In my day it was Borough High Street that had all the eateries and pubs. My missus used to work in Holdens a newspaper distributor I would use the agency whenever I needed a few months work, and we even had our reception there in The Grapes when we got wed in Walworth Town Hall me and my brother in laws could do a pub crawl quite easily down there.

But it as all changed now the Borough Market never used to have loads of restaurants just the odd cafe. But I was sitting outside my brother in laws house last year before he passed and he had a house in Park Street just behind the market and the amount of people traffic walking through to the offices and the Southbank and Globe theatre munching on sandwich's and what ever else they could fit in their gobs after visiting the market in their lunch breaks.

I remember telling his missus that if she wanted to earn a copper or two all she had to do was put a few tables and chairs in the front of the house and start doing tea's and sandwich's. Nothing the council or health people could do its on private land.

I remember reminiscing with him just how much that area as changed since our early days living in Bermondsey.
Brick Lane is another hussle and bussle place to go to eat the different types of foods unbelievable down there although we did like our own manor and only visited Tower Hamlets on special occasions.
Has for eating out these days I do all the cooking in my house and we do have the occasional Chinese or McDs or KFC Pitsea is full of eating places so we dabble a bit Festival Park as various eating establishments and a great pub called The Quays which do a great cider and meal in the summer months, and there is a skiing ramp for the grandkids and swans and other stuff next to it.