Jackson Boxer runs Brunswick House, a grand Georgian townhouse that was previously home to squat raves and rubble before he transformed it into one of South London’s destination restaurants.

We ate calf’s brains, partridge, and Stilton tarte tatin, and then Jackson and his brother Frank took us to Silk Road, a fiery local Xinjiang restaurant in the Camberwell neighborhood. We also drank “extra terrestrial” burgundy at Sager and Wilde and cocktails at the Clove Club, East London’s new gastronomical staples.

Back at Brunswick for our late-night snack, we ate pig trotter buns and had some killer grappa nightcaps.