Il Sugo

You're walking down Pratt Street in Camden and you stumble into something genuinely unpretentious. Il Sugo feels like the kind of place a Roman would actually eat at, not the kind designed for tourists to Instagram. The kitchen takes pasta seriously—we're talking freshly made, properly sauced, the sort of thing that makes you realise how much mediocre Italian you've been eating elsewhere in London. It's compact, it can get noisy (which is half the appeal), and the wine list leans into natural and Italian varieties that actually work with the food rather than showing off. At these prices, you're getting proper value for neighbourhood cooking that's been consistently good enough to rack up nearly 760 reviews.