Santa Maria del Sur

Really nice steak restaurant. Brilliant meat and wine. If you stay around here this is perfect for a cozy datenight!

Nice and cosy atmosphere with good music. Had a few cheeky cocktails which were very tasty. I enjoyed the Picada Santa Maria (feeds 4ish) and ordered another which was a big mistake because I didn’t have enough room for my steak and sides. But overall, had a delightful experience.

One of my fav steak places in the London! Really great food and service is excellent!

Even though I came here just once, my experience was pleasing enough for a five star rate.
This place is lovely, warm and very neat. From the moment I arrived, to the moment I left, the service was fantastic and super friendly.
As a meat lover, I must say I have eaten some fantastic steaks in London before, but nothing even comes close to the steak I’ve had here. It was delicious and perfectly cooked.
The meals here are what definitely make the place. I left pleasantly filled up and willing to try everything on the menu. I already know I’ll be coming back…
The cheesy thing is the restaurant is located in South London and ‘Del Sur’ basically means ‘from south’.

Stop by for lunch and ended up getting one of their lunch specials which was steak with potatoes. The steak was slightly over cooked to what I asked but the meat quality was so high it still just melted in your mouth. The star of the visit has to be the empanadas I ordered as a side. Large for the price and packed with so much flavour. I could’ve gone there and just eaten a plate of those. (Visit — 27/​05/​2015 Lunch)

Often when I’ve been to steak restaurants the steak is amazing and the rest is fairly average… not in this case! Not only was the steak one of the best I’ve eaten, but the sides, veggie options and cocktails were all great too. The Parrillada Deluxe comes out to your table still sizzling on a mini grill along with some delicious provolone cheese (I do love cheese), and was a really generous portion for the three of us that shared it. I’d recommend the butterbeans too — very tasty.
Our waiter was fairly new and didn’t have the best knowledge of the menu or wines but the overall atmosphere was relaxed and we weren’t rushed out of our seats at the end of the meal.
I’d definately go again, despite it being kind of out of the way for someone who doesn’t live in the area.

Great steak /​relaxed atmosphere /​absolutely amazing Chimichurri !

I had a really delicious meal at Santa Maria del Sur and really liked the atmosphere of the place. I’d recommend booking because it fills up pretty quickly and I think you’d struggle to get a table with one. My only criticism is that it is quite expensive, especially when factoring wine/​drinks etc, but think it is worth it as a treat once in a while because the steak is great.

The place is located in a residential area, meaning that there are few other places around. The atmosphere is intimate and the staff is kind and super available. The meat is great, I especially recommend the Parillada deluxe to share (for minimum 2 persons). Price is not cheap, but is fair given the high quality of the steaks!

The BEST steak in the whole of South London bar none!
Juicy and succulent Argentine beef Cooked perfectly and in full view of everyone that walks in the door! As with most steak restaurants the prices exclude any sides that you may want with your meat but it’s worth the price in my opinion! Their garlic and herb chips are SUPERB!
Definitely pricey but certainly worth the price tag!

This is a fantastic argentine steak place in Battersea — I’d say they offer one of the best steaks you can get in London, really.
Open charcoal grill, very tasty chunks of meat, really all you’d ask for. Pricing is great, too — you’d pay about half of what you’d pay in Gaucho, with the meat being just as good.
Good selection of argentine wines.
The atmosphere is ok, but tables are relatively close together. Service was ok and friendly.
Don’t expect a super fancy place — feels more like a family run place, really.
The only real downside (for me) is the location — I wished it was closer to my place.
One of my favourites!

I really wanted to love this place. There has been so much hype, esp amongst us south west londoners, that I was highly anticipating an amazing steak dinner. I was also thinking maybe my perception of the food wasn’t as good because I spent quite a lot of time in France having deliciously cooked steak frites. (I did have steak for lunch and dinner the day before in Bordeaux).
Okay, my biggest problem with steak houses in London is that they never get medium rare right (except the Popeseye in Putney). I had the Corazon de Cuadril (rump steak with mash and porcini mushroom sauce). The flavor was amazing but the steak was just way too tough for my liking. It was a bit pink but far from medium rare. I feel like I’ve almost given up on telling the restaurant how I want my steak cooked because it always comes out medium well. If you like garlic, definitely try the garlic and parsley chips.
I am willing to give this place another shot. Maybe order the fillet instead and maybe start requesting my steaks to be rare (might get medium instead!).

