Market Place Food Hall Peckham
Food court · Peckham ·
Award-winning street food, pool, photobooth, dog friendly, Sky
Award-winning street food, pool, photobooth, dog friendly, Sky
"Chef Abby Lee will open a self-described “modern Malaysian” restaurant at the Market Peckham complex in June, giving her cooking a new lease of life after an earlier Shoreditch launch was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic. The menu is more self-consciously Malaysian with a focus on Nyonya dishes and regional curries: expect a Perak-style black pepper chicken curry that leans on the fragrance of Sarawak peppercorn and a tamarind-sour, bracingly hot asam pedas drawn from Minangkabau and Malay cuisines. Playful, modern touches appear alongside tradition — a lunch-only Hainanese chicken sando features poached chicken with ginger & spring onion oil, kewpie mayo, chicken-fat chilli vinegar, fried onions and cucumber, while the “M Wing” is a deep-fried chicken tossed in a pungent anchovy sambal. Lee will pair the food with a natural wine list curated by Les Caves de Pyrene, emphasizing zesty, juicy and rich flavour profiles." - James Hansen
"Everything comes full circle eventually. The first food hall in London was in Oriental City, on the city’s outskirts, where Chinese, Malaysian and Japanese stalls all competed in harmony until it was shut down in 2008. It took another 10 years for the concept to come back, this time in the centre of London, in places that command the highest real estate prices in the city. Now it’s come to the inner city: first an abortive attempt at Nag’s Head last year, then Market Place, the first in what promises/threatens to be a London wide chain. Although partially completed before the pandemic, it is now fully operational with around ten new stalls and a bar. Highlights include Bang Bang Kitchen, a Ghanaian stall expert at protein cooking, with fatty turkey suya, and, best of all, chicken ball suya, a cross between West African barbecue and an Ikea meatball. At Full Bowl Sya Wang Kee, a brother and sister team have brought Hong Kong’s obsession with Hawaiian food to Peckham, with rice bowls, and more vertiginously, rice sandwiches, wrapped in nori and encasing fillings like “spam and egg” or “pork chop, cheese and mystery mustard,” a kind of demented kimbap. At Tianjin Dumplings, the dumplings themselves are fairly skippable, but an egg and chive pie makes a formidable crispy snack, and the owner puts Ruffles crisps in his jianbing, displaying a dedication to hedonism. It’s too soon to say if Market Place is a good thing for the area or not, but once it finds its toes it may offer a more accurate reflection of Peckham than curated spaces usually allow." - Jonathan Nunn
"This food hall on Rye Lane, a 15 minute walk from Theatre Peckham, is nothing like the model that was dominant in central London before the pandemic. Rather, it showcases local traders: there’s suya from Muazu’s, injera at Addis taste and sweet treats from Chef Churros, just to start with. It closes earlyish (7 p.m. or 8 p.m. depending on the day), so go beforehand." - Emma Hughes
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