The Camberwell Arms

A friendly south London neighbourhood gastropub, The Camberwell Arms, dates back to the 19th Century.  In the current day it is led by chef director Mike Davies.

Set up in 2014, the pub offers seasonal cooking, a natural-leaning wine list, and simple, well-made cocktails.  It is run by the same team behind Frank’s Café, the much-loved hipster rooftop bar, a stone’s throw away in Peckham.

Davies culinary journey includes roles at gastro pubs The Anchor and Hope and The Canton Arms, as well as at restaurants such as Le Manoir, St John Bread and Wine and The Ledbury.

The delicious and well-thought through menus at The Camberwell Arms evolve with the seasons. The kitchen makes as much as it can in-house, from breads and ice creams, to pickles, smoked fish and ferments.

The menus are filled with comforting and seasonal dishes that have included snacks such as beer onions on toast; Scotch bonnet pork fat on toast and house charcuterie, quince, mustard. Smaller plates boast items such as cavolo nero, blood orange, black olives, watermelon radish and hot cured salmon, beetroot Russian salad and cuttlefish, nduja, chickpeas, guindillas, aioli.

As an independent pub, you won’t go far wrong with a visit, with the larger plates on the menu including items such as ox cheek, buttered spatzle, sauerkraut, horseradish; pollock, roasted cauliflower, golden raisins, brown butter, capers and sharing plates of Tamworth bratwurst, kohlrabi, apple, watercress, mustard.

The majority of its suppliers have been with the pub for years and it cites this as being down to their uncompromising stance on quality and loyalty to sustainability.

As well as operating as a pub and restaurant one of the pub's grand upstairs rooms has been transformed into an elegant private dining room with its own bar.
The pub was the winner of Guardian's 50 best Sunday lunches 2017.