Food was great! Small restaurant with limited seating; stormy day so no outdoor seating created a…read morelonger wait, but worth it.

I lived in Wimbledon for almost three years and it took me at least 18 months before i even…read morerealised this lovely Italian side street restaurant existed, but i'm so glad i discovered it eventually! It's a rustic style Italian with the essential brick pizza oven. The menu is very affordable and the food is great. They have a fantastic range of pizzas, pastas, fish dishes , grills and veggie options. Being a bit of a cheese freak the Quattro Fromagi was delicious for me and for 14 pounds i got a 'medium' pizza but for me this was more like a large. The large pizzas are massive! The staff are great, really friendly and easy to have a laugh with, the atmosphere on a busy evening is great and for all of these reasons i highly recommend a visit to Al Fornos.

Nice service friendly caring all thanks to a great manager. Food ok. Cannot go wrong with Italian.read more

Highly recommended! This was our last meal before coming back home. It was a good was to end a real…read morebusy work week! Pappardelle with mushroom was AMAZING! Tasted sooooo good. Lots of mushrooms. Wine is reasonably priced. You can even buy wine from their front store (although they charge a stiff (?) cork fee... 7.50GPB if I recall correctly). I would definitely go back!!

A tiny intimate restaurant between Motspur Park and New Malden. A little off the beaten path and is…read moresuprisingly busy. This is the quintessential italian restaurant and their specialty (I believe) is seafood. Its truly outstanding from halibut to massive garlic prawns and classic non pasta italian dishes. The veal was wonderful, light, crisp and packed with flavour. Wine is slightly on the expensive side but the service was impeccable and the experience excellent. Who would have thought we have this amazing restaurant on our doorstep. If you havent been you need to make the effort, its exceptional

From the owner: Family run italian restaurant serving fresh fish with silver services . Suitable for. Every…read moreoccasion and available for private hire

Wonderful place that really stands out in Raynes Park. Although, I guess with a starbucks now RP is…read morecoming up in the world and this is the sort of place will be the norm. Well, if two places rolled into one is the norm. Olive Garden is a lovely little cafe type place but rather pricey with full on large meals. It stand out on the street because it is one of thos independent we all should love. I have had pasta there once and cake and coffee twice and the service is always first rate. I would recommend as the nicest cafe in Raynes Park by a country mile.

I absolutely adore this fantastic Italian restaurant and deli! My fiance and I have been here…read moretwice; the first time was on a quiet weeknight and we loved it so much that we decided to visit again on a weekend when his parents were visiting us in London from Canada. ROOM: On our second visit, we didn't make a reservation and it was very packed but the very friendly waitress led us through to another section of the restaurant and seated us. From the front section of the restaurant, (which looks absolutely tiny) you'd never guess that the entire place completely opens up behind the deli next door and has lots more seating back there but it does! Unfortunately, having no reservation, we were seated at the very back of the restaurant which also seemed to double as a storage area so I spent the entire meal facing an enormous pile of cardboard boxes. However, the place is very clean and tidy, (this includes the toilets) and is very nicely decorated with interesting artwork and olive vines hung on the ceiling and nicely furnished with wooden chairs and tables. During the day when the restaurant is closed, the next door deli is open and sells everything you need to make an authentic Italian meal at home as well as a huge selection of panettone. SERVICE: The service was fast and friendly, even on our second visit where the staff were very busy due to the volume of customers. Several members of staff served our table. You get the feeling it's a family run place (and it probably is!) FOOD: The food is absolutely delicious! I love seafood and fish so I ordered the seafood risotto which included some of the freshest mussels I've ever tasted and well as some absolutely gorgeous crab meat and calamari. My other half ordered a pizza which turned out to be massive and SO delicious! The quality continued with the dessert too. I go absolutely nuts over tiramisu and the one served at Olive Garden has to be one of the best tiramisus I've ever eaten. You get a very generous helping and it's presented so beautifully on the plate that you could easily mistake it for a wall hanging or something. The wine was top quality too. My only problem with the menu is that there's quite a limited selection of meals to choose from. This, combined with the unfortunate location of our table in the storage area are the only reasons that Olive Garden haven't received a full 5 stars from me. PRICE: Olive Garden is very reasonably priced indeed. You get a lot of top quality food for your money. Service charge is included in the bill. They accept all major credit and debit cards.

Fantastic genuine Italian food and lovely discrete service. Such a shame it's changing, however,…read moreexcited to see what they will offer.

