The Best Pizza Near The Sportsman, by the Record

The house term is "Britalian pizza," which tells you most of what you need to know about this South London pizzeria. The dough is light and well-worked, built for toppings that lean into British flavor alongside the more traditional options. Purists may want to sit down before they open the menu, but everyone else tends to be pleasantly disarmed. It ranked in 50 Top Pizza Europe, if you need a reason to make the trip down to Peckham.

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Neapolitan dough with a Spanish accent, long-fermented and cooked at a pizzeria that seems genuinely unbothered by what a pizzeria is supposed to be. The menu drifts happily into tapas and fried things, all of it built for sharing rather than eating efficiently and leaving. Two locations now, started in Leytonstone, and the energy in the room matches the cooking: informal, loud in a good way, and not trying to impress anyone in particular.

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The dough here leans Neapolitan but doesn't prostrate itself at the altar of tradition, which is probably why this Peckham Rye pizzeria has carved out its own personality rather than just cosplaying Naples. The menu moves with the seasons, the crust is soft and handled well, and the whole room runs warm and informal in the way a good pizzeria should. It's on the 50 Top Pizza Europe list, and the Shoreditch outpost draws the same crowd.

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