Greenhithe, Pizza Restaurant Guide

Lucky Lee residents have this “fabulous family-owned Italian eatery” as their local – Enzo Masiello and his team turn out accomplished wood-fired pizza, home-made pasta and breakfast with a Calabrian twist (shakshuka with nduja, for instance). The restaurant is named after Enzo’s papa.

2023 Review: “Tasty thin-crust dough – cooked well in the middle, so no soggy bottoms” – is the secret to the appeal of this seven-strong South London sourdough pizzeria group, where the emphasis is on local ingredients (including Shipton Mill flour and British-made buffalo mozzarella) washed down with locally brewed craft beers and juices from Kent.

“Sneakily good pizza” – double-fermented Neapolitan-style – ensure that many branches are “always packed” at the Elliot brothers’ still-expanding chain, whose new summer 2025 opening at the Truman Brewery on Brick Lane marked a return to the site of one of their earliest pop-ups in 2013. Nowadays, it’s one of the more commented-on multiples in our annual diners’ poll. Top Menu Tip – “pepperoni and honey!”

2024 Review: Diminishing feedback in recent years makes it hard to recommend this “noisy and fun”, family-run Sardinian on Brockley Rise quite as resoundingly as we used to. Fans, though, still say it’s “a super, local Italian trattoria, with a great menu: especially the quirky ice cream and sorbet flavours”.

“Fabulous pizza” – “quick, fresh, delicious”, and “impeccably made with original toppings” – makes this London-based group “a Friday night favourite”, with 14 outlets across the capital and counting. Founders Johnnie Tate & Nick Buckland last year secured investment designed to boost their presence to 40 sites over five years.

“Thank you for everything. Especially the cheese sablés”, say fans of the old regime at this local venue: long one of the few highpoints near Surrey Quays station. Since Valentine’s Day 2025, though, it’s been a case of all change, with the old management leaving and the arrival of the ‘Sammy’s Bistro’ team. On the menu: a few classics such as Boeuf Bourguignon and a few handmade pasta dishes and wood-fired pizzas. Reports please!

This lively microbrewery with a large canal-side terrace in Hackney Wick, directly opposite Olympic Park, is “perfect on a sunny day” – and a pretty safe bet year-round for “decent pizzas and a good selection of beers”, including unfiltered ultra-sustainable ales brewed in-house. Its ‘White Building’ premises, a printworks that became a squat, hosts a range of weekend events.

2023 Review: “Always fresh sourdough pizza” has helped build a strong local following for this hip southeast London group, with outlets in Crystal Palace, Nunhead, West Norwood, Herne Hill and Elephant & Castle. A new natural wine selection from specialist importer Les Caves de Pyrène is now available alongside the craft beers on tap. Top Tip – “make sure you leave room for the ice cream”.

2023 Review: “Tasty thin-crust dough – cooked well in the middle, so no soggy bottoms” – is the secret to the appeal of this seven-strong South London sourdough pizzeria group, where the emphasis is on local ingredients (including Shipton Mill flour and British-made buffalo mozzarella) washed down with locally brewed craft beers and juices from Kent.

“Still our pizza favourite no matter how successful and busy they get… the black dough even makes you feel you’re eating healthy!” – this eight-strong chain has grown from its Islington base over the last ten years (est. 2016) and its successful formula revolves around four 48-hour slow-fermented doughs – charcoal, wholemeal, gluten-free and traditional. Of these the first is the most eye-catching: “interesting charcoal-based pizza with delicious toppings”. The original N7 branch near Arsenal and the W14 one (they call it ‘Hammersmith’ but it’s closer to Olympia) attract most feedback, but it’s the food that wins fans: for example, “the original one feels buzzy when Arsenal play at home when it’s packed out, but otherwise can feel a bit grim and loveless”.

“Fabulous pizza” – “quick, fresh, delicious”, and “impeccably made with original toppings” – makes this London-based group “a Friday night favourite”, with 14 outlets across the capital and counting. Founders Johnnie Tate & Nick Buckland last year secured investment designed to boost their presence to 40 sites over five years.

“The food quality’s superb” at this thriving, “cheap ’n’ cheerful” community-run café and arts centre in southeast London’s Telegraph Hill, hosting regular supper clubs including pizza project Dinner For One Hundred.

Craving a decent pizza down Nunhead way? Look no further than this bright little bar & pizzeria, complete with wood-fired oven. The name is from their pop-up (‘Dinner for One Hundred’) which brands their pizza in Brixton (at Hootananny), Telegraph Hill (at the Hill Station Café & Bar… “superb”) and in Bloomsbury at the Perseverance pub.

2023 Review: “Tasty thin-crust dough – cooked well in the middle, so no soggy bottoms” – is the secret to the appeal of this seven-strong South London sourdough pizzeria group, where the emphasis is on local ingredients (including Shipton Mill flour and British-made buffalo mozzarella) washed down with locally brewed craft beers and juices from Kent.