Yeah a pizza place would be good. Or a ‘good’ noodle bar like the one in Brixton, the Japanese place. Though I guess we’ve got a few places that cover that in SE5, though not that well.

A nice Euro bistro would be good. Though again we’ve sort of got that covered with The Bear.

Or a cheapish burrito joint. Not sure they’d get the traffic.

Something a bit different, like a S American.

Ambrosia was OK the one time I went but not great. I’ll give it another go.

Looking forward to the Tiger opening in a couple of weeks.

Anyone know what kind of beer it will sell on tap?

There are definitely more people out and about in Camberwell these days. Hermits was packed on Friday night and the cafe near Card Corner was mobbed yesterday morning.

Good for local businesses, hopefully

It’s of national importance.
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… another link that’ll get my post into the moderator’s pen.

Angels & Gypsies again today — the food again was marvellous. I took a lot of photos of it. I’ll post a link when they’re somewhere viewable.

This was in between We Are Loughborough Junction — as mentioned above by others. Really good day. BBC covered it, try to get around there Valentine Sunday. Start at the station (whatever did happen to British Rail?), get the map and walk the route. Hand the map in under the bridge on Cambria Road. Get a badge, a pen, joining SE5 Forum is recommended, and a flyer for The Sun and Doves for 20% off your food if you come tomorrow or next Saturday and Sunday.

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@ Phil G — I agree the one thing Camberwell is missing is a pizza joint. I suggest someone contacts Franco Manca to open up here.

@ SG — What are you talking about? a decent Indian…go say hello to the lovely chef at Ambrosia. I believe he used to work at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai. Lovely delicate flavours and a damn sight better than that Uncle Bens slop they serve at Safa. Just ignore the dodgy decor and quite unsavoury toilets (at least for the ladies!)

@ Rob P — Yes I agree irritating table policy at A&G However oh so worth the wait. I find popping in around 9:30 is quite a safe bet. It´s a little calmer and you do not feel so gulity watching scores of people being turned away at the door. According the the owner they are thinking of building a wood fired oven downstairs to cook more food the authentic way…YUMMY!

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- thai

- italian that also does pizza

- a GOOD Indian

“La route est dure, mais je suis fort…”. Duresse. Hardness. Pressure. Pleasure.

Phil, listen, can I be the senior waitress in your new gastro-restaurant? What your fussy male customers will need is a mature, strong-thighed, Danish waitress to decapitate them by shoving their heads abruptly beneath the tablecloth into the black waitress miniskirt, boff! chop! Much to the shock, horror but once you get over it quicker than you might think relief of the nice girlfriend.

Good God, men of Camberwell, rise to your postcodes! Metrosexuals, get some lead in your poncho!

Metroseriously, people in the various creative and fashion-related workshops of Camberwell are very shocked about the death of Alexander McQueen.

He was the Pied Piper.

I guess they don’t want to introduce a formal two tier sitting. And if they didn’t do that then it’d be a hassle for staff to remember the arrangement with individual tables and then force folk out their seats. It never goes down well.

Back to an earlier point about the Standard. One big plus about it being free is that there’re none of those freepaper London Lite / London Paper chuggers on the streets. Thank God for that. Drove me mad they did.

Discussion point. I’ve said before how it was a shame that Camberwell Tandoori went broke. With that space now up for lease and with its permission for use as a restaurant intact, what cuisine or approach would really work there do you think?

Something higher end like A+G?

Maybe we could all club together and open a place.

I’ve never heard such a strange thing. Surely they can book in two for 7:30 with the understanding that the table has to be vacated by 9 or something? I know Tapas are slow(ish) food, but I’m a little annoyed that couples cannot book a table later than 7.30.

Has anyone else had a similar experience?