Hidden Gem: Without a doubt this is the best restaurant on the whole of Worcester Park High Street…read more Lovely decor inside with a baby piano, excellent service and delicious authentic Italian food. There are daily specials of the day the waiter will let you know about once seated, which was Skate Wing with a lemon caper butter last time I went. Puddings are delicious too.

Amazing little surprise, the place is sweet and friendly, it doesn't have a menu but food keeps…read morecoming. The Italian feast makes you regret none but want to eat more! First comes the honey-twisted salad with thin cut ham, light enough to carry on with 8 more plates. Then the seafood, grilled prawns and scallop are rich flavored and herbs on the topping. The pastas, with a thick creamy cheese on the top, best I ever had. After that it's the meat session. Pork for our night! The whole meal lasts for 3 hours, wine is perfect, everything is perfect. Do make a booking in advance as its fully occupied!

This by far the one of the best resturants I've ever been to. Dinner starts at 7:30 and for us…read moreended three hours later. Come hungry and leave happy. There is no menu, just plates and plates of delicious food brought out to everyone in the restaurant. It's authentic, rich in flavor, and just perfect. It's 10-12 plates that range from meats to fish to antipasti to pasta. I have nothing bad to say about this place other than plan to feast, I wished I'd have skipped lunch. I will be returning!

Just returned from England & the culinary highlight of the trip was this Italian restaurant in…read moreBalham. The food, service, and environment were top notch. As good as or better than any Italian food I've had in the US of A. We were a party of 8 and had a large assortment of appetizers & mains all of which were delicious. Also the Pinot Grigio I had was very tasty &, by report, the cocktails were also excellent. Finally, they comp'd us each a jigger of limoncello which was the perfect way to end a super meal. I recommend this place highly to anyone in the area of Balham or is willing to challenge the narrow streets & fulsome traffic of London.

Ok, so this is my type of Italian. Walk in and you are greated with Bouna sera, the smell of pizza…read moreand the sound of an espresso machine. Went on Sunday for their £14.50 Sunday lunch - fantastic value. The antipasti was simple but delicious. Real highlight was the rolled anchovies in breadcrumbs. Each say on a bay leaf which had heavily flavoured the oily little fish - yum! Mains were classic Italian tratoria fare, lovely baked pasta dishes like veal and tomatoes or cannelloni. I had the later and wished I had served myself more. Desserts were simple, although I was a bit bummed at the lack of tiramisu. I have been working my way around the tiramisus of the world since my first encounter in Italy so am a very boring guest at an Italian dinner if I don't get it. I had canoli, which were perfect. Overall, love the atmosphere (think kids covered in tomato sauce) nonnas chowing down on risotto, and lots of normal 30s folk enjoying good comfort food and comfort prices. Service was wonderfully friendly and attentive. I will be back!

I can't rave about this place enough! During our trip we were recommended this place by numerous…read morepeople. they have two locations I mistakenly booked at the other location but showed up here with our group. The staff was more than accommodating and sat us and we had an amazing time here. We started by splitting a few pizzas to try out some of the different varieties. The Masinello pizza was my favorite! Everything here was so fresh. We also enjoyed their Pinot noir here, it was so smooth and had us coming back for refills. This place was so mad and that her group actually ended up attending here twice during the same week. We switched it up each time so by the end of our trip we got to try a lot of the dishes here. Absolutely get the house specialty ragu. I think if I got this the first night I probably would have gone back and gotten it again. It was the perfect portion, the sauce was delicious, not too sweet just right, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. To top it all off the staff is so friendly. It was great to come to this area. I highly recommend.

We were out and about after some really tasty Pimms and some snacks and this lovely little Italian,…read morewas one of the busiest places around. Very seafood based Italian restaurant with outside seating! all the dishes were delicious and the service was great as well.

This is the third or fourth reboot this restaurant has undergone in the past few years, and it's…read morefinally hit the mark. It now looks like a proper, neighbourhood Italian - we've been three times since it re-opened and have something at the very least properly tasty and at its best genuinely delicious. Ingredients are excellent, seasonal and fresh, the cooking absolutely spot on and service and prices respectively excellent and affordable. Polenta with mushrooms, salsiccia with lentils, pizza with dolce latte (new one on me), wild boar ragu, mixed antipasti - all excellent. Alessandro is more than happy to talk over the menu - giving me a detailed description of the sausage and lentils dish I had for their special the other day. Simple, warming, satisfying - I'm not sure it gets any better.

Lovely, busy, local restaurant with authentic food and great service. The chef/ owner is happy to…read moretalk you though the menu and goes out of his way to ensure you are happy. Very relaxed atmosphere (they are not in any rush to get you in and out) which I personally like. The dishes are seasonal and change regularly.