to impress and the service is warm and friendly. It's always our first choice for a night out in Upper Holloway.

Really great authentic Italian food and friendly service. Bit of a surprise to find it at this part of Holloway Road. Well worth the trip to Archway

Small restaurant easy to miss, but well worth finding. It was recommended to me and 3 of us ate there last night. Some of the nicest food I have eaten for a long time, starters, mains to dessert, all amazing. We will be going again!!

It was a bit disappointing, the pasta was too al dente and stick together. Good gnocchi but a bit too much of one taste. Nice ambience

The high level of noise made it impossible to enjoy our evening. Food good (though not up to Trullo or Sardo) , but won't go again.

Food was very presentable although the flagship dish Rabbit was off the menu.Lively atomsphere a bit noisy and restaraunt had a cafe ambience.The meals were reasonably priced.

The food at 500 is fantastic every time I have eaten here. The people are lovely too, very helpful, kind, attentive. Can't recommend it highly enough.

Lovely food, good staff. Nice restaurant. Had the ravioli with duck and my friend had the strozzapreti with wild boar ragu. Both delicious. the tiramisu is very authentic Italian.

I enjoyed rack of lamb, cooked as instructed ('pink') followed by a Copa 500 dessert, being peaches with ice-cream covered in chocolate sauce. I had a Campari with orange juice as an aperitif and a glass of the house red wine with my food. Service, as always, was polite and effective. Overall, a very pleasant experience overshadowed somewhat by an unrelated but very serious health problem affecting my partner's mother which meant that I dined alone.

I assume 1 is bad and 6 is excellent. You don't say. The food is always very good at 500 and service friendly. I have been there several times and it is consistent

Great food and great service - a really lovely evening. Our food was delicious - imaginatively prepared and presented - everything tasted as good as it looked - a special place to return to as often as possible. An exceptional restaurant that never fails to delight.

Perfectly cooked Italian food. Swift friendly service. Interesting wine list. The signature rabbit dish has changed from a stew to boned and stuffed and is brilliant!

Great food and excellent service. A good mix of new seasonal dishes as well as old favourites. Pasta dishes are absolutely amazing, especially the beef Raghu

We dined with four friends at 500, and thoroughly enjoyed our meal. The food is definitely a cut above most Neighbourhood London Italian restaurants, and the ambiance is pleasant. There is ample parking nearby. The wine list too is excellent, and not overpriced. For such impressive cooking this restaurant is extremely good value. It is a welcome innovation to offer half portions of starters. This makes it possible to have a varied meal without eating more than you really want. or need.

As always, everything was good, from the starters to the pasta - this is an excellent Italian restaurant with a menu that varies seasonally; it's always difficult to decide what to order since everything sounds tasty!

Sometimes reviews don't live up to the hype. In this case, the reviews were spot on. The staff were very friendly, accommodating and the food was amazing. I will be back :)

Superb 500 platter to start with swordfish and gnocchi to die for, followed by tiramisu and washed down with Pinot Gis Blush Rose. What more could one want? Oh and a celeb radio DJ sat next to us... Archway's gem.

Very nice Italian food and good wine at a reasonable price, lots of families and very friendly probably wouldn't choose for a romantic lunch would go again

Service not quite so good as usual but then the restaurant was packed. Lovely food, well cooked and well presented, nice atmosphere and friendly staff.

Great food really nice staff It's Puglia at its best. Crab on thin layers of crisp bread I'd superb The pasta is always first class wines are good

Pasta was great, as always. The monkfish special was really well cooked and great balance of flavours. Excellent service with a nice atmosphere. A great lovely choice for a Thursday night.

Well priced local Italian. Varied seasonal menu, competently executed - more Boca di Lupo than Jamie's Italian. Good Italian wine list, interesting bottles at the low twenty something mark. Service is attentive but not intrusive. I'll be going again soon.

Great food, lovely service, perfect wine list. I would recommend this without hesitation. A bit too noisy this evening, but even so, a total delight.

I have been here before and loved it each time but it was a first for my partner. We went to celebrate his birthday and celebrate it we did. Once again excellent food, wine and, particularly, friendly, knowledgeable and considerate service. Winner with more than Time Out - we will go again. 500 is very small and very busy (deservedly so) - so if you want to give it a try, it is best to book in advance.

We visited very early on a Saturday evening, and only wanted a fairly light dinner. The service was excellent, as was the food. My only problem was that my lemon sole dish could have fed two, and I couldn't eat all of it. I have been to 500 several times, and it is one of my favourites. I recommend the sharing (for two) platter for a starter.

The food was very good but the acoustics allowed a very shrill diner to intrude on.our comfort. Still we will definitely go there again because of the food and friendly service.

