The Godfather in Southwark

Its now 500 degrees - so, its all good. But its no longer The restaurant advertised here :) Happy to recommend 500 degrees, but Tripadvisor needs to clear down this entry

Lovely pizza, ordered the often underrated margarita, excellent tomatoes and cheese. Really enjoyed it.

Cenamos en este hermoso restaurant recomendados por gente conocida. La comida muy rica, los platos abundantes, la atención muy buena, muy lindo ambiente y los precios adecuados. Lo recomiendo.

Great pizza's - very good size and value for money and deliciously made in traditional clay oven. I would say that the quality is still high on delivery but they need to work efficiently taking phone orders as it is often a real struggle to communicate over the phone. Otherwise great pizza and nice pasta too.

Lovely little place with a real Italian feel to it.very clean and comfortable.pizzas large and very tasty.

We ordered delivery from here a few months ago. The pizza was ok, nothing to write home about. The pizza base was pretty tasteless.

This place has the perfect vegan pizza , even though it doesn't say it's vegan after a chat with one of the chefs I found out there's no diary in the ingredients. I'm a regular customer since I tried it for the first time a couple of months ago. Nice atmosphere and friendly staff !

Went here with my mum paid £20 for two pizzas and soft drinks and the pizza was amazing so fresh and flavoursome. Best pizza we have had in a long time

In London it's difficult to find a real Italian pizza but The Godfather have smacked it! Much better than Franco Manca and the prices are certainly better. Lovely Neapolitan staff too!

The best friggin pizzeria in south London by a country mile. Having lived in Rome for 7 years and Toscana for 6 I can speak from experience. My first Italian girlfriend came from Salerno and I first tasted pizza by the meter in 1982 in Naples. It's about the ingredients and cooking it in a wood fire. All the other so called corporate pizzeria chains can go and take a long hard hike. They have nothing on this establishment. If you want REAL ITALIAN pizza, thin crust, real mozzarella, fantastic capers etc. Come here. Amazing!!!

The restaurant has a very good appearance and smell that makes you want to eat. I believe that the community in Crystal Palace is fortunate to have such authentic variant popular of pizza in the area.When it comes to preparation, the dough and ingredients can be combined with any kind of table as it is freshly made and baked directly on fired brick oven. They have also variety recipes and topping.The staff is friendly,warm always welcoming their customers who love to relax. My children love their pizza. Grazie mille. Jackie from Crystal Palace.

By far one of the best Pizzas I had in London located in the Heart of Crystal Palace. Now I know where to go to show off with family and friends 😃󾓩

We were in Crystal Place on Sunday lunchtime and found 'The Godfather' on our walk around. Pleasant friendly staff, reasonable prices, and good pizza - and very reasonable wine prices - what's not to like? There is no shortage of restaurants in the area, some good some not so good, this one is well worth trying.

This was our first trip to the area and this restaurant instantly stood out. The staff were friendly without being overbearing. The portions were huge and everything you expect Italian pizza to be and we were even given complimentary Limoncello after the meal.

I am Italian and I love Neapolitan pizza therefore I am very picky when it comes to good pizza. I have a few fav places in London but this is by far the best I have found! The dough is great, the toppings are excellent and obviously they use a proper wood-fired oven. We also tried some starters, desserts, limoncello and espresso and the quality was similarly excellent. The staff are absolutely lovely and it is by far cheaper than most pizzerias around London. Goes without saying: do not expect pizzahut/americanpepperonipizza kind of stuff.

This place has a wood burning over at the front of the restaurant.Offers great value for money and service was good.The pizza base was nice and thin and the crusts were lovely and soft, akin to a sour dough base.The base was perhaps a little soggy, due to the thin base and sauce, but this is easily forgiven as it tasted great!Highly recommended, will be visiting again !

Really tasty Napoletan pizza with a lovely soft dough, made in the front of the restaurant and cooked in the traditional oven. The price is great, the staff very friendly. This is an easy place to sit and have a nice pizza, no fuss. The wine selection is also surprisingly nice for the price. This place is a YAY.

4 of us visited on Saturday. Great Pizzas, very tasty pasta, friendly staff and Sambuca to follow. Will definitely visit again. Thank you to our hosts.

