Reigate, Italian Restaurant Guide

This “good, reliable Italian local” in Wimbledon Village majors in home-made pasta and thin-crust pizza, while “other items like calves’ liver are lovely”. “The midweek offers are not as good as they used to be”, however, while “the menu rarely changes”.

This Streatham fixture punches way above its weight, having drawn pizza-hounds from across London for more than a decade. The Head pizza chef is Ferdinando Cirillo.

A “neighbourhood gem” near Tooting Bec station – this “buzzy” five-year-old from husband-and-wife team Daria Serra and Giovanni Renna’s serves “really decent Italian cooking and good wines” in a “friendly” atmosphere – “what’s not to like?”.

This “local Italian” independent is a Gipsy Hill staple, excelling for “well-cooked and presented traditional dishes and interesting specials” – “everything is freshly prepared” and “good value for money”. It offers regular live music nights (plus also catering, custom cakes and Sicilian olive oil).