Knightsbridge, Pizza Restaurant Guide

“Always packed, very reliable Italian” near the Albert Hall whose “formula has stood the test of time” (since 1967) and which feels “here for the duration”. There’s a “standard and well-cooked menu of pastas, pizzas and salads”, “amazing home-made ice cream”, and “plenty of photos to remind you of their most famous regular of bygone years, Princess Di!”, who used to bring the young princes from nearby Kensington Palace for a lunchtime treat (not shy about the connection, their Instagram proclaims ‘Here to serve Celebrities, Royalty, and YOU’).

“Despite his branches in Hollywood and Dubai having closed, the original staggers on” at Ciro Orisini’s Knightsbridge veteran: an old-fashioned cellar, to which a visit has been a rite of passage for the gilded youth of Knightsbridge since 1978. “It’s not really about the pizza and pasta, which is average in all but price – hit a good night, and with the live music and dancing, a visit to Ciro’s can still hit the spot”.