Silk Road Restaurant
Chinese Restaurant in Camberwell
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If it's good enough for Jay Rayner it's good enough for us. One of London's best cheap eats for sure.
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All In London Review
Some of the tastiest, best value Sichuan style cuisine in London
No frills dining isn’t easy to pull off without coming across too cheap but Silk Road on Camberwell Church Street strikes the balance between basic and cosy, admirably. The restaurant is small, simply designed and packed with neat rows of tables to cover the popularity of the place - thanks to the hot write-ups you’ll regularly find queues outside.
The signature dish has to be the middle plate chicken noodle stew. A tangy broth comes filled with hand-pulled noodles and a huge hunk of chicken that even the most ravenous gourmand will most likely fail to finish. Our advice: share. The Sichuan cuisine means plenty of fresh chilies in the majority of dishes so if you don’t have a palate for spice then you might be disappointed. Aside from the chicken stew, we loved the cold spiced beef, cucumber salad and double cooked pork slices.
With all the rave reviews ringing in our ears we went in ready for perfection. However, the dumplings were a bland disappointment and we were led to expect more from the spicy crusted lamb skewers. But dumplings you can find anywhere and the lamb skewers were still satisfactory; the likes of the big plate chicken and the spicy hot dishes with depths of competing flavour are more rare.
Silk Road deserves its reputation and with a meal for two costing under £30 with drinks, the restaurant is likely to retain its status as one of London’s best for cheap eats for some time.
Reviewed by T.A.O
anonymously
Published on Aug 6, 2015
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