My guilty guilty pleasure? Pie, mash and liquor from Manzes, under my flat. A “Danish Croydoner” is how Sarah Maria Klitgaard describes herself. She has lived on Tower Bridge Road for the past three years – which is handy right now as, on the side from her day job as a PR, she’s busy helping …
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Peckham: Rye Lane inspires a fashion range Walworth: a farewell party for re:store Stockwell: Canton Arms chef does good over the river Bermondsey: Wherehouse art show Nunhead: The Corner Pop-Up Gallery Words: Kate Burt & Sarah Fox
Seb Emina, aka Malcolm Eggs, is author of The Breakfast Bible and editor-at-large of The London Review of Breakfasts. He’s also a born and bred southeast Londoner. Who better to offer a guide?
Part of their strategy to avoid the Borough Market-fication is their policy of no hot food sales After tasting a bottle of the rather good beer in Camberwell’s new restaurant/bar, the Cool Cat’s Cafe, we enquired as to its provenance. “It’s brewed in Bermondsey,” the owner told us. “Oh? Tell us more…” The owner looked …
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Earlier this week, our north of the river sister site, Kentishtowner, tapped into a hot topic in their neck of the woods: KT has no local cinema, and the website is campaigning to get one. The northsiders’ campaign was sparked by the impending closure of NW5’s Pizza Express, as the grade II listed building it …
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Shane Meadows does the Stone Roses – in Brixton (and Clapham and Greenwich) “It takes time for people to fall in love with ya,” says Stone Roses frontman, Ian Brown in an interview at the height of his band’s fame. “But,” he goes on, with a flicker of a smile, “it’s inevitable.” It’s a legendary …
1. Beautiful photography in Forest Hill Megan Taylor is a brilliant documentary photographer whose work you’re likely to have come across in the various broadsheets she works for. Or maybe you’ve seen her on the excellent interiors blog, My Friend’s House, run by her (anonymous) sometime journalistic collaborator, who says of Taylor: “Her way with …
News that The Ivy House in Nunhead has been saved is proof that south London’s pubs have always combined the idiosyncratic with the inspirational, as SE15 resident Paul Moody explains In December 2011 The Montague Arms in New Cross closed its doors for the final time. Run by charismatic landlord and landlady Stan and Betty …
Any pub with a sign above the bar saying: “No bloody swearing”, and another reading “Hands off the barmaid”, is a pub that’s got to make you feel warm inside. There’s even a classic, cardboard Planters’ peanut display, the sort that gradually reveals a scantily clad model as packets of nuts disappear. Nostalgia tramples on …
