Piattini Kitchen & Cocktails

Walk down The Shambles and you'll find yourself in what feels like a proper neighbourhood trattoria, except you're still bang in the heart of Guildford's High Street. Piattini does that rare thing of making Italian food feel both unpretentious and genuinely well-executed—think handmade pasta, seasonal risottos, and the kind of cooking that doesn't try too hard but somehow always lands right. The cocktail list is equally serious; they're not just throwing spirits at everything, but actually thinking about flavour. It's the sort of place you'd stumble into for dinner and end up still being there three hours later, wondering why you don't come more often.