These are the best pizzas I've had in London. Hands down. Got a bit tired of Franco's and love the balance of chewy cheesy and crunchy base. Service is generally good. Staff seem to be all Italian which means it's ite. Good starters (especially the mozarella with thick toast slices) and all the pizzas I've had are good. A friend had a pasta and that was pretty good too. The Godfather special is definitely worth trying. I've been many times and it's always excellent.

There are plenty of options when it comes to pizza in Crystal Palace but this place is by far the best. Traditional pizzas baked in a wood fired oven served by friendly and efficient Italian staff. The place is spotless and very authentic. It seems to attract Italian diners which is always a great sign.I recommend the Divola and the Verace pizzas. Both are flawless.

I was lucky enough to be brought here by two friends who dine at Godfather frequently. I understand why. Wood burning oven. Simple and stylish dinning room. Polite and friendly waiting staff (our waitress: an Italian beauty). So, a simple plate of olives to start. We love an olive. My hosts assured me the pizzas were large and we decided to make room. To be honest I can't recall their pizza choices but I went for the calzone; an uncertain and unpredictable option. I have had dozens of these half-moon wonders across Europe and home, and all have been unique. There's no formula, no template. While that's exciting it's also like playing pizza roulette. Sometimes you win; more often you loose. When my pizza arrived I was impressed by two things; the 'flatness' of the calzone and the colour of the dough (dappled 'burnt' blackness and lighter tones). No Cornish pasty shaped calzone this. I'd say it was about 2" thick with cheese and tomato base on the outside! How iconoclastic! Pizza tasted great! The dough was perfectly cooked with generous fillings of cheese, salami and ham. It was a substantial size too and while quality is always better than quantity it's refreshing when you get both on the plate at once. My hosts were very happy with theirs. We shared a bottle of house red which was also lovely. The complementary limoncello was nice but it's never the same drink for me outside of Italy. I understand the bill for three with drinks and tip was under £50 which is good value. I want to go back.

The pizza is great, perfectly cooked and the right size.The service needs to be faster and more attentive,Clean restaurant and great little gem in Crystal Palace

Enjoyable pizzas at a fair price with friendly service. The pizzas were well cooked and the toppings good but not particularly inspiring. I'd go again but there are many Italian restaurants in the area so would be useful to compare.

Although I thought the pasta and salad was slightly above average, the pizza was one of the best I've had in London (and London does boast a lot of top-notch pizzas). Had the verace(if I remember the name correctly) and it's the epitome of brilliant pizzas.

Simple place, lovely staff, simple menu but really good wooden fire traditional pizza. And extremely cheap!

Enjoyable meal. Interior of the restaurant was pleasant and clean. Waiters helpful and they made additions and alterations to the pizzas without complaint or charge. We ate twice as the first night was good. The second was in fact better as the meat special pizza was excellent. Would recommend.

This is one of three pizzerias in Crystal Palace, and it's not bad. Prices are very reasonable (around £7 for a good-sized pizza) and the pizza bases are decent, with a nice, thick crust. My veggie pizza was somewhat overloaded with toppings, leading to a slightly gloopy centre - although I perhaps brought this on myself for asking for tomato sauce to be added to what should have been a 'white' pizza. The decor leaves a lot to be desired: the front section is over-lit, while the rear section has bare expanses of white walls and little else. Service is patchy: friendly enough, but we had to wait for ages to have our plates cleared and ask for the bill. I'd booked a table but got a nonplussed response when I announced this on arrival, although given the lack of diners at the time, perhaps my reservation was simply seen as needless.

Do not bother with other restaurants in the area! This is a traditional restaurant just the way I like it. They even speak Italian with passion.

I am Italian and great pizza lover. This is 1 of the best pizzas I had in London. Authentic Neapolitan style. Thick border, crunchy outside, soft inside, fresh mozzarella, 48 hours dough raising, great toppings. Highly recommended!

I have visited The Godfather a few times, with friends and family. The service is great and they have always been very attentive, accommodating our requests and also being patient with my lively 2-year-old son (no small feat). The pizza is amazing; I have tried the Toto and the Ortolana ones and just thinking about them makes me crave one! They also serve child-sized pizze for little ones, the one that my son got was shaped like Mickey Mouse, which was very sweet of them. i have not tried the panuozzi, but I plan to do it next time I go. A special mention to the cheesy Italian music they play, I don't like it when I am back home in Italy, but it does make me smile here in London.

