Guidebook for Peckham
Food Scene
Really good value for money, and lovely owners. Take away is available.
9 locals recommend
Lovely House Dim Sum Restaurant
119 Bellenden RdReally good value for money, and lovely owners. Take away is available.
Anderson & Co
139 Bellenden RdLovely independent tea shop with home made cakes
Ganapati
38 Holly GroveGood South Indian cuisine
67 Peckham Rd
Cafe in the (free!) South London Gallery. A good option for brunch.
Essentials
It's very close, and you can buy everything you need here (though it's not the cheapest or best place to buy food in Peckham)
New Gallery London
It's very close, and you can buy everything you need here (though it's not the cheapest or best place to buy food in Peckham)
Cut price supermarket. Good quality food, friendly staff. Take your own shopping bag, and be prepared to queue for a few minutes at the checkout, though.
SE15 5DP
Peckham High StreetCut price supermarket. Good quality food, friendly staff. Take your own shopping bag, and be prepared to queue for a few minutes at the checkout, though.
SE15 5EW
Central Peckham's main supermarket.
Arts & Culture
London's most successful independent cinema, and probably London's cheapest cinema!
213 locals recommend
Peckhamplex
95A Rye LnLondon's most successful independent cinema, and probably London's cheapest cinema!
This arts venue with regular schedules events ranging from DJs to opera. The heart of hip Peckham. I've never been there...
67 locals recommend
The CLF Art Cafe
133 Rye LnThis arts venue with regular schedules events ranging from DJs to opera. The heart of hip Peckham. I've never been there...
Shopping
Choumert Rd
Aka Little Lagos for its West African retailers.
Main shopping street. Great for cheap clothes, pound shops and extreme randomness including a combined mobile phone / nail salon / greengrocer / internet cafe.
Rye Ln
Main shopping street. Great for cheap clothes, pound shops and extreme randomness including a combined mobile phone / nail salon / greengrocer / internet cafe.
Peckham's secondary shopping street is an astonishing contrast to Rye Lane : expensive vintage clothes shops, a destination restaurant, & street furniture designed by Zandra Rhodes. Bafflingly posh.
36 locals recommend
Bellenden Road
Bellenden RoadPeckham's secondary shopping street is an astonishing contrast to Rye Lane : expensive vintage clothes shops, a destination restaurant, & street furniture designed by Zandra Rhodes. Bafflingly posh.
You will never go hungry for fried chicken on Peckham High Street, though you might get food poisoning.
Peckham High St
You will never go hungry for fried chicken on Peckham High Street, though you might get food poisoning.
Everything Else
BP
747-759 Old Kent RdCashpoint inside!
Drinks & Nightlife
Food, drink, hipsters. As cool as Frank's Bar, but without the queue to get it. And it's next door to the flat!
Pelican House
92 Peckham RoadFood, drink, hipsters. As cool as Frank's Bar, but without the queue to get it. And it's next door to the flat!