Evening Standard
David Ellis trekked to an “incandescently brilliant” new sandwich shop from Jack Macrae and Viggo Blegvad, who were already “cultishly famous in South London” for their pub residencies in Camberwell and Peckham before crowdfunding a permanent home.
The modest venue consists of a “café that looks like a chippie” with a red-topped counter down one side, tiny yellow tables down the other and a poster of the Michelin Man – “It’s a leg-pull,” David assured us. “To my knowledge, no Michelin appraiser has ever made it to Peckham.”
‘Mondo’ apparently means very big in cod-Italian American slang, and the sandwiches here are “about the size of arms crossed in worry” and come “gaping and stuffed with, say, chicken tikka masala or fish fingers and peas” (or egg salad, confit pork, green turkey).
In the evening there’s a “proper menu” (although drinks are listed simply as ‘lager’, ‘stout’ or ‘wine’), and every dish David sampled – crostini, patty melt, chicken thigh in salsa verde – was “astonishingly delicious”, confirming the “complete and utter excellence of the place”.
David Ellis - 2024-12-08
