Peckham’s feverish renaissance started in 2015, when British Vogue dispatched a group of models and photographers into some bar on top of a car park, and committed 16 pages of praise to this rough-edged corner of south-east London. Today, Peckham has become as common a place for Londoners to spend a Saturday afternoon- since Brooklyn has for New Yorkers or Canal Saint-Martin for Parisians. And because of this, new independent eateries, bars, museums and co-working spaces are all opening apace.
The most recent addition is Coal Rooms, sister restaurant into Old Spike Roastery, Apart, Spike + Earl, along with also the coffee-based charity Change Please. It occupies the Grade II-listed former ticket office of Peckham Rye station, also includes a sexily lit coffee shop-cum-bar out front, along with a light and airy 30-cover restaurant that overlooks throughout the railroad tracks in the rear.
All the next-generation ash carpentry is by local design firm Kennedy Woods, who will be also responsible for its restoration of the space. Parquet floors, sage green banquettes, Danish-style seats and orb look slick against original marble countertops. In the middle section, 13 pub stools revolved round a sunken kitchen, where chef Sam Bryant and staff char grill a meaty menu of 40-day elderly Dexter, slow-cooked goat and lamb and mallard, to serve along with both gutsy accompaniments featuring offal, and a rotation of creative vegetable side dishes and sauces.
Adjoined to this are the original station toilets, complete with original tiled floors, indoor plants, wooden lavatory seats and peeling posters warning against ordinary Victorian disorders. For architect Chris Kennedy, the most fascinating part is the private dining room; ‘it is a airy room having a Victorian mosaic flooring which will function as butchery and bakery in the day, before transforming into a candlelit dining space through the night.’
source http://www.greenroometc.com/coal-rooms/
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