Where to go in Lambeth

36 places in Lambeth, each one on the Guide on merit.

Brixton

• All Roads

  Caribbean & Latin

  A Brixton Village supper club gone permanent. Soul food of the American South run through their Caribbean heritage, in a small homely room that fills up and stays full.

• Aries Bakehouse

  Bakery

  A small Brixton Hill bakehouse turning out some of the best croissants in London, flaky enough to draw comparisons with France. Open mornings only, gone by mid-afternoon.

• Bottle + Rye

  Wine bar

  A 28-seat corner bar at the mouth of Brixton Village where the Gills grill honey-washed bread under a slab of butter and call it anchovy toast.

• Club Cheek

  Live music venue

  A DIY club under Victorian railway arches in Brixton, launched in September 2025. The double-height space has a custom-built four-way soundsystem, mezzanine balconies overlooking the dancefloor, and hosts independent nights spanning house, electro, ambient and techno. The bar serves a mate tea and tequila cocktail with a spicy tajín rim.

• Finch Wine Bar

  Wine bar

  A jewel-box of a wine bar in the market that finally takes English wine seriously. Order the sparkling and a board of cheese.

• Jefferson's Ice Cream

  Ice cream parlour

  A neighbourhood scoop shop made fresh daily with organic milk; chef-approved.

• Jurkish at Effra Social

  Caribbean & Latin

  Peckham-born Nazli Ramadan cooks both sides of her family at once: curry goat manti, oxtail pide, plantain hummus, saltfish börek and jerk chicken, served as the resident kitchen of a revived Brixton working men's club with craft beer and cheap cocktails.

• Maureen's Brixton Kitchen

  Caribbean & Latin

  Jamaican food cooked in a front garden by the woman whose name is on it.

• Naughty Piglets

  Natural wine bar

  A natural-wine bar with a rotating chef-residency, laid-back but serious. French-leaning plates and an extensive low-intervention list.

• Otter Chaos

  Board game cafe

  500-plus games, sourdough pizzas, cocktails, and a two-pound hourly table fee in a railway arch under Brixton station.

• Vining Street Wine Club

  Wine bar

  Natural and classic side by side, no lecture attached, and a garden most people walk past without noticing.

• Windmill Brixton

  Indie music venue

  A small, sticky-floored room with an outsized ear for the next band worth knowing.

Clapham

• Crispin at Studio Voltaire

  European

  Modern small plates served inside an art gallery, courtyard fountain and all. Worth the courtyard walk.

• Maai by Nikita

  European

  Nikita Pathakji won both MasterChef: The Professionals and Great British Menu, then opened a restaurant named after her mother and staffed by her family. Fine dining with the pretence surgically removed. Indian heritage, South East Asian travel, British produce, no rules.

• Trinity

  European

  Adam Byatt has held a star in Clapham Old Town for about a decade, in a duck-green room that has never once tried to be a scene. Open seven days, which almost no starred kitchen is.

Crystal Palace

• Khachapuri

  European

  Georgian food is naturally veg-forward: khachapuri, lobio, badrijani, ajapsandali. Worth the journey to Crystal Palace.

Herne Hill

• 2210 by NattyCanCook

  Caribbean & Latin

  Refined Caribbean cooking in Herne Hill, worth the walk across Brockwell Park for the care in every plate.

• Bunhead Bakery

  Middle Eastern

  The Palestinian sourdough-bun bakery people queue for: knafeh, musakhan, za'atar. Warm and neighbourhood about it, none of the hypebeast pastry carry-on.

• Herne Hill Market

  Farmers' Market

  A Sunday market on Railton Road outside Herne Hill station, running 10am to 4pm. Over 50 traders sell fresh produce, hand-crafted items, vintage records, house plants and vegan cosmetics. It sits across from Brockwell Park.

• Llewelyn's

  European

  Chef Lasse Petersen runs this independently owned Herne Hill restaurant with green leather banquettes and gilt-edged mirrors. The menu works seasonally: pollack with mussels and bisque, lamb with bagna cauda and charred greens, Comté soufflé with autumn truffle. Service is warm and the wine list includes skin-contact bottles.

• Minus 12° Craft Ice Cream

  Ice cream

  Craft ice cream from a kiosk in Herne Hill station's Victorian booking hall. Hokey pokey and hazelnut come round as weekly specials, so check what is on before you go.

• Sessa

  Wine bar

  A handwritten chalkboard, cheap good wine and a domestic calm. The sort of local you wish was yours.

• Wild + Lees

  Natural wine shop

  A Herne Hill bottle shop and tasting room for low-intervention wine, craft beer and small-batch spirits. Drink in, or take a bottle to the window counter.

Kennington

• Always Be Comedy

  Comedy night

  A comedy night at The Tommyfield pub in Kennington, with established names and mystery guests on the bill. You never know who will drop in for a Kennington exclusive.

• Cable Cafe

  Jazz cafe-bar

  A laptop cafe by day that blows out the chargers at happy hour, lights the candles and fills with live jazz.

• Kuma

  Asian

  A small Korean-Japanese kitchen in Kennington that the anti-saturation crowd rate as a strong date spot. Off the listicle circuit and better for it.

• The Cinema Museum

  Museum

  A volunteer-run archive of cinema-going history in the old workhouse where Chaplin once lived.

• Toulouse Lautrec Jazz Club

  French

  Three floors run by the Regent family since 2008: a French dining room at the bottom, a piano room with a white grand above it, and a jazz club in the attic that seats about sixty. Music every night. Two courses are £22.

• Zoey Filigree

  Jewellery workshop

  Learn a traditional Chinese filigree and enamel technique over an afternoon, and leave wearing the piece you made.

Lambeth

• Garden Museum

  Museum

  Britain's museum of gardens, in the deconsecrated church of St Mary-at-Lambeth by Lambeth Palace, with a courtyard garden and a café room.

Loughborough Junction

• Viv's Coffee

  Specialty coffee shop

  A second-hand-furniture coffee room by Loughborough Junction station, pouring La Tostadora and Rascal, and turning into a supper club space after dark.

Stockwell

• Canton Arms

  European

  A proper Victorian boozer at the front, with the cooking in the back room. It climbed from 46th to 11th in the national gastropub list in two years and Stockwell has kept it off most people's lists.

Streatham

• Streatham Wine House

  Natural wine bar

  A wine bar and shop on Streatham Hill leaning hard into organic and biodynamic growers. Sit in for a themed table tasting of three pours, or pull a bottle from the 300-strong shelf to take home.

Vauxhall

• Brunswick House

  European

  Dinner among reclaimed chandeliers and antiques, all for sale.

Waterloo

• 1901 Arts Club

  Victorian recital salon

  A converted Victorian schoolmaster's house off Waterloo where you hear chamber music a few feet from the Steinway. Gold curtains, parquet, and a late bar for afterwards.

• Lower Wine Bar & Bottleshop

  Wine bar

  A Waterloo wine bar and bottle shop for low-intervention drinking. Pull up at the counter or take a bottle home.