"There’s a lot to like about The Begging Bowl, a Thai restaurant on a village-y stretch in Peckham. The conservatory setting means light floods in at early evening, and hands brush over candlelit miang kham come night. There’s some great cooking—like gai tod, crispy fried chicken with a lip-smacking tamarind sauce, and gorgeously tender gaeng bumbai (beef curry). Just know it holds back a little on sour whacks and searing chilli hits compared to some of London’s other Thai spots." - heidi lauth beasley, jake missing, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna, daisy meager, riaz phillips