Telegraph Hill Local Guide
Food scene
CORNER
117 New Cross RoadGood coffee near the flat, closed evenings
The other good coffee place! Not a bad place to do some work on your laptop either.
7 locals recommend
MUGHEAD COFFEE
359 New Cross RdThe other good coffee place! Not a bad place to do some work on your laptop either.
Not the best coffee, but a very nice community cafe nonetheless. Next to Telegraph Hill Upper Park, with its great views, this serves good pizzas on Friday and Saturday evenings, which people take into the park. Be warned - it gets busy!
39 locals recommend
The Hill Station
Kitto RoadNot the best coffee, but a very nice community cafe nonetheless. Next to Telegraph Hill Upper Park, with its great views, this serves good pizzas on Friday and Saturday evenings, which people take into the park. Be warned - it gets busy!
Not cheap but excellent and very popular modern South African restaurant. Be sure to book. If they are full, their equally good sister restaurant Kudu Grill is nearby.
40 locals recommend
Kudu
119 Queen's RdNot cheap but excellent and very popular modern South African restaurant. Be sure to book. If they are full, their equally good sister restaurant Kudu Grill is nearby.
Uncle Wrinkle
299 New Cross RdCheap, excellent Chinese takeaway that locals love.
Good takeaway Jamaican food - very good jerk chicken and pork.
6 locals recommend
Smokey Jerkey 2 London
158 New Cross RdGood takeaway Jamaican food - very good jerk chicken and pork.
A little further away but worth getting a bus or Uber for - very good, popular modern Balkan restaurant.
101 locals recommend
Peckham Bazaar
119 Consort RdA little further away but worth getting a bus or Uber for - very good, popular modern Balkan restaurant.
Another short bus ride, but worth travelling for this very nice bistro.
6 locals recommend
The Watergate
7 Watergate StreetAnother short bus ride, but worth travelling for this very nice bistro.
The local pub. It gets very busy, with a mainly younger crowd, but the atmosphere is quite easy-going.
41 locals recommend
Skehans
1 Kitto RdThe local pub. It gets very busy, with a mainly younger crowd, but the atmosphere is quite easy-going.
Good restaurant/cafe/cocktail bar in Deptford, the next neighbourhood east. It stays open until 3am on Friday and Saturday.
14 locals recommend
STOCKTON
2 Deptford High StGood restaurant/cafe/cocktail bar in Deptford, the next neighbourhood east. It stays open until 3am on Friday and Saturday.
Well known, very popular open air restaurant bar in Peckham. Located on top of an old multi-storey car park, it has a great clear view over the city.
257 locals recommend
Frank's Cafe
95A Rye LnWell known, very popular open air restaurant bar in Peckham. Located on top of an old multi-storey car park, it has a great clear view over the city.
Sightseeing
A key meeting point for the whole area, Telegraph Hill Upper Park is one of London's nicest places to watch the sunset. This became a second living room for many people during the pandemic, so on a sunny evening you will not be alone!
98 locals recommend
Telegraph Hill Upper Park
75 Kitto RdA key meeting point for the whole area, Telegraph Hill Upper Park is one of London's nicest places to watch the sunset. This became a second living room for many people during the pandemic, so on a sunny evening you will not be alone!
A Unesco World Heritage site, Maritime Greenwich is one of the most striking architectural ensembles in London, with a renaissance mansion, the grand baroque naval college and, up on the hill, the Royal Observatory from which the world's latitude was first charted.
736 locals recommend
Greenwich Park
A Unesco World Heritage site, Maritime Greenwich is one of the most striking architectural ensembles in London, with a renaissance mansion, the grand baroque naval college and, up on the hill, the Royal Observatory from which the world's latitude was first charted.