Sortino Italian Restaurant, Seoul
Address: 736-11 Hannam-Dong,
Second floor, Seoul, Korea
Phone: 02) 797-0488
Open: 7 days a week Sortino Italian Restaurants is situated on the main street of Itaewon by the big staircase near the Cheil building. The restaurant is a great place where people can talk with friends over fantastic Italian food. The meals are affordable and the efficient staff treats clients cordially. As you walk into the spacious dining area, you will find sunny walls decorated with paintings of the Italian countryside. Windows run along the length of the room giving the restaurant a bright, airy look. The open kitchen with its traditional pizza oven is on one end, and tables and booths span the rest of the rectangular restaurant. The food at Sortino is tasty and authentic. It should be, as the Italian chef and owner, Santino Sortino, is a true connoisseur of his Italian cuisine. For starters try the scrumptious salads like tomato caprese, Caesar's salad, or shrimp with rucola. The dressings are divine! There are also 3 types of bruchettas. In soups you can choose tomato, pumpkin or mushroom. For the main course there's a seafood risotto or a bacon and mushroom risotto. There are popular pastas such as spaghetti and meatballs, spaghetti vongole or carbonara. One of the most popular spaghettis is 'spaghetti alla Santino' with rock shrimp, porcini mushrooms, shallots and gorgonzola flavored with a thyme cream sauce. You can also choose from different penne, linguini, fettuccine and fusili dishes. The enormous thin-crust pizzas, baked fresh in the traditional wood brick oven, are big enough for two! There are 12 types of pizzas to choose from. Veggie lovers can go for the 'Orlatana' with zucchini, eggplant, mushroom and bell pepper. Another favorite is the 'Rustica alla Campania' with tomato, buffalo mozzarella, prosciutto and rucola. You can try the 'Aglio et Olio' with oven-roasted garlic, black truffle oil, tomato, fresh spicy pepper and mozzarella. Of course there's always the classic Margherita. The pizzas are between 12,000-18,000 won and considering the size, it's a fairly good deal. If you don't want pizza or pasta for your main course, there's also sirloin steak, beef filet, salmon, and red snapper. In dessert you can try the tiramisu or the panacotta. Sortino has an extensive wine list of mostly Italian wines. Sortino Restaurant provides fresh, simple Italian dishes which will make you yearn for more.
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