Caminata

This place is awesome. The food is fantastic, the staff are attentive, friendly and helpful and it is excellent value for money. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
The pizza here is the best I have had in a very long time. Generous & really tasty toppings and a thin crispy delicious base. If you like pizza you have got to give this place a go.
For those of you who are not so keen on pizza but love Italian food, well you are pretty well looked after too. In particular the Aranchino (deep fried risotto balls, stuffed with mince meat and mozzarella) are the best I’ve tried outside of Sicily. The Gamberoni All’Aglio (pan fried king prawns cooked in garlic and butter) are pretty sublime too.
I am so happy that this is my local Italian but I think it is actually worth travelling to!

Caminata is a great little local Pizzeria on Bedford Hill with a great selection of stone baked pizzas. We often drop by here for takeout, as they have a pretty good deal for Pizzas (£6). Have also dined in, service was good, staff were friendly, lovely atmosphere; a welcome change from other restaurants nearby.

A great Italian restaurant which is just aorund the corner from Balham station! Its a small place so gets filled up quickly but the food there is amazing.
The fritto misto for starters was great crispy fried whitebait and calamari and prawn with a light batter and cooked just right and not too oily.
The mains, my duck pappardelle pasta had the most amazing sauce, bursting with flavour but not too heavy at all. My partner’s chorizo risotto was also really good, with great tasting Brindisa chorizo.
The pizzas looked good too, and seemed a very popular option amongst the other diners, which I will definitely give a try on my next visit to Caminata!
The London Insider

Great place this. Takeaway pizzas are excellent and authentic. Decided to eat in the other evening. Fritto misto followed by steak. Both very good indeed washed down with a robust bottle of the house red. Service excellent and friendly, great atmosphere, good value. A little gem of a place.

The star for this place goes to the staff who are really friendly and the decent house red wine. Other than that food is horrendous and I would definitely not recommend anyone go here.
Pizzas are boring and just not tasty. The frito misto starter is appalling. And the garlic bread (more just garlic sauceless pizza) has nothing to offer.

Excellent place which feels mildly undersold even with the use of a superlative like «excellent»…Cannot get enough of this place; nor its delicious pizzas and the staff are wonderful. Don’t agree with the ‘weird mixture’ comments above pertaining to the clientele — seems the same mix as is normal for Balham nowadays — not exactly edgy!!! Nor with the idea that it ‘open[s] and close[s] at random’. They close on a Monday night, which I understand is the norm for many Italian restaurants in London or indeed, more widely, most eateries!
Treat yourselves — and on the budget prices, it really is a treat.

The best pizza outside of Italy. Friendly staff and cosy atmosphere. The best place to chill out while enjoying a glass of fine Italian wine or even better… to have a romantic dinner with your loved one. I definitely recommend it!

Bit of a weird place. Decent food (pizzas and salads mainly), friendly staff, free Wifi, and some nice Peroni on draught. Despite this there is something decidedly odd about the place. The fact that it seems to open and close at random, has a mixture of odd locals, slightly dangerous looking Eastern Europeans, and lost looking trustafarians all add to the sense of confusion. It’s a pretty chilled place to hang out, I just can’t help wonder if one day I’ll be sitting supping my Peroni when a full scale Eastern Promises (
) style turf war breaks out.