Eats Dulwich

used to love Meson don felipe with the funny guitarist who used to climb up and play on a podium, still a nice lively atmosphere and we still pop in if at the young vic but there's a lot better Spanish eateries near Borough market which is closer to the Tate too. Barrafina, Brindisa (though neither are cheap) and a few weeks ago we tried one called Parrillan, where they bring a little grill to your table and you cook your own tapas - this one certainly ticks the box for quirky but the portions are small so the bill can mount up.

last week's Janda Diner visit reviewed. https://open.substack.com/pub/eatsdulwich/p/restaurant-review-janda-diner?r=8oe6m&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Went to Janda last night - it was a toss up between this and En Root and Janda won the toss! We booked on the day and it was pretty rammed, so booking advisable. Review to follow, but yes, we enjoyed it. Bit noisy because it was full.

I don't think it's sewage, I don't think it's weed but it's familiar and not very nice. Mainly on the corner of Lordship Lane/Townley Road.

Thanks, i don't know those other restaurants but they sound good. There was a very good Malaysian restaurant on Edgware Road but I forget the name (not Melur, further north than that). tbh though I have to choose carefully with Malaysian, I do find some dishes very hot. Don't know en root but if it's plant-based it's right up my street. Thanks.

Slightly smug review but really want to try this now - best Malaysian in London is Roti King near Euston - be good to have somewhere just as good more local!

Slight crossed wires I think, but either way you are right. The venue in question I referred to as being in Bellenden is 139 Fika which is in Bellenden Road, not Forza Wine, which is in Rye Lane. I talked about Bellenden estate agent baloney here and was completely in agreement with you. https://open.substack.com/pub/eatsdulwich/p/restaurant-review-139-fika?r=8oe6m&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Very good point well made.

Ok, I'll bite. It depends on what you are after (and budget) but our favourite is Forza Wine. We went when it was cold and dark, but it's a rooftop location so should be even better if it's sunny and bright. Link to review below. There's also a recent review on the site of 139 Fika which was pretty good. I'd say it was in Bellenden but they say it's in Peckham (maybe because it makes it sound cooler!). https://open.substack.com/pub/eatsdulwich/p/restaurant-review-forza-wine?r=8oe6m&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Do I get any bonus points for seeing Carter USM's previous band Jamie Wednesday? (I think Newtown Neurotics were mates of Atilla - part of the Harlow anarcho-punk scene).

do you mean this? https://send.royalmail.com/ Not sure if you can do it on the phone but if you follow the online link it gives lots of different options such as tracked delivery for different prices. You need to put basic details in to get to prices page.

Apologies if this has already been mentioned as it's a very long thread. While it would be a great shame if post offices closed down for people that need them, is everyone aware of this service? I didn't know about it until this week. https://send.royalmail.com/ I had to send a small package and it was difficult for me to leave the house so i ordered online for the item to be picked up - it was £3.35 for a small package so i don't think significantly pricier than if I'd done it over the PO counter. And it was totally seamless, I didn't even have to print a label they bring one to your door to stick on when they collect the package. Highly recommended.

Following the recommendations on this thread here I went to Watsons last night. Review to follow. i'm not going to post review link here as it'll start to look like I'm spamming EDF if I post every review! You'll have to subscribe. Did I mention it's free to subscribe? link is here: https://eatsdulwich.substack.com/

There are so many variables. Good chefs can having bad nights, post-Brexit staff shortages, your dish might be brilliant, your friend might order something that's inedible. In the end I think the best option is just to go to the restaurant which has the best overall reviews. If all the reviews are bad then avoid, but even if all the reviews are good that's not a cast iron gaurantee.

If you've seen the original longer post then you'll know that you've taken that out of context. I don't charge but didn't feel I even needed to say that – you've made it sound like I do charge and that's why I deleted this part of the post saying I don't charge. When I read back what I'd written it sounded like I was defending myself against criticisms that hadn't even been made so i cut it out. And now you've made that kind of criticism anyway I should've left it in. What do you mean "not charging people to read your reviews of their local restaurants."? You make it sound like i'm sneaking into SE22 from somewhere else. I live here - they are reviews of my local restaurants!

I've not posted any restaurant reviews here for a while, but with the long Easter weekend approaching I thought I'd serve an update. I recently reviewed The Palmerston and elsewhere became involved in a debate about the best pub lunch in SE22. So which ones do readers here currently rate? Yes I know people can just do a search for "Best pub lunch" but as well as new eateries popping up all the time two of the places I've reviewed – EDT and Bishop – have had a reboot since I reviewed them so I'm interested in hearing how they are doing now. Click eats dulwich to read reviews.

If you are referring to me you don't have to pay to read my reviews and I'm not even sure if you have to sign up. If that feels too sinister you can just click on the links as far as I know, but the difference is if you sign up you receive the - free - reviews by email whenever they appear. Quite a useful - free - service I think. I'm not going to spam the EDF every time I run a review, but here's a link to the site as I've run a few new reviews in the last few weeks. https://eatsdulwich.substack.com/

Just to shift the subject slightly, nobody recently seems to have mentioned cost of parking permits (apologies if it has been mentioned, there's a lot of pages!). We've just had our letter asking us to renew our brown waste bins. It is currently £80 a year, double the price it was three years ago. If CPZ comes in is there anything to stop Southwark doubling the price of permits in three years?

Are there no daily collections from post boxes any more? On Wednesday Feb 12 I posted a Valentine's Card in the postbox which is about 20 metres from our house to make sure it arrived by Feb 14 (yes I know I could've put it thru letterbox but that's not as romantic is it). After I posted it I noticed the little metal thingy said "Monday" but I thought this must be a mistake and had not been changed. However, Valentine's Day came and went and no card arrived. In fact it arrived on the following Tuesday, Feb 18 so I'm guessing the Monday collection metal thingy was correct. Has it ever been announced officially that there are no longer daily collections from letterboxes? I remember a time, not even that long ago, when the red postman pat van would pull up at least twice a day, every weekday.

I just find getting a bus all the way from the elephant too stressful. there's either an 'incident' on the bus, or it waits at Camberwell to change drivers (I'm looking at you 176) or to even out the timetable. But as you say each to their own! The Elephant is a real mess at the moment. I think i came out of the other shopping centre exit a couple of weeks ago so it was open then and wanted to get a train but you couldn't get to the overground via the shopping centre, you had to walk all the way round the back, which was even further than the ED bus stop!

It's Blackfriars or Elephant to Herne hill, not London Bridge. You can also get train to Denmark Hill from Elephant so if the timing is right it's a lot faster than a bus, and then pick up bus from DH. It's awful at Elephant coming out of northern line exit and having to walk all way to Walworth road to get bus.

They posted this on instagram today "The Bishop will be closed for a while today whilst some repairs take place - we will keep you informed of when we will re open" : https://www.instagram.com/p/DGLPlyRtpcK/

Would be interested to hear other views on Maria's Tortilla. New review of somewhere else up today. I was in a good mood when i wrote it- Spurs had just beaten Man U. https://eatsdulwich.substack.com/p/the-cherry-tree