Santo Italian Restaurant

6 Reviews on “Santo Italian Restaurant”

• Rarecat

  Nice ambiance in this local eatery. Jazz on Tuesday nights gave Thornhill a touch of downtown. But if you want to talk, then avoid Tuesdays. It’s quite cozy and the music fills the room. Food is excellent and good value. Varied Italian menu with seafood pasta especially good. Meat and fish entrees came with vegetables. Service is okay. foodsparks.blogspot.com

  July 11, 2017, 3:02 am

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• Lynn

  OMG It’s a hidden gem!!! I love those!So it’s on the north east corner of Yonge Street and Royal Orchard Boulevard place in Thornhill in a plaza with a Food Basics and Shoppers Drug Mart.Easy to get to, driving or transit. its at a VIVA stop. If you are coming from the north on Yonge you get to turn left at a set of lights so no left turn stress. Winning.There’s a lot of parking because of the grocery store. No parking stress, go ahead and drive yourself or drive your friends so you can pay them back for driving to all the high parking stress locations! When you walk in you are met with a warm wall of delicious smells. Garlic prevails. Mmm I need garlic bread!! It’s small foyer, there a room with a coat check, we naturally didn’t notice until we left. So observant. The restaurant is nice, old fashioned Italian, like you see in the movies. comfortable and welcoming. Plush cushions, old Italian men waiters, white table cloths, lower ( but not too low) lighting. Loved.We came at 7 pm on a Saturday evening and the place was packed. A predominately older crowd, we were the youngest in the place, and the largest party here were 10 of us, there were mostly groups of four. Everyone looked happy.We sat at a big table at the front of the restaurant. I sat facing the outside window. It was a booth/chair hybrid. It was very comfortable.Of course i scoped out the menu online before I came. Lots of choices, apps, pasta, risotto, gnocchi, meat dishes. Not sure if its changed online but they also have a 4 course Prix fixe menu. All of us but one got that Bruschetta, soup or salad, list of entrees, and tiramisu or spumoni. I got the house salad ( the seafood chowder looked amazing), the best seafood risotto ever, and spumoni. The risotto had a lot of seafood. It was like they took an order of mussels and calamari and added it to an order of risotto. Not a lot of shrimp, because they were big and juicy. 🙂 so much great food. I ate it all, my belly was bursting. I need to go back soon and get it again. Spumoni was a giant sundae with fruit. Ate that too. So basically everything was awesome!Bruschetta was delicious. My friend got the mushroom Bruschetta and I got to try it. Was wonderful. The waiter was nice, patient and attentive even though he was busy!Two big thumbs up. Will be back 100% whatlynnate.wordpress.com

  May 6, 2016, 6:55 pm

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• Ikudrina

  Great italian spot. Really enjoyed our dinner; went there on a Tuesday and the live band was so much fun!!! Enjoyed the food; it was steaming hot and my lamb chops were so delicious.

  January 27, 2015, 10:44 pm

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• Angela

  Staff members are extremely rude and unfriendly. Lots of plate slamming and slow service. It seems as if the waitors wanted to show us how upset they were. Food bland and tasteless. Never going back.

  October 12, 2014, 11:37 pm

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• Jordan Cait

  We love this place! The food is consistently delicious. The service is great. A wonderful family-run restaurant.

  June 10, 2011, 2:50 am

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• Celia

  My family loves this place! The service is excellent as is the food. The roasted garlic is amazing!

  May 8, 2011, 10:17 pm

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