The best restaurants in Brixton

Brixton offers one of London’s most exciting and eclectic food scenes. The main hub of restaurants is to be found in Brixton Village and Market Row, but there are plenty of other great places to try further afield. Here’s a guide to the best of them…

In the Village

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Salon Brixton

If Salon was my local restaurant, I’d be broke. Not because it’s wildly expensive (in fact it’s very good value) but because it demands repeat visits. There’s one menu – offering either four or seven courses – and it changes monthly, with weekly tweaks. When I visited in spring, octopus with monk’s beard and rhubarb sorbet were the order of the day (plus house nduja croquettes). The chirpy team of staff all seem to have eaten at Salon and have come to work there as a result. Surely a good sign.

Naughty Piglets

This is recommended by one of the co-owners of Salon and numerous other friends, and it’s not just pork on offer as the name might suggest.