Bermondsey Street is one road with a free gallery, a paid museum and about a dozen restaurants on it, and the thing that decides your visit is not which of them you want. It is the day. The museum closes on Sundays and Mondays, and the best French restaurant on the street does not serve dinner on a Sunday.
Get the day right and the whole street works. Get it wrong and half of it is dark.
The Fashion and Textile Museum
At 83 Bermondsey Street, SE1 3XF. Open Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 6pm, with last entry 45 minutes before closing. Closed on Sundays and Mondays.
One exception is worth planning around: the museum opens on the final Sunday of each exhibition. So a Sunday visit is possible, but only at the end of a run, and you have to check which Sunday that is.
The museum suggests 45 minutes to an hour, which is honest and unusual. Advance booking is recommended rather than required, and tickets may be available on the door. The shop can be visited during opening hours without a ticket at all. No food or drink inside apart from bottled water.
White Cube Bermondsey, which is free
At 144 to 152 Bermondsey Street, SE1 3TQ. It is a commercial gallery, which means no ticket, no booking and no expectation that you buy anything, in a converted warehouse big enough for exhibitions on a museum scale.
It is the largest of White Cube’s London spaces and most people on the street walk straight past it. Our art galleries guide explains why the commercial rooms are the most underused free thing in London.
Casse-Croûte
At 109 Bermondsey Street, SE1 3XB. French bistro cooking with a menu that changes daily.
Two things to know. Lunch runs from midday Monday to Sunday, but dinner runs from 6pm Monday to Saturday only, so there is no Sunday dinner. And there is no online booking: you walk in, or you telephone 020 7407 2140. In 2026 that is nearly extinct, and it means the tables do not vanish to an app three weeks ahead.
The Spanish end
José Pizarro has three rooms on and around this street: José Tapas Bar at 104, Lolo next door at 102, and Pizarro further along at 194. They are covered in full on our tapas page, including which of them takes bookings and which does not, because they do not work the same way.
Planning the day
Tuesday to Saturday is the full street. Museum, gallery, lunch and dinner all available.
Sunday is lunch only. White Cube is the fixed point, Casse-Croûte serves lunch from midday but not dinner, and the museum is shut unless it happens to be the closing Sunday of an exhibition.
Monday is the thin day. The museum is closed. Check anything else before you travel.
The street runs north toward London Bridge, so it pairs naturally with Borough Market at one end and the restaurants around London Bridge at the other. The Shard is a ten minute walk.
Fashion and Textile Museum
- Address
- 83 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3XF
- Nearest
- London Bridge or Borough
- Hours
- Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 6pm, last entry 45 minutes before closing. Closed Sundays and Mondays, except the final Sunday of each exhibition
- Booking
- Advance purchase recommended, and entry may be available on the day
- Price
- Ticketed by exhibition, with concessions
- Standing
- On Bermondsey Street, with a shop that can be visited without a ticket
How to get in
The museum suggests 45 minutes to an hour. No food or drink inside apart from bottled water.
White Cube Bermondsey
- Address
- 144 to 152 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3TQ
- Nearest
- London Bridge or Borough
- Booking
- None needed
- Price
- Free
- Standing
- The largest of White Cube’s London spaces, a converted warehouse
How to get in
A commercial gallery, so entry is free and nobody expects you to buy anything.
Casse-Croûte
- Address
- 109 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3XB
- Nearest
- London Bridge or Borough
- Hours
- Lunch from midday Monday to Sunday. Dinner from 6pm Monday to Saturday, so no Sunday dinner
- Booking
- Walk in, or telephone 020 7407 2140. There is no online booking
- Price
- French bistro cooking, with a menu that changes daily
- Standing
- A French bistro on Bermondsey Street
How to get in
The daily menu means the website will not tell you what is on before you arrive.
Where to go next
The best tapas in London covers the three José Pizarro rooms on this street, and the art galleries cover White Cube and the other free commercial spaces.
The Borough guide covers the neighbourhood at that end in full, where the market closes on Monday and nothing else does.
Borough Market is at one end of the walk and the London Bridge restaurants are at the other.
Questions we get asked
What is there to do on Bermondsey Street?
The Fashion and Textile Museum at number 83, White Cube Bermondsey at 144 to 152, which is a free commercial gallery, and a run of restaurants including Casse-Croûte at 109 and three José Pizarro rooms at 102, 104 and 194.
What are the Fashion and Textile Museum opening hours?
Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 6pm, with last entry 45 minutes before closing. It is closed on Sundays and Mondays, with one exception: it opens on the final Sunday of each exhibition.
Is White Cube Bermondsey free?
Yes. It is a commercial gallery, so there is no ticket, no booking and no expectation that you buy anything. It is the largest of White Cube's London spaces.
How do you book Casse-Croûte in Bermondsey?
By walking in or by telephone on 020 7407 2140. There is no online booking. Lunch runs from midday Monday to Sunday and dinner from 6pm Monday to Saturday, so there is no Sunday dinner.
What is the best day to visit Bermondsey Street?
Tuesday to Saturday, when the museum, the gallery and the restaurants are all open. On Sunday it is lunch only and the museum is usually shut. Monday is the thinnest day, with the museum closed.
Written by Robert J Wills, no. 200 in the guide.
Last checked 3 October 2026 against the venues' own published information. Nobody pays to appear here and we take no bookings.