Very good food (although perhaps not quite worth the price), but service not great (they’re always packed with customers but not particularly attentive, you have to work to get the waiters’ attention!)
Oh, and there’s a LOT of garlic going on. If you hate garlic, avoid this place!

Still 5 stars. FIVE juicy, tender, slightly charred, delicious stars.
I do have a lot of love for this place.

You’ll read other reviews harping on about how this place has «OMG THE Best Steaks EVA!!!», «The food is just AMAZEBALLS!», or «I saw this on the f-​word!». It seems people have run out of superlatives to describe it, and that by virtue of appearing on a telly program (presented by a celebrity chef whose restaurants serve pre-​prepared food) means it must be good.
Well… s’alright. It’s not amazeballs, and neither is it donkeyballs. To risk stating the obvious, it’s not a place to take a veggie (or indeed pescatarian). Nevertheless, we took one, and she plumped for the fish option. It was a beheaded trout (not a tuna steak, as the online menu says), it wasn’t really cooked that well, and didn’t come with what it said it would. But blah blah blah, we’re not here to talk about fish, we’re here to talk about slabs of succulent steak…
…or at least I wish we were. Two of us shared a Parrillada Piazolla:
11oz Argentine Ribeye steak + 10oz grilled Argentine Rump steak + 2 Argentine-​style sausages + Black pudding + Provolone cheese
Almost £50’s worth of meat and cheese arrives on a sizzly tray thing, heated underneath by glowing charcoals. Yes, it has an ‘oooh factor’, but if you think about it, steak is much better when left to rest for 10 minutes, right? I guess their thinking is that it’s a fair amount of meat, and that it’d go cold if it wasn’t heated by something. But the result is that the steaks aren’t in peak condition when they arrive, and who’s going to plonk the steak onto their plate and wait ten minutes before eating it? Perhaps the individual steak orders are rested before they’re served, but for the platters, this method doesn’t do the meat justice.
Yes, it’s tasty meat. Yes, the chips are good. But the little details aren’t looked after, and at a little over £100 for three people (inc. an £18 bottle of wine), it’s not cheap for what is essentially a jumped-​up barbeque. The service was brusque, and didn’t really justify the discretionary 12.5% tip, if I’m being super-​critical and tight.
I’m sure there’s better steaks out there, I just haven’t found them yet. Maybe one day I’ll re-​mortgage my non-​existant house for a square inch of kobe beef to see what the best tastes like.
NICES:
* Extensive (if expensive) Argentinian wine list.
* Jolly atmosphere.
* (Potentially) tasty food.
NASTIES:
* Service is so-​so.
* Not really veggie friendly.
* Awful bovine-​related «paintings» that look like they were fashioned from assorted piles of dung and sticks.

Walking in off the street one Sunday lunchtime, we were lucky enough to snag a table for two in a rapidly filling dining room. Sharing a starter of full bodied Serrano ham and palm hearts (think of something along the lines of artichoke in texture and flavour), we moved on to the main event the finest beef I have eaten in london.
Indeed my steak was comfortably in my top three pieces of red meat I’ve eaten. No effete Wagyu here, lardy-@rsed after mincing round some bovine health spa, nor a named breed a simple choice of ribeye, sirloin, or rump, or the finest quality. I don’t care where it came from it deserved a First Class seat from Buenos Aires (although the prices do not reflect this). Order it blue and be met with an approving nod from the friendly staff. If you want it well done, leave you’re in the wrong restaurant (there’s a small selection of vegetarian dishes and some fish, but you’ll miss the point of a place like this). Gorgeous.
I recently had occasion to visit on a weekday lunchtime it was my birthday, so you can probably tell the esteem in which I hold this place. I took care to book. However, for a Friday, I was quite surprised that we were the only diners. I don’t mean that there weren’t many others, I mean we were the only people. What was more, it was pretty clear they weren’t expecting a busy lunch there were only two members of staff there, one in front, and one in the kitchen. This had no impact on either the quality of food, or of service it basically meant we had them both to ourselves.
All that said, the meat was, again, excellent. Coming from a family that’s been in the meat trade for more than 250 years, I’ve eaten one or two nice bits of meat. Sides were very pleasant too there chips with garlic and parsley are very moreish (even if, since my other half is allergic to it, we dispensed with the parsley all done with good grace). Why does no-​one else seem to do this? The wine list, too, contains some real stars the Perdriel Privada is pretty special. Still, for two people eating mains, a couple of (admittedly large) glasses of the aforementioned, and coffee, the thick end of £100 does seem a bit steep.

