Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in London Brixton
Hardens guides have spent 30 years compiling reviews of the best Brixton restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 23 restaurants in Brixton and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Brixton restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
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1. Chishuru
West African restaurant in Brixton
Unit 9 Market Row - SW9
She won the Brixton Kitchen competition in 2019, and now Adejoké ‘Joké’ Bakare's supperclub Chishuru has become a permanent restaurant, featuring West African flavours using British produce.
2. Party Store Pizza
Pizza restaurant in Brixton
443 Coldharbour Lane - SW9
A Detroit-style, deep-pan pizzeria from Matt Wells (co-founder of The Dairy and Dandy) and music promoter Fred Letts.
3. The Tapas Room
Spanish restaurant in Brixton
52-53 Brixton Village, Coldharbour Lane - SW9
A third branch for the growin SE London group.
4. Only Food and Courses
British, Traditional restaurant in Brixton
Pop Brixton, 49 Brixton Station Road - SW9
Serving eighties and nineties dishes, this shipping container restaurant from former Shard and Chelsea FC chef Robbie Lorraine has been modelled on "a classic greasy spoon".
5. Naughty Piglets
Steaks & grills restaurant in Brixton
28 Brixton Water Ln - SW2
Joe and Margaux Sharratt’s “distressed-chic Brixton/Brockwell Park fixture” continues to win “top marks” for its French-inspired “small-plates at reasonable prices” (“if I lived next door I’d get rid of my kitchen!”). The “friendly, chatty and informal staff” and “South London style” also go down well, although the occasional reporter is “not so sure about the natural wines”. The same team has opened a sister venue at Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Other Palace theatre in Victoria (see also).
6. Kricket
Indian restaurant in Brixton
41-43 Atlantic Road - SW9
2017 Review: “A brilliant and totally different, fresh and wonderfully subtle fusion of southern Indian and European food” is “served up with a smile and music in a metal container in Brixton” as part of a “fun” and “funky” community project; a Soho branch is set to open in the autumn of 2016.
7. Pop Brixton
International restaurant in Brixton
49 Brixton Station Road - SW9
2018 Review: Over 50 traders help transform this formerly disused plot in Brixton into a funky community space with numerous street-food options (a partnership with Lambeth Council currently planned to run till August 2018). Survey favourites include Baba G’s Bhangra Burger (“a well thought out Indian take on burgers”, with “phenomenal mango chips and lamb jalfrezi burger”), Duck Duck Goose (“simple but excellent duck, rice and greens”… “if nothing else, come and marvel at how 3 not-small blokes manage in a kitchen that size in a sea container”), Donostia Social Club and Koi Ramen. See also Smoke & Salt.
8. Boqueria
Spanish restaurant in Brixton
192 Acre Ln - SW2
2017 Review: “Bustling and busy” tapas bar between Clapham and Brixton, now with a Battersea offshoot. Both offer a “jolly” and “fun-packed” destination for “interesting tapas, drawing inspiration from the traditional (patatas bravas and tortilla) and beyond (tuna with almond and soy sauce)”.
9. Salon Brixton
British, Modern restaurant in Brixton
18 Market Row - SW9
“Ambitious modern British cuisine” – an “interesting” menu of “trendy but unfussy dishes that are well-prepared” – plus a good list of natural wines win consistent high praise for Nicholas Balfe’s “buzzy spot in Brixton market”, although “it can get a bit manic”. The team has opened a second venue, Levan in Peckham (see also).
10. Nanban
Japanese restaurant in Brixton
426 Coldharbour Ln - SW9
2019 Review: “Different and great flavours” are to be discovered at former MasterChef winner Tim Anderson’s “fun” fixture, where he cooks up his own distinctive and very alternative ‘Japanese Soul Food’ (incorporating eclectic ingredients from nearby Brixton Market).
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