Where's good to eat locally?!

[charliebubs]

I've got a friend from back home visiting this weekend and want to go somewhere nice for dinner on Saturday locally. Not too pretentious or expensive!

I've heard Il Giardino (not sure of spelling!) in Peckham is good. Any other recommendations please folks?!

Thank you :)

[JDR]

There are loads of threads on here. Il Giardino I've not been to recently but was busy when I've been past. Gowlett for pizza, Begging Bowl for Thai, Montpelier for decent grub ditto the great exhibition. More expensive but lovely are Camberwell favourites angels and Gypsies and the crooked well.... Or Brixton Village for huge variety.

We tried the new Peckham Refreshment rooms at the weekend too. Google menu and prices as I didn't pay so didn't really pay attention but didn't stand out as expensive

[Nunheadfamily]

Il gArdino is great, as is the Begging bowl and Ganapati

[charliebubs]

Thanks guys. I've been to Angels & Gypsies before and loved it. Was thinking of somewhere more local this time.

I did look for other threads on here, but only saw one about Il Giardino and Sue's one this week about Begging Bowl v Ganapati :)

[Sue]

JDR Wrote:

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Montpelier for decent grub

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You must have had a better experience than us.

It's a nice place for a pint, but we had a truly terrible Sunday roast there, for which disaster we had to wait around an hour.

Never eating there again!

And yes, we did tell the chef what we thought of it. Well I did :))

Sadly we were so starving by the time it arrived that we ate it anyway ....

[Peckhamrye]

We had lovely food at the Montpelier but we weren't there on a Sunday.

[Sue]

Peckhamrye Wrote:

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> We had lovely food at the Montpelier but we

> weren't there on a Sunday.

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Maybe they have a different chef on a Sunday?

Normally I'd give a place a second chance, but our meal was so extremely bad that I'm not risking it .....