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Via Instagram: After eight wonderful years, we have decided to close Coal Rooms. This decision has not been made lightly, but the time is right for us all to focus on other projects. We would like to thank our amazing team, guests and suppliers who have worked tirelessly to make Coal Room so successful.

survey result

Summary

£75
 ££££
3
Good
3
Good
2
Average
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

This “interesting” conversion of the Victorian booking hall and goods rooms at Peckham Rye station accommodates a café/restaurant whose modern menu is “thoughtful without being too crazy”. The day-time brunch offering gets a thumbs-up, too, as “many steps ahead of the typical avo on toast”. (A back-handed compliment from north of the river: “As an ex-north Londoner, I was amazed to find this in central Peckham. How things have changed!”)

Summary

£71
  £££
4
Very Good
3
Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“Extra points on ambience for the Victorian toilets” at the 19th-century booking hall and goods rooms of Peckham Rye station, now transformed into an all-day café and evening restaurant. It serves a “limited” but “delicious” menu of modern European dishes and fans say results are “always spot-on”.

Summary

£66
  £££
4
Very Good
4
Very Good
4
Very Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“What a superb place”: the old goods rooms and booking hall of Peckham Rye station – lending the enterprise “a touch of Victorian elegance” – repurposed five years ago as a modern restaurant serving “tasty and beautifully presented European dishes, with thoughtful and attentive staff, brilliant cocktails and a good wine list”. “If only we’d retained and re-used more of these buildings”. Top Tip: “the best toilets in south London”.

Summary

£54
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4
Very Good
4
Very Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“A must-visit, right by Peckham station” – whose converted Grade II ticket office houses this “excellent” three-year-old: a stand-out even by the area’s lofty standards. “Robust, even macho” dishes, from the smoker and robata grills, are central both to the open kitchen and the menu. Top Tip – “worth a visit for the WC alone” – beautifully restored, old, Victorian bogs.

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11a Station Way, London, SE15 4RX

Restaurant details

50
No dress code
100

Prices

Traditional European menu

Starter Main Veggies Pudding
£10.00 £16.00 £8.00 £6.00
Drinks  
Wine per bottle £38.00
Filter Coffee £4.50
Extras  
Bread £4.00
Service 12.50%
11a Station Way, London, SE15 4RX
Opening hours
MondayCLOSED
TuesdayCLOSED
Wednesday6 am‑11 pm
Thursday6 am‑11 pm
Friday6 am‑11 pm
Saturday1 pm‑10 pm
Sunday1 pm‑8 pm

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