• Wholemeal Café

     
  • Popular with the locals, this small no-frills caff serves hefty old-fashioned vegetarian staples such as stews, casseroles, bakes, quiches, jacket potatoes and cakes. There's a blackboard of daily changing specials, but no written menu. Garlic mushrooms and pitta bread came with fresh mixed salad; a carrot, celery and aubergine stew was pleasantly flavoured with coriander and cumin. Homity pie, which was once a beloved dish at the now-defunct chain of Cranks restaurants, has all but disappeared from London's vegetarian dining scene. Here it makes a nostalgia-inducing appearance and is at least as good as the classic Cranks version (but with thinner pastry). We recommend the desserts; own-made carrot cake was beautifully moist and topped with a simple drizzle of sugar syrup, rather than the more ubiquitous icing.

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  • 1 Shrubbery Road, Streatham, SW16 2AS
  • Tel: 020 8769 2423
  • www.wholemealcafe.com
  • Category: Vegetarian
  • Travel: Streatham/Streatham Hill rail
  • Times: Meals served noon-10pm daily.
  • Price: £14-£17
  • Credit cards: MC, V
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