Pappa Ciccia’s family-run duo of London Italian restaurants offer the real deal when it comes to good and proper Italian cuisine. Hand-built pizza ovens churn out perfect, thin-crust discs with ruthless abandon, while pasta dishes representing a variety of regional Italian culinary traditions come with Pappa Ciccia’s home-made ciabatta and a hefty topping of delicious parmesan. Reserve a table to eat in – this place down Fulham’s Munster Road is popular – or order takeaway delivered to your very own villa.

Pappa Ciccia’s Italian restaurants represent a kind of mini-Roman Empire in London’s Fulham, whose Imperial Guard are thankfully more handy with a pizza paddle than a blade (they are handy with a kitchen knife, mind). Keeping it in the family, and keeping it west end, Pappa Ciccia’s Fulham eateries down Munster Road and Fulham High Street are more of a stable of authentic Italian pizzeria- trattoria than a chain. Perfect image, that, a stable – like its sibling, Pappa Ciccia Munster Road is all about Italian cuisine as it should be. That is, rustic, down-home and home-made, and very, very tasty. Pappa Ciccia Munster Road features a hand-built pizza oven that the expert pizzaioli use to create famously good pizzas, such as the signature Pappa Ciccia Special. As for pasta dishes, their Penne Arrabbiata is mouth-wateringly good and it, like most of the dishes and pizzas on offer at this Munster Road Italian eatery, uses ingredients that the Pappa Ciccia family import direct from Italy. Finish with a home-made gelato to round off the most authentic, unpretentious, and family-friendly Italian eatery experience you’ll find in Fulham or London.