tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35701992427191074042012-02-10T13:17:36.960ZA to Z of Eating in and around East DulwichThe Ginger Gourmandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17461681671376573047noreply@blogger.comBlogger201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570199242719107404.post-4100566365409570042012-01-26T17:13:00.000Z2012-02-06T13:09:08.905Z

If there’s something a northern lass knows how to cook it’s got to be stew and dumplings. Good hearty, wholesome food to warm your cockles on a cold winter's evening.  We had been on a diet. Which for two lovers of food is absolute torture. So, in a slavish commitment to this restrictive regime, we headed to Jack’s to sample that bastion of healthy eating, stew and dumplings. Well, come on, you

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There's a fantastic little market over the hill in Brockley which has become a bit of a habit of mine.  Every Saturday from 10am to 2pm you'll find a friendly bunch of local stallholders selling fruit and vegetables, speciality potatoes, flowers, free range chickens, game and a whole host of other meat, cheese, bread, cakes, handmade chocolates, fish, chilli plants, coffee and an ever changing

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I love Peckham Rye Park and the great expanse next to it that is Peckham Rye Common.  And there's no better time of year to enjoy them than now when the trees are turning golden, the sun is low in the sky and I can stomp my way through mounds of leaves (wistfully dreaming of being 5 again and shuffling through the autumn leaves in my little red wellies...). Being a parent I have spent hours

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Hot dogs mean two things to me: bad sausages and bad buns.  So when Mrs GG asked me to head down to the Dogfather on North Cross Road to sample one of their hot dogs I have to admit I wasn’t particularly looking forward to it.  I’m pleased to say my faith in the dog has been restored. The Dogfather himself (Cooper) is a charismatic man with a passion for everything dog-like. You can’t

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The lovely people at Mootown are hosting a Cheese Tasting at Vintage Pretty on North Cross Road tomorrow evening to celebrate the launch of their new free home delivery service across South London.   There will be a complementary tasting of Welsh cheese and Basque charcuterie with ales from the Kernel Brewery in Bermondsey and fine wines. As many of you will know, Mootown have a stall

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Daniel Young of Young & Foodish recently invited me along to meet Andreas of Luca's bakery and to sample the bagels on offer.  Whilst I know what I like, I'm no bagel afficionado, so here is what Daniel has to say about them...  There are only two things wrong with the exceptional bagel created by Luca's Bakery: 1. It costs £1.40. What chutzpah! 2. It's not a bagel. The Luca's bagel is

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You have probably all heard by now that the Capital Pub Company will be working their magic on The Rye towards the end of this year with a full renovation, but in the meantime they've teamed up with eat.st and invited various street food traders to set up camp to dish up some amazing food.If you were quick off the mark you won't have missed dal like you've never tasted it before from Kolkata or (

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I'd defy anyone to find a warmer welcome in East Dulwich than you'll get from the lovely Di and Alex at Jack's. It has always been a cosy little space, but they seem to have brought with them an added bit of warmth which makes you feel like you're stepping into their living room (helped of course by that big comfy sofa in the window...). In its former guise, Jack's was a local cafe much loved

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With Easter looming we thought we'd get out there and sample the hot cross buns on offer in and around East Dulwich to bring you the lowdown. Sadly there appears to be some sort of food shortage in these parts because there was a distinct lack of dried fruit to be found in practically all the hot cross buns we tried... Following on from the success of our brownie tasting last year, we gathered

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From time to time we come across little gems which, although we'd love to keep to ourselves so that we can always get our greedy mitts on them, we think it is only right that we should share with you. So here is our first Top 5 of what we are loving right now. Vegetable Samosas from The Cheese Block If you get to The Cheese Block early enough on a Saturday morning a full try of these beauties

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The Blue Brick Cafe is quite simply charming. Catch it on a sunny day and the outside, clad with bold blue tiles, wouldn't look out of place on the harbour in some remote fishing village in Cornwall. But here it is, just off the beaten track that is the Northcross Road, in it's recent reincarnation as a vegetarian cafe.The simple, quaint style is continued inside, with old wooden school chairs

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What a glorious day for the inaugural West Norwood Feast - a monthly pop-up market with a Food Fair, Artisans' Market, Gardeners' Corner and Retro Village lining the streets of West Norwood. There was a lovely feel, not only around the market stalls, but in the local shops and cafes which all seem to have got in on the act to help make this a friendly, community event. The Food Fair had pride of

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Come and join the fun and festivities of the Tweetmass Gathering at The Florence in Herne Hill on Wednesday 8th December 2010 from 6pm!There promises to be amazing street food from The Meat Wagon, Kolkata and (an Eats Dulwich favourite...) Choc Star and lots of merriment!

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There was much speculation about what the old electrical shop on Peckham Rye was being transformed into. Such a lovely old fronted shop with great big windows, set back off the road and looking out over the Rye.It's a perfect spot for the cafe it has become - especially at the moment, to cosy up with a hot chocolate and a cake after a walk around the park on a cold frosty day. I think it

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There has been quite a lot of interest in Camberwell's latest cafe - No. 67 - which openend recently next to the South London Gallery. Fellow local food blogger EuWen, who writes the fantastic blog A Rather Unusual Chinaman reviewed it recently and has kindly allowed me to republish it here as Eats Dulwich's very first guest post...If you, like me, are ruled by your belly, I don't think there has

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There has been much talk of the best chocolate brownies in East Dulwich on the East Dulwich Forum over the past couple of years but, as with so many things, there doesn't seem to be one definitive winner.Who sells the best brownies? What makes a good brownie? Are homemade brownies better than shop bought ones? How much would you pay for a good brownie? Do you need to go further afield than East

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Homemade is East Dulwich's latest cafe offering, tucked away from the main thoroughfare of Lordship Lane, on Barry Road. My first thought was what an unusual spot for a cafe, but then it's a busy spot just next to the pedestrian crossing on the corner of Uplands Road and right next to the number 12 bus stop. Added to which, does Lordship Lane really need another cafe?From a purely selfish point

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Ice cream parlours conjure images of groups of American high school kids squeezing into booths, chatting and flirting, girls in pastel 1950s style dresses, laborious ice cream sundaes in tall fluted glasses and all the while a duke box is playing in the corner... (Or is that just a scene from Grease...?!). I'm no ice cream aficionado and I have to admit that up until a few weeks ago my only

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The Mansion serves unfussy modern British food in an imposing Victorian building at the foot of Sydenham Hill. Whilst the exterior is dark and vast, inside this renovated pub is warm and welcoming. It has (what seems to have become) the usual collection of mix and match old tables and chairs, with some comfy armchairs, sofas and an open fire thrown in for those weekend lunchtimes when all you

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You can't fail to notice Il Mirto with it's bright purple exterior! On a sunny day, tucked just off the main road, a stone's throw from East Dulwich train station, with tables perched on the pavement it will certainly catch the attention of anyone passing by...Having followed Il Mirto's opening and progress on the local East Dulwich Forum I'd been meaning to try it out ever since it opened in

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