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.

La Nonna is always busy when I walk past despite its remote location on Wimbledon Broadway. So, I…read moredecided to eat her this week although Italian wouldn't be my favourite food choice. They have created a clever seating arrangement with lots of nooks and crannies, creating lots of privacy for diners. The service was first rate throughout with friendly, attentive waiters. I decided to test the kitchen with 2 classics that leave nowhere to hide due to the simplicity and few ingredients in each dish. My starter of spaghetti carbonara sadly wasn't served in my favourite way, as they do on the continent - with a raw egg yolk on top to be worked into the warm pasta to lend the dish its creaminess. However, as a British carbonara, this was exemplary. The pasta was cooked to soft al dente and the sauce coated it rather than drowned it. Bacon and cheese are a classic winning combo and thios dish proved no exception. My main of calf's liver with pancetta was served with some sauteed potato. I knew the dish would be good from the moment it was laid on the table - there were heavy stripe marks from the grill and the smell was heavenly. The liver was sliced thinly but still moist on the inside with a crispy seared crust. Perfect amount of liver to bacon ratio I finished with bannofee pie - another winning combo of banana and toffee. Minor criticism that the biscuit base was a big thick There is a good lead in the kitchen and this place deserves to continue to thrive

This is a friendly, family-run Italian restaurant on The Broadway, towards South Wimbledon. It does…read morea good range of traditional Italian dishes, including pizza, pasta, meat and fish. Portions are generous, (you'll struggle with more than two courses) and while it is a little more expensive than some places, the food is both well prepared and authentic. Starters range from £4.50 for Bruschetta to £8.95 for King Tiger Prawns in garlic; pasta and pizza range from £6.95 to £9.50, and meat and fish dishes cost £11.95 - £17.95. Children's pasta and pizza portions are available for £5.00. Expect a two-course meal for two with wine and coffee to come to about £25-£35 a head, depending on the selection. The full menu is on the web-site, so you can plan ahead. Service is very attentive (and can feel a little too much so) but is also efficient and friendly. The only downside is the decor, which feels remarkably like a chain restaurant, but don't let that put you off. It can also get very busy on Friday and Saturday evenings (I suggest booking ahead), and caters for groups, so it's perhaps not the choice for an intimate meal for two. But it's one of my favourites in the area during the week.

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!!

I went to Bella Donna for lunch today with some colleagues…read more They offer any pizza or pasta from their menu for £5. Bargain! Service was quick and friendly, we were sat down and eating within 20mins. I ordered the amatriciana, it was delicious! The pasta was perfectly aldente, the sauce was rich and there was lots of delicious salty bacon. It was a generous portion too. It's taken me a year and a half to try Bella Donna, but I'll be back soon!

Best Italian restaurant by far. Beats the rubbish chains by miles! We entertained a very good…read morefriend to dinner there last week. We hadn't been there for quite some considerable time due to unforeseen circumstances. We were greeted by the manager & staff like long lost friends. The meals were excellent & the staff friendly & helpful. The whole ambiance is low key & pleasant - no loud blaring music! I would recommend this excellent restaurant time after time. Great Italian cooking at very reasonable prices. I would definitely recommend this to everyone.

fabulous food and great staff, a firednly environment and…read moreperfect if going to events at merton abbey mills but you must book for those days. I love the pizzas here and the portions are big so be prepared

This is a very quiet kind of place and has a quite cold atmosphere. It always seems to be quiet and…read morefairly empty and the staff always seem to be too busy to pay attention to any of the customers. And the ones that do can't seem to speak or understand english. Poor quality food and small portions, no concept of value for money.

This is a deceptively large Italian restaurant situated on the Broadway in Wimbledon. From the…read moreoutside it has quite a small frontage, but as you walk in it seems to get larger and larger, with a very spacious eating area behind the bar. The menu is fairly standard Italian fare with pizza, pasta, and a range of familiar starters. Prices are decent - starters between £5 and £9, and mains (pizza and pasta) around £8-£12. Our starters (calamari and croquettes) were very nice, but the vegetarian pizza was disappointing, with a very thick crust and soggy base. Service was efficient, but our waitress was ever so slightly supercilious from the moment we walked in. (Her colleague was much nicer.) I don't know what it was about us she didn't like. A slight surprise on our visit was that the added service charge is 12.5%, which is more central London than Wimbledon. So, all in all, our experience was okay, but it wouldn't become a regular eatery for me.

Their pizza is fantastic, perhaps one of my favourites in the area. I also like the ambience of…read morethis location. Both times we have gone, the service has been slightly odd (trying to fix an uneven table, not getting water refills quickly though everything else was fast, etc.) but overall really enjoy it.

When one of the owners pulled out his mechanical doner slicer I know this place was gonna be legit!…read more Over a week, my husband and I would often come here at night for a late night snack and got to know the owners. They're all so humble and one of the owners, Qadeer, was super kind when taking my very picky instructions (less sauce, more spicy). After long days of stressful travel, he made us feel at ease, which is probably why we came back so often!

Consistently top tier kebab. My go-to in Wimbledon.read more

La Dolce Vita is a nice, quiet Italian restaurant on The Broadway in Wimbledon. It's decor is a bit…read moreold fashioned and on the two occassions i've been in it's always been deadly quiet. The food is ok, not the flavoursome Italian food i would expect after eating in many great italian restaurants although the highlight of the meal was dessert-they do an amazing creamy tiramasu, if i go there again it will probably just be for dessert! The wine was ok, the service was very good and the owner is sweet. Prices are very reasonable.

La Dolce Vita is an old bastion of Italian cooking on Wimbledon Broadway. It has been here as long…read moreas I've lived in the area - 16 years and it hasn't really changed much if at all over that time. The decor is still the same and the menu is largely the same. While you may argue that don't fix something that's not broken, it really looks and feels tired, especially with a lot of chains, independents and takeaways expanding aggressively into the Italian food sector. The telling thing is that I really struggle to order from the menu because nothing really excites me. The pasta is filling but that's about the only comment I can make about the food I hope that this restaurant freshens its image and menu soon as the last thing I want is for the recession to claim another independent restaurant as a victim and for a chain restaurant to take its place