Cherry Tree: A Pub Named for Blossom and Honesty
Cherry Tree: A Pub Named for Blossom and Honesty | A Nunhead-fringe local carrying a name that blends spring blossom, orchard sweetness and a famous fib about a hatchet
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The Golden Anchor, Nunhead: An Anchor Far From the Sea
The Golden Anchor, Nunhead: An Anchor Far From the Sea | A Nunhead local whose maritime name recalls the days when the Thames made all of London a port city
Two Spoons, Nunhead: A Small Pub With a Curious Name
Two Spoons, Nunhead: A Small Pub With a Curious Name | A characterful Nunhead local whose gently domestic name sets it apart from the aristocrats and admirals of the pub-sign tradition
Bar Beach Grill: A Slice of Lagos in Lewisham
Bar Beach Grill: A Slice of Lagos in Lewisham | A vibrant West African grill on Loampit Vale, named for the most famous beach in Nigeria
The Nags Head, Peckham: One of Britain’s Great Pub Names
The Nags Head, Peckham: One of Britain’s Great Pub Names | A classic corner local bearing one of the oldest and most common names in the trade – and a genuinely tangled bit of etymology behind it
Beer Rebellion, Peckham: A Craft-Beer Taproom With Attitude
Beer Rebellion, Peckham: A Craft-Beer Taproom With Attitude | A pint-sized craft-beer bar flying the flag for the independent brewing revolt, with a rotating board of the interesting and the obscure
The Cambria: A Corner of Wales in Loughborough Junction
The Cambria: A Corner of Wales in Loughborough Junction | Named with the ancient Latin word for Wales, this well-loved community pub near Herne Hill flies a quietly patriotic flag over South London
The Hermits Cave: A Camberwell Institution That Never Retreats
The Hermits Cave: A Camberwell Institution That Never Retreats | A beloved, unpretentious Camberwell Church Street boozer whose name promises solitude and whose reality delivers the opposite
Zapoi, Peckham: A Cocktail Bar Named After a Bender
Zapoi, Peckham: A Cocktail Bar Named After a Bender | Shabby-chic, sign-less and defiantly elusive, this Rye Lane cocktail bar borrows a Russian word for a days-long drinking binge – and rather hopes you won’t take it literally
The Phoenix, Peckham: A Pub Named to Rise Again
The Phoenix, Peckham: A Pub Named to Rise Again | The most optimistic name in the trade, worn by a big Camberwell-fringe local that keeps the faith through every cycle of the neighbourhood
The Actress, East Dulwich: A Theatrical Corner Local
The Actress, East Dulwich: A Theatrical Corner Local | A characterful East Dulwich pub with a name straight out of the punchline – and a warm, sociable reality behind the curtain
Watson’s General Telegraph: A Pub Named for a Signal Station
Watson’s General Telegraph: A Pub Named for a Signal Station | A big barn of a Truman’s pub on Forest Hill Road, named for the vanished hilltop telegraph that once flashed naval signals across South London
The Old Dispensary, Peckham: Drinks Where the Medicine Was
The Old Dispensary, Peckham: Drinks Where the Medicine Was | A converted Victorian dispensary that once handed out medicine to the poor and now hands out pints – the adaptive-reuse desk fills its prescription
Little Nan’s Bar: Cocktails in Teapots, in Honour of JoJo
Little Nan’s Bar: Cocktails in Teapots, in Honour of JoJo | Tristan Scutt’s kitsch, camp tribute to his late grandmother – EastEnders devotion, novelty vases and fish finger sarnies
Marquis of Granby: The Most Copied Pub Name in Britain
Marquis of Granby: The Most Copied Pub Name in Britain | Named for a bald, generous, hard-drinking Seven Years War general who set his old soldiers up as publicans – and got a nation of pubs in return
The Peckham Pelican: Cafe by Day, Bar and Gallery by Night
The Peckham Pelican: Cafe by Day, Bar and Gallery by Night | An all-day arts cafe-bar by the station that shifts from flat whites to cocktails and live music as the light fades
The Gowlett Arms: Peckham’s Pizza-and-Vinyl Institution
The Gowlett Arms: Peckham’s Pizza-and-Vinyl Institution | A backstreet real-ale pioneer with wood-fired pizza, five handpumps and a Thursday night where you bring your own seven-inch records
The Kentish Drovers, Peckham: A Wetherspoon With a Road Behind It
The Kentish Drovers, Peckham: A Wetherspoon With a Road Behind It | Named for the drovers who once herded Kentish livestock through Peckham on the long walk to the London markets
The Montpelier, Peckham: A Corner Pub With Grand Ambitions
The Montpelier, Peckham: A Corner Pub With Grand Ambitions | Named for a French spa town in a fit of Georgian aspiration, this Choumert-quarter pub carries its borrowed glamour lightly
Skehans, Nunhead: A Proper South London Irish Local
Skehans, Nunhead: A Proper South London Irish Local | A corner pub of the old school on the Peckham-Nunhead border, where the welcome is warm and the Guinness is taken seriously
East Dulwich Tavern: The EDT, a Lordship Lane Landmark
East Dulwich Tavern: The EDT, a Lordship Lane Landmark | The big corner pub known to everyone as the EDT – a Lordship Lane institution that anchors the whole junction
The Victoria Inn, Peckham: A Bellenden Road Corner Pub
The Victoria Inn, Peckham: A Bellenden Road Corner Pub | A smart, roomy corner pub in the Bellenden quarter, with rooms upstairs and a Sunday roast worth planning around
Four Quarters Peckham: Craft Beer and Retro Arcade Games
Four Quarters Peckham: Craft Beer and Retro Arcade Games | Tokens, cabinets and cold beer – the competitive-socialising desk feeds another coin into the machine
Stormbird Camberwell: A Craft Beer Pub With a Vast Fridge
Stormbird Camberwell: A Craft Beer Pub With a Vast Fridge | On Camberwell Church Street, a rotating wall of taps and one of the deepest beer fridges in south London
Peckham Cellars: Neighbourhood Wine Bar and Bottle Shop
Peckham Cellars: Neighbourhood Wine Bar and Bottle Shop | A wine bar, shop and kitchen on a Peckham corner, quietly holding one of the highest ratings in the district
Forza Wine Peckham: A Rooftop Wine Bar Above Rye Lane
Forza Wine Peckham: A Rooftop Wine Bar Above Rye Lane | Italian-leaning bottles, small plates and yet another excellent view – the Rye Lane rooftop district gains a wine list
Peckham Levels: Seven Floors of Car Park, Reinvented
Peckham Levels: Seven Floors of Car Park, Reinvented | The floors below Frank’s Cafe, where the same disused multi-storey found a second life as studios, kitchens and bars – the Prat’s adaptive-reuse desk takes the ramp
Bussey Rooftop Bar Peckham: Drinks Atop a Bat Factory
Bussey Rooftop Bar Peckham: Drinks Atop a Bat Factory | On top of the Bussey Building, a Victorian works that once turned out cricket bats and now turns out sunset spritzes over Rye Lane
Belle Livingstone’s 58th Street Country Club, Peckham
Belle Livingstone’s 58th Street Country Club, Peckham | A Peckham dining room named after a real Prohibition speakeasy queen who kept goldfish, indoor mini-golf and a very relaxed attitude to the Volstead Act
Prince of Peckham: South London’s Landmark Community Pub
Prince of Peckham: South London’s Landmark Community Pub | A pub for south London, by south London – named for a sitcom prince, built by Clement Ogbonnaya, and one of the few Black-owned pubs in the capital