Kaieteur Kitchen Original
Caribbean restaurant · Elephant and Castle
Castle Square, Elephant Rd, London SE17 1EU, United Kingdom
Highlights
Guyanese stews, pepper pot, roti, and fried fish
Guyanese stews, pepper pot, roti, and fried fish
"It feels counterintuitive that a restaurant so full of love and care should be in a homogenous glass box, but that’s the power of Faye Gomes’ Guyanese hospitality at Kaieteur Kitchen in Elephant and Castle’s Castle Square. Everyone is fed like family, with plates piled with spinach rice and stewed pumpkin, alongside generous spoons of coconut lamb, or bone-sucking oxtail stew. These days the word is out: Kaieteur Kitchen is heaving and bookings are advised. That said, not everyone here is always eating. Kaieteur Kitchen isn’t just a restaurant, it’s somewhere you pop in to say hello." - daisy meager, jake missing, sinead cranna, rianne shlebak, heidi lauth beasley, heidi lauth beasley, heidi lauth beasley, rianne shlebak, jake missing, daisy meager, sinead cranna, jake missing, sinead cranna, rianne shlebak, jake missing, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna, sinead cranna, jake missing, heidi lauth beasley, heidi lauth beasley
"Chef Faye Gomes’s peerless Guyanese market stall has relocated to Castle Square following the controversial demolition of Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre next to which Gomes had traded for 17 years. With trademark, long-prepared, and slow-cooked dishes, she draws on the many culinary influences and colonial legacies of Guyana: pepper pot; garlic pork; cow foot souse; dal puri roti; pholourie; fried fish with tomato; potato, green mango, okra, and coconut curry; stew pumpkin; and stewed brown chicken, which, like the pepper pot, is colored and enriched with cassareep, a liquid extraction from cassava root, as well as clove and cinnamon. Must-try dish: Have a chat with Faye about pepper pot and specifically the importance of cassareep." - Adam Coghlan
"One bite of Kaieteur Kitchen’s pepper pot is all you need to be hooked. Maybe it’s the carefully stewed oxtail that melts in your mouth. Maybe it’s the aromatic sauce where whiffs of cassava, cinnamon, and cloves travel up your nose before spooning your heart. Either way, the attentive and nurturing service of Faye Gomes (the owner of this wonderful Guyanese spot in Elephant and Castle) will make you want to come back weekly. Kaieteur Kitchen isn’t the most decked-out of restaurants—it’s got a handful of small tables on one side and a takeaway counter on the other—but it’s undoubtedly one of the most flavour-packed." - jake missing, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna, heidi lauth beasley
"Kaieteur Kitchen feels less like a restaurant and more like a neighbour’s kitchen where you intend to overstay your welcome. So many people at this caff-ish Guyanese restaurant in Elephant and Castle are greeted like extended family and you’ll understand why once you experience the warmth of Faye (owner and head chef) and her sensational pepperpot. There are all manner of cuts in this stew—beef, oxtail, lamb—and it all falls apart in the deepest of brown sauces that’s full of cassava, cinnamon, and cloves." - jake missing, heidi lauth beasley
"The fact that pepper pot is only on the menu occasionally at this Elephant and Castle spot only enhances the flavours of Kaieteur Kitchen’s cooking of Guyana’s national dish. There are all manner of cuts—beef, oxtail, lamb—and it all falls apart in the deepest of brown sauces that’s full of cassava, cinnamon, and cloves. Get it with spinach rice—it’s the perfect nutty and slightly bitter foil to this layered, warming, treat of a dish—and plenty of roti. None of that sauce should be spared." - rianne shlebak, jake missing
