Franco's Ristorante Pizzeria

Elegant and authentic Italian restaurant located on St Jermyn Street. Considered as one of London’s first Italian restaurants, Franco's was established in 1945 🍝 With the late October sun, we were lucky enough to be greeted with an alfresco table, which provided us with a vantage point of the lively Jermyn Street ☀️ The menu features a luxurious selection of clasic Italian dishes and something to suit everyone. Our waiter was extremely knowledgeable and explained each dish that was presented to us, which elevated our dining experience. 🍽 We had the pleasure of trying a range of dishes from the menu, which consisted of a Selection of cured meats, Fresh hand-picked crab, Poached veal fillet, and ended with a creamy luxurious Pappardelle with mixed mushrooms & black truffle 🤌🏻 Franco's offer an extensive drinks menu, comprising of Signature cocktails, liquers, classics, scotch, and much more. Not forgetting the impressive wine list, bound to please anyone 🍷 Non-alcoholic menu Franco's have recently introduced a non-alcoholic menu, comprising of the finest natural ingredients to give you that 'feel good' sensation without the negative effects of alcohol. All the ingredients are designed to enhance your brain's natural GABA - thought to be the reason why alcohol is so popular. We really enjoyed this concept and would love to see this in more restaurants! 🧡 Lastly, make sure you head to the loo before you leave. On entering, instead of the usual background music, it had been brilliantly substituted with an audio recording of Winnie the Pooh & Paddington Bear, which I thought was the perfect touch to end our visit 🐻

Wonderful service and quality of food.Lovely to visit 'Francos', I have fond memories of when it was 'Frank's' back in the 80's. Will definitely be back again, when visiting London.Please pass our special thanks to our waitress, very attentive and with a young child as a guest, nothing was a problem to her. Well done.

Phenomenal chef making GREAT GREAT GREAT quality classic Italian dishes, in a way that tastes how your nonna would cook them, but presented how your hot girlfriend wears lingerie. Not ruining the dishes with ‘fusion’ or a chef’s ego necessitating ‘twisting’ the dish. It’s straight down the line, delicious food. Great staff. Great experience. £800 for 5 without drinks, so brace yourself there. But all good things come with a price.

It is worth going for special occasions. I really enjoyed my girlfriend's gift. She really wanted to bring me to this historical Italian restaurant. Food is really good, also the wines. The seabass properly cooked, so the pasta. It's in a premium location so prices seem higher compared with other restaurants. I also wanted to try a Selection Negroni Cocktail. I could feel the ingredients quality and it was excellent, but maybe the price was slightly higher compared with London top cocktails bar (NightJar and A Bar With Shapes for a Name to provide an accurate reference)

High-end Italian in great location with very tasty and well-presented dishes. Exceptional menu for anyone who enjoys seafood. Mussels, sea bass, cod, calamari, on menu all sounded amazing as did the specials. My ravioli with king prawns and sun-dried tomatoes was absolutely delicious. The waiters are attentive. The wine list is extensive.

High end Italian restaurant that caters mostly for old dudes in jumpers that talk about business. The food was excellent and the service attentive. They did forget one of our orders though and I was really really hoping for a little treat for my gf's birthday but alas. It wasn't to be The set menu is probably the more affordable option unless you're used to paying 40+ for a main. (A little steep for me but the food was very high end and delicious)