Tenner or Less: 2 Girls’ Cafe, Peckham Rye
Seriously tasty vegan grub in a chilled SE15 hangout
Peckham
South London Gallery launches old fire station extension
Opening later this month, the Peckham Road institution now has four more floors to play with
Find “Hope” in Peckham
Oh my. One of south London’s most successful pub groups is building its next new opening from scratch
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 be surprised… Yesterday we tried a new-to-us pub in Kennington for a Sunday roast. The Black Prince, on the SE11 road of the same name, had been recommended to me …
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Review: City Love at the Bussey Building, Peckham ****
Lucy has developed better coping mechanisms: a five-year career plan and a paragraph of The Secret every night before bed Newcomers to the city imagine the rest of the London population in two ways. They see the faceless angry commuters who hate each other and everything, or they see the smug couples who seem to …
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Pinboard 5 September: free films, a garden fresh dinner and some old-school technology
Larkhall Park: The Stockwell Festival Unless you live next to Larkhall Park, you may not know that it is about to play host to Stockwell festival on Saturday. Slightly in the shadow of south London’s louder Brixton Splash and Lambeth Country Show, this fun little festival has tonnes to make it a day full of fun …
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Pinboard: The Peckham and Nunhead Free Film Festival
The fourth outing of this excellent annual event officially kicks off tomorrow, 5 September, running for 10 days across all sorts of interesting local venues. But tonight a special event will open proceedings with a flourish. The Metamorphosis Project will transform the 70-foot facade of the tower block pictured above, on Nunhead’s Brayards Estate, with …
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Pinboard 30 August: Peckham gets a fashion line, art battles rage and a Stockwell chef goes big up north
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
Pinboard 15 August: Peckham’s Peace Picnic, an anarchic art fête – and get your Oedipus complex for free
Peckham: SE15’s Peace Picnic is back This Saturday, two years after the rioting that hit Peckham so hard, the area’s newly annual Peace Picnic doubles as the culmination of the Elephant and the Nun festival (it spans Elephant & Castle to Nunhead – geddit?). Kicking off at 1pm the picnic runs till 11pm and promises: …
Pinboard 1 August: streetfood at the Bussey Building, Meantime Brewery shows off and Brixton set to party hard at the Splash
Peckham: Kerb comes back to SE15 Were you one of these happy people scoffing high-class street food in the Bussey Building car park a couple of weeks ago? If so, do you want some more? (If not, are you feeling hungry?) In both cases you’re in luck as KERB was such a success that the …