I was planning to go in another place in the street for a drink rendezvous, but they had decided to shut earlier than advertised. Walking in the cold rain, The Godfather's big round wooden oven looked very welcoming. I popped in to check if their cuisine was Sicilian, turned out they were more Neopolitans. Pizzas are their speciality as one expects, but, on the menu they have Melanzane Parmigiana (originally a Sicilian dish) which alsocooked in this oven. I am SO GLAD that I stepped into this place. We had Bruschetta, Melanzane Parmigiana, olives, beira Moretti and crisp white wine. The food was FANTASTIC! Lovely staff and we got two rounds of complimentary Limoncello! Apparently, they have just recently changed their menu. I am returning soon to sample their pizza too!

Super tasty and priced on the cheap side pizza. Truly Italian for lovers of Neapolitan thick and saucy pizza. After 6 years I eventually found my favourite pizza in the whole London.

Eine sehr gute Pizza aus dem Steinofen, der noch mit echtem Holz geheizt wird. Definitiv eine der besten Pizzas in ganz Crystal Palace. Netter Service und ein schönes Ambiente.

Come sentirsi un po a casa all'estero! Pizza ottima, non pesante, ottimo il garlic bread! I prezzi sono accessibili e forniscono anche il servizio a domicilio rapido e preciso..un'ottima idea per rilassarsi in casa in una fredda sera londinese!

Neapolitan pizza at the same level of Franco Manca.Probably one of the best pizza places south of the river, may be not the fanciest of the places, but you can't go wrong with The Godfather

Great service, delicious handmade, oven baked pizzas at a great price. This was a jewel of a find in the middle of the afternoon betweeen lunch and dinner when other restaurants had closed. The menu was not too big, but had plenty of choice. The waitress was friendly and helpful and didn't laugh too much at our woeful attempt at Italian!We'll definitely go again.Our tip is to consider sharing as the portions are very generous.

I have to say this is one of the best pizzas I have had in London. All the ingredients used are authentic and at a fair price.

I am totally baffled by the (very few) bad reviews on here on this restaurant. If you're after deep-pan American type pizza, then you won't get it here.Since visiting Italy as a child - 30 odd years ago - I have been on the look out for a comparable pizza, and at last I've found it! I must have been to The Godfather over ten times now and every time it has met (or exceeded) my expectations. The dough is incredible and all the topping ingredients excellent quality. I cannot fault it in all honesty, except to say that if you want want to order a pizza that's slightly different to what's on the menu it can get unnecessarily confusing! However, that's a small price to pay for such amazing food.

We have ordered pizzas from early this year and steadily it has been getting worse and worse, wrong pizzas delivered, cold pizza, 2 hours late (and we live a 15 minute walk away i hope some day they invent scooters to deliver pizza!), the dough was thick under cooked, barely any toppings on the pizzas that we had ordered.So in short we won't order from them again.

I recently came here with friends who had been several times before. I have been to Italy quite a few times so know what a decent pizza can taste like and these did not disappoint at all! The speed with which the food came out was incredible, the dough was light and tasted great, the tomato base was in no way tangy and tasted super fresh. Loved the small range of items on the menu - always a good sign!Everything was a really reasonable price, there were 4 of us; we shared a starter between the four of us, each had a pizza and shared a bottle of wine and left £2 tip each and the total was £60. Brilliant value for money. Also - for all those loving a little bit of spice, I was really happy to finally find chilli oil on the table that actually packed a punch! And I loved the additional option of garlic oil. Delicious. Will definitely be back.

Traditional, authentic wood fire Neapolitan pizza with great ingredients - in my opinion, this is the best pizza I've eaten anywhere and I have been to Naples!I have been here several times as I live locally and it is such good value - you can have 2 beers and 2 pizzas and it won't cost much more than around £20 for 2 people. There's casual dining at the front and a more formal seating area at the back which is nice to be able to choose depending on what ambience you want from your evening.I will continue to support this great local restaurant as it tastes fantastic, great value for money and service is always welcoming and friendly.

I love it here. We've been loads, and it's consistantly delicious! The dough is wonderful, and the drinks are pretty cheap! It would be slightly better if they made it clear that some of the pizzas don't have a tomato base, but apart from that I can't fault the food.

The melanzana starter was brilliant and the pizzas excellent. Finished off with great Italian espresso. Friendly and welcoming atmosphere. Fantastic value.

I went there with my husband last night and we had the worst pizza ever. I ended up eating the crust only (which is very very thick) - because the pizza Napoletana I ordered was very salty, and the ingredients were very poor. My husband had a Diavola and he ended up with all the sausage ends that were hard and thick. Overall, very poor experience and it ruined our Friday out.

