Le Querce in Lewisham

Been going here for over ten years and just love it. Family run, best host, food served with passion and finesse. Last night we had delicious starters, perfectly cooked pasta, steak and the most delicate pizza. Chilled vibe- feel like I’m going home but with gourmet food. Thank you.

Best Italian restaurant in South London! The vibe is a small family style restaurant, with a modern inside. Staff are all really friendly. Wine is great and the all of the food tastes really fresh! They have an array of different specials on the board and a good amount of classics on the menu. They They run a deli during the day so it’s mainly all their own produce. Cannot recommend this place enough. You must visit!

Lovely meal! Great service and lovely chilled atmosphere. Highly reccomend this lovely restaurant! We had the cream cheese Sardinia bread (carasau bread), the burrata, ravioli, steak, and Samphire prawn and nduja pappardelle. And for desert we had the chocolate cake, lemon sorbet, berry , pumpkin and amaretto, and rhubarb ice cream. All Devine!!! Thank you for a lovely meal!

As an italian I highly recommend it. In the midst of all the fake italian restaurants out there here you'll get the real deal. A family run restaurant with an excellent variety of dishes, beautifully cooked and always served with a smile.

Everything was amazing, food, drinks, service. I can’t wait to return and try something different.

Ordered some Pasta take away and I guess I should have specified I wanted tomato sauce. Basically was just plain gnocchi with a few bits of crushed tomato. Will be more specific if I try again. Esp as it’s a bit pricey at £14 and the portion was small. Staff were lovely and atmosphere was nice though.

Fantastic Sardinian family restaurant

Great pizza and wonderful atmosphere. So nice to have this local restaurant. The staff are also super friendly - Ciao Stefano and Roberto!

The best meal I have ever had. The food was out of this world. It was worth every penny and the host was simply amazing

...tutto buono e servizio ottimo, Grazie a Piribicchio Rosanna e Momo

I live in walking distance and we've been dozens of times over the years, a local treasure for sure. Roberto takes good care of you, my favourite is either the fresh pasta ragu or a delicious thin, crispy pizza. They also often have good fish options on the specials menu.

A favourite. Always good value.

Don't go to this restaurant if you are black or brown. This is white only restaurant. If you are anything other than white, expect bad behaviour. They will treat you like a dog. I am at this restaurant now and taking their arrogant behavior.

Very good fixed price 2 course meal with interesting Sardinian specialities

For us Le Querce plays an important role in local life. It’s a slice of Sardinia on our doorstep. Le Querce daily with its deli/cafe is always full of very pleasant surprises so we’ve been a bit sad that it’s only open 3 days now. Last Sunday we went to the restaurant part, sat outside in the sun and had a really special 3 course meal and well worth the £39.50 a head.… It was a great menu …the food was beautifully cooked and presented. All in all a lovely food experience.

I've been going to this place for years; it's amazing. Great fresh food, imaginative dishes and lovely staff. Highly recommend.

This is a local Italian/ Sardinian restaurant with a fixed price menu, seasonal choices, changing specials very well cooked and presented. Excellent choice of home-made icecreams. It reinvented itself over lockdown very successfully.

Amazing fresh sardinian food, exceptional customer service. A little gem and I'm glad I discovered it!

Great food as usual. Burrata was the best outside Italy

A delightful local gem with fantastic imported ingredients and an authentic feel to the menu. Rustic decoration and service - but incredible quality - would highly recommend

Absolutely delicious Sardinian food, great service, lovely ambience, bit of a hidden gem, highly recommended!

I was really looking forward to going back to Le Querce after a long gap. Sadly it was a disappointing experience. The evening menu now requires you to have at least two courses, costing £29.80, plus an extra £4.80 for side dishes. Two of us were almost 30 minutes late joining our group due to traffic problems but has to wait another 30 minutes before the orders were taken, with no offer of drinks or nibbles while we waited. The food was still good but our main was 6 not very big pieces of pasta stuffed with potato and cheese in a tomato sauce, which I felt was stingy for the price. One of our group only wanted a main course but we were charged £6.50 for the bread, cheese and olives she shared with another person on top of the set £29.80 for her 6 pieces of pasta. Another chose ice cream for her dessert, which is priced at £3 a scoop meaning her medium sized bowl of pasta with ragu was £26.80. I understand that costs have gone up since Covid but the combination of poor service, high cost and lack of generosity in portion size means that’s the last meal I’m likely to have at Le Querce. It may be because it’s winter but the range of ice cream flavours was far less interesting now as well. I wish I’d not gone back and only had the good memories!

