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. Neapolitan-born co-founder Andrea Asciuti is also behind Peckham Rye’s 081 Pizzeria.

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).

2022 Review: Having opened high street hit Osso Buco[s] in 2011, owner Elena Vahedi and her husband ventured into more trendy, casual eating territory in the same location with this equally popular Italian, born in 2018. “Top pizza” of the wood-fired variety (and wonderful pasta too) has earned it a real local following.

2023 Review: “All ages have a great time in true Italian style” at this Sydenham fixture, a “family-owned trattoria with a devoted following of regulars” who come for the classic, fresh-cooked pasta and pizzas.