If you can’t wait until noon for your San Carlo fix we have five restaurants in London and Manchester which are open in the morning for breakfast and brunch.
Cicchetti in Piccadilly and Covent Garden, London and Cicchetti Manchester are all ready to serve from 8am on weekdays and 9am at weekends.
Fresh Pastries, Smooth Italian Coffee, Granola, Pancakes, Eggs Benedict, Breakfast Sandwiches, Omelettes and our renowned ‘Great Cicchetti Breakfast’ – a ‘Full English’ with a San Carlo Group twist – are all on the menu to tempt you through the door.
For just £7.95 ‘The Great Cicchetti Breakfast’ includes eggs of your choice: two fried, poached or scrambled; with smoked bacon and baked beans, two Lancashire Farm pork and leek sausages, sauteed mushrooms with onions, hash brown, tomato and Bury black pudding. Served with toast and tea or coffee.
We admit … The Italians are great at many things but the English still serve the best breakfast in the world. Though it’s worth trying our version of this classic as we’re sure you won’t be disappointed.
Our Bottega and Farmacia restaurants in Selfridges, Manchester are also open early serving savoury and sweet Italian dishes alongside the Breakfast Belini!
For full details and opening hours visit our website www.sancarlo.co.uk.
San Carlo Group has teamed up with Skinny Champagne, to launch the No Sugar Grand Cru Champagne, at its San Carlo restaurant in Liverpool and Bottega in Selfridges, Manchester.
Skinny Champagne is the first range of high-quality low sugar Champagne, made by the traditional process but without adding the usual ‘dosage’ of sugar.
The drink tastes just as good as standard Champagne but has less calories … so there’s no need to skip dessert, which is great news, as our Tiramisu is out of this world!
Skinny Champagne will be launching at Bottega & San Carlo Leicester on 11th June 2015, 6.30pm – 8.30pm.
The seasonal Spring/Summer menu is now being served at all our restaurants and many of the new dishes are already becoming stand-out favourites.
We’ve chosen three of our most popular creations which are sure to whet your appetite!
Fumo Manchester – Risotto Shellfish. One of our new ‘Piatti da Dividere’, plates to share, this special risotto is full of fresh shellfish including prawns, mussels, calamari and clams.
San Carlo Birmingham – Ossobuco with Gnocco Romano Veal Shank. A delicious new creation from our Group Executive Chef, Filippo Pagani.
San Carlo Bristol – Ravioli stuffed with Pecorino & Truffle Cream Sauce. This indulgent dish featured on our specials menu for National Vegetarian Week and, it’s so good, we’re keeping it on the menu … and it’s not just for vegetarians!
The new Spring/Summer menu is now available at all San Carlo Group restaurants nationwide.
We are delighted to have been featured in this year’s Sunday Times Profit Track 100 ‘Ones to Recognise: 10 Rising Companies’.
San Carlo Group was listed in the newspaper’s annual supplement last month (April) – named as one of 10 firms that showed ‘good growth but didn’t make the main list’ – appearing alongside well-known brands such as Quorn, Gtech and William Reed Business Media.
Group Chairman, Carlo Distefano, said: “We have grown considerably over the past five years but are still very much a family business. The San Carlo name is not only renowned throughout the UK but also internationally in the Middle East and Asia. These are very exciting times for us with new sites planned for London, Dubai and Bahrain.
San Carlo has always been known for outstanding food and impeccable service – and now its cocktails are the talk of the cities.
The ‘Bakewell Tart’ has caused a stir at Fumo Birmingham this month, with the dessert inspired drink proving hugely popular at the award-winning venue in Waterloo Street. If you prefer heat over sweet, we have something for you too – The ‘El Fuego’, a chilli vodka creation, which featured in Buzzfeed’s ’18 Cocktails Every Brummie Must Try’.
Just five months after its opening in December last year, Fumo Manchester already has a reputation as the destination for innovative cocktails.
Drinks extraordinaire Jamie Jones is on board as cocktail consultant at the bar and restaurant at One St Peter’s Square, and his recommendation for this month is The Milano Vice. Based on the Miami Vice which consists of a Pina Colada and a Strawberry Daiquiri in the same glass, this cocktail is a split drink of a coconut and pineapple sorbet and a strawberry and balsamic sorbet which are mixed with rum.
We’d like to congratulate Jamie on reaching the UK final of the Diageo Reserve World Class 2015 cocktail competition and we hope you’ll join us in raising a glass to wish him the best of luck.
Look out for the new summer cocktail menu for Fumo and other restaurants in the San Carlo Group which will be launched in the next few weeks.
Outdoor Dining at Fumo Manchester
Our terrace at San Carlo Flying Pizza has been buzzing over the past two weeks as Leeds enjoyed its first taste of Spring – so we’re delighted to announce the arrival of our second outdoor seating space at Fumo Manchester.
Great lovers of dining outside, the term al fresco, meaning ‘the fresh.’
At Fumo, the planters are full of beautiful shrubs, comfortable chairs and tables are in place and we can’t wait to open our branded sun umbrellas to officially launch al fresco dining in Manchester in June.
Whether it’s an ice-cold Peroni after work, a couple of cicchetti dishes or an evening of cocktails, outside 1 St Peter’s Square will be ‘the’ place to be seen this Summer.
We’ve been enjoying the lighter nights, sunshine and all the fresh ingredients that the new season brings and our chefs have been working hard in the kitchen developing menus to reflect the warmer months.
Using the finest produce flown in from the markets of Milan, delicious, light and colourful dishes bring a taste of the Italian Spring and Summer to your plate – and a burst of flavour to every mouthful.
Our experienced kitchen team have expertly matched seasonal vegetables, salads and fruits such as asparagus, green beans, peas, chicory, watercress, lemons and apricots and combined them with main ingredients from crab, mackerel and sardines to lamb and pork.
The new Spring/Summer menu will be available from 1st May – and it’s so enticing we can’t guarantee you won’t want to try everything!
So went to this Italian restaurant Signor Sassi Italian Restaurant in Knightsbridge, London last night. The food was exceptional and I’m not just saying it. The restaurant has 4 or 5 chains across the world and if anyone comes across any of them I recommend a must go
San Carlo. Sounds familiar…Well if you haven’t heard of San Carlo, where have you been? Widely regarded as one of Birmingham’s top Italian restaurants, it serves a huge selection of food and you don’t have to break the bank to eat there at all.
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