La Luna Restaurant, London

Advantages: Traditional Italian Pizzeria
Disadvantages: Quality of pizza could be improved

...Tagliatelle della Casa. The La Luna restaurant has a cosy feeling that you won't expect from outside, sandwiched as it is between some run-down shops in a quite unpolished building down Walworth Road, Southwark. It has no more than a dozen of tables, all set on one level with an oven and a preparation area positioned in the middle of the floor. The atmosphere is definitely Italian but without the cliché Venice gondoliers or opera singers pictured ...
...playing and the flat screen TV on the far off wall had the sound off. The menu is of a manageable size and includes pizzas, salads, meat courses, pasta and only one kind of beer (Italian) and a handful of red and white wines. The pizza was surprisingly good despite my first impression. However, there was some work to do on the base, and the peppers and ham had been cut too large and thick: they looked like they had landed on the pizza instead of ... Read review