This place is right up there in my carnovore’s guide to London and you will struggle to find a better piece of red meat than their fillet. Santa Maria Del Sur does fantastic steaks and is well worth a visit.
I was torn between offering 4 or 5 stars for this place. The steak is as good as you will get in London, but there were just a few things that pushed me towards a 4. The service was not very good and we sat at a plkey little table in the corner. Also (very pedantic) I wanted some sauce for my steak (I didn’t like the Argentinian sauce) but we could not get the rude waitresses attention.
The food was very good. The chips (ala provencial) were tasty and the steak divine. The fillet was sublime and the sirloin and rump are both very good. They do mixed grill (to share) which includes sirloin, rump, sausage, black pudding and cheese. We didn’t have this, but the table at the side of us did and it looked wonderful. When I go back (a good sign) I’ll be sure to try this.
You WILL need to book in advance for this place. You may get a table at 6pm or 9.30 a couple of weeks in advance, but if you want a table at 8p (ish) then you’ll need to book months in advance.
If you are a red meat lover then you simply must try this place. The steak was some of the best I’d had.

Great place for Argentinian steaks.
Located in the Clapham neighborhood in London.
My friend and I each ordered the 8oz sirloin. YUM!
Also, another MUST GET item are the fries. Nice & crispy with garlic.
See pictures & descriptions below (sorry for the bad quality for some of the pictures. My camera battery died mid-​meal):
1) Churrasco a la parrilla con guarnición — 8oz grilled Argentine Sirloin steak with garnish (I ask for medium rare) — MUST GET —
— Steaks grilling in front window —
2) Carne & Pollo Empanadas —
3) Hongos a la parrilla con pesto y guarnición — two grilled flat mushrooms with pesto and garnish —
4) Fries — MUST GET —
5) Desserts — both desserts are a bit too sweet for my tastes. Otherwise, flavors were pretty good.
6) Drinks —
7) Bread —
Must go for steaks!
*Tip: Be sure to make reservations! This place is very busy.

Like many, I was attracted to visiting Santa Maria del Sur following its coverage on Gordon Ramsey’s Channel 4 programme and I was certainly not disappointed.
I can quite confidently say that Santa Maria del Sur served the best steak I have ever tasted, without exception.
The waiting staff were warm, friendly and welcoming and the service extremely efficient. Although during busy periods you are allocated a two hour «sitting» period, at no point did we feel rushed or under pressure to «drink up and go».
The restaurant itself is quaint and intimate — ideal for first dates, anniversaries or small birthday celebrations. There is an extensive menu of genuine, rustic Argentinian cuisine; don’t be deterred by the limited on-​line menu — this is just a snapshot of what’s available. The menu is also accompanied by decent wine selection.
The only drawback is the restaurant’s location. Not tourist-​friendly (but maybe that is a bonus for more savvy visitors and locals?) A good 15 minute walk from Clapham Common Tube Station. Either take a taxi or rely on your mobile phone’s GPS to find it!
Don’t miss this little gem.

Mmmm… big juicy steak! Their flame grilled steak is out of this world. Not sure it’s worth the month and a half advance reservation it requires to secure a table for 2 on a weekend at a regular dinner time here, but once you dig in, you kind of forget that. They do have some sauces you can take in addition but NOT required. Actually preferred my filet without.
Their apps were tasty, enjoyed the fire grilled chorizo and empanadas and their dessert (dulce de leche pancakes) were all delicious, wine not so bad (they do actually have a bit of choice by the glass if you’re not in the mood for a whole bottle).
Definitely recommend giving it a try if you can get a reservation!