Restaurants

The best pizza reviews I've found are at: pizzandevelopment.wordpress.com/category/pizza/. There's a lot of pretty average pizza listed in TimeOut's article, but all the pizza recommended by this blog is superb. You should check out its 'generations theory of pizza'.

I think that the pizza`s in those places that you say are fantastic are actually disgusting and none of those places make a real good pizza`s and if you think that they make good pizza it means that you do not understand nothing about it and you can never be called a pizza critic ,come on wake up

Santa Maria is the definitely the best pizza in uk. Only for the real conoisseurs, this is the real thing! Grazie di esistere, la vostra pizza mi fa sentire a casa!

Trattoria Sapori know how to make pizza, trust me, their mozz is Frior di latte and thats telling you something.. give them a try...

MADE IN ITALY GROUP RESTAURANTS ARE THE BEST .... I ESPECIALLY LOVE THE KINGS' ROAD BRACH, PERFECT FOR EVERY OCCASION AND DEFINETLY THE BEST PIZZA YOU CAN EAT IN LONDON.

Fair point Pizzalover :) I think i'm perhaps getting too bogged down in the semantics. I suppose the inclusion (or lack thereof) of the term "authentic" is important. Point in case, i lived in NY for a while, and a NY pizza is an entirely different beast to traditional neapolitan pizza, but on occasion i had cravings for a NY pizza rather than a neapolitan one.
One point on which i agree with you 100% is that taste should axiomatically be the most important of the criteria.
I'm not however, sure that i agree that my objectivity remark is as tenuous as you would purport me to believe. While tastes are by their very nature subjective, in order to evaluate objectively the prowess of a pizza, i would think that some sort of authority on the subject should be involved in the decision process, akin to an expert witness at a trial. All i was saying was that in furtherance to this, there are few people who can attest to the merits of a pizza better than someone who grew up surrounded by it :)

Tommaso - I think the reviewers were off in feeling the need to use the word authentic throughout the reviews. However, authentic does not a good pizza make. Creativity, taste, etc. should be the higher bar, so no, I don't think a British person would be best placed to judge the best fish and chips in New York, nor should a Neapolitan with all their local baggage be the best person to judge pizza in London. And your point on objectivity and Neapolitans is a stretch AT BEST!
That said, La Donna Margherita is a yummy, beautiful treat.

Gary, plz shut up. you have no clue and best for you is to do your pub food with the least quality. i ve been there and you pizza is all over the place. dough, tomato sauce, etc were the worst
fix up yourself, then start with other prople

haha, Gary no offence taken mate. i'm guessing your tongue is a little bit in your cheek there re the right-wing comments about london jobs for londoners. For the record, i didnt come to London, i'm a londer born and bread, my parents chose to come here. I had little choice as to where I was born.
As for the "understanding" of pizze being for everyone, i agree 100%, and the promulgation of pizza across the world is something that neapolitans are very proud of. However when it comes to judging whether and item is "authentic", surely logic would dictate that those responsible for having created that item should be the authority, no? For instance a native italian speaker would be in a better position to decide what was correct usage of the italian language than a frenchman who learned italian at school. Would u not agree? The same can be said about many cultural products. To put it another way, would an Englishman in New York not be in a better position to judge what is "authentic" british fish 'n chips, than an American? Or an Indian curry etc...?
PS - they also have awesome pizza in Tokyo, they send all their pizzaioli to Naples to learn from the master pizze makers.

not to be controversial, but i find it nigh on offensive to have a cohort of judges charged with rating the best pizzeria in london, none of whom is italian, let alone neapolitan. Surely the people who gifted the world with the creation of pizze deserve a voice in the matter, particularly if it is to be done with a degree of objectivity!
On behalf of myself and many fellow neapolitans in london, one of the few authentic (if not the only) verace pizza napuletan' is La Donna Margherita, lavendar hill, clapham junction. This place does honest to god neapolitan cuisine, with a veritable cornucopia of dishes, but topping the menu is pizza as good as any street vendor in naples. It's hard not to view the judges nominations as derisible when they fail to mention a place like donna margherita and instead nominate some fancy schmancy, mickey mouse pizzeria like Rocket.

Has any of you tried that small place in Crouch End called Tomo restaurant. For me the best pizza ever! Highly recommended!

Best pizza in london at Franco Manca!
Brixton or Chiswick is the same!
Very nice service!!! Now with out service charge!!!! And amazing pizza. Thatz it.

Rays is dam good as well.

try Trattoria Sapori in newington green, its the north of london, but they do some really good pizza' and they do it the old fashion way.

Try the silver dollar in Rayners lane, been there over 50 years very very unpretentious cafe, visited by Sinatra, jagger et al, has stacks of history, and very good pizzas, a proper time warp .