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A friend came up to visit and I searched on Google, the EDF, and TopTable for recommended restaurants in the Peckham Rye/East Dulwich/Nunhead/SE15 locale, with limited results. My friend, however, had managed to find a restaurant that had piqued his interest, especially as he loves Italian food, and suggested we try Il Giardino, on Blenheim Grove, just by Peckham Rye train station.


What a find! Tiny, cosy, friendly, and most importantly, authentic. I spent many years working in restaurants, including one notable stretch in an Italian owned and chef-ed restaurant in Sydney, Australia, so although I wouldn't say I was a fussy diner, I do know the difference between authentic and 'popular culture' when it comes to Italian food, and this was the real deal (although the antipasto is small... but it's not expensive, so you get what you pay for).


I was extremely impressed by this little gem in my neighbourhood, almost so impressed that I don't want to share it... but I also don't want to lose it, so I'd rather have to make sure I book ahead to get a table than go there and find it's no longer open! Just... if you go there... don't tell anyone!! Ssssshhh!!

Linzi_77 Wrote:

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> A friend came up to visit and I searched on

> Google, the EDF, and TopTable for recommended

> restaurants in the Peckham Rye/East

> Dulwich/Nunhead/SE15 locale, with limited results.


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This forum is full of threads about recommended restaurants :))

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