About Frank'S Cafe
Frank’s Cafe is the flagship commission of Bold Tendencies, created on the rooftop of a multi-storey carpark in Peckham. Currently closed for Winter. Opening for summer 2020, serving delicious food and drink with unbeatable views of the city.
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We're hiring! Do you fancy having the best summer job in London? We are looking for bartenders, bar support and floor staff to join us on the roof. Full time and part time roles available.
Apply here:
https://careers.frankscafe.org.uk
We are excited to announce that Frank’s Cafe will be opening for Summer 2018 at Bold Tendencies on Friday the 18th of May. We are back on the rooftop serving delicious food and drink with unbeatable views of the city until the 22nd of September. See you there!
#BOLD2018
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For all those asking... we are NOT open yet! Here’s a sneak peek of the views while you wait. News about this summer coming very soon, keep an eye out for updates
Our friends at Copeland Park are having a roof party this Saturday.
The last rooftop party is a fundraiser for Peckham Festival. So although its not on the number 1 rooftop in London (naming no names) they’re going to have a top lineup of DJs such as BBZ and Fruite to round off a great summer on Rooftop D of Bussey.
https://www.facebook.com/events/173992146 485921??ti=ia
Celebrating 10 years this year, Bold Tendencies is a non-profit creative arts organisation based on the upper floors of Peckham's multi-storey car park. Having commissioned Frank's cafe as its first architectural commission in the summer of 2009, Bold Tendencies continues to commission performances ranging from art and dance to poetry and classical music concerts.
We are excited to invite you to The Colour Chemists – our FREE children’s art exhibition, curated by kids, for ki...ds on our rooftop site. MY MUSEUM is an exhibition and project space run by Bold Tendencies where children take the lead. This years on-site exhibition has been realised in collaboration with students from local primary schools on the theme of colour inspired by our commission to Simon Whybray, the pink staircase "hi boo i love you". Pop in to visit the exhibition Fridays 2–4pm and weekends 11am–4pm to see their wonderful work and take part in interactive stations our young curators have made. We also have some FREE workshops coming up for kids to get involved (recommended 5–12 yrs), exploring what happens when we play and engage with colour. Come and join artists from Bold Tendencies and musicians from The Multi-Story Orchestra for these free workshops! Sign up by emailing info@boldtendencies.com See you soon!
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For Summer 2017 we have teamed up with the Dulwich Picture Gallery to create the Dulwich Pavilion Bar. Come and visit us Thursday - Sunday. For more info please visit Dulwich Pavilion Bar
We are delighted to be open for summer 2017 from tonight. Kitchen opens from 5pm - Cocktails are being served right now! See you soon 🍹🍴
We are very excited to announce that we have bought The Camberwell Arms. Opened in 2014 by Michael Davies of Frank’s Cafe, The Camberwell Arms has long been our favourite restaurant in South London.
We are delighted to be joining Michael and the rest of the team there and we have several exciting developments planned for this autumn that we will be announcing soon.
For the time being come and visit us in Camberwell anytime and Peckham from this Friday!
... For more information please visit www.thecamberwellarms.co.uk
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Fancy having London's best summer job? We are now hiring bartenders, bar support and floor staff. Apply here: https://careers.frankscafe.org.uk/
We are delighted to announce that Frank's Cafe will be reopening alongside Bold Tendencies for Summer 2017 on the 19th of May. See you there..
Bold Tendencies rooftop summer programme of visual art, architecture and classical music from The Multi-Story Orchestra runs 19 May - 30 September. It includes new commissions to Polish artist Ewa Axelrad and Mexican artist Isaac Olvera and young British architects Oliver Cooke and Francis Fawcett as well as works already onsite by Richard Wentworth, Adel Abdessemed and others.
What are you up to this summer? We're now hiring for management positions - apply here. https://www.gumtree.com/…/general-manag er-needed…/1218728169
We are spending New Year's Eve at The Camberwell Arms.
