A Square Meal
Pros Portion size can't be faulted and it's a welcoming atmosphere.
Cons A shortish menu, service a little slower than it needs to be.
Pros Portion size can't be faulted and it's a welcoming atmosphere.
Cons A shortish menu, service a little slower than it needs to be.
Per Person €€ Food ★★★★ Service ★★★☆ VFM ★★★★☆
Practicalities
Website https://www.sakromadrid.com/
Access One little step from the street into the eating area.
Access One little step from the street into the eating area.
🛈Dietary You'll need to ask.
The Story
Hopes? "Authentic Roman Pizza" says the website. Yes, please. Please!
Reality? Excellent ingredients, flavours and hefty portion sizes at a good price.
First Impressions? Achingly contemporary; distressed concrete, lots of space and subdued lighting.
USP? The juicy, tasty, generous eight-piece rectangular pizzas.
The offer in three words? Determinedly not pinsas.
Reality? Excellent ingredients, flavours and hefty portion sizes at a good price.
First Impressions? Achingly contemporary; distressed concrete, lots of space and subdued lighting.
USP? The juicy, tasty, generous eight-piece rectangular pizzas.
The offer in three words? Determinedly not pinsas.
Service? Undeniably a little wobbly, but it's early days.Friendly and professional, we learnt one server comes from a tiny village in the alps. "30 people live there. Well, 29 now."
On tap? Estrella Damm
On tap? Estrella Damm
Eat me! Sakro Burrata meant loads of creamy soft cheese, atop a bushel of rocket with some pizza bread slices to help it along. More rocket wasn't far away on the Provala Fundida, but I didn't notice the billed chimichurri. Ideally this dish needed to arrive a minute or two earlier as it was losing its (cheffy term coming) stringyness. There was no flavour shortage mind, with sundried tomatoes adding acidity. Very good, It was Back to the Future with Pizza Putanesca transporting me to back to the 1990s, with a very Pizza Express combination of olive, anchovy and capers on a juicy cheese-free tomato base. Equally well prepared, Pizza Diavola doesn't quite live up to its devilish billing, with a gentle touch of spianata offering a tingle rather than the explosion of heat something like `nduja can inject. Chilli oil on the side could be a good optional extra. A tomato-less Montanara will appeal to many for a more autumnal touch - mushrooms, thinly sliced pancetta and completed with a touch of truffle or porcini oil for those that way inclined.
Friend friendly? Vegetarian no problem. Vegan probably doable, but might be cheese-less.
Rating for dating? Made for it. Shared pizza upstairs, cocktail downstairs. Just lower the music level a touch.
Tip? Yes. There was a chupito, which we weren't allowed to say no to.
Change one thing? The door needs a handle. And a spring to help it close on chilly winter days.
Revisitability? It's beating a lot of the local pizza competition thanks to that fresh-tasting tomato and generous portion size,
Rating for dating? Made for it. Shared pizza upstairs, cocktail downstairs. Just lower the music level a touch.
Tip? Yes. There was a chupito, which we weren't allowed to say no to.
Change one thing? The door needs a handle. And a spring to help it close on chilly winter days.
Revisitability? It's beating a lot of the local pizza competition thanks to that fresh-tasting tomato and generous portion size,