The kitchen is the soul of a restaurant as it is of a home. It is a place of hard work, companionship, and the sharing of skills and ideas. Our influences are the home style cooking and street food of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.

Ganapati is one of the south Indian names for the elephant-headed god Ganesh. He is the well-loved remover of obstacles, with a particular fondness for sweets.

Ganapati is one of three local businesses supporting Grown in Peckham, an exciting new venture in the Burgess Park Food Project Garden at Glengall Wharf. Here are some of the contents of our first delivery which will work their way into the menu. More information. here.

Curry Nation is the book that accompanies the series of the same name which brought Madhur Jaffrey back to British TV recently, and to Peckham to visit Ganapati Restaurant. See Madhur at Ganapati. here.

The publication Capital Spice featuring Ganapati chef Claire Fisher is now on sale at the restaurant. A cookbook with recipes from 21 chefs cooking Indian food in London.

The Spice Scribe Zoe Perrett shares her fascination for all things Indian and edible on her blog.