Angels & Gypsies, Church Street Hot…

Press Reviews (4)

• Lisa Markwell (24th June 2010)
  15/20
  
  Given her preconceptions of Camberwell, the critic is surprised by the “serene, churchy theme” of this new Spanish restaurant, which she finds “full on a Tuesday night”. And no wonder: it turns out to be a “destination restaurant in south London easily good enough to tempt my north-of-the river friends. (As a PS, the critic provides some local knowlege that a new Chinese canteen called Silk Road, nearby, does “some of the best dumplings in London”.)
• Marina O'Loughlin (13th May 2010)
  
  Praise for this Camberwell tapas restaurant in the “funky” Church Street Hotel, where “brick walls, Spanish tiles and stained glass add up to somewhere that wouldn’t look out of place in Seville.” Classic tapas dishes are “well-executed”, and more “intriguing” dishes, such as mackerel with chermoula and saffron potatoes also deliver.
• David Sexton (21st January 2010)
  3/5 stars
  
  Inspired, one assumes, by Time Out’s positive review last week, the Standard’s man heads for “[t]he funky Church Street Hotel [which] opened here, in this grubby, hectic [Camberwell] highway, back in May 2007”. His journey is rewarded with all-round success. The restaurant occupies a “big, handsome room”, and he finds it “has a lot of atmosphere” too. Service is “composed and friendly”, and even the food satisfies: “Angels & Gypsies delivers a tapas menu at table, an easy way to eat, and the prices are remarkably low for the quality and quantity”.
• Charmaine Mok (14th January 2010)
  4/5 stars
  
  “Camberwell’s the new Shoreditch”, the critic tells us. (You learn these things, reading Time Out.) “But what Camberwell has never had before is a destination eatery. Until now.”