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This award winning pub was The Times 1999 Pimms Pub of the Year (ranked 3rd), The Duke of Cambridge was the only London pub finalist. It was also Evening Standard London Pub of the Year in 1998. The Duke of Cambridge is an imposing three storey late Victorian building located on the corner of Battersea Bridge Road and Banbury Street, which is primarily a residential area.

Total indoor space is 2,000 sq ft, the ground floor houses the bar, and there are both front and rear gardens offering a total of 500 sq ft of space. The indoor seating capacity is 88, with a further 35 seats outdoors, whilst the private dining room can seat 20 people.

Food might include: oysters Rockefeller, grilled with chorizo, spinach and hollandaise; pan fried foie gras on brioche toast, Kahlua butter with fig and walnut compote or baby spinach, macadamia and cherry salad with crisp pancetta dressing and jarlsberg to begin a meal with with.

Followed by: bacon wrapped venison steaks with a blueberry port glace and twice baked potatoes; soy glazed salmon and ginger garlic potato spring roll with a sesame vegetable salad or sea bass fillet, pesto and tomato roulade.

Their tempting desserts run from apple cobbler with crème anglaise to grand marnier chocolate brownie with ice cream or maple crème brûlée. No wonder that it is popular!

Opened in the summer of 2005, Zero Quattro has quickly gained a decent reputation for serving authentic, regional Italian food; it is situated on The Ridgway in the heart of Wimbledon Village, an area that is conspicuously lacking in good quality places to eat.

The restaurant is owned and managed by Giovanni Agozzino, a genial host who ensures that everyone is always made extremely welcome, especially families. The menu is complemented by an extensive and well selected wine list, featuring classic Italian wines, as well as some regional wines for you to choose from.

Few curry houses acknowledge the fact that Indian or Pakistani food can be kept simple and tasty without an overwhelming use of spices, and Mirch Masala capitalises on this at all their restaurants spread across the UK. Their cuisine is full of flavour and presents an exciting combination of fresh ingredients that never fails to inspire. Numerous awards and accolades have come their way, firmly establishing them as one of the finest Indian restaurants in the UK.

Their menu offers starters of fish tikka, boneless and tender chunks of fish marinated in spices and cooked in a tandoor, followed by numerous karahi dishes featuring either chicken or mince or prawns to name only a few. They also have some excellent grills and their rice dishes such as biryani are hot favourites. Indulge in the kheer, sweet rice pudding, and sip on mango lassi, a chilled yoghurt drink to keep your cool. Do note that Mirch Masala is BYOB and they serve only halal meat

Basilico has other branches in Fulham Road, Finchley Road and East Sheen. All trade strongly on presenting pizzas that are much nearer the real thing than the competition, you will certainly find that everything is much more imaginative than the average pizzeria, and naturally they have that essential for flavour, the wood fired oven.

Certainly customers seem pretty content with what's on offer, particularly the inventive and unusual toppings, like artichokes, chorizo, capers, roasted peppers, salted anchovies, free range eggs, jalapeno peppers, basil pesto, spinach, calamata olives, goat's cheese, spring onion, pineapple, fresh green chillies, wild mushrooms, meat balls, prosciutto crudo, Italian salami, prosciutto cotto ham, buffalo mozzarella, rocket and smoked chicken - quite an impressive list; suggesting that this might indeed be so near the genuine article as to make little difference.

However, the menu goes well beyond mere pizzas, with excellent salads, from the classic Caesar to marinated olives and feta cheese, as well as the delicious sounding matador - oven roasted Spanish chorizo with new potatoes and marinated vegetables. They even have their own special blend of coffee. So for a taste of the real Italy, Basilico could be the answer.