Just to go back to Edd's comment about East Dulwich having better clas of shop/restaurant because it is "populated by a more middle-class type". Does anyone remember the recent history of ED? Lordship Lane was always a good area for shops and restaurants - I've known it since the 70s and one of the nice things about it was the mix of useful shops and businesses with delis and greengrocers and good places to eat and drink. In the view of most people I know still living there, it has got much worse since house prices went up and it became fashionable - a lot of great shops have had to close cos opportunistic landlords put prices up. Sure, there are some good places around, a few older establishments surviving and some new places are interesting like the sweet shop, but there is now a surfeit of useless trendy maman-bebe-fluffy-bunny overpriced tat.