L'Antica Pizzeria da Michele.

L'Antica Pizzeria da Michele

The oven on the ground floor weighs 2,300 kilos and runs at 500C, which is the only way a Neapolitan base cooks in ninety seconds.

Why go

The Condurro family have been making pizza in Naples since 1870. Michele Condurro opened his first pizzeria in 1906 and moved it to Via Cesare Sersale in 1930, where it still stands, and Elizabeth Gilbert sent a global readership to it in 2006 with Eat, Pray, Love (venue). The Baker Street room is the London expression of that: an open kitchen upstairs built around the oven, 120 seats, three rooms and a bar in the basement, no bookings at any site. Harden's diners rate the London pizzas as outstanding and huge, delicious and authentically Neapolitan2. The same survey notes the thing worth knowing: the London kitchens sell far more than the marinara and margherita that Michele Condurro said a pizzeria should be limited to.

Order this / avoid

• Order: the margherita with double mozzarella, which is the exact order Gilbert was told to place in Naples, or the marinara, no cheese, at around a tenner.
• Avoid: planning to book, because the group takes walk-ins only. And avoid trusting anything written about the Stoke Newington branch, which has not carried this name for years.

What locals & experts say

• Harden's, whose survey polls diners, across successive editions: Outstanding pizzas live up to the highest expectations at the London outposts of a Neapolitan original going back five generations and 150 years. Elsewhere in the same record: huge, delicious and authentically Neapolitan. The survey's own caveat is that the London kitchens merrily break late founder Michele Condurro's commandment that only two types of pizza are allowed, the Marinara and the Margherita.2
• SquareMeal, on the London history, which is the thing most coverage gets wrong: the first London site has changed its name (following a legal fallout with the original) to Pizzeria Stokey, but this Baker Street branch is still going strong. Its food recommendation on the same page comes from a visit to the Stokey site and is therefore not used here.3
• The Infatuation confirms the split from the other side, filing 125 Stoke Newington Church Street under a different name entirely and noting that it used to be called L'Antica Pizzeria da Michele.4
• No named critic and no chef vote. The London chef votes were searched on 1 August 2026 with nothing for this venue, and no bylined review of the Baker Street address was reached. The rung reflects that.

Good to know

• Where: 199 Baker Street NW1 6UY, near the tube, Madame Tussauds and the Sherlock Holmes museum.
• Which one: this is Marylebone. There is a Soho sibling at 44 Old Compton Street, plus Manchester and Amsterdam. The Stoke Newington site that opened in 2016 is no longer part of the business.
• Timing: 11am to midnight Monday to Saturday, noon to midnight Sunday.
• Booking: none taken anywhere in the group. Walk in.
• Size: 120 seats over two floors, which is why the queue moves.
• Hygiene: the FSA records rating 5 for 199 Baker Street, inspected 26 September 2025, with components 5, 0 and 0, where lower is better.5
• Michelin: not recorded either way. Our cached Michelin data is stars only, so its silence means nothing about guide selection.

Verdict

could-visit — The oven weighs 2,300 kilos, sits in an open kitchen on the ground floor and runs at 500C, which is the temperature a Neapolitan pizza actually needs. The name goes back to the Condurro family in Naples in 1870, and Michele Condurro opened his first pizzeria in 1906 before moving to Via Cesare Sersale in 1930, where it still is and where Elizabeth Gilbert sent several million readers. Harden's diners call the London pizzas outstanding and authentically Neapolitan. They also note that the London kitchens break Condurro's own rule that a pizzeria should sell two pizzas, marinara and margherita, and nothing else, which tells you something about what a licensed international brand does with an inheritance. Go if you are near Baker Street, order the margherita with double mozzarella, and walk in, because nowhere in the group takes bookings. Do not read the Stoke Newington reviews: that site lost the name in a legal fight and is somebody else now.