Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in London Lambeth
Hardens guides have spent 31 years compiling reviews of the best Lambeth restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 6 restaurants in Lambeth and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Lambeth restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
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1. The Garden Cafe at the Garden Museum
British, Modern restaurant in Lambeth
5 Lambeth Palace Rd - SE1
Off a “beautiful open courtyard”, the ambitious café of Lambeth’s Garden Museum is “well worth a trip”. The “fresh, seasonal cooking” – both “well-executed classics and more unusual, interesting dishes” – is prepared by a kitchen headed by chef George Ryle, formerly of Padella.
2. Pharmacy 2, Newport Street Gallery
British, Modern restaurant in Vauxhall
Newport St - SE11
2018 Review: Mark Hix’s wilfully “sterile” dining room in Damien Hirst’s Vauxhall art gallery splits reporters – sometimes in the same sentence! “Tiny portions make for a disappointing and overpriced experience – but the food is lovely and the room is amazing” is one example. Another is: “this could be a disastrous concept, but in fact it seems to work quite well”.
3. Strangers Dining Room, House of Commons
British, Traditional restaurant in Westminster
St Margarets St - SW1A
2018 Review: The House of Commons now opens this august chamber (created in 1867) to the public, and bookings must be made on the website (max 8) – expect rigorous security checks! “It’s a wonderful day out” and even if elements of the experience are a bit “clunky”, it’s worth it for the chance to dine in the hallowed halls of Westminster. Only a set menu formula (currently £75pp) is available; bookings currently only open up 90 days in advance.
4. La Barca
Italian restaurant in Southwark
80-81 Lower Marsh - SE1
This “family-owned Italian restaurant” is a well-known landmark behind Waterloo Station “that feels like it hasn’t changed in 50 years” – it even “seems the same staff has been there” since its 1970s opening. But “they’re friendly and cheerful” and ensure this is “the place to go after performances at the Old Vic”, almost opposite – as thespians including Sir Ian McKellen, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino have done in the past.
5. Hannah
Japanese restaurant in Southbank
Southbank Riverside, Belvedere Road - SE1
“A great addition to the area” – the reason to re-evaluate this hotel Japanese at County Hall includes the CV of chef patron Daisuke Shimoyama, who joined in early 2020. Daisuke spent six years as head chef at UMU under the immensely talented Yoshinori Ishii. At lunch you can eat for as little as £17 from the bento box selection, but aficionados of Japanese cuisine will go for the evening omakase tasting menu. Staff are “very pleasant and efficient” and the “zingy” cuisine is “really imaginative and delicious”. More reports please!
6. Masters Super Fish
Fish & chips restaurant in Southwark
191 Waterloo Rd - SE1
For a “cheap ’n’ cheerful” fish ’n’ chips hit, fans still recommend a meal at the Formica tables of this long-standing Waterloo chippy.
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