Bayswater, Italian Restaurant Guide

“A perennial favourite” – Nino Sassu’s quirky first-floor venue above a Bayswater pub is now in its 30th year serving “very well executed Italian food (fish is particularly good)”. If it no longer excites the fooderati as it once did, reporters still extol the “warm welcome” of an “airy room with no music, just the pleasant murmur of fellow diners enjoying their food and conversation”.

2021 Review: “Extraordinarily good pizzas”, “very good negronis” and “no burgers” are served at this bar, which boasts “the style of Mayfair transplanted to Notting Hill”. It’s upstairs from Assaggi, and from the same team, in the former pub they share, and these days seems the less risky bet. Top Tip – “try the truffle pizza in winter and English asparagus with San Daniele ham in summer”.