They will be serving dinner in the pub, full menu here: www.thecamberwellarms.co.uk/page/new-year /
After dinner the bar will be open for drinks and dancing until late with our friends Rude Not To.
... The bar is free entry all night but if want to book a table for dinner please call 02073584364.
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Frank cafe for the opening of Somerset house studios. @somersethousestudios
Thanks Summer 2k16 you were a blast! See you next year 💕
Very nice!!!
Unique place
Have told all my friends���
The best view of London from the coolest place in London
Tasty food, cheap beer, friendly staff, great views of London. All round fun day out.
Never heard of the place until yesterday but it was an amazing atmosphere friendly staff and security I would recommend it to people for a place to go
Lovely venue with such a great view! Been several times and always enjoy my time here!
Literally the best staff ever the bouncers and so polite and fun ❤️❤️ wooo hoola hoop forever
I love Franks!
Great sunset and food!
Great place great view great atmosphere great food and drink
Great meeting place for groups of friends. Great atmosphere.
Great food, great stuff and great views!
Great atmosphere, great food, great view! Known about this place for ages and just hadn't got round to it, wish I'd gone sooner! 10/10 would recommend
Fabulous views, great for a summer's night out enjoying an evening breeze. Best drinking hole in London.
Fabulous experience and the view of London is fantastic. Happy memories.
Cool vibe cool people cool place
Awesome bar! Worth going up there just for the panoramic views of London. Cool place!
Amazing view, beautiful place and cool place to stay with friends!
Always love the atmosphere and skyline! Great place!
A great place to hangout with your friends and enjoy that terrific view. Frank's Cafe is an inconspicuous place which offers so much more than you expect. I wasn't entirely sure where I was headed at first, but was pleasantly surprised when I finally arrived. Definitely lived up to all the fabulous ratings.
.Super cool! Beautiful view and excellent food. I do recommend it
The food was really good and was served quickly.. the drinks took ages... the Bloody Mary was so spicy we couldn’t drink it.. to be fare they changed it and the next one was still too spicy.. all in all a nice experience...
Really nice carpark-top bar (is it even a thing?) Just sad to find out it's closed on Mondays :(
I liked everything about the place except, and it's a big except, for the toilets. They certainly let the venue down and we couldn't bring ourselves to use them as they're absolutely disgusting. I'm surprised H&S are allowing them to be used like that.
Get the toilet situation rectified and it'll be a brilliant place to visit.
Great roof top spot and lots of space to either sit or stand while enjoying the views of London. However the toilets are just disgusting. They aren’t toilets, it’s just toilet seats over a hole, so no flushing system in place and it’s horrible and dirty and just stinks. Make sure you empty your bladder before going and don’t drink too much so you need to go to the loo. Still a fab place!
Great food, great wine with an amazing view of London - An absolute gem of a place in Peckham! I'll be back
Giving it 4 stars only because of the lack of music, think this would set it off perfectly! Otherwise had a fab time and the place was lovely too. Food also great!
Food great, drink great, venue great, staff great, toilets appalling....
Excellent drinks, food, stunning views, kick arse art & replica of Derek Jarman’s garden. What more could you ask for.
Definately worth a visit - stunning views and a great crowd! I would recommend this place.
Cool and quirky place with a nice view, only let down is their toilet facilities.
It’s a nice place with a great atmosphere. It could do with some music and the food was fairly average. The toilets were terrible, they really need to invest in better toilets.
Frank's is one of THE best places to enjoy a drink on a summers evening in London. HOWEVER.... When it comes to the food, I'm not sure what they're trying to pull. This is a rooftop bar in Peckham, yet they're trying to pull a menu of some high end dining. nah mate, this is Peckham!!!??!! People are here for the view, drink & atmosphere. people are not travelling from across all ends of London for the food. If I'm here to sip a drink or two, talk to friends, and appreciate the view ... yet feel a bit peckish..... just let me buy some chips, or a burger?! The food options here are NOT suited to the atmosphere of this place. Just stop it. You'll make A LOT more money feeding the people who are going to Franks (mainly for reasons listed above) and are a bit peckish. That's it. Summer vibes. Peace Out.
