Santo Remedio Taqueria, Shoreditch
Mexican restaurant · Shoreditch ·
Tacos, tostadas, mezcal cocktails, and hibiscus margaritas
Tacos, tostadas, mezcal cocktails, and hibiscus margaritas
"A colourful, lively and happy place, Santo Remedio takes inspiration from its owner’s time spent in Mexico City, Yucatán and Oaxaca. As soon as you enter, the buzz hits you, with plenty of excited diners enjoying what the kitchen has to offer – namely bright and flavoursome dishes drawing together a selection of tacos, tostadas and flautas (rolled tacos), alongside regional specialities like barbacoa lamb shank from Oaxaca. There’s a wide cocktail selection, too, and the bottomless brunch is a hit on weekends." - Michelin Inspector
"Sometimes you simply want to eat carbs after work in a place that’s wrapped in palm print wallpaper and dripping in hanging baskets. Enter Santo Remedio, a Mexican restaurant on Shoreditch’s Great Eastern Street. The low-level lighting and flickering candles will be your best bet to make midweek date night a bit more special among the rowdy after-work crowd, or if you just plan on sitting at the bar and inhaling tostadas like your face is a greedy postbox. These tacos aren’t life-changing but the comfortingly crunchy flautas—fat, crispy cigars of tortilla—and mezcal-heavy cocktails are enough to make you forget that you have to go back to work again in approximately 12 hours." - Sinéad Cranna
"The SE1 evolution of a much-loved (and short-lived) Shoreditch icon, the Bermondsey Santo Remedio serves vibrant tacos (here soft shelled crab, pork belly, or beef barbacoa), with liberal application of accompanying delights like tomatillo salsas, pickles, serrano mayo, and others, alongside a range of options cooked al carbón, like octopus with achiote and pineapple pico di gallo, or ox tongue with pasilla pipián rojo and roasted peanuts. Now back in Shoreditch with a second, more casual site." - James Hansen
"Diners can sample chef-proprietor Edson Diaz Fuentes’ personal favourites, including a failsafe hangover cure from his university days in Yucatan: huevos motuleños with salsa roja on tostadas, topped with bacon, cheese, and plantains. Tacos now dominate the brunch offering, sporting soft-shell crab; black beans heady with avocado leaf; and a dessert of churros with cajeta and cinnamon sugar." - Suze Olbrich
"A bright, brisk Mexican restaurant from Edson and Natalie Diaz-Fuentes is returning to Shoreditch after a five-year absence, reopening this September at 55 Great Eastern Street (replacing the grab-and-go cafe Pod). Billed as an ode to bustling Mexican taquerias, the spot will bring favourites from its London Bridge incarnation, feature rotating monthly specials and include a colourful takeaway hatch serving street-food staples. The original Rivington Street outpost focused on snacks and inventive tacos — including pig ear tacos, octopus tostadas and hibiscus quesadillas — while a later, larger Tooley Street site added a charcoal grill and introduced large-format plates such as barbacoa lamb shank, grilled seabass and short rib priced by weight and served with mole. Owners and local diners alike are hopeful the Shoreditch comeback will be a success." - James Hansen