Fantastic time at Seven @ Brixton. Feels like they've spent quite a lot of time thinking up great flavour themes and combos for their cocktails and dishes. Along with the the chilled and quirky interior, good music and snazzy clientele it's one of my fav Brixton spots so far!
Was in as part of a mid-week brunch booking. Really enjoyed ourselves, good communication before as we preordered and all smooth on the day. Great prosecco too!
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If you haven’t noticed already, I love Tapas! So when I first heard about a Tapas in Brixton Row (opposite the main village) that also served cheap cocktails (all at £5) I was keen to try it out. This was over 8 months ago and I’ve returned numerous times since. The small food menu offers well known tasty Tapas, and there are Pintxos available at the bar. Recently I haven’t been able to resist the Manchego and Chorizo skewers, which temptingly sit on the bar. There is also hot churros and chocolate sauce available for desert. The real winners at Seven however are the drinks and the atmosphere. Always buzzing both downstairs and up, the recent extension of opening hours has been welcomed by many. The upstairs rooms are used as exhibition space for local artists and I once saw artists at work whilst I was sipping on a cocktail, and my latest visit saw the upstairs walls completely transformed. As well as cheap inventive cocktails, a small selection of Spanish wines and beers are served, also well priced.
Seven is perfectly placed in the market to go for pre (or post) dinner drinks in Brixton village. Cocktails are cheap and has a regularly changing menu to keep it fresh. I tend to only come here at odd times as I don't like how packed it gets at night but it's like a good pair of jeans, looks good and you know it fits you.
I haven't tried much of the food here, it seems a bit meh with all the options that you have in the market so I choose to eat elsewhere. If you like seven, try their sister restaurant three eight four around the corner.
Seven is a hip tapas bar in Brixton village, a stone’s throw away from pizza pioneers Franco Manca. It is a buzzing and shambolic place with graffiti art on the walls, a rickety staircase and charity shop furniture. They serve up a heavily anglicised version of pintxos which is a Basque slant on tapas and involves lots of seafood on little slices of bread skewered with sticks. I haven’t been to the Basque country but I have been to an authentic pintxos place in Madrid and the range of tapas there was a lot more interesting that at Seven (they had things like octopus, blood sausages, cuttlefish and hake). We obviously have different produce in the UK, but for me it is a bit of stretch to call the food served at Seven pintxos. However, grumbles over nomenclature aside, the food they serve is very tasty. They also have a traditional cocktail list and I was very happy with my Old Fashioned – it is a very hectic but fun place to have a drink (although they close at 10pm).
As I have been saying for a while now, the most happening place for new restaurants in London has to be Brixton Village... First to Seven At Brixton in Brixton Market Row (across the road from Brixton Village proper). We got to this place around 7 and it was already jumping.
Seven at Brixton is the perfect place to either start your night or just have dinner. Dishes range from £3-7, sharing boards peak at £20 and cocktails are £5. This will not break your bank and you will love it. If anything, the cocktails should be luring enough. Did I already say they were amazing?
Cocktails for a fiver!? Awesome. Perfect pre dinner date location for a few drinks. Boyo very much enjoyed his mojito and I loved my first drink, if only I could remember what it was. My last one was disappointing - kinda tasted like non-alcoholic nesquik and cost an extra £2 - robbed.
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Heading straight from work to a gig is always a race against time, it’s a hard balancing act between eating and drinking beforehand and not missing the band. Pub food always takes too long but going elsewhere eats into valuable drinking time so usually the only viable option is a sandwich from the corner shop or fast food to eat whilst on route to the bar.
This time I decided to try and be a little classier; Seven at Brixton is a tapas and cocktail bar located within Brixton market. Having previously sampled their cocktails on a soggy saturday afternoon I had stumbled on potentially the best pre-gig combo ever, reasonably priced cocktails and fast but fresh food.
Reserving a table for 7, me and the other half arrived to see a table at the window with my name in cute scrabble letters.
Jackets still on, we were straight to the cocktail menu. To my disdain they had removed the honey and chilli margarita that I had fallen in love with previously, however, there were plenty more new and exciting beverages to choose from. I carefully selected the Buffalo Passion which came in a tall glass over crushed ice, topped with fresh passion fruit and dangerously tasted like juice.
