“Antipasto and pizza just like they serve back in Naples” make this “jolly” and “easy-going” Battersea spot very popular; it helps that it’s “very reasonably priced” too.
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A credible tip about perfect pizza leads the critic to this “humble trattoria on a scuffed and smudged stretch of Lavender Hill”. The garlic bread – “essentially a flavoured pizza base” – promised much, as it arrived “light, thin and crisp, and littered with smoky bubbles that crunched against the roof of the mouth to release sudden puffs of the smoky oven's flavour”. After such a hopeful build-up, though, “the pizzas themselves didn't quite deliver”. “In short, this review is all foreplay and no consummation.”
Jay Rayner (6th August 2007)
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