Reopened as Jamboree Venue, a venue for food, drink, world music, folk music, piano and jazz. May 2022 – Reopened as Jamboree Venue, a venue for food, drink, world music, folk music, piano and jazz. Jamboree was an itinerant folk- and world-music collective which operated around East London, which has found a permanent home of its own. “The new venue, when fully open, will fulfill every aspect of Jamboree – from wild dancing parties to intimate performances, cabaret, puppetry and film screenings. And this time we will also open our doors in the daytime, with delicious food served! There will also be life drawing, painting, music and dance classes, knitting and mending clubs and more in the afternoon program!"

We opened our doors in August 2013 with the aim of bringing lesser known regional Italian cuisine to Fulham – food and drink from Puglia and the wider Salento region. Since then we have had the opportunity to showcase all the wonderful food we grew up on. It is a family business founded by three brothers: Rocco, Gianluca and Ivan D’Aversa, supported by an extraordinary team who love the Italian food and wine culture in their own right.

In 1986 Francos was a pizzeria in Brixton Market owned by, you guessed it, a bloke called Franco. In 2008 he had enough and asked his friend Giuseppe Mascoli if he wanted to take it over. Giuseppe and his friend Bridget Hugo, an artisan baker, took it over and named it Franco Manca, (Italian for "Franco has disappeared") in homage to Franco's hard work.

Delightful Italian restaurant, the menu is well balanced with pasta, pizza, risotto and a selection of other dishes and sides. As it was a particularly hot day, it was a nice escape from the heat (the arches of Waterloo Bridge make the interior of the restaurant cool (both in terms of temperature and in terms of decor).