Now happy with drinks in hand we were ready to tackle the tapas menu. Sharing food is my favourite type of eating not only because I am inquisitive and like to try everything but also because the joint interaction with food invokes conversation. We asked the waitress if the vegetarian sharing platter was enough for two people, she said probably but would recommend one more item if we were hungry, so naturally we ordered three additions – just in case.
The first food to hit the table was the recommended portion size of one sharing platter with an extra item which totally would have been enough as shown in the picture below.
Starting with the sharing platter I was enthralled by the mixture of colours and textures laid out in front of me; the warm bread with paper-thin sliced cheese and the piquillo peppers made for an amazing small open faced sandwich. I also had a lot of love for the caper berries whose fiery kick added and extra element to the flavourful board.
Onto the next round; the aubergine salad was well marinated with a nice spice to it and the mushroom in a fino sauce added a lovely creamy balance to the otherwise zesty meal.
Although completely stuffed I do not regret the over order for one second, how would I be able to write about what is good without trying as much as possible? To try and burn off at least a couple of calories and to satisfy my general curiosity I took a wander through the candlelit alley upstairs.
To my amusement the second floor had been entirely transformed since my last visit. In February the rooms had been like visiting a dolls house, now the walls had been metamorphosed into a gothic wonderland created by Brothers of the Stripe. Their exhibition entitled “Gods and Demon” consisted of red and white images of ghosts, Gods and various other deadly yet captivating characters.
I like Seven at Brixton as its playful quirks aren’t try-hard; they feel genuine and carefree, creating a weirdly nostalgic comfortable and fun atmosphere. My only tip would be to wrap up warm if visiting in winter – the open front out onto the market does mean it chilly especially with an icy cocktail.
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As a West London girl, it's not often I venture into the dark and shady depths of Brixton. But armed with an umbrella, useful for self-defence (woah just joking, it was raining) I braved the trek and finally graced Brixton Market with my presence. So what's all the fuss about? Well, quite a lot actually - it turns out it lives up to the hype. Across the road from each other lie the Village and the Market, and it was towards the latter that we dashed for shelter and a full feast of a Spanish brunch.
Seven At Brixton is nestled amongst the other newly opened eateries in this covered space and the scattered hair salons and Caribbean veg stalls that still remain. The unit it occupies is bare: naked light bulbs dangled from the cracked ceiling and there isn't a poster or painting in sight. Choose between a propped-up suitcase or a vintage school desk for your pew and the extremely friendly staff will bounce over to take your order.
The menu here is more Bilbao then Brixton, with chorizo, morcilla de burgos and churros con chocolate adorning the brunch offerings. The trendy theme of the mismatched furniture extends to the menu (printed on an old brown envelope) and the salt and pepper (presented in mini jam jars).
My flat white came accompanied by a morcel of chocolate brownie, a delicate touch which went down a treat.
We had a trio of dishes between the three of us but plonked them in the middle for sharing. Forks reached in and out hungrily as we devoured the hispanic flavours. The open bagel with chorizo, black pudding, tomato and fried egg was on balance the star of the show. I didn't even think I liked black pudding but turns out - it's delicious!
The Full Spanish is essentially the ingredients of the bagel laid out pretty on a plate. With a few darn good extras.
And the yoghurt, muesli and blackberries are a perfect, healthy option and a downright delicious one at that.
You can probably tell by this point already that the place is as edgy as a dodecahedron. They do drinks and dinner in the evening and rock the shabby chic vibe to the max. Think cocktail menus with luggage labels as price tags.
What's more it's the perfect place for solo dining; look at all the good reads to keep you entertained - colour coordinated, of course.
Let me know if you make the trip, you won't regret it.
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REVIEWED AS PART OF THE WORLD CUP OF BREAKFASTS:
España! 15 years ago people would have told you Spain don’t achieve anything in major football tournaments and you would struggle to find a restaurant in London serving decent Spanish cuisine. 15 years on things couldn’t be different, the football team are undisputed champions of the world and there are probably hundreds of Spanish restaurants in London, celebrating the varied dishes from all over the country.