Our party of nine had a great night out yesterday! Between us we ordered across the specials, pasta, pizza, fish and meat and we were delighted with our choices. We were very happy with the red and white wines we ordered, the food arrived beautifully presented and did not disappoint. Think we all managed to squeeze in a little dessert, everyone happy 😊 Thanks for super friendly service and delicious food, looking forward to coming back soon.

One of the - if not the - best local restaurant in this neighbourhood, in my opinion. The food is always gorgeous, freshly made and inventive with a long list of daily specials, and the home made ice cream and sorbets are worth a visit themselves! Lovely staff, good value set prices for 2 or 3 courses - every time I leave I'm planning my next visit! Nice little deli section as well.

Lovely family-run restaurant, had a great early Sunday dinner here & our daughter was served straightaway. Highlights included fresh sardines, delicious pasta ragu with home-made tagliatelle, very tasty Dolcelatte pizza & wheat free chocolate cake with their own vanilla ice cream, other tasty flavours were tried too. Friendly patron & excellent service.

Absolutely amazing authentic Italian food. And they were so welcoming and Roberto made the kids feel at home. Would recommend to anyone - everything we had was incredible

Convenient and clean neighborhood grocery store serving some pastries and bread too aside from fresh vegetables etc. Coffee was decent.

Lovely lovely food, fresh, made with care, we were looked after. Definitely recommended.

Overpriced, awful atmosphere, average food, not allowed to choose one course only. You are obligated to have 2 or 3 courses. Opted for 2 courses @ £28.50 ,chose bowl of pasta and tart tartin. Puddings individually priced at £6.50 meaning the pasta cost £22.50!!! Pasta was tasty. Tart tartin came by itself semi heated (hot and cold ) and without cream or ice cream . You had to pay an extra £2.50 to have ice cream , which would mean Paying £9 for a small slice of semi heated tart with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Main course of chicken, dry and tasteless, tiny amount of sauce on a bed of peas with a smear of puréed squash. To have a side of potatoes/ chips cost an extra £4.50 meaning that this tasteless dish cost £27 !! Chips tasted like they’d been cooked in stale oil! The restaurant smelled of off fish!! Will NEVER eat there again.

Best Italian food I've had . What a find locally

Lovely family run business. There are Italian restaurants and then there are restaurants where you get the feel of a restaurant in Italy. And this is the later. Unhurried, leisurely. Where you are expected to have long conversations over food. Dolce vita.

The sea bass was horribly overcooked and fishy tasting. The prawns with it were like rubber. Guys, don’t even think about wasting your money at this place. You’ll be as sorry as we were.

First time for me at Le Querce restaurant, the food was really nice, they have a great selection of traditional Sardininan dishes. We love it. The food was amazing and the staff is outstanding, we had a great fun! Highly Recommended

We ordered fish yesterday, the special and the monk fish, we asked if the special was boney and was told’i don’t think so’ Both dishes were made up of mainly bone, there was very little flesh on either dish We complained and expected a replacement, this didn’t happen but they did take some money off the bill- 2 of us left feeling very hungry We paid over £100 for 4 scallops, some sardines and terrible cuts of fish I have been here before but will not be returning

Very expensive. At the moment you have to buy at least 2 courses (£28.50), even if you only want one course, and, as the price is the same whatever you choose, it makes this another rip off place for vegetarians. Aubergine starter and pasta main, £28.50? My friend had a meat starter and steak main for same price! Beer at £5 a bottle? Also, most of the vegetarian dishes contain Parmesan, so not vegetarian. Disappointed.

Delicious food, lovely staff, great service

We love Le Querce. We've been going for years and never disappointed. Fresh pasta (the samphire pappardelle with scallops and prawns is a must-try), fresh fish, and home made icecream (coffee and white chocolate are current favourites, NOT the onion one!). What's not to love? Plus they were doing (and still are doing) the best pizzas long before all the other sourdough places sprang up. If you've never tried it (or you've only used the deli), it's definitely a local gem.

