At once an art gallery, café and shop, Reddoor is a sweet little place tucked away on a narrow street next door to Greenwich Market. Tea and Monmouth Coffee are served in vintage china cups collected by the owners, and the delicious cake selection comes courtesy of award-winning local bakeries.
Definitely one for the carnivores, Heaps Café is a deli and diner that specialises in juicy gourmet sausages. Its signature bangers feature in nearly every item on the menu, from breakfast baps and full English fry-ups to sausage rolls, hotdogs, and sausage and mash. If you’re not hungry enough for a proper meal, you can even buy a single sausage on a stick.
You’d be forgiven for missing Zaibatsu when walking along Trafalgar Road, but at this unassuming takeaway restaurant, the food is anything but unremarkable. There’s a sizeable menu of Asian fusion dishes, including sushi, finely cut sashimi, crisp salads, noodles and sizzling tempura. Particularly recommended is the omakase sashimi selection, a seven-piece assortment of sashimi made with the freshest fish from the day’s catch and served as tender slices alongside a soya dip.
As you’d expect, the name of the game at this quaint French spot is wine and cheese. One of three London branches, the Champagne + Fromage in Greenwich sits just outside the neighbourhood’s namesake market and offers a delicious selection of charcuterie, bubbles and French delicacies.
Housed in the same building as Greenwich Picturehouse, Rivington Greenwich dishes up high-quality British grub, including fry-ups, posh scotch eggs and plenty of fresh seafood. The restaurant hosts BYOB Mondays and allows kids to eat for free on weekdays. There’s also a gorgeous garden terrace and a gin menu so extensive that the restaurant has its very own gin festival, Gin Bop, every summer.
Generations’ worth of expertise is packed into the pastry at Goddards, a legendary restaurant serving up London-style pie and mash. Owned by the same family since 1890, Goddards specialises in proper London grub – think filling, meaty pies (though there is now a vegan option on the menu) accompanied by a dollop of creamy mash and a generous scoop of liquor. Other traditional dishes to try with your pie include jellied eels, a fruit crumble with custard, and bread and butter pudding.
From fragrant curries and soups to huge sharing platters of tempura and spring rolls, enjoy first-class authentic Thai cooking at this cosy Trafalgar Road café. The Thai Garden Cafe has a lovely patio dining area that offers the perfect spot to sip on a milky green tea during the summer months.
The Hill is an Ecuadorian-owned restaurant that serves up Mediterranean cuisine with a South American twist. Whether you’re a ceviche lover, paella enthusiast or enjoy stacking up tapas plates, there’s a great selection of Spanish and South American dishes to choose from (plus a pretty sizeable pizza menu). The restaurant is a stone’s throw from Point Hill, Greenwich’s scenic lookout.
This article is an updated version of a story created by Abigail Deeprose.