Seven is one of the original restaurants on the Brixton ‘village scene’, which now boasts pushing 100 cafes/bars and restaurants (I’m guessing). It is pretty unassuming from the outside with PVC strip curtains a nod to its former life as part of the market and inside the décor is very simple with touches of the eccentric such as the table we were sat at that was made from an old suitcase. It could have easily believed I was in Lower East Side, Manhattan or Kreuzburg, Berlin.
The food then: Tapas is the order at lunchtime and early evening before it becomes a standing room only bar later in the day. But before that, breakfast and brunch is served. The full Spanish is Chorizo, Morcilla de Burgos, fried eggs, pimenton beans, tomato & toast. That’s £9.50, with a cup of coffee included.
The chorizo sausages were fantastic; one was spicy and oozed paprika oil, whilst the other was darker in colour and a more solid texture but equally delicious. Another star on the plate was the Morcilla de Burgos, which is Spain’s answer to black pudding, made with rice rather than oatmeal. Mildly spiced and soft texture complemented the chorizo brilliantly. The eggs were just right and the toast deserves a special mention too, as it was a massive hunk of fresh bread, perfect for mopping up the chorizo oils and egg yolk.
I was expecting a little bit more from the beans which were basically regular baked beans with paprika sprinkled on top at the last minute.
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With vintage suitcases as shelves and trunks for tables we explored our options on luggage tag menus. It was a quaint experience and quite unlike any Tapas bar I've been to before. We decided on the large sharer platter and it was quite enough to share for three people. The food was definitely inspired by Spain and we enjoyed it. However, I must admit that the ambience and decor was more inspiring. The bar has suitcases as shelves, where they showcase their premium spirits or fancy bottles possibly and the front of the bar counter houses a ecletic mix of books, which were all colour co-ordinated. They also have a very exciting cocktail menu. But, we didn't manage to taste any because we were there for lunch on a weekday! I definitely plan to go back. However, we did order raspberry smoothies that came in milk bottles and looked rather deliciously summery.
So, if you don't drink, you do not have to settle for a coke! The staff were nice and knowledgeable but, asking for extra bread flustered them. Our bread took a bit of time to come. Although we didn't find a large lunch crowd and just walked in without a reservation, I am not sure how evening diners would fare. I'll go back and find out soon and if you fancy Spanish fare in a not so Spanish tapas bar, please do go. They are worth a visit.
Seven at Brixton (opposite the busy Franco Manca and Wishbone) is a tapas and cocktail bar set over two floors with eye catching design. The five different rooms are used as an exhibition space for local artists and you get to sit among the art installations whilst you eat your pintxos and sip your Spanish wines/beers. The books organised by colour on the ground floor bar are particularly striking. The quirky cocktails (listed on an oversized luggage tag) are only £5, all day long - would you see that in a Shoreditch equivalent? We went for a Creme Brulee Martini and a Cinnamon Martini that were both excellent. I would imagine it gets busy at the weekends but you can make reservations before 7.30.
Admittedly I was slightly tipsy by the time we found this gem of a restaurant but in no way should this be deemed to have clouded my judgement!
This is a fantastic place, serving tasty, authentic tapas dishes and also imaginative cocktails. We gorged on the prawns and chorizo, manchego cheese and Serrano ham and took great delight in clearing our plates clean. The cinnamon chocolate churros were simply delicious and a great way to end a fun if a little hazy evening.
We went on a Sunday evening and there was a real buzz about the place and a friendly vibe. This is 'hidden away' inside Brixton Village but is well worth seeking out.
Great cocktails, good imaginative specials. Tends to be very busy, but the upstairs space can be quieter.
The tapas options to nibble upon while drinking their cocktails are first rate.
Not a place to go if you want a quiet atmosphere, though.
Love this place. Relaxed atmosphere, friendly staff, tasty cocktails and delicious tapas.
The owner there informed me that the key to Spanish food is simple: get good ingredients and don't overcook them. He couldn't be more right, they obviously take care in sourcing their produce and as a result the unpretentious tapas menu is brilliant.