Although any open event/rooftop event in london is a risky venture (and yes it rained), the slightly spooky entrance up 5 stories of an empty car park, was worth it
The view was nice but Very expensive drinks for the quantity i got...The bartender put like a quarter of a can into a glass then filled it with ice. A bit of a joke i could say
The bar is ridiculously small for the capacity, it takes about a month to get served.
Nice place but extremely rude security staff. I have never been in a place before treating customers like this.
I was ordered to open my bag for search and as I had a scarf in the bag the security guy asked me to ‘TAKE IT OUT’. While taking the scarf out of my bag I couldn’t help giving him an irritated look as I am not used to being talked this way in my everyday life, and especially when I visit places as a customer. He got angry and said that I had an attitude and I would create problems in the bar and thus he wouldn’t let me in. I replied that my problem was that he was rude to me and all it would take was to say ‘Take it out PLEASE’ to customers. He continued saying he was entitled to search my bag and nobody else had reacted other than me, completely losing the point of me being offended by his behaviour (or trying to exercise his ‘power’ whatsoever). Finally, we were denied entry to the venue.
This was the second time a security staff in Frank’s Café was extremely rude to us.
Don't bother, there are some many other nice places in Peckham with lovely people and atmosphere.
Great place but it seems that Frank's bar just introduced a queue system. Very disappointed.
Came away from the night feeling pretty upset after being approached in a very confrontational manner by one of the bouncers. I had only put a plastic cup on the wall, but this particular bouncer was totally disproportionate in the way he dealt with the situation, as if I was about to start a fight. I do not expect to be spoken to by your staff like this. I have a photograph of the bouncer, so if you are serious about pursuing this issue, I can happily forward it you. Also, if you want to call yourself a bar, then please provide places around the whole area for people to put their drinks. Otherwise, you're nothing more than a big open air car park. Not a great atmosphere.
Very nice!!!
Unique place
Have told all my friends���
The best view of London from the coolest place in London
Tasty food, cheap beer, friendly staff, great views of London. All round fun day out.
Never heard of the place until yesterday but it was an amazing atmosphere friendly staff and security I would recommend it to people for a place to go
Lovely venue with such a great view! Been several times and always enjoy my time here!
Literally the best staff ever the bouncers and so polite and fun ❤️❤️ wooo hoola hoop forever
I love Franks!
Great sunset and food!
Great place great view great atmosphere great food and drink
Great meeting place for groups of friends. Great atmosphere.
Great food, great stuff and great views!
Great atmosphere, great food, great view! Known about this place for ages and just hadn't got round to it, wish I'd gone sooner! 10/10 would recommend
Fabulous views, great for a summer's night out enjoying an evening breeze. Best drinking hole in London.
Fabulous experience and the view of London is fantastic. Happy memories.
Cool vibe cool people cool place
Awesome bar! Worth going up there just for the panoramic views of London. Cool place!
Amazing view, beautiful place and cool place to stay with friends!
Always love the atmosphere and skyline! Great place!
A great place to hangout with your friends and enjoy that terrific view. Frank's Cafe is an inconspicuous place which offers so much more than you expect. I wasn't entirely sure where I was headed at first, but was pleasantly surprised when I finally arrived. Definitely lived up to all the fabulous ratings.
.Super cool! Beautiful view and excellent food. I do recommend it
The food was really good and was served quickly.. the drinks took ages... the Bloody Mary was so spicy we couldn’t drink it.. to be fare they changed it and the next one was still too spicy.. all in all a nice experience...