Great meal, excellent food and service. Would have been even better if it was a bit busier. Quality of all food was so much better than any meal we had in Rome the previous week. Cannot wait to go back.

Always good with freshly cooked food. I noticed change of staff and also not so busy - maybe because it was a very hot evening but lovely and cool in there. Good food and wine and our guests enjoyed it immensely.

Good food great service will definately reccommend to friends We had the sharing platter to start which was delicious the menu has a good mix of meat fish and pasta and a decent wine list

As always, a delightful experience. So nice to have a good local restaurant with a chef who likes to try out new dishes and then cares what his customers think about them. For example, he's added a lovely Fritto Misto of fish and shredded courgette to the starters. A real gem of a dish. When he came round at the end of dinner to see how people had liked their meals, he said that he'd originally had it as a main but people weren't interested. So he turned it into a starter and it was proving hugely popular. In the meantime, a starter I had previously reported as not nice at all (the waiter said I wasn't the only one) has disappeared. That's the kind of flexibility and originality that make 500 such a great restaurant. Plus they buy really good ingredients. One of my guests pronounced the beef some of the best he'd ever had.

Authentic italian with great food and attentive service. Good wine list and changing seasonal menu. You'll miss it on the Holloway Road but worth tracking down. Enough said!

It was our firstt time eating at this local restaurant although friends had recommended. Absolutely gorgeous food, great service and made to feel really welcome. Would recommend 100%

Delicious, as always! Great food, great wine and lively atmosphere (on a Saturday night). Wait staff was lovely and helpful. A reliably excellent meal out!

Overall we were disappointed by food. No where near what we were expecting after all great reviews. Ravioli in seafood bisque was particularly unpleasant. Wouldn't recommend.

this is a fantanstic place: good value for wonderful food. The service is excellent and really good atmosphere. I have recommended these places to many friends and they all been very pleased

Service was shocking, waiter was unbelievably rude, we had to send food back. Used to go here regularly but never again it was that bad, avoid!

Charming helpful service - lovely with our two young grandsons - delicious food except for the pannacotta and salt caramel icecream that hardly had any flavour.

Service was shocking, never experienced such bad service ever. The waiter was belligerent and rude and didnt make any allowances for his behaviour and started shouting unnecessarily. We had to send food back and the replacement dishes were not up to scratch either. i used to eat here regularly, 3 times in the past 7 weeks, but never again. They lost a loyal customer and didnt even seem to care. The food used to be great but their standards have fallen and now with so many other places opening up on Holloway they need to do better. instead check out other italian locals such as Zia Lucia or Piccolo Sogno, I will be spending my money there instead of wasting it here.

Top quality Italian and has been for years. An unprepossessing spot, but well worth the effort. Home made pasta, daily specials with a Sardinian slant and good staff.

Wonderful place .... Charming staff, excellent food, good location. The 500 has been here for a few years now and continues to please. I try to visit every year at least ....

Excellent again. Menu is small but good. Starters in particular (we had crab, prosciutto, and mozzarella) highly recommended. Ladies had lemon sole which I'm told was excellent; I had a veal special which was also great.

We love this restaurant and go there fairly frequently. The staff are wonderful but the food can vary a bit and this time wasn't the best we've had. For the first time in my life, I sent a starter back. It wasn't that I didn't like it, it was actually inedible (others in the party agreed). The waiter acknowledged it wasn't to everyone's taste and that others had disliked it so I wonder why they keep it - raw scallops marinated in campari and orange. I had expected something vaguely ceviche-like but the the campari and orange gave the scallops a really awful bitter taste. They were incredibly nice about it, produced an alternative (delicious) immediately (didn't charge for the rejected scallops) and the rest of the meal was very pleasant. Not amazing - as it has been on previous occasions but nice enough. I'd still recommend 500 as it's great value and a lovely atmosphere. It would be nice to be 100% sure of the food though.

Having just read about this restaurant in Quandoo last night, I decided to try it out this evening. It's a great little Italian restaurant serving excellent quality food and wine with quite a different menu to the usual. The seafood stew, on a plate, was a great combination of seafood, cooked perfectly, and other great flavours, although there was just a little too much garlic for my taste. It's the sort of dish that you want another one of straight away. Wines were varied and good value for small glasses and bottles - a nice change. Try the plate of Italian cheeses - lovely quality served at a good temperature. Great all round with very friendly people and I'd go back there tomorrow.

This is a fab restaurant where food is treated very well indeed. Delicious ragu, heavenly starters (you have to have the Tagliere 500 - you get a glimpse of most of the starters!) and awfully good value. Our favourite.

We were recommended this by several friends and finally managed to get there this week. Lovely restaurant - lovely food! Authentically italian, says what it does on the tin - we will be back!