Is Santa Maria… Still Open? Best Local Restaurant Update (Battersea, UK)
Current status
As of October 2026, Santa Maria del Sur is listed open on santamariadelsur.com, reviewed by our team on October 20, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.
Last verified
What the source shows: The restaurant's own site, checked 2026-10-20, lists lunch and dinner hours and a booking link, and an Infatuation review dated 2025-09-22 and a Harden's page with a 2026 survey option also describe it as trading.
- Season / episode Season 1, Episode 7
- Original air date
- Address 129 Queenstown Road, Battersea SW8 3RH
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What happened after The F Word: Britain's Best Local Restaurant?
Santa Maria del Sur, an Argentine steakhouse at 129 Queenstown Road in Battersea, scored 86 out of 100 against 75 for Discovery Bay of Huddersfield in the heat shown on 2009-12-15 in the episode "American Restaurants" of Britain's Best Local Restaurant on Gordon Ramsay's The F Word (Channel 4), according to Wikipedia, which also lists it in the first semi-final on 2010-01-05. The OpenTable listing says it was founded in 2006 and specialises in Argentine steaks, and Time Out, on a page dated 2013-09-25, reviewed it as a steakhouse focused on steak. The Infatuation, in a review dated 2025-09-22, recommended its empanadas and a garlic-and-parsley marinated rib-eye large enough for two. Harden's lists it as an independent Argentinian steakhouse with weekday lunch and dinner service and a 2026 survey-results option, and the restaurant's own website lists lunch and dinner hours on weekdays and all-day service at weekends.
On 2010-01-05, in the episode "The Dish of Their Lives", Santa Maria del Sur appeared in the first semi-final of Britain's Best Local Restaurant on Gordon Ramsay's The F Word (Channel 4), alongside Lasan of Birmingham and Sweet Mandarin of Manchester, according to Wikipedia's series table. The table says the semi-finalists had served signature dishes to panels of diners at their own restaurants and then cooked in a cook-off at Ramsay's Royal Hospital Road restaurant in Chelsea; it gives no scores or dishes for the semi-finals. Santa Maria del Sur had reached this stage by scoring 86 against 75 for Discovery Bay in the heat shown on 2009-12-15. The Infatuation, in a review dated 2025-09-22, described a casual Argentinian steakhouse in Battersea with exposed brick and recommended its empanadas, a large rib-eye and side vegetables such as creamed spinach.
Featured on The F Word: Britain's Best Local Restaurant
- Original air date
- Episode title
- American Restaurants
- What was featured
- Argentine steak heat win, 86 to 75; later semi-finalist
- Role
- Featured restaurant
- Name on the broadcast
- Santa Maria del Sur
- Season / episode
- Season 1, Episode 10
- Original air date
- Episode title
- The Dish of Their Lives
- What was featured
- First semi-final alongside Lasan and Sweet Mandarin
- Role
- Featured restaurant
- Name on the broadcast
- Santa Maria del Sur
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Sources
- Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_F_Word_(British_TV_series)
- santamariadelsur.com — https://www.santamariadelsur.com/
- opentable.com.mx — https://www.opentable.com.mx/r/santa-maria-del-sur-london
- timeout.com — https://www.timeout.com/london/restaurants/santa-maria-del-sur
- theinfatuation.com — https://www.theinfatuation.com/london/reviews/santa-maria-del-sur
- hardens.com — https://www.hardens.com/az/restaurants/london/sw8/santa-maria-del-sur.htm
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