The best Sicilian food I've had in London.

We had a fantastic evening with delicious food and a great atmosphere

Family run Sardinian restaurant. A pretty special place. Unpretentious but certainly the best food in the area.

Delicious food; great ingredients treated really well and presented beautifully. Plus friendly service 👍

Authentic welcoming atmosphere, delicious food and service to write home (or on Google lol) about. Make sure not to miss.

Ok but overpriced for somewhat unexciting food.

Great to see LeQuerce back open again. Great food as ever!

Stumbled in here for a drink after dinner elsewhere and ended up having the best ice cream I’ve ever tasted. Impeccable service too. Can’t wait to come back for dinner.

Best takeaway cook at home pasta I’ve tasted. Fresh ravioli and fish counter. Tiny place but wonderful selection in the Deli. Greeted with such enthusiasm each time!

We live locally and have fallen in love with Le Querce throughout these lockdowns. Perfect for fresh pasta, fresh fish and other lunch and deli treats. They’re also now delivering meals to home and last night we had an absolutely superb four-course birthday dinner arranged by my husband that catered to my allergy needs (soya, egg and dairy free) and it was all totally delicious - scallops, samphire, sardines, beef ragu, duck breast and lentils with crushed potatoes, and chocolate torte and orange sorbet. All executed beautifully! Such a wonderful wonderful treat and the staff and chef are always so accommodating. Cannot recommend highly enough. Made my lockdown birthday just as special as a real one. Thank you! Hope to make it a regular spot for us once normality returns. In the meantime enjoying all their delicacies remotely.

Brilliant local restaurant/deli. Fresh fish, meat, cheese, wine, pasta are all excellent.

My husband and I live locally, and after a few years of intending to pop by, we finally made our first visit last summer (2019). We had a wonderful meal, with plenty of choice; both a standard menu and additional Weekend Specials, since the chef visited the fish markets on a Friday. The food was delicious, it was exceptionally good value, we were made to feel very welcome, and all round a wonderful night was had by all!! Unfortunately Post Covid things have changed a great deal. I don't mind that the menu is now much smaller (that's not an issue) but the quality of food is now average, but worse than that the prices are extortionate. I do get that things have to change because of all the Covid hardships, but I'm afraid locals will no longer be able to support this restaurant at the prices they are now charging for distinctly average food. Pizza/Italian restaurants are very abundant in the Honor Oak area, so Le Querce need to take heed and improve their offering to survive! Not what it once was!! Pretty disappointing.

Amazing food at an amazing price

Amazing food, friendly staff and nice decor.

Fantastic good, great people, best pizza I have had

My wife and i spent our 29 wedding anniversary at le querce last night and we had a lovely time the food was delicious staff where great real value for money we will definitely be going back, it is a real hidden gem. Thank you

Lovely Sardinian restaurant we've enjoyed for many years. Unusual to find such fresh fare cooked by a chef who's extremely talented. Covid means the menu there's a fixed menu but there's specials and the fish is gorgeous.

Visited for dinner with my wife on Saturday evening. The restaurant was busy which was reassuring. This place is not cheap (especially for zone 3 south London!) so my expectations are high. We went for a 2 course set menu (£26.50) and shared a bottle of Prosecco (£25). For starters we both had the homemade tagilitelle with beef ragu... Soooo dry and bland, neither of us finished. There was also no offer of cheese or black pepper (maybe Covid but can’t see why?). Mains came out pretty soon after but were sadly both also pretty unexceptional, duck breast (cold) with some veg and chips (had to pay extra £4 for these) and wife had a fish dish she didn’t enjoy and again had to pay an extra £4 for a side dish to make it an actual meal. After a pretty disappointing dinner we ordered the bill And coffee, which took 25 minutes and three requests to arrive (!!). What frustrated me the most was the automated iPad style payment tablet, which suggest a number of service charge options which start at 15% going up to 25%.... Of course you can adjust this but to suggest that your local customers should consider no less than a 15% tip is quite insulting in my opinion (especially for me who had to wait almost half an hour for the privilege of paying). Two course meal for 2 with wine and service (a generously edited 12%) was £103. Worth it? Definitely not.

