Guidebook for London

Georgina
Guidebook for London

Drinks & Nightlife

Our favourite! It has a variety of craft beer and cider.
Beer Rebellion
126 Gipsy Hill
Our favourite! It has a variety of craft beer and cider.
Gastropub
21 locals recommend
Sparrowhawk
2 Westow Hill
21 locals recommend
Gastropub
Wetherspoons pub so it’s cheap! They do food deals every day.
The Postal Order
31-33 Westow St
Wetherspoons pub so it’s cheap! They do food deals every day.
Characterful pub with good food and small outdoor area.
108 locals recommend
The White Hart
69 Stoke Newington High St
108 locals recommend
Characterful pub with good food and small outdoor area.
Open most Saturdays, check website!
Gipsy Hill Brewing Company
160 Hamilton Rd
Open most Saturdays, check website!
Large lively pub. Reasonable selection of beer, cider and wine with a beer garden at front. Good food.
28 locals recommend
Westow House
79 Westow Hill
28 locals recommend
Large lively pub. Reasonable selection of beer, cider and wine with a beer garden at front. Good food.
Upmarket cocktail bar
6 locals recommend
Cocktail Embassy
76 Westow Hill
6 locals recommend
Upmarket cocktail bar
Mediterranean restaurant with a basement bar that’s sometimes open late.
15 locals recommend
Numidie Bar and Bistro
48 Westow Hill
15 locals recommend
Mediterranean restaurant with a basement bar that’s sometimes open late.
87 locals recommend
The Windmill
22 Blenheim Gardens
87 locals recommend
250 locals recommend
O2 Academy, Brixton
211 Stockwell Rd
250 locals recommend
Gipsy Hill Brewery's bar and bottle shop
6 locals recommend
The Douglas Fir
144 Anerley Rd
6 locals recommend
Gipsy Hill Brewery's bar and bottle shop
Big craft beer selection to takeaway and drink in. Also serves craft gin!
Craft And Courage
28 Westow Hill
Big craft beer selection to takeaway and drink in. Also serves craft gin!
257 locals recommend
Frank's Cafe
95A Rye Ln
257 locals recommend

Food Scene

Incredible Persian restaurant. BYOB so you can bring your own wine and beer to drink for a small corkage fee.
14 locals recommend
Kishmish
10 Greyhound Rd
14 locals recommend
Incredible Persian restaurant. BYOB so you can bring your own wine and beer to drink for a small corkage fee.
Excellent Italian restaurant.
9 locals recommend
Lorenzo of Crystal Palace
73 Westow Hill
9 locals recommend
Excellent Italian restaurant.
Pizza.
Pizza at the Palace
70 Westow Hill
Pizza.
Japanese/sushi.
Edo
18 Westow Hill
Japanese/sushi.
More pizza, popular place
18 locals recommend
Four Hundred Rabbits Crystal Palace
30-32 Westow St
18 locals recommend
More pizza, popular place
Really good Thai.
11 locals recommend
Thai Crystal
7 Westow Hill
11 locals recommend
Really good Thai.
Nice restaurant and bar
15 locals recommend
Reunion- Cafe, Bar and Private Hire Venue
38 Westow St
15 locals recommend
Nice restaurant and bar
Portuguese with good specials board.
A Torre
19 Westow St
Portuguese with good specials board.
Delicious Nepalese/Indian food.
7 locals recommend
Yak & Yeti, Crystal Palace
107 Church Rd
7 locals recommend
Delicious Nepalese/Indian food.
Fish and chips. Has some seating but more of a takeaway place.
Royal Fish Bar
14 Crystal Palace Parade
Fish and chips. Has some seating but more of a takeaway place.
Friendly takeaway fish and chips.
Golden Fry Fish Bar
88 Gipsy Hill
Friendly takeaway fish and chips.
Upmarket restaurant with fancy bar.
38 locals recommend
Joanna's
56 Westow Hill
38 locals recommend
Upmarket restaurant with fancy bar.
Large Thai restaurant.
19 locals recommend
Tamnag Thai
50-52 Westow Hill
19 locals recommend
Large Thai restaurant.
Excellent Vietnamese.
10 locals recommend
Urban Orient
74 Westow St
10 locals recommend
Excellent Vietnamese.
Mediterranean.
Mediterranea Not Just A Deli
21 Westow St
Mediterranean.
Indian.
Gurkha Cottage
17 Westow St
Indian.
Upmarket restaurant with bar.
13 locals recommend
The Exhibition Rooms
69 Westow Hill
13 locals recommend
Upmarket restaurant with bar.
Coffee, pastries and sandwiches whilst waiting for the train at Gipsy Hill!
15 locals recommend
Brown & Green Cafe
15 locals recommend
Coffee, pastries and sandwiches whilst waiting for the train at Gipsy Hill!
Coffee, pastries and sandwiches whilst waiting for the train at Crystal Palace!
10 locals recommend
Brown & Green at the Station
Crystal Palace Station Road
10 locals recommend
Coffee, pastries and sandwiches whilst waiting for the train at Crystal Palace!
Fancy fry ups, coffee, LOTS OF CHILDREN
10 locals recommend
Brown & Green London
99 Church Rd
10 locals recommend
Fancy fry ups, coffee, LOTS OF CHILDREN
Greasy spoon fry up
Gipsy Rose
240 Gipsy Rd
Greasy spoon fry up
Greasy spoon fry ups
The Crystal Pantry
6 Church Rd
Greasy spoon fry ups
Pastries, coffee
81 locals recommend
Blackbird Bakery
378 Norwood Rd
81 locals recommend
Pastries, coffee
Charity initiative cafe
Living Water Satisfies
46-48 Westow St
Charity initiative cafe
Good diner for breakfast/brunch. Pancakes!
Alistairs diner
3 Westow St
Good diner for breakfast/brunch. Pancakes!
Good coffee and pastries etc.
Roasted Bean
23 Westow St
Good coffee and pastries etc.
Paninis etc
Cafe St Germain
16-17 Crystal Palace Parade
Paninis etc
Paninis etc
Cafe Paradou
10-11 Crystal Palace Parade
Paninis etc
Polish deli
Piast
Westow Street
Polish deli
153 locals recommend
Caffè Nero
31-33 Warwick Way
153 locals recommend
131 locals recommend
Costa Coffee
16 Balham Hill
131 locals recommend
Loads of great food places under one roof.
492 locals recommend
Brixton Village Market
Unit 74 Coldharbour Ln
492 locals recommend
Loads of great food places under one roof.
Delicious caribbean food, next door to our favourite bar Beer Rebellion! Eat in the restaurant or bring next door to the pub!
Rock Steady Rum Lounge (Gipsy Hill)
128 Gipsy Hill
Delicious caribbean food, next door to our favourite bar Beer Rebellion! Eat in the restaurant or bring next door to the pub!
More pizza.
500 Degrees - Crystal Palace
More pizza.
Delicious great value Turkish restaurant.
Dem Restaurant
11 Central Hill
Delicious great value Turkish restaurant.
Tapas bar
Bar Bella Tapas Restaurant & Bar
57B Westow Hill
Tapas bar
9 locals recommend
Dalhousie
9 locals recommend

