Morito, Exmouth Market
Sam and Sam Clark built this next door to Moro to be the loud one: tapas and mezze off an orange counter, with the wine list running low-intervention.21
Why go
The kitchen describes itself as the little sister of Moro
and the noisier, more rebellious sibling
, and the menu follows: tapas and mezze together, cocktails, low-intervention wines.2
Harden's survey reporters check the same thing from outside and land on price and steadiness: superb tasty food at very reasonable prices
in a casual but professional
room, with interesting plates
of Spanish and North African-inspired food that is not pretentious but delivers great enjoyment
.1
Order this / avoid
- Order: in rounds off the counter, and take the mezze side of the list, which is what separates this from Moro next door.2
- Order: a glass of the low-intervention wine rather than a cocktail, since the wine is what the list is built around.2
- Avoid: booking it as a quiet dinner. Harden's calls the room
buzzy
and the counter is where the food lands.1
What locals & experts say
- Harden's survey:
This ever-friendly cafe sibling of next door Moro is a wonderful place to eat great tapas
, and better stillespecially sitting outside in Exmouth market
.1 - The same survey, on the format: a
buzzy and enjoyable location
forvery well-executed Mediterranean small dishes
.1 - No critic in reach has written about a single dish off this counter, which is the gap on this page.
Good to know
- Where: 32 Exmouth Market EC1R 4QE, next door to Moro. Farringdon and Angel are both about ten minutes.
- Sites: two. This one and Hackney Road.1
- Outside: Exmouth Market tables are the seats Harden's reporters single out.1
Verdict
should-visit — Sam and Sam Clark opened this next door to Moro and gave it a different job. Their own words are that it is the noisier, more rebellious sibling, and the menu is tapas plus mezze rather than tapas alone, with low-intervention wine by the glass and an orange counter against a blue wall. Harden's reporters back the value read directly: 'superb tasty food at very reasonable prices' in a 'casual but professional' room, and 'interesting plates' of Spanish and North African food that is 'not pretentious but delivers great enjoyment'. It sits a rung below the top because nobody in reach has written about a specific plate off this counter, so the case rests on consistency and price rather than on one dish that only exists here.