Italian restaurant near Queen Square, Bloomsburya 10-minute walk to Fiena

Queen Square was built between 1716 and 1725, on the garden of the house of Sir John Cutler. It was originally left open to the north, so residents could look out to the hills of Hampstead and Highgate. The statue in the square was long thought to be Queen Anne, but is now believed to show Queen Charlotte. Her husband, King George III, was treated for mental illness in a house on the square towards the end of his reign, and legend says the pub on the south-west corner, the Queen's Larder, was where Charlotte stored food for him.

The church of St George the Martyr, built by public subscription in 1706, stands at the southern end. Its rector from 1747 to 1765 was the antiquary William Stukeley. Background from Wikipedia's Queen Square page.

By the mid-19th century the grand houses were turning into charities, hospitals and colleges; Elizabeth Malleson started the Working Women's College here in 1864. Today the east side is home to the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, often simply called "Queen Square", and the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine, with UCL's Institute of Neurology in the north-east corner. At the southern end are the Mary Ward Centre for adult education and the former Italian Hospital, now part of Great Ormond Street Hospital. The novelist Fanny Burney lived on the square from 1770 to 1774.

It's about 780 metres, around 10 minutes on foot (walking route from OpenStreetMap), heading north to Judd Street. More walks nearby: Great Ormond Street Hospital, Lamb's Conduit Street, the Foundling Museum and Mecklenburgh Square.

Morning: we open at 08:00, and the breakfast menu runs until 14:00. See breakfast until 2pm and breakfast meetings.

Lunch and dinner: the main menu runs from midday: pizza, pasta, risotto and grills, with lighter plates like the Goat cheese salad or a Chicken Caesar. See salads and light lunches, pizza Margherita and dining alone.

Guests from the hospitals and offices nearby often want something quick and good. One guest wrote: The pasta and pizza were both delicious, and the portions were quite generous. (Google review) And Normof: My partner and I had pizzas and they are absolutely delicious. (Normof, Google review)

“The pizzas are absolutely outstanding”

Amir, Google reviews, 2026