Top 5 Roast Dinners in Camberwell

Our handy guide to finding the best roast in Camberwell

By Maisy Farren | Updated Jun 5 2024

Two plates of traditional roast dinners on a rustic wooden table. One plate features a lamb chop with roasted vegetables, potatoes, and Yorkshire pudding. The other has slices of roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, and similar sides. Accompanied by gravy boats and silverware. — Image © Facebook via @thephoenixwindsorwalk

Camberwell is home to many a great pub and where there are pubs, there are roast dinners. “But where can you find the best roast dinner in Camberwell?” we hear you cry. Read on to find out…

The Crooked Well

A bustling restaurant filled with people dining. The left side shows patrons enjoying their meals, with many tables occupied. On the right side, a plate of food featuring roasted meat, vegetables, and a Yorkshire pudding is prominently displayed. — TheCrookedWell.com & EmmaRoseTully.com

16 Grove Lane, SE5 8SY | Open on Sundays 12.30-9pm

Widely regarded as one of the best roasts in South East London, The Crooked Well is a lovely neighbourhood gastropub just a short walk from Denmark Hill station with a modern-vintage vibe and an amazing food menu. Prices are relatively good/standard (mains range from £21 to £26), and the quality is top-drawer. Meat eaters, take your pick from slow-roasted lamb or pork belly - with the appropriate flavourings - while vegetarian visitors can chow down on a mushroom, chestnut, & spinach stuffed tofu rotolo, mushroom crackling and brown butter gravy (yum!). These are all served with sides of roast potatoes, apple glazed carrots, seasonal greens and a Yorkshire pudding as standard, with additional sides available for £4 each.

The Camberwell Arms

On the left, a cozy restaurant with wooden tables and chairs, exposed brick walls, and chalkboard menus. On the right, a close-up of a person digging into a savory dish with various roasted vegetables on a white tablecloth. — TheCamberwellArms.co.uk

65 Camberwell Church St, SE5 8TR | Open on Sundays 1-5pm

The Camberwell Arms, “arguably South London’s best boozer” (The Nudge) offers a more refined, artisanal take on the Sunday roast - when was the last time you had lamb with schmaltz yogyurt and mint & pine nut sauce? This is a Sunday dinner with a a difference; aside from a chicken and vegetarian option (of artichoke vignarola), each meaty main on the menu is made to be shared between two to three people. From a half roast chicken for two at £48 all the way to abraised lamb shoulder for three at £70, your mains work out at around £18 to £30 per person, which really ain’t half bad! Each dish comes with roast potatoes and greens or mixed leaves, with additional sides available as well as a side of greens dripping in chilli and garlic!

The Sun of Camberwell

A cozy restaurant interior with exposed brick walls and dim lighting. Diners sit at wooden tables, engaged in conversation, while a chandelier hangs from the wooden ceiling. Lights provide a warm ambiance, and the overall atmosphere is intimate and inviting. — Londonist.com

61-63 Coldharbour Lane, SE5 9NS | Open on Sundays 12-11pm

In between Camberwell and Loughborough Junction is the wonderfully cosy Sun of Camberwell, a down-to-earth and friendly pub serving locally sourced British food. There’s plenty of meat on offer, from a lemon and orange half-roasted chicken to roast pork shoulder or leg of lamb and a Welsh Black beef sirloin. The menu is also more vegetarian and vegan-friendly than most, with two options for non-meat eaters - the Wellington with chestnut, butternut squash, mushroom and lentil and the Vegan Vegetable Nut Loaf. What’s more, the meals here won’t hurt your wallet as much as our other options, with prices for mains ranging from £16 to £19.50 (plus a Junior Roast for £10).

The Phoenix

A hand holding a plate with roasted chicken, potatoes, peas, carrots, and a Yorkshire pudding in the foreground, with a small dish of gravy on the side. In the background, there's a restaurant with a painted mural of a phoenix on a brick wall. — SquareMeal.co.uk & X.com

Windsor Walk, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8BB | Open on Sundays 12-10pm

Work up an appetite for a plate piled high with a walk around the wonderful Ruskin Park, before heading over the road to The Phoenix, a charming pub parked in the grounds of Denmark Hill station. Its your classic family-friendly British pub, with the added grandeur of its high-ceiling train station setting, doing the classic British pub menu exceptionally well; meaters can feast on roast chicken, slow-cooked pork belly or aged beef sirloin for one (all for under £20) or, for the very reasonable price of £41, they can share any of these dishes between two. Vegetarians will enjoy their nut roast made of root vegetables, almonds and walnuts and vegetarian gray. All of these roasts are served with a huge Yorkshire pudding, thyme- roasted potatoes, buttered savoy cabbage, leeks, peas & roasted root vegetables.

Grove House Tavern

A cozy, empty café with wooden tables and chairs scattered around. Red cushioned booths line the right wall. A person wearing casual clothes stands at the doorway, looking outside. Sunlight illuminates the entrance, creating a warm ambiance inside. — SquareMeal.co.uk

26 Camberwell Grove, SE5 8RE | Open on Sundays 12-11pm

Grove House Tavern is an independent pub that, during the week, serves up incredibly tasty food via Mondo Sando, who started life serving superb sandwiches to SE5 residents before graduating to running Grove House’s kitchen full-time. On Sundays they become Mondo Arrosto, and their roasts deserve your attention; take your pick from roast rolled shoulder of lamb with merguez and apricot stuffing and mint chermoula, roast belly of pork with the obligatory crackling and apple sauce, or a mouth-watering confit butternut squash wellington with oyster mushroom duxelles, spinach and hazelnuts. Suffice it to say that these guys know what they’re doing when they put their own spin on the classic Sunday roast, and you can trust it to go down a treat.