Really nice carpark-top bar (is it even a thing?) Just sad to find out it's closed on Mondays :(
I liked everything about the place except, and it's a big except, for the toilets. They certainly let the venue down and we couldn't bring ourselves to use them as they're absolutely disgusting. I'm surprised H&S are allowing them to be used like that.
Get the toilet situation rectified and it'll be a brilliant place to visit.
Great roof top spot and lots of space to either sit or stand while enjoying the views of London. However the toilets are just disgusting. They aren’t toilets, it’s just toilet seats over a hole, so no flushing system in place and it’s horrible and dirty and just stinks. Make sure you empty your bladder before going and don’t drink too much so you need to go to the loo. Still a fab place!
Great food, great wine with an amazing view of London - An absolute gem of a place in Peckham! I'll be back
Giving it 4 stars only because of the lack of music, think this would set it off perfectly! Otherwise had a fab time and the place was lovely too. Food also great!
Food great, drink great, venue great, staff great, toilets appalling....
Excellent drinks, food, stunning views, kick arse art & replica of Derek Jarman’s garden. What more could you ask for.
Definately worth a visit - stunning views and a great crowd! I would recommend this place.
Cool and quirky place with a nice view, only let down is their toilet facilities.
It’s a nice place with a great atmosphere. It could do with some music and the food was fairly average. The toilets were terrible, they really need to invest in better toilets.
Frank's is one of THE best places to enjoy a drink on a summers evening in London. HOWEVER.... When it comes to the food, I'm not sure what they're trying to pull. This is a rooftop bar in Peckham, yet they're trying to pull a menu of some high end dining. nah mate, this is Peckham!!!??!! People are here for the view, drink & atmosphere. people are not travelling from across all ends of London for the food. If I'm here to sip a drink or two, talk to friends, and appreciate the view ... yet feel a bit peckish..... just let me buy some chips, or a burger?! The food options here are NOT suited to the atmosphere of this place. Just stop it. You'll make A LOT more money feeding the people who are going to Franks (mainly for reasons listed above) and are a bit peckish. That's it. Summer vibes. Peace Out.
Although any open event/rooftop event in london is a risky venture (and yes it rained), the slightly spooky entrance up 5 stories of an empty car park, was worth it
The view was nice but Very expensive drinks for the quantity i got...The bartender put like a quarter of a can into a glass then filled it with ice. A bit of a joke i could say
The bar is ridiculously small for the capacity, it takes about a month to get served.
Nice place but extremely rude security staff. I have never been in a place before treating customers like this.
I was ordered to open my bag for search and as I had a scarf in the bag the security guy asked me to ‘TAKE IT OUT’. While taking the scarf out of my bag I couldn’t help giving him an irritated look as I am not used to being talked this way in my everyday life, and especially when I visit places as a customer. He got angry and said that I had an attitude and I would create problems in the bar and thus he wouldn’t let me in. I replied that my problem was that he was rude to me and all it would take was to say ‘Take it out PLEASE’ to customers. He continued saying he was entitled to search my bag and nobody else had reacted other than me, completely losing the point of me being offended by his behaviour (or trying to exercise his ‘power’ whatsoever). Finally, we were denied entry to the venue.
This was the second time a security staff in Frank’s Café was extremely rude to us.
Don't bother, there are some many other nice places in Peckham with lovely people and atmosphere.
Great place but it seems that Frank's bar just introduced a queue system. Very disappointed.
Came away from the night feeling pretty upset after being approached in a very confrontational manner by one of the bouncers. I had only put a plastic cup on the wall, but this particular bouncer was totally disproportionate in the way he dealt with the situation, as if I was about to start a fight. I do not expect to be spoken to by your staff like this. I have a photograph of the bouncer, so if you are serious about pursuing this issue, I can happily forward it you. Also, if you want to call yourself a bar, then please provide places around the whole area for people to put their drinks. Otherwise, you're nothing more than a big open air car park. Not a great atmosphere.