Eat Out London!Ganapati Restaurant
A very warm and fragrant welcome to Ganapati South Indian Kitchen.
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The kitchen is the soul of a restaurant as it is of a home.
Our influences are the home style cooking and street food of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
Our takeaway shop is open for collection and home delivery Tuesday to Sunday evenings.
Please see the takeaway menu at If you would like a takeaway meal during the daytime Tuesday to Sunday, please call the restaurant and choose from the restaurant menu.
This is a collection only service.
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Ganapati - London Restaurant Reviews | Hardens
Tale #67 Ganapati – The Ravenous beast
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Filled with a vibrant community spirit, tonnes of food markets with exotic fruits, vegetables, meats and spices from all over the world, Peckham is also home to many authentic off the beaten track restaurants that are cheap AND easy to get reservations at, making this neighbourhood the potential up and coming foodie oasis of London.
Ganapati is one such Peckham gem, an unassuming, non-judgmental, delicious South Indian establishment tucked away on Holly Grove.
A breath of fresh air from standard dishes such as chicken tikka masala, Ganapati’s menu offers an array of South Indian delicacies laden with fresh coconut and fenugreek, a variety of dosas and thalis, and lovely homemade raita.
‘Vegetarian street snacks” (£5) consisting of mysore bonda, spicy potato balls fried in chickpea batter and parippu vadai, ground chana dal with ginger, curry leaf and green chilli shaped into patties and fried, are delicious – the deep-fried mashed potato balls are commendably fluffy and the chickpea patties possess a pleasing, nutty crunch.
The main dish, thenkassi prawn curry (£13) was fiery and delicious – tiger prawns in coconut, fenugreek and green chilli masala served with a side of thoran and pickle.
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Restaurant: Ganapati, London SE15 | Life and style | The Guardian
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Then you can probably imagine my scepticism a week or so back when a friend greeted me with the dread words, "I know this amazing south Indian" and followed that social minefield of a testimonial with the even less alluring, "It's in Peckham."
Indoors, it's all a bit 21st-century nouvelle hippy, complete with the obligatory dreadlocked white guy front-of-house – plain wood tables, green and terracotta red walls interrupted by mirrors and lairy images of south Indian deities, plus a backyard where diners fight for elbow room with a brute of a banana tree.
And crab thoran was such a happy marriage of crab meat, onion, ginger, spices and grated coconut that we started bickering over the last scraps.
Chaliyar prawns, served with plain rice and a dry veg curry (a neat touch that balanced the lavishly sauced shellfish), were firm and sweet.
A stickily sweet Indian pudding was out of the question after that lot, so we shared a watermelon sorbet cleverly enlivened by chunks of crystallised ginger, while I contemplated asking the kitchen to whip up some humble pie massala as a takeout, so badly had I prejudged this gem of a curry house.
Ganapati South Indian Kitchen | Restaurants in Peckham, London
South Indian restaurant where the menu draws on street snacks from regions including Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Kanataka A south Indian restaurant that pitched up on Peckham Rye before it got posh, Ganapati has the colourful, laid-back feel of a joint inspired by a backpacking tour of the subcontinent, and it certainly looks the part, with communal tables, school-style chairs, a photo wall, and shelves decorated with gilded trinkets.
The chefs – who all hail from the two regions that share India’s bottom-most tip – major in the spice-laden, home-style cuisine they grew up with, from the house vegetarian thali, with its unctuous dhal and delicious homemade pickles and breads, to lamb leg in a chilli-packed masala spiked with coriander and mint.
The result is nothing like your average curry house – even the desserts are varied and authentic – and for that reason, it’s deservedly popular with locals, many of whom phone up the more recently established takeaway down the road if they can’t get a table.
Drinks-wise, there’s a considered wine list (including a bottle from India), but most people plump for local Fourpure beer.