Singapore-born chef Abby Lee opens the first bricks-and-mortar version of her modern Malaysian venture Mambow in Clapton next week. Abby made her debut with Mambow as a pop-up in Commercial Street in 2020, and under lockdown she distributed Nyonya-style meal kits celebrating her Peranakan or Chinese-Malaysian heritage. Moving on to Peckham Market, Mambow won rave […]
Senegalese London restaurant Little Baobab is hosting a launch party tonight to mark its permanent new perch at Peckham Levels. Founder Khadim Mane, aka Khadim Mbamba, has run the business on a more informal basis for the past eight years, offering catering services alongside pop-ups and residencies around north and east London. Originally from Dakar, […]
Luke Findlay is launching a second branch of his ‘traditionally inauthentic’ ramen concept Supa Ya today, in Peckham’s Rye Lane. The former Berber & Q head chef developed the idea as a supper club in his Hackney flat, mixing Japanese ramen with classic British and European flavours, before road-testing it as a pop-up and opening […]
Forza Win, the former pop-up serving simple but delicious Italian meals in a Peckham warehouse which closed down after a row with the landlord two years ago, is to reopen in September. It will take over the vacant site in Camberwell Church Street formerly home to Angels and Gypsies. The same group operates Forza Wine, […]
Salon in Brixton Market, the former pop-up that graduated into an influential wine-focused restaurant over the course of a decade, is to close down permanently in the face of challenging trading conditions. Its founding trio – Nicholas Balfe, Matthew Bushnell and Mark Gurney – went on to open restaurant Levan and the more casual diner Larry’s […]
With Songkran (Thai New Year) around the corner, 13-15 April, we’ve decided to bring you a list of the top 10 places to get an authentic taste of Thai cooking in London, according to our survey. Still one of our reporters’ favourite cuisines for a cheap eat that packs a big punch… Som Saa E1 “Your […]
London’s NYC-inspired pizza-by-the-slice people Voodoo Ray’s have announced the upcoming launch of their fourth restaurant. Voodoo Ray’s Peckham arrives on Thursday 14 September with a 500 slice giveaway over the course of the opening weekend, as well as offering all customers 50% off food from opening day until Sunday 1 October, inclusive. Opening Weekend details: Thursday 14 September – […]
Meat and fish are grilled in a special coal oven at this new restaurant occupying the beautifully restored former Grade II listed ticket office, originally part of Peckham Rye’s train station in the 1930s. Coal Rooms from the entrepreneurs behind the Old Spike Roastery, Camberwell’s Spike + Earl, Peckham restaurant Aside and coffee-based charity Change Please, […]
We’ve teamed up with the good people of Twizoo to announce the top 5 trending restaurants on Twitter each week in London. Twizoo is an app that gives restaurant recommendations based on what people are saying on Twitter, and analyses over 50,000 incoming tweets per week to determine which restaurants are attracting the most buzz. […]
Fresh from a successful residency at Rye Wax, Vietnamese kitchen Banh Banh will open the doors to its first permanent site this weekend in Peckham Rye. Early bird diners can grab 50% off their food bill. Run by a team of five siblings born and raised in Peckham, Banh Banh will serve fragrant Vietnamese street […]