At £5 the cocktails are a snip for London and there is no skimping on the measures.
Highly recommended!
This is such a great little place! The staff are just lovely! So friendly! Cocktails are delicious. We were too late to eat but will be back soon for sure! A must place to visit!
TOP TIP: Cocktail Happy Hour!
Seven is such a lovely place to be. Looks worn and dark kinda like a secret dive. It easy to find in one of Brixton’s markets.
Serves a great selection of tapas (love everything except the olives because they add orange to them). Always good service. It’s a must do.
Alsooooo they have more space upstairs that nobody seems to ever use. Recommend to reserve a table if there are more than two of you.
I would highly recommend here, generally as a place for meeting friends but also especially for events like birthdays! I booked a table for a birthday recently and the staff were extremely attentive, taking our orders at our table so we never felt we had to wait too long to give our orders. The staff were also all very friendly and cheery, and the cocktails themselves are really great value - and very distinct and well made! All in all a really fantastic place for a night out - I almost don't want to say anything in case too many people end up going!
This is a really nice bar/restaurant and the staff are friendly and helpful BUT I have two gripes. 1. The music, as many others have said, is just too damn loud! It's detrimental to the business because staff can't hear your order, and you can be sitting next to a friend and still have to shout to have a conversation! Guys, listen to the reviews and turn it down! 2. The payment system is bonkers and seems to work on some sort of trust system whereby you order drinks over the course of the evening and hope that someone is keeping track! Aside from these small issues we had a great time and enjoyed some decent craft beers and reasonable prices!
Great place for tapas and cocktails. Their cocktail list changes regularly so be careful what you order sometimes it can be a bit odd. Cool decor using a thick black line tattoo style of drawings on their walls. Would give 5 stars but sometimes they out large parties in odd places which overcrowds the place sometimes .
I actually wish I could give Seven a 3.5/5, but in the circumstances, a 4 will have to do! Have been here a few times - love that you can easily book, even for reasonably big groups, love the sharing plates - especially the calamari and the charcuterie, although I thought the chill and mint aubergine was very average. House cocktails are fun and all drinks are reasonably priced. Service is a bit hit and miss - some staff are very friendly and attentive and others are lax. Last night our blue cheese and fig salad was missing its blue cheese and it took about three attempts to get a replacement. Definitely would come back though - it's great for a pre-concert bite and drink.
Had a very good evening there, 2 of us. Service and ambience is good. They don't do much wine but what they do is interesting - Ellie was great at talking us thru what there was, why she liked it and getting our views. There's none of the trendy complacency you get in some Brixton places.
Unique, local, down to earth, enthusiastic, good food and drink.
Very busy so service was a little slow but very friendly and helpful staff more than made up for it. Nice to have a NYE meal without any frills of a special event/menu. Great atmosphere, good music, tasty food, good drinks and reasonably priced. Would definitely go again.
I don't usually write reviews but I feel this places deserves it. 7 of us went here for bottomless brunch and it was everything you want from brunch, boozy, fun and great food. At only £25 it's an absolute bargain and probably one of the cheapest and best bottomless brunches I have been to. The place had such a great vibe and massive shout out to all the waitresses that looked after us they ensured our glasses were always topped up and were just bloody great. We told them we were going to see The Streets after so they played all their classics for us to sing along to. We had so much fun and will deffo be coming back. Highly recommend this place!
Loved the whole experience at Seven. Went on a weekday and it wasn't too busy. Drinks were very reasonably priced - much cheaper than usual in London! Think about £5-6 for a cocktail and £13-14 for a bottle of wine. Food was also very yummy and had a great atmosphere - kind of dark and quirky...
Really cute, great atmosphere, lovely food, amazing cocktails and finally, brilliant staff! Great for a dinner and drinks! Had a birthday gathering here would highly recommend. So accommodating.
Really great Spanish influenced place - the brunch is ridiculously good value but unfortunately let down by the slow service. We went on a sunday which is prime brunch time and there were 2 staff members serving - luckily we weren't in a hurry but some other customers were trying to get the waitresses attention for about 10 minutes which was really distracting our meal.
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