Local food guides

Eat somewhere worth talking about.

Useful neighbourhood guides: what to order, what it costs and what makes a place worth the trip.

camden

BOXPARK Camden is open: what to eat, drink and do

The former Buck Street Market is now a three-floor food, drink, shopping and events space. Here is how to make sense of it.

Vouch · 6 September 2026
hackney

Six Hackney restaurants worth crossing London for

From Korean cooking on Mare Street to live fire in Dalston, these are the rooms that make the borough worth a journey.

22 August 2026
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hackney

Where to eat well in Hackney for under fifteen pounds

Six proper meals — Ethiopian, Turkish, Japanese, Indonesian, Gujarati and fish and chips — without turning lunch into an expense.

22 August 2026
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hackney

Hackney bakeries and coffee shops worth getting up for

Sourdough under railway arches, serious pastries by Victoria Park and a roastery where the machinery is part of the room.

22 August 2026
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peckham

The ten best restaurants in Peckham

Ten Peckham restaurants worth crossing London for.

18 August 2026
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peckham

Ten new Peckham openings worth your time

Everything that has opened in SE15 in the last year, and which ones are actually good.

18 August 2026
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peckham

Where to eat in Peckham for under fifteen pounds

The caffs, counters and market units that feed you properly without the bill becoming an event.

18 August 2026
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There is no submissions box, on purpose

If you write consistently well, you will be asked to do a piece properly, commissioned and edited. That is a better deal than an open box nobody has time to read. Start with a take.