The Gallery

Proceed through a slightly shabby looking takeaway shop to the sweet, family-​run, trattoria-​like restaurant in the back. The food is delicious and very reasonably priced. Be sure to try the traditional home made dessert!

This is a great place faithful to the Portuguese cuisine. From the outside it looks like a portuguese take-​away ‘churrasqueira’ (note: do not confuse with the brasilian ‘churrascaria’) where you can buy roast chicken. Once you are in and go through a second door, there is a large dining area with kitsch tiles portraing Portuguese cities. The food is great, the ‘bacalhau’ is as it should be, the ‘açorda’ is faithful and the ‘cataplana’ very generous. Note: the açorda may be enough for two people, the cataplana serves more than the advertise two — we all took the remaining food in take-​away boxes home and i never do that anywhere else!
The only down side was that they run out of my favourite ‘vinho verde’ wine ‘Alvarinho’.
The prices are very good for the ammount of food served and the quality of the delivery — sooo good value.
I am a demanding portuguese eater and i recommend it.

People talk about ‘the best this’ and ‘the best that’, so you go along yourself and invariably it’s pants. Not this place.
Portugese cuisine sounds slightly unnerving at first, but believe me, the food here is great and you will not be disappointed.
If you’re looking for a nice, romantic venue then this may not be it. The restaurant itself is fine, but you enter through the takeaway, which might freak some genteel ladies out. I personally wouldn’t shy away from bringing a first date here, but they would want to be fairly keen on their food (no macro/​fat-​free/​organic diets), and be OK with people having their kids in a restaurant at 10pm, with all that it brings. It is a family place, after all.
If you’re an easygoing couple, or a couple of mates, then you’ll love the place, and the pace. The food is great, beer and wine are also very good. You can stay as long as you want (our longest was three hours) but the time flies and you just keep coming back. Very highly recommended!

The Gallery, a Portuguese family run restaurant on Brixton Hill, looks like nothing special from the outside but once inside you will be pleased you came.
The front is set up for take-​away trade and the restaurant is to be found round the back. Food wise you can expect lots of tasty food in the form of meat and seafood. They do scrumptious peri-​peri chicken and gorgeous ribs. Vegetarians should not be put off, on offer for non-​meat eaters are lentil and rice dishes and also basics such as omelettes.
The wine list is all-​Portuguese and the service very friendly and they do cater for private parties of up to 40 guests.
At the moment the restaurant is only open Thursday to Sunday. If you are in the area most worth visiting!