{"id":611090,"date":"2025-12-04T06:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T06:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/611090\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T06:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T06:36:15","slug":"norberts-south-london-i-feel-like-a-competition-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/611090\/","title":{"rendered":"Norbert\u2019s, south London: \u2018I feel like a competition winner\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-c-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">We should discuss what Norbert\u2019s is, which is a\u00a0<a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/observer.co.uk\/news\/columnists\/article\/in-praise-of-small-restaurants-and-eavesdropping\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Anchor font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _ws-pre-wrap _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _cur-pointer _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-18 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500576 _col-c-orange_6048 _textDecorationColor-c-orange_6048 _td-underline _textDecorationStyle-solid\" style=\"font-weight:var(--f-weight-300)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">neighbourhood restaurant<\/a> that has got a bit out of hand. There\u2019s a handful of tables, for walk-ins only, a\u00a0deliciously succinct menu, rotisserie chicken and two kinds of potato, and not much else. That\u2019s it. But \u201cthat\u2019s it\u201d is sort of the essence of Norbert\u2019s, and why my friend Joel and I (yes, we are both called Joel; yes, we get off on this an outsized amount) had both made the treacherous cross-Thames journey south to see it \u2013 legend of the place has spread far beyond the postcode it was meant to cosily serve when it first opened, nine months ago. As \u201call the sauces\u201d (a Sunday-worthy chicken gravy, a delightfully crackly pepper-butter, a\u00efoli with the umlaut and, simply, Frank\u2019s RedHot sauce) hit our table, everyone in southeast London descends on the place at once, and we are suddenly surrounded by the right kind of bustle: a solo diner taking on a\u00a0half-chicken in devout silence; a group of men with moustaches who started supporting Dulwich Hamlet two weeks ago; seven others who have seemingly never been to a restaurant before and want to start here, tonight, which is sweet of them, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We should discuss what Norbert\u2019s is, which is a\u00a0neighbourhood restaurant that has got a bit out of hand.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,1203,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-611090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-food","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115659917469011340","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}