Arts & Culture

Victorian dinosaur sculptures around the lake!
13 locals recommend
Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
Thicket Road
13 locals recommend
Victorian dinosaur sculptures around the lake!
Stunning subway that used to connect the demolished train station to the Crystal Palace. Limited opening hours, Google for availability.
13 locals recommend
Crystal Palace Museum
Anerley Hill
13 locals recommend
Stunning subway that used to connect the demolished train station to the Crystal Palace. Limited opening hours, Google for availability.
Small museum with artefacts from the Crystal Palace. Open weekends, Google for hours.
13 locals recommend
Crystal Palace Museum
Anerley Hill
13 locals recommend
Small museum with artefacts from the Crystal Palace. Open weekends, Google for hours.
Old Master paintings and excellent special exhibitions.
271 locals recommend
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Gallery Road
271 locals recommend
Old Master paintings and excellent special exhibitions.
7 locals recommend
Bethlem Museum of the Mind
Monks Orchard Road
7 locals recommend
215 locals recommend
South London Gallery
65 Peckham Rd
215 locals recommend

Parks & Nature

149 locals recommend
Crystal Palace Park
149 locals recommend
Nice little park with a playground
Westow Park station
Nice little park with a playground
Wild woods nice for a walk. Painted by Pissarro!
18 locals recommend
Dulwich Wood
18 locals recommend
Wild woods nice for a walk. Painted by Pissarro!
125 locals recommend
Dulwich Park
Dulwich Park
125 locals recommend
130 locals recommend
Peckham Rye Common
34 Straker's Rd
130 locals recommend

Shopping

Indie book shop!
8 locals recommend
Bookseller Crow On The Hill
50 Westow St
8 locals recommend
Indie book shop!
Lovely gift shop for candles, cards and trinkets
Smash Bang Wallop
40 Westow St
Lovely gift shop for candles, cards and trinkets
Second hand market full of all sorts. Open Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays
13 locals recommend
Haynes Lane Market
Haynes Lane
13 locals recommend
Second hand market full of all sorts. Open Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays

Essentials

32 locals recommend
LloydsPharmacy
60-66 Westow St
32 locals recommend
Co-op Food - Central Hill
15-17 Gipsy Hill
Take the bus!
56 locals recommend
ALDI
20 Station Rd
56 locals recommend
Take the bus!
Not the best stock
51 locals recommend
Tesco Express
South End
51 locals recommend
Not the best stock
Beer and hot sauce and vinyl records!
9 locals recommend
Hop Burns & Black
38 E Dulwich Rd
9 locals recommend
Beer and hot sauce and vinyl records!
Quite pricey!
Budgens
63-65 Westow Hill
Quite pricey!

Entertainment & Activities

£5 tickets!
213 locals recommend
Peckhamplex
95A Rye Ln
213 locals recommend
£5 tickets!
371 locals recommend
Ritzy Cinema and Cafe
26 Coldharbour Ln
371 locals recommend
117 locals recommend
East Dulwich Picturehouse
116a Lordship Ln
117 locals recommend
36 locals recommend
Vue Cinema Croydon - Croydon Grants
14 High St
36 locals recommend
63 locals recommend
ODEON Streatham
47-49 Streatham High Rd
63 locals recommend
26 locals recommend
ODEON Beckenham
High Street
26 locals recommend
Olympic size swimming pool and athletics track! Gym.
22 locals recommend
Crystal Palace National Sports Centre
Ledrington Road
22 locals recommend
Olympic size swimming pool and athletics track! Gym.
Reformer pilates and yoga
Bamboo Fitness
Westow Street
Reformer pilates and yoga
16 locals recommend
Crystal Palace Football Club
Whitehorse Lane
16 locals recommend
Crystal Palace F.C.
Selhurst Park Stadium
Holmesdale Road
Crystal Palace F.C.