Bermondsey, French Restaurant Guide

“Amazing, super-shareable roast chicken” (from a rotisserie installed before they became fashionable again) makes this converted tennis clubhouse in a Bermondsey park with a kids’ playground “a lovely place for grown-ups to hang out in”. A somewhat eccentric sibling to nearby Casse-Croute, it serves Gallic dishes from a chalkboard menu of starters and sharing dishes (so generous that, according to one report, “one fillet steak en croute fed four comfortably, and the couple on the next table needed a doggy bag!”)

“More Gallic than a Left Bank ‘boîte’!” – this “tiny French bistro” in Bermondsey Street is “amped up to 11” (“love the vibe!”) with a “daily blackboard menu” of “resolutely French dishes (vol-au-vent with mushrooms and veal sweetbreads, pork selection with roasted belly, ham and rillettes…)” and an “excellent wine list”.“Inventive? no. Cosy, warm and crowd-pleasing standards? Very much so” (unless you’re vegetarian…). Top Tip – “they also allow corkage, provided your BYO is from France, naturellement!”.