New Shops in East Dulwich and Nearby - 2025 Edition

[CPR Dave]

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[ED4LYF]

Excited to welcome Banook to the neighbourhood. Love a good bagel.

[Angell34]

On 27/01/2026 at 17:19, Earl Aelfheah said:

Agreed! Although they're spelt 'beigels' in Brick Lane 😉 

Beigel is a Yiddish word which has been translated to bagel - beigel (specifically in Brick Lane) are traditional, denser, and chewier jewish style bread rings, often boiled and baked in wood-fired oven. 

bagel is lighter, sweeter Americanised version  

in my house you’ll get beigels! 

On 20/11/2025 at 15:35, CPR Dave said:

Gourmet to Honest seems a bit of a downgrade.

Honest is a much better restaurant than Gourmet. Quality of the produce is higher quality. 

[ED4LYF]

Looks like Tesco Express might open on Friday at 10am according to their website.

Edited February 2 by ED4LYF

[CPR Dave]

Sorry Angell, I was being facetious about Honest Burger. I agree, its a much better offering. 

Re Tesco, they've turned that round quickly since actually starting work. Seems to have a cash machine too, which will be useful as the other two are sometimes empty. 

[Munro bagger]

On 04/01/2026 at 12:00, sunshine_m said:

Does anyone know what's happening to Belleville restaurant on Forest Hill Road?

Walked past yesterday and it has new signage as Lala Cafe. Work ongoing inside.

[CPR Dave]

Tesco opened today. It's a good clean space and will be a handy addition to LL, especially since it's open til 11pm on Sundays for the forgetful / those returning to london after a weekend away etc. 

[satsuma]

1 hour ago, CPR Dave said:

Tesco opened today. It's a good clean space and will be a handy addition to LL, especially since it's open til 11pm on Sundays for the forgetful / those returning to london after a weekend away etc. 

Decent for emergencies but prices aren't cheap in there!

[ianr]

14 minutes ago, satsuma said:

Decent for emergencies but prices aren't cheap in there!

https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/supermarkets/article/supermarket-price-comparison-aPpYp9j1MFin declares them to be next cheapest after Aldi and Lidl.  Is it that the small Express ones charge more than the full-size ones? 

[CPR Dave]

They seem to also run this modern supermarket farce where some prices are much cheaper if you sign up to their data scraping loyalty scheme

[mitchiner]

Some of the prices are expensive but the ones that aren’t need club card yep

[Dogkennelhillbilly]

On 01/02/2026 at 13:11, Angell34 said:

Beigel is a Yiddish word which has been translated to bagel

Beigel and bagel are the same word. It's just different transliteration/transcription.

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[Penguin68]

46 minutes ago, Dogkennelhillbilly said:

Beigel and bagel are the same word. It's just different transliteration/transcription.

Yiddish is written in Hebrew script, traditionally, so any attempt to use 'Roman' script will be transliteration, as noted. Hebrew script does not have vowels as such, so any vowels used will try to copy the Yiddish sound of the word. Bagel and Beigel are both correct transliterations of the Yiddish word.