Vermicelli Fresh pasta and Sourdough Pizza (Tooting Market) - (Near , london)

4 /5 Elisha Tanya: Vermicelli is definitely a shining light in an area that is quickly becoming the food Mecca of South London. Nestled in the always busy Tooting Market you’ll find an Italian restaurant serving up wood fire pizza and an excellent selection of pasta dishes. Everything you love or crave from Italian cuisine, you’ll more than likely find it on their menu. Food is served fresh and it’s refreshing to see an open kitchen where you can see the work being done. The quality of food is high when compared to Italian restaurants at other food markets. The seating arrangement is confined yet intimate even with so much background noise and activity. On a busy Friday night, it was clear to see that Vermicelli is one of the most popular spots for a reason. With all that being said, it was a great shame that the service was extremely poor. It took 10 minutes for us to get our food ordered and our cutlery came just as soon as the food was served. I understand being extremely busy on a Friday night but service is king. I was extremely disappointed with the lack of attention to the customer needs/requests. Once I our food was served I asked for two small plates so we could share each meal. It felt like an eternity before our waitress came with the plates and by the time she came, we already started sharing our food. Once again, the food is well worth the trip for quality and price point alone. However, the lack of consistency with service may refrain me from full enjoying what Vermicelli can offer.

5 /5 Smokey St George: Visited while down from Norwich for a gig in Camden. It was worth the tube ride down to Tooting for this lovely Italian in Tooting market. It was fairly quiet (as youd expect on a cold Sunday at the beginning of January), but the host made us really welcome. Service was friendly and attentive without being overbearing. Food was lovely, flavoursome and arrived in good time. On the face of it, some people would call it "simple" but that would be a disservice - you can tell love and pride has gone into the prep of every sauce and combination of each ingredient for the dishes (not to mention the pasta itself - made on site). All very reasonably priced too. We look forward to returning!

3 /5 Zi Siddique: After Xmas we were looking to change up the cuisine we had been consuming for the last week, reading the reviews we thought we’d give this restaurant a try. Needless to say it was in Tooting Market and we’d agreed to overlook the surroundings banking on the food being the star. When we arrived on NY’s Day it was empty other than one seated table of two. So you’re just seated at the restaurant in the open market and it’s kinda cold, but we went with it. It took a while for the server to come take our order even though we were the only ones to order at the time. There wasn’t actually a heap of items on the menu we were interested in so two of our party chose the pizza and one chose the pasta with seafood, we also had the burrata with heritage tomatoes to start. We told them to bring everything together. It took 45 minutes for the meal to come! The burrata with heritage tomatoes and balsamic dressing was such a disappointment and waste of money. The tomato was your average vine tomato and not even a whole one. It lacked ripeness and flavour. The burrata was not a burrata, more a mozzarella ball and not the expensive kind! Pizza one was margarita which was fine but tomato sauce lacked flavor and needed seasoning, there was a good amount of cheese on it, the thin bottom was very soggy. The second was the capricossa pizza, which again was fine it had good amount of toppings and cheese, same issue with the thin soggy base. The seafood pasta however was a disaster. The sauce was weak and lacked any flavour or seasoning. We knew that you shouldn’t eat seafood with cheese but had to ask for some Parmesan as the salt and pepper we had asked for wasn’t making a jot of difference to the taste. It was so bland and felt also that the tagliatelle was the wrong pasta for the sauce. In addition we had to ask for the salt/ pepper and cheese which should have been offered by the server. I wish people would leave honest reviews, as this place was mediocre at best for the price we paid. For people who don’t know how to cook this might be an excellent choice, for those that know the craft, maybe look elsewhere for a good Italian.

5 /5 Qamar Zaman: Enjoyed my visit here on a quiet Friday afternoon. We ordered the burrata and spicy prawns to start, and the pappardelle with beef and rigatoni with fennel sausage for mains. All of which were very nice and look forward to visiting again soon.

5 /5 Melissa Wirth: Came here on a Saturday night at 7:30, the place was bustling but service was super attentive and food exquisite. The team even left us a bottle of limoncello on the table and left us to our own devices. Such a fun evening and we couldn’t have felt more welcome. Thank you!