Stockwell area guide

Booma is a curry house with a concept. Hey, come back! Against all odds, it’s – quite unexpectedly – super. A modern little box of a room...

Named after an ancient port on the Red Sea, this coffee- and spice-scented restaurant provides a large and lovely Eritrean feast – though note that the...

Cabana is an ‘attempt to share a bit of the real Brasil’. At least, that’s what the website says, and it certainly gets the country’s colourful and carefree...

A Portuguese bar and restaurant in Lambeth, still in family hands after more than 20 years. Expect a firm Portuguese feel to things here – the staff are...

An historical homage to all things chocolate, on Ferndale Road.

Formerly the Lost Theatre, this small fringe space has recently been relaunched. 

A sedate distance from the jumble of loud music and fried chicken around Brixton station, the Cranchor’s bright sign glows enticingly. This smart pub’s...

There’s not a lot of passing trade down this residential Stockwell street, which is perhaps why the Priory Arms’ management have made their pub so awesome that...

This Brixton pub used to have a reputation for being a bit of a bad influence, keeping its visitors in way past their bedtime with its own special brand of...

If this southern brother of Covent Garden’s Great Queen Street and Waterloo’s Anchor & Hope feels more like a pub than its siblings,...

A Victorian house in a quiet location, 69TheGrove is in nearby Vauxhall.

An attractive and original family-run hotel, in Camberwell Green.