Eating & Drinking

Culture

Free weekend? Explore secret Camberwell

Photographer and SE5 resident Tom Leighton shares his guide to “secret” Camberwell with us – the best but not best-known places locally to shop, eat, drink, listen or just hang around

Food

Free Weekend: is bread-making really that difficult?

Thought baking an impossible task? Newbie Sarah Fox tackles her fears head on

Eating & Drinking

Where can you eat south London’s best fish and chips?

How easy is it to find a decent fish supper without having to fork out at gastro pub prices? In honour of 2013 being the …

Eating & Drinking

Why It Matters: putting some thought into vegetarian menus

What do Honest Burger in Brixton, the Black Prince, Kennington, the Commercial in Herne Hill and Ganapati in Peckham all have in common? You might …

Coffee

What are south London’s five best coffee spots?

A while back our writer, Holly Atkins, wrote about impending motherhood – and the impact it might have on her south London independent café habit (never mind …

Drink

Review: Prima Donna, Brixton

I’m pretty sure you can eat your way around the world in Brixton Market. Whatever floats your culinary boat, be it Jamaican, Mexican, Italian, Thai …

Eating & Drinking

Southsayer: Toby Maclean, structural engineer and owner of Camberwell bar/restaurant, Cool Cat’s Cafe

Everyone should have a Friday night at Giuseppe’s off Borough High Street at least once Toby Maclean is a 42-year-old “resolute Londoner”: born in Wandsworth, …

Community

Pinboard: The Brixton Food Festival

Coffee, Caribbean food and cocktails: Brixton’s food joints get together to show off  the borough’s food scene in a week long foodie festival Forget dreary …

Community

Pinboard 18 September: beautiful photos of pubs at closing time

Meditation on an Ending is a haunting exhibition of photographs of pubs at closing time is on in Bermondsey until 5 October. There’s a fascinating …

Drink

Southsayer: Jerry Gardiner, volunteer for St. Mungo’s Putting Down Roots project

What is the most important lesson life has taught me? To survive. Jerry Gardiner works for the Putting Down Roots project run by the homeless …