Pizzeria Pinocchio

Wonderful, almost secret location with very good food and lovely service. Small too, so it feels nice and intimate. As with all proper, non-chain Italian restaurants, the food is plentiful at a very reasonable price, especially for this corner of London. Easily one of our favourite restaurants to go to in London. Such a shame to learn it is closing for evening business at the end of April - is there no way that can be rectified?

Quite surprised to see a restaurant pop up in this sleepy little corner of Belgravia - in the premises formerly occupied by a little deli / sandwich shop in a very tranquil mews near the Horse and Groom pub. I think it opened around January 2016. It's a tiny restaurant, probably only about 20 covers inside, but there's also a few little tables outside for al fresco dining, which look rather nice. Pleased to see they take their pizza quite seriously, with a sourdough base and tomatoes from Naples along with other specially imported ingredients. Interior decor is mostly rather simple and not much to get excited about (much like many pizzerias in Italy) but the exterior is quite cute, and their wood fired pizza oven is rather impressive. The pizza was well cooked, good texture to the base, with raised edges in the Neapolitan style. If I had one very slight gripe it's that there weren't enough vegetarian options on the pizza menu, but they were happy to adapt (I had the Napolina without the anchovies). Also a decent selection of pasta dishes available. Will definitely go back, it's in such a nice spot, I can imagine sitting outside here on a sunny day would be quite idyllic.