The best restaurants serving Italian food in West Hampstead Camden London

Very small place, nice in the summer when you can sit outside. Fresh pizzas, service is a bit hit and miss.

Having worked in Italy for many years, from Piedmont to Palermo, from Udine to Brindisi one gathers a knowledge of where to eat. Not the expensive and plush, but the authentic, home based and quality based cooking. What’s interesting is Osteria Ovada is not in the West End or Mayfair but Finchley Rd (Camden), and this gives it even more authenticity as a bit of travel is needed to find. It’s in a simple street, with a simple facade and inside is simple, but once you’re in, you’re in Italy!!! Great recipes, everything is carefully sourced and an exceptional selection of wines. The owner Paolo is not only cooking but producing wine, name me another restaurant in London where this is the case? The prices are genuinely reasonable, I went for the first time recently with family and for sure will return.

I had a vegetarian pasta dish specifically with aubergine, except there was barely a trace of aubergine - about 10 TINY flecks of aubergine. The pasta sauce looked identical to that put on my friends Margherita pizza! And her opinion of her pizza was very poor, worse than my pasta.

I had the bolognesse spaghetti and pizza and loved it. 😍

It was amazing. We are regulars there and always enjoy going there very much. The food is great and real Italian food. Staff is amazing and service is very quick. Ambient is lovely and overall an amazing restaurant, recommend to everyone.

Fried calamari was the most tasteless one I have ever had. We ate something like a fried coating that was shaped long strips and was so thin that it was not clear if there was any calamari inside. Chicken Spiedini was cold and tasteless. We would not want to be mistaken for a pizza as it is an Italian restaurant, but the margarita pizza was also very ordinary and served with a small amount of cheese on it. The service was very fast. Maybe they should slow down a bit. The bottled beer was nice and cold.

Had tuna pasta, amazing…made me come back and I was not disappointed when tried the risotto with chicken. I would highly recommend this place

Wonderful wine bar; great wine, delicious sharing platters and really friendly staff! Will definitely be visiting again soon.

Delicious food I love it so much my favourite restaurant everything so good I highly recommend this restaurant love the food the service and everything is very clean and hygienic and the food is very very delicious here

This is one of my favourite places for a glass of wine and bar snacks with friends, however it has now sadly shut down. No doubt due to high rents etc.