Sodo Pizza Café

Mama dough’s pizzas are the ace of aces! The dough is perfect, the sauce is delicious, I think they’ve added marscapone to it (I will definitely try this at home). This restaurant is my new «I got a craving for pizza» place! I will definitely be returning, and I recommend this to anyone in the area.

Awesome pizzas, great drinks and fun atmosphere! Pretty much all you can ask for from a local pizza place. I love that the menu is simple but offers plenty of options. The homemade ginger ale is so good. The waitstaff are really attentive without being pushy. This is one of our favorite local restaurants.

Great pizza! I tried one with mozzarella, butternut squash and pine nuts with a red sauce base while visiting friends here recently. Great selections of wine and beer to go with, and I was really impressed with all the greens in their salad actually! Parsley, cilantro, rocket (arugula :)) and nicely dressed as well. I like the bottle of chili oil on the table for drizzing on the pizza, too! Friendly, helpful staff make this place a pleasure to visit. I’d definitely visit again next time I’m in the neighborhood.

£10 for an average take away pizza? Seriously? What a shame. I’ve yearned for an excellent local pizzeria for years (my quest for the perfect London pizza has spanned some 30+ years), so I’ve been watching Sodo’s development since they opened in Honor Oak earlier this year with interest. I’ll admit to being a well qualified and tremendously experienced pizza snob, and also to the fact that the ‘sour dough’ concept was the main reason it’s taken me over 6 months to try this restaurant. Turns out I needn’t have worried, my pizza base had a robust taste, but nowhere near what you might associate with ‘acid’ sour dough bread. So straight away, that’s the chain’s name USP gone — Sod-​oh makes, to all intents and purposes, ‘ordinary’ stone baked pizzas, with a pleasant, if unimpressive, authentic taste. Which leaves us with ingredients and the technicalities. Quality of the salame and prosciutto ingredients in my ‘cured meat’ pizza were good, but nowhere near what would justify the steep £10 for a single portion pizza. My main gripes are that technically, (1) the crusts are way too evident for this size portion, (2) my pizza was overloaded with too much tomato sauce that was too highly seasoned, (3) chef was decidedly mean with the zero flavour mozzarella and (4) the tiny mouse-​turd like capers I asked for specially we’re completely tasteless too (seemed like they’d been sitting in water all day). Which is all something of a disappointment — a potentially great local pizzeria less than 300m from my front door, needing potentially a big rethink, above all, price wise, considering the quality of what’s on offer. Go to PizzaExpress instead.

Very impressed with Sodo in Honor Oak. It has no specific sign but i think it’s an old Italian spot anyway? Right on the corner just passed the station.
Excellent classic pizza’s, small selection, plus a couple of specials… fresh ingredients and pleasant service. The manager was very nice. Oh and the olives were superb.
Very reasonable priced, 2 pizzas, olives and 2 glasses of wine. £30 with a tip.
One thing I will say… lots of kids! My friends who’ve been before also said the same. So if that’s not your thing! Or you can sit up the bar like we did, away from the noise.

A very warm and helpful welcome (went in without a reservation). Has a great atmosphere and the pizzas were delicious. Rustic, great flavour and uncomplicated.

Great pizzas and would be unbelievable if they delivered! We had the cured meat pizza and the special for this week which was called purple pork (I think). Both delicious.