Peckham’s Best Restaurants | Where to Eat in Peckham and Peckham Rye - Eater London
"Kolawole Ajayi — aka Nigeriacuisine — is a YouTuber with over 90,000 subscribers, all of whom tune in for his charismatic and opinionated takes on everything related to Nigerian food. Sample title: AGEGE BREAD EXPOSED. He also has a street food stall on Choumert Road in Peckham where he patiently slings out excellent suya on a small grill, portion by portion. The beef suya — the most popular option — is pre-cooked at home and finished on the grill with two yajis, one cinnabar and hot, a blend made by Ajayi himself that is heavy with kuli kuli (roasted peanut cake) and sprinkled generously from trays resembling red sand dunes. The other is lighter, complex and gingery, and used more sparingly because it is flown in from one of his favourite spots in Lagos. Much of the joy of Suuyar is in the back and forth with Ajayi himself (“How is it?” “Eight out of ten, if my wife likes it you can get the other two”) and he always offers a taster to newcomers to make sure no portion is knowingly underspiced. The asun (peppered goat usually, but this is London, so mutton), however, is non-negotiable. Chock full with the heat of circa. 1 million scotch bonnets, it takes absolutely no prisoners." - Jonathan Nunn