Our favourite restaurant of all time! So happy they have reopened, although their new deli next door has been amazing during the pandemic. They have crispiest pizza at weekends and the tastiest seafood. The sardinian white wine and ice cream are amazing too. A great family atmosphere and always friendly with kids.

Had never been in pre-lockdown when it was a cafe but since then have been enjoying the deli here when looking for a treat or something different. Always something interesting on the menu, including fantastic fresh fish Thurs - Sat. Portions of home cooked food reasonably priced. This has become a good local area to shop with the new grocer a few doors down as well.

Lovely service and the food is AMAZING!

Frequent customer since we moved into the area 10 years ago. Hospitality top notch. Food quality great and consistent. Sticks to its values with tasty seafood dishes. Love the pizza. And transformation for deli lockdown offer is great. Long may they last in these difficult times.

The market is absolutely amazing!! Fair prices, lovely staff, fresh italian fish and meat, also cheese and home made pasta. I bought yesterday the best clams I have ever had since I moved to London. I look forward to go for a meal as soon as we will be allowed to do it again. What else? Perfectly and extraordinarily italian..thank you Le Querce!

Amazing Italian produce and food. Couldn’t recommend it enough, it’s basically fantastic home made Italian food and lovely people...

Absolute neighbourhood gem. The food is always excellent, lots of choice and very good sea food options. Their homemade ice-cream is a must.

Amazing family run restaurant with extraordinary food and exemplary service. Couldn't ask for a better restaurant, Sardinian Italian greatness in Forest Hill. 100% recommended.

Best restaurant in the honor park / Crofton Park area.

I went to have a dinner on Saturday with my 8 months baby and my husband. The food is authentic Italian and so delicious. My baby love to go there are child friendly, Roberto, Antonello and his staff make sure that the little one is comfortable and they provide toys to play. Definitely we will come back soon

Amaizing food and service, speciali Giovanni he took care of us and he was just amaaaaazing... definitely i recommend it and definitely we'll go back soon!

The best Italian restaurant I've eaten in outside of italy

Great local restaurant, first time I’ve had proper gelato in London!

A firm family favourite since more than 10 years, when we stumbled on it in search of a place where we could have our (not so well-planned) wedding lunch. Amazing food and wonderful staff. We go there for dinner and lunch and parties!

Tidy sympathetic space with amazing tasty pizza. Strongly recommend Dolcelate pizza and Ichnuza beer.

Plenty of space between tables, simple decor, welcoming and friendly staff. Good selection of wines. Reasonably priced food.

Delicious food and lovely service, it was really wonderful for a special night out. Overall we felt it was perhaps a bit too pricey for the quality, but it definitely stands a cut above the other local restaurants!

Slice of Italy in South London. Owners are charming, atmosphere is warmly local. The artichokes made me fart a good one for about 24 hours, just like they're supposed to! Delish food and attention to dietary requirements.. will go again

Delicious local food and very quiet early when we visited on a Tuesday

My brother and family live close to Le Querce and it’s where we all choose to go for celebratory meals...and any other excuse we can think of. The food is always excellent, imaginative if that’s what you want but simple pasta with meat ragu if that’s your thing. The owners are great too, happy to recommend or serve you the same meal every time. Highlights have included savour chocolate gnocchi with sweet potato purée, tuna meatballs and perfect scallops. The pasta is home made and gorgeous (sheep’s cheese ravioli is divine). Then there are the ice creams and sorbets Again the range from the standard flavours done very well to the more challenging garlic or onion. Sorbets are also way beyond the average: pear and Pernod is my favourite, though strawberry and cassis is close second. Try the aubergine ice cream: it’s out of this world.

Delicious! Such a friendly place, too. Prices were fair. Ambiance was relaxed. A gem of a local restaurant!

Food very good, atmosphere so so, probably wouldn't return anytime soon.

Local gem with some incredible italian fresh food. All of it hand made. It's almost wasted in its location as the food tastes soo good more people should go there. It's a very unassuming place. Try the ice cream desserts. Cheese flavoured and amazing.

