Waterloo Cafe

You'll find yourself in a proper local spot that feels refreshingly immune to the usual South London café theatrics. Waterloo Cafe sits on Wootton Street, tucked away from the chaos around the station, serving the kind of breakfast and lunch that makes sense—nothing Instagram-baiting, just well-executed basics that regulars actually return for. The place has that comfortable, slightly worn-in quality of somewhere that's been doing the same thing reliably for years, which apparently thousands of people quite like judging by the ratings.