Sodo Pizza Walthamstow — Restaurant in London

Friendly and incredibly attentive staff, we didn't have to wait a second too long for our reservation and the atmosphere is really nice and cozy. This is our second time here though and I am still waiting to be blown away by what other reviews rate as 'the best pizza ever'. The starters were really good (we had garlic bread and burrotta - never heard of it before but tasted delicious, the same concept as a burrata but with ricotta in it). But the pizzas are still not 100% for me. The base is great, but they seem a bit stingy with the toppings (and some combinations are a bit disastrous). I had a half and half (half with salami, mascarpone and nduja, the other half was the special with gorgonzola and honey - and kale). The mozzarella had practically evaporated from the whole pizza, I literally could hardly find any, the honey was so strong (and so much of it), it completely covered the taste of the gorgonzola (what a shame!), so half of my pizza just tasted of honey. The salami had been cooked for too long/too much and it turned into a chewy nothingness (can I suggest slicing it wafer thin and putting it on top of the base after the pizza has come out of the oven? same for hams, don't cook them, we Italians do it this way for a reason). Again, there were a couple of squirts of mascarpone on one side of the pizza. I really want to love this place, maybe...

Having read numerous reviews praising Sodo I had the opportunity of visiting when a friend said they'd like to go there. It was an impromptu decision made at 7pm on a Saturday night, we arrived at 8pm and were told we faced a 90 minute wait for the spot by the kitchen. Walthamstow likes Sodo it seems.

We decamped to a local hostelry and supped on a pint and just as it was finished Sodo called to say we could eat. Service was friendly and efficient, they politely laughed at my jokes which is always nice.

Good selection of beers and cocktails. I had a rum and ginger to start, homemade, fiery ginger it was delicious. For pizza I went opted for the fishy Jon Bon Chovy and then went off piste by asking for some nduja on top. They checked with the kitchen and it was A-OK.

Pizza arrived fairly quickly, deliciously light base and toppings, not 'overly' fishy, which is sometimes the fear when anchovies are involved and you don't know how heavily salted they've been.

Didn't look at deserts as it's January but there are options. Their gluten free option is a bean stew with the pizza toppings of...

Pizza is Mid at best, literally almost idential to pizza union chains in central which also sell incredibly mid pizza. This place was a little hard to find + it's in a dodgy looking alleyway. It was candle lit only when I went in the evening and extremely dark. That one candle on each table wasn't doing the job. Prices are what you expect for this style of pizza but you have to remember that you are sitting in an ally, with construction work going on oppsite it, within E17 Walthamstow (it hasn't been gentrified completely yet so I still expect reasonable pricing) and it's only ever so slightly better than pizza union. Was sad by the pizza as your current customers really seem to hype it up. Very boring I almost fell asleep. So to conclude, it's likely that I won't ever come to this place again unless everything else is shut OR if I'm in the mood for mid pizza (it actually is a mood sometimes but I rather just go pizza union). The food isn't bad, it was just disappointing based on expectations I had. And yes I'll take some of the blame for having such high...