I enjoyed the excellent gelato and good grilled fish here. The service was rather confused - they mistakenly served me a large version of the small scallops starter I pointed out and they ended up charging me 2.5x the price.

We’ve lived in the area for six years and every time we come to Le Querce we leave commenting on how incredibly good the food is. We also love the service and the family-run feel. We feel very lucky to have this restaurant in walking distance us.

Very pleasant evening. Could not find fault with food nor wine. Service excellent too!

Excellent service,good food and fine wine

Had a lovely meal. Food was fresh and cooked to perfection. Would definitely go again.

I am usually very skeptical about restaurants in the area. Le Querce did not disappoint. The manager is Italian and was very welcoming. The wine is probably one of best wines I ever had in London. The raviolis and the apple tart were really good as well and seemed to be homemade. For the apple tart I would have added a bit more pastry, as it can feel that you are having just cooked apples, but that is just my own preference really. There is a wide range of ice creams Rhubarb, garlic... which I would like to try next time. Prices are affordable. There a seats and games for children. Overall good quality restaurant (food, wine, atmosphere, staff and guests).

Chicken breast with peas and squashed potatoes. Family friendly in daytime, couples romantic at night. Caring waitstaff.

Went on the basis of recommendations, but we left utterly perplexed as to why this place is so highly rated. Pasta was merely okay, the pizza too salty, and the sea bass was, well, not sea bass (Tesco frozen haddock fillets I'm guessing). In short, tasteless and questionable food, zero atmosphere, surly staff and bad wine. I'm a little loathe to knock a local restaurant, but the response to our disappointment was a shrug of the shoulders. Perhaps this was just a bad night... but it was extremely poor.

Truly excellent food and served by delightful people.

Visited several times over the years. Always had the choice of different food from the menus, which are regularly changed and the meals are beautifully cooked and presented. The staff have been so friendly. I cannot fault this restaurant.

Had a wonderful meal at this fantastic restaurant which I have known of for many years but hadn’t visited until now with my dear wife. Excellent. What a gem! Right under my nose!! Will be revisiting very soon. The home made ice cream is totally off the scale! Very interesting flavours, who would of thought it possible in sunny Sarf’ London... Grazie

Really nice little menu, pricing a little high end but not too bad. Family feel. Excellent food.

Went here based on positive reviews and a serious craving for some Spag Bol. The restaurant is strangely bereft of any atmosphere and the menu is a quite confusing affair, with sheets randomly shuffled on a clipboard. There was no spaghetti Bolognese or other favourites. Whilst I realise that the aforementioned dish is not an authentic Italian one, neither is Vindaloo, but all Indian restaurants serve it. I ordered a pizza garlic bread to start and a warm Coca-Cola. The garlic bread was like a giant damp poppadom. I ordered the closest dish to Spag Bol, which was hot and fairly tasty but really nothing special. In short, if you want a clean fairly decent meal and can bring your own atmosphere, then go ahead. Otherwise you'll find this quite an awkward experience.

Dining at Le Querce was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. The Owner is an 'Old Skool' Italian guy and was very helpful and fun to converse with. I had sardines followed by Lamb chops. The food was tasty, well presented and the portions were good too. The only negative I have is that it is slightly overpriced for it's location, apart from that a very good culinary experience and I would go there again.

We had pizzas beer and wine. Lovely place I'm picky and I did like everything. Big choice of ice cream. We gonna come back here for sure.

A quaint traditional Italian restaurant with a lovely ambience, authentic food and wine.

Hemos estado aquí dos veces en el último mes después de recibir una recomendación de un amigo. Deliciosa comida recién preparada en un restaurante local de gestión familiar. El plato de aguacate y carpaccio de atún fue increíble! Pizza increíblemente delgada (tuve el cohete y el jamón speck uno). Helado casero para pudín siempre una delicia.

Very good quality food with delicious flavours. Reasonably priced - will be back!

Very nice Italian restaurant. The owner is brilliant and my little son always loves it going there.

Great, very friendly staff and tasty food. We used to come here before kids in the evening and loved it. And now we come with our kids in the afternoon and still love it.

Lovely place, great staff, authentic menu

Nice restaurant, lovely people and good food which is beautifully presented 😊 Would definitely visit again.