11 Dulwich cafes with opening hours, prices, dog rules and hygiene ratings, from Söderberg on Lordship Lane to the Dulwich Clock Café. Checked October 2026.
Dulwich has 11 cafes worth knowing in 2026, and this page has the hours, prices and dog rules for each, from East Dulwich to Herne Hill and Peckham. The ones people land on first are Söderberg on Lordship Lane, a Swedish bakery that bakes its cardamom buns next door; Spinach, a few doors along; the Dulwich Clock Café in Dulwich Park; and West 16th on Half Moon Lane.
1. West 16th, Half Moon Lane
West 16th calls itself a “Kitchen / Café / Studio”, with brunch, toasties and Friday night dinners. It says salads and sandwiches usually sell out by 3pm.
The prices below are from its May daytime menu.
The cafe describes itself as “part neighbourhood café, part wine bar, part creative hub”, opened in 2023 between Dulwich Village and Herne Hill and inspired by New York’s neighbourhood dining. Chef Zita Steyn writes the seasonal menus, and on Friday evenings a dinner menu is served with a wine list and cocktails.
Its teaching studio runs events and workshops through the week, from floristry and art to cookery classes. It tells us it is very dog friendly.
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Open Mon to Thu 8am to 5pm; Fri 8am to 10pm; Sat 8.30am to 5pm; Sun 9am to 5pm
Food brunch until 2pm on weekdays and 3pm on Sunday; toasties until 4.45pm; Friday dinners from 6pm, none in August
Price folded eggs £13.80; huevos rancheros £14.80; slow-roast lamb shakshuka £20.90; toasties £8 to £13.50; 12.5% discretionary service charge
Address 137 Half Moon Lane, SE24 9JY
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 27 November 2025
Website west16th.co.uk
Booking groups of 6 or more; the Studio or the whole venue available for private hire
Good for card only, breakfast, brunch and lunch, Friday night dinners, dogs welcome, families, accessible, disabled toilet, baby changing, high chairs, outside terrace, vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options
2. Bunhead Bakery, Dulwich Road
Bunhead is a Palestinian-founded bakery opposite Brockwell Park. It specialises in sourdough buns “with flavours rooted in Palestine” (Bunhead).
It quotes Time Out calling it “the cult debut everyone’s queuing for”. The FAQ page says everything is vegetarian except one Guinness cake, around half the menu is vegan each day, and gluten-free options are marked.
The next day’s menu goes on Instagram each evening.
Throughout November 2026 Bunhead is making a Pistachio and Qahwa Tart with the Palestinian restaurant Akub. The bakery says the tart combines pistachio with cardamom and coffee, balanced with a little citrus from orange, and that proceeds will go towards humanitarian aid through Medical Aid for Palestinians, Amos Trust and other organisations.
Corrected 4 November: Bunhead is open until 4pm from Thursday to Saturday, and on Sundays it closes when it sells out.
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Open Thu and Fri 9am to 4pm; Sat 10am to 4pm; Sun from 10am until it sells out
Food sandwiches on Thursdays and Fridays only
Booking no pre-orders
Address 145 Dulwich Road, SE24 0NG
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 13 January 2026
Website bunheadbakery.com
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Good for dogs welcome, ramp on request, vegetarian, vegan options, gluten-free options marked
East Dulwich
3. Söderberg, Lordship Lane
Söderberg is a Scandinavian bakery and coffee shop that began in Edinburgh. Its East Dulwich page says the bakers arrive “before sunrise” to make cinnamon and cardamom buns and sourdough in the bakery next door, which you can watch through the windows.
The prices below are from the kitchen menu dated 10 June. There is a children’s menu.
Open Mon to Fri 7.30am to 5.30pm; Sat 8.30am to 6pm; Sun 8.30am to 5pm
Food brunch from 8.30am every day
Price Swedish waffles £7.50 to £11.70; two eggs on toast £8.50; open sandwiches and salads £11.70 to £14
Call 020 3535 5932
Address 36-38 Lordship Lane, SE22 8HJ
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 12 June 2025
Website soderberg.uk/east-dulwich
Good for dogs welcome, children's menu, cinnamon and cardamom buns, bakery on view
4. Spinach, Lordship Lane
Spinach opened on Lordship Lane in 2015 and is run by its founder, Melissa, who also has a second cafe in Crystal Palace (Spinach). It calls itself “a welcoming and lively neighbourhood restaurant” doing brunch and lunch by day and small plates in the evening.
