New Cross area guide

Keep busy in SE14 with Time Out's guide to New Cross's best restaurants, bars, pubs and things to do

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Wednesday 16 September 2015

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New Cross is a teeming blend of Goldsmiths art students, hoodies and young creative professionals living around the smoggy A2 and its great knots of infrastructure. There's an interesting mix of one-off cafés and restaurants; meanwhile New Cross’s many music pubs throb with bands and leftish debate. This edgy, bohemian atmosphere sets up the perfect growing conditions for gentrification, and a preponderance of affluent, semi-famous, creative types are settling and breeding in the impressive houses around Telegraph Hill Park.

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London Particular

5 out of 5 stars

Food, described as ‘classic English with a modern twist’, is treated with respect at this tiny café just by New Cross station. Particular by name, particular...

Birdie Num Nums

Quaint café with a menu of veggie-centric lunch options and various sweet treats.

The Allotment

Deli and greengrocer, selling fresh fruit and veg, meat and cheese, and olives by weight

Albany Theatre

The roots of The Albany date back to 1899 when it was founded to encourage wellbeing in the poverty-ridden Deptford community. The 1970s saw the institute host...

The Fat Walrus

The Fat Walrus is fairly new (it opened in early 2016) to the New Cross pub scene. Its booths and bar stool seating (built by the house staff) undoubtedly...

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Restaurants in New Cross

London Particular

[Please note, the London Particular is now closed. Time Out editors, August 2019.] Food, described as ‘classic English with a...

Papi's Grill Restaurant & Bar

Birdie Num Nums

Quaint café with a menu of veggie-centric lunch options and various sweet treats

Red Lion Coffee Co.

4 out of 5 stars

A lofty New Cross café with an arty crowd.

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Things to do in New Cross

Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art

Designed by Turner Prize-winning architecture collective Assemble, this brand new gallery in a grade II-listed former Victorian bathhouse seems hellbent on...

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Bars and pubs in New Cross

The Fat Walrus

The Fat Walrus is fairly new (it opened in early 2016) to the New Cross pub scene. Its booths and bar stool seating (built by the house staff) undoubtedly...

Marquis of Granby

A major haunt for students overflowing from Goldsmiths University, which is across the road from this place. Despite the young crowd, you'll always find a...

LP Bar

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New Cross might not immediately conjure up jetset visions, but that hasn’t stopped the LP Bar from being kitted out like a continental airliner, with...

The Rose

Given its proximity to Goldsmiths University, you're bound to brush shoulders with students aplenty here, but that doesn't detract from the upsides of the...

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