Let me start by saying that if you want to have thick dough, fully loaded greasy american style codswallop please do not come to this place. The Godfather is a gorgeously authentic Italian pizzeria. The dough is the right consistency and thickness for a proper italian pizza. The topping fresh, good quality and just enough to work well with the dough. The staff are very friendly. Whether you just pop in to have a quick pizza or attend with friends for a meal out you will be made welcome and feel instantly at ease. Overall, great food and excellent hospitality

Whilst not outwardly fancy, I challenge anyone to find a better pizza in South London. The choices are authentic, delicious and served quickly from the wood fired oven inside the restaurant. The staff are friendly and helpful and the food and drink is very reasonably priced. I'm a Godfather convert!

Very nice takeaway pizza,very tasty,made in front of me.Extremely good price too,£7.95...compare this to a similar one from Dominos....I shall be going here again.

I really do recommend a visit to The Godfather, Me and my partner really enjoyed our visit. The pizza's were large and tasty, cooked in front of you too which is always preferable. The prices are very good, particularly the Drinks. Less then a fiver for a large glass of wine and less then 3 quid for a beer, is much better then other italian restaurants. Also they don't skimp on the toppings, another rare thing in modern pizzerias . The Service was great too, very friendly and attentive. May rethink the name, when I've seen this place pop on online searches the name and logo makes me think of a cheap greasy takeaway when this place is the opposite... I will defiantly be revisiting.

I love this place. Waiters are super friendly and pizza is always fresh with super delicious ingredients. It can get a bit warm because the stone oven is not a decoration but a real thing :DTheir mozzarella is to die for! All ingredients are fresh and they are very generous. We had a starter platter and pizza and could not finish, which is never a problem for us. They also have really nice wines. My husband keeps raving about the montepulciano.We keep going back and taking friends with us. Not sure if they started to notice but last week we ordered Godfather pizza (for 2) and received this. And the best part, it won't break the bank :)

Really tasty pizza, excellent service, a great addition to the triangle. Will definitely go back. It seemed very family friendly.

Four of us ate here for the first time. The place was very busy which looked promising.Alas, although the pizza bases are nicely done in a wood fired oven, the toppings were very very lacking with just a minimal smear of tomato paste, VERY little cheese and 6 thin slices of pepperoni. When I told the waitress about the problem she did not understand. She smiled and asked if we would like to take the leftover bases home instead. It was £40 for very little indeed.

Very friendly welcome to a popular restaurant is always a good start.Staff were attentive and helpful throughout the meal.Pizzas were well cooked and good size. Had the capricossa (sorry for spelling) which had not enough artichoke in my opinion hence the 4* not 5*. Bottle of wine and 2 pizzas for under £30 with tip...better pizza and value than pizza express in my opinion.

A sweet little restaurant in the triangle and definitely the best pizza in palace. Very friendly service and delicious authentic pizza. It is very reasonable priced. Meal and drinks for me and my boyfriend was under £20 and very yummy and filling.

Best pizza we've had in London so far - my husband is Italian and very picky with his pizza! I am vegan but still managed to find something to eat (with a few tweaks). The wine was really good and the pizza was ready in a heartbeat, they're so quick! The staff was very nice and friendly - our waitress, Rossella, was great. We definitely recommend this lovely place.

authentic pizzas! Amazing really and cheap compare to other restaurant in town.Very friendly waiters and chef.I recommend really!

If you like Napoli style pizza this is the place to go, find me a better pizza in London and I'll let you know

The staff are always willing to assist with food and wine options and the food is consistently well made and tasty. The chef is very approachable and this combination makes every visit a real pleasure.

Best pizza I've had in London! I also had the melanzane and burrata cheese as starters and they were amazing. The only thing that was good but not great was the desert (canolli). All staff were really friendly and even the music was good. I highly recommend it and would definitely go back to this friendly restaurant.

Came in here to try it as its new. The waitress was really friendly and allowed us to sit where we wanted. I was impressed by the clay oven and the fact it was just 2 people running the place. I had the Calzone folded pizza which I have never had before, I was expecting more filling and there to be more flavour, it was still good, just lacking something. I asked why there was no pizzas with chicken and was informed that genuine Napoletana pizza chefs do not use chicken. Was a nice experience and I probably would come back.