A discretionary £1 donation to the Helen Arkell Dyslexia Charity is added to each bill.
Open Mon to Thu 8am to 5pm; Fri and Sat 8am to 6pm; Sun 8am to 5pm
Price weekend brunch: eggs on sourdough £9; avocado on sourdough £10.50; larger brunch plates £18
Booking no bookings for breakfast or lunch
Call 020 8299 3344
Address 161 Lordship Lane, SE22 8HX
Hygiene rating 4, Food Standards Agency, 18 November 2025
Website spinach.london/east-dulwich
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Good for brunch, lunch, evening small plates, £1 charity donation on the bill
Dulwich Village and Dulwich Park
5. Redemption Roasters, Dulwich Village
Redemption Roasters is a coffee company that runs barista academies inside HMP High Down, Wandsworth, Downview and Wormwood Scrubs and employs prison leavers, according to its social impact page. Its Dulwich Village shop was its first in south London.
It has room for about 34 people inside and 30 more in the garden, and serves pastries and cakes, with sandwiches from Focaccia Mia on Fridays to Sundays. “Dogs are always welcome.”
Open Mon to Fri 7am to 4pm; Sat and Sun 8am to 5pm
Address 29 Dulwich Village, SE21 7BN
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 25 November 2024
Website redemptionroasters.com/pages/locations_sub_page/dulwich-village
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Good for garden, dogs welcome, early opening, employs prison leavers
6. Megan’s in the Hamlet, Dulwich Village
Megan’s is a group of all-day cafe restaurants, and its Dulwich branch sits on the corner of Gilkes Place. The Dulwich page says it is open every day for brunch, lunch and dinner, has a children’s menu, and is “super dog friendly”, with dog beds and water bowls.
Open Mon and Tue 8.30am to 5pm; Wed and Thu 8.30am to 9pm; Fri and Sat 8.30am to 10pm; Sun 9am to 7pm
Food brunch until 3pm
Price Sunday to Wednesday evenings two courses £18, three courses £21
Booking online or by phone
Call 020 3468 0226
Address 25 Dulwich Village, SE21 7BN
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 24 October 2024
Website megans.co.uk/locations/megans-in-the-hamlet
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Good for dogs welcome, dog beds and water bowls, children's menu, open every day
7. Dulwich Clock Café, Dulwich Park
The Dulwich Clock Café is the park cafe by the lake. It is run by Colicci, a family firm that says it has over 30 sites in London parks.
Its own page lists sourdough pizzas from “the red dome oven”, hot drinks, cakes and a kitchen menu “suitable for all the family”. The hours below are Colicci’s; Southwark Council lists 8am to 5.30pm, so call if you are going late.
Open winter 8.30am to 4pm; summer 8.30am to 7.30pm
Call 020 8299 0643
Address College Road, SE21 7BQ
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 15 June 2026
Website colicci.co.uk/dulwich-clock-cafe
Good for dogs welcome, baby changing, high chairs, disabled toilet, level access from the park, sourdough pizza
8. Flotsam & Jetsam, Dulwich Picture Gallery
The gallery cafe has been run since September 2021 by Bovingdons, under the Flotsam & Jetsam name it first used on Wandsworth Common. The Caterer reported that it serves coffee and all-day brunch “in an Antipodean style”.
Check the gallery’s cafe page before a Sunday visit. There is also a newer canteen in the Sculpture Garden.
Open Tue to Sat 8am to 5pm; Sun 9am to 5pm; closed Mon
Booking walk-ins only
Address Gallery Road, SE21 7AD
Hygiene rating awaiting inspection, Food Standards Agency, listed as "Gallery Cafe and the Canteen" under a new registration (FSA
Website dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/planning-your-visit/dulwich-picture-gallery-caf%C3%A9
Good for all-day brunch, Sculpture Garden canteen, gallery visits
Herne Hill
9. Jan’s Café, Herne Hill Velodrome
Jan’s Café is the hatch on the upper floor of the pavilion at Herne Hill Velodrome, the Victorian cycling track off Burbage Road. Its page lists Volcano coffee, bacon rolls, toasties, chilli and Belgian frites, plus local beer and wine.
