Bars & Pubs

Laid-back, bohemian and artfully shambolic, Café 1001 has been dishing up breakfasts, coffees and experimental beats to E1's starving artists and hungover wastrels for aeons. And with Brick Lane and Spitalfields now firmly established on the tourist trail, it's busier than ever. Join the throng of east European cool kids, freaky clubbers and trilby-sporting musos (seriously, sometimes it feels like you've accidentally gatecrashed a modelling agency's fancy-dress party) on the picnic tables outside for bottled beers, barbecued burgers and the finest mango juice in town. After dark, DJs spin everything from jazz to dancehall to a chilled-out party crowd.

Time Out Bars, Pubs & Clubs Guide 2008/9