The Pepper Tree - emphasis on pepper

If you haven't tried The Pepper Tree, you haven't lived... in Clapham. It's a Sunday night staple, when you're depressed about the state of the world and the state of your wash basket, and all you want is a warm hug of a meal to ease you into the week.

On this particular Sunday we'd just endured the harrowing film '127 Hours' and were a little on edge. 'Pepper Tree?' suggested my shaken boyfriend. 'You're darn tooting,' said I.

With The Pepper Tree, you're in and out, sharpish, which suited us fine. Slide your derrière on to long, Wagamama-style benches, order your grub, then see you later alligator [unsure of culturally appropriate animal here]. No time for dilly-dally, can I have extra this or that - but it's good, filling, tasty tucker, albeit lavished with condiments (pepper by name, pepper by nature, as you'll have noted on the beef above. OK maybe you haven't, my pic isn't great - I was hungry, damnit...).

It's seriously good for value for money, too, coming in at around £16 for our two large portions of steamed rice and chicken and beef stir fry platters, swimming in sauce and meaty goodness. A must for any visitor to the marvellous selection of not-loud-or-scary-at-all pubs that abound in that part of the Clapham High Street.

Bellies full, we headed home to warm PJs, cosy beds... and a long night of nightmares about hideous canyon falls and severed limbs.

Get me here, stat!
The Pepper Tree
19 Clapham Common Southside
London
SW4 7AB
Tel: 020 7622 1758