The velodrome is run by a registered charity, and the hygiene rating is held under the Friends of Herne Hill Velodrome.
Open October to March: Tue to Fri 10am to 11.30am; Fri 5pm to 6.30pm; Sat 9am to 2pm. April to September: also Wed and Fri evenings, and Sat until 9pm
Address 104 Burbage Road, SE24 9HE
Hygiene rating 4, Food Standards Agency, 13 September 2025
Website hernehillvelodrome.com/cafe
Good for Volcano coffee, Belgian frites, local beer and wine
Peckham
10. Old Spike, Peckham Rye
Old Spike is a social enterprise roastery that opened as a small cafe on Peckham Rye in 2015 (Old Spike). The name comes from “spike”, slang for a workhouse casual ward.
Its employment programme trains people experiencing homelessness and finds them paid placements. Its figures for January to June 2026 are 52 people trained and 901 hours of paid work (Old Spike).
The Peckham Rye shop does iced coffee, pastries and sandwiches.
Open Mon to Thu 7.30am to 4pm; Fri 7.30am to 5pm; Sat and Sun 8.30am to 5pm
Address 54 Peckham Rye, SE15 4JR
Hygiene rating 4, Food Standards Agency, 10 October 2025
Website oldspikeroastery.com/pages/locations
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Good for social enterprise, early opening, iced coffee, pastries and sandwiches
11. Persepolis, Peckham High Street
Persepolis is a Persian corner shop with a vegetarian cafe, run by the cookery writer Sally Butcher and her husband Jamshid. The shop marked 25 years in May 2026.
It says every meze can be made vegan and gluten free, and groups of five or more get a version of the feasting menu automatically (Persepolis).
Food from about noon until about 9pm, seven days a week
Price meze from £4 for one plate; feasting menu £25 a head, or £30 with drinks and dessert
Booking by phone; £5 a head deposit for evening tables
Call 020 7639 8007
Address 28-30 Peckham High Street, SE15 5DT
Hygiene rating 4, Food Standards Agency, 27 January 2026
Website foratasteofpersia.co.uk/restaurant
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Good for bring your own drink, no corkage, vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free meze, groups
How we chose
These are the cafes people search for, chosen on what can be checked rather than on taste: how long they have traded, what they publish, public coverage, and the Food Standards Agency hygiene rating. Nothing here is rated below 3. We left out cafes we could not check against a website of their own on the day. That ruled out some well-loved names, such as the Blue Brick Café, Cafe G on Peckham Rye and the Glassmaker’s Café in the restored Brockwell Hall, which reopened in October 2025 (Lambeth Council). Brick House on Zenoria Street closed in 2020, according to its owners. Frank’s Café on the roof of the Peckham multi-storey is a summer-only bar and cafe. Hours change, especially in winter, so check before you set off.
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For more locally, see things to do in Dulwich, what’s on in Dulwich this month, our guides to Dulwich restaurants, Dulwich pubs and Sunday roasts, and every cafe in our Dulwich business directory.
Frequently asked questions
Which Dulwich cafes are dog friendly?
Söderberg on Lordship Lane, Redemption Roasters and Megan’s in the Hamlet in Dulwich Village, the Dulwich Clock Café in Dulwich Park and Bunhead Bakery on Dulwich Road all say on their own websites that dogs are welcome, and West 16th on Half Moon Lane tells us it is very dog friendly.
Which cafes in Dulwich open early?
Redemption Roasters in Dulwich Village opens at 7am on weekdays, Söderberg on Lordship Lane at 7.30am, Old Spike on Peckham Rye at 7.30am, and Spinach on Lordship Lane and West 16th on Half Moon Lane at 8am.
Can you book a table at a Dulwich cafe?
Mostly not for daytime. Spinach takes no bookings for breakfast or lunch, the Dulwich Picture Gallery café is walk-in only and Bunhead Bakery takes no pre-orders. Megan’s in the Hamlet takes online bookings, West 16th takes bookings for groups of six or more, and Persepolis recommends booking and takes a £5 a head deposit for evening tables.
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