Restaurants

Nando's

Bethnal Green: 366 Bethnal Green Road, E2 0AH

Distance: 0.1 mls

E Pellicci

Not just a caff, but a social club, taxi drivers’ meeting room and unofficial matchmaking service, E Pellicci has been warmly welcoming customers since 1900. The...

Bethnal Green: 332 Bethnal Green Road, E2 0AG

Distance: 0.2 mls

S&R Kelly

Few London restaurants can match the city's last remaining pie and mash shops for simple authenticity. Their menu has altered little since the mid 19th century: a...

Bethnal Green: 284 Bethnal Green Road, E2 0AG

Distance: 0.2 mls

Raizes

On turning up at Raizes, we were faced with the ultimate Brazilian experience. It was the local capoeira club's annual dinner and there were 20-plus lissom hardbodies...

Bethnal Green: 460 Hackney Rd, E2 9EG

Distance: 0.3 mls

Royal Wok

Mainland Chinese food in Bethnal Green

Bethnal Green: 507 Hackney Rd, E2 9ED

Distance: 0.3 mls

StringRay Globe Café, Bar & Pizzeria

When the flower market fills Columbia Road on Sundays, an impressive queue snakes out of StringRay. Granted, the prices are low for such decent food, but the biggest...

Bethnal Green: 109 Columbia Road, E2 7RL

Distance: 0.4 mls

Wild Cherry

Locals love this café run by members of the London Buddhist Centre, and flock here for weekday lunches and the leisurely Saturday all-day breakfast. It’s easy to...

Bethnal Green: 241-245 Globe Road, E2 0JD

Distance: 0.4 mls

Frizzante@City Farm

Arrive early enough at the weekend and you can enjoy a peaceful, supremely laid-back breakfast before, come late-morning, groups of young Hackneyites become penned in...

Shoreditch: Hackney City Farm, 1A Goldsmith's Row, E2 8QA

Distance: 0.4 mls

Campania Gastronomia

Campanian café on Columbia Road

Hackney: 95 Columbia Rd, E2 7RG

Distance: 3564.2 mls

Laxeiro

A smattering of Alhambra-style tiling, a terracotta colour scheme and the odd potted plant give Laxeiro a homey, honest feel. This unassuming little restaurant is busy...

Shoreditch: 93 Columbia Road, E2 7RG

Distance: 0.4 mls

Royal Oak

The upstairs dining room at the Royal Oak has come a long way from its days as a Mexican-themed bar. These days the airy space is all muted Farrow & Ball tones, and on...

Shoreditch: 73 Columbia Road, E2 7RG

Distance: 0.4 mls

Taste of Bitter Love

Hackney Road café

Hackney: 276 Hackney Road, E2 7SJ

Distance: 3564.2 mls

Jones Dairy Café

When the hubbub of Sunday’s Columbia Road Flower Market gets too much, take a turn at the eastern end, down this cobbled lane. You’ll find overhanging ivy, rickety...

Shoreditch: 23 Ezra Street, E2 7RH

Distance: 0.4 mls

Little Georgia

Conjure up a stern auntie lovingly preparing all your favourites in her kitchen in downtown Tbilisi: that’s Little Georgia. There’s no licence, which means no...

Bethnal Green: 87 Goldsmiths Row, E2 8QR

Distance: 0.4 mls

Cafe Isha

Intimate and exotic are the key words for one of London's best kept local secrets. Cafe Isha restaurant features plush, pillowy surroundings to romantically recline...

Bethnal Green: 115A Roman Road , London, E2 0QN

Distance: 0.5 mls

Bistrotheque

This modish restaurant, bar and cabaret venue is just as popular with regular diners as it is with the fashion crowd, largely thanks to the fact that everyone is...

Bethnal Green: 23-27 Wadeson Street, E2 9DR

Distance: 0.5 mls

Mai'da

Surrounded by the regulation urban kebab and tikka takeaways, Mai’da – with its cream walls, calligraphic paintings, mood lighting and dark-wood furniture – has...

Bethnal Green: 148-150 Bethnal Green Road, E2 6DG

Distance: 0.5 mls

Nando's

How fast does fast food have to be? Dishes come pretty quickly here, but the addition of Mediterranean decor, real crockery, wooden tables and floor-staff puts...

Whitechapel: 9-25 Mile End Road, E1 4TW

Distance: 0.5 mls

Brick Lane Beigel Bake

The competitor two doors down does better sausage rolls, but this charismatic, 24-hour East End institution all human life is here nevertheless wins out in every...

Brick Lane: 159 Brick Lane, E1 6SB

Distance: 0.6 mls

Fika

'Fika' is the delightful Swedish expression for a coffee break - a form of social interaction that Swedes take seriously. Having enjoyed many a fine fika in Sweden, I...

Bethnal Green: 161A Brick Lane, E1 6SB

Distance: 0.6 mls

Buen Ayre

Other Argentina-themed steakhouses might have more clichés and cowhide on the wall, but Buen Ayre is the only restaurant that has the spirit of an authentic...

Hackney: 50 Broadway Market, E8 4QJ

Distance: 0.6 mls

Cat & Mutton

The pub that never sleeps - or rather the pub whose regulars never sleep - often struggles to cope with its popularity, and service has been known to slip. Day after...

Hackney: 76 Broadway Market, E8 4QJ

Distance: 0.6 mls

Premises Café/Bistro

The music studios attached to this eaterie have seen everyone from Nina Simone to Spiritualized go through the mixing desk, though an appetite-dampening picture of...

Shoreditch: 209 Hackney Road, E2 8JL

Distance: 0.6 mls

Cilicia

The day-glo orange-painted walls are covered in Turkish ephemera, with paintings, hubble-bubble pipes and textiles dotted about, while brightly decorated lights (made...

Hackney: 1 Broadway Market, E8 4PH

Distance: 0.6 mls

F Cooke

Few London restaurants can match the city's last remaining pie and mash shops for simple authenticity. Their menu has altered little since the mid 19th century: a...

Hackney: 9 Broadway Market, E8 4PH

Distance: 0.6 mls

L'Eau à la Bouche

The range of goodies at this little French deli always means that you'll spend much more here than you ever intended to. Everything is tempting: breads, patîsserie,...

Hackney: 49 Broadway Market, E8 4PH

Distance: 0.6 mls

Kolapata

In recent years Kolapata – ‘banana leaf’ in Bengali – has been the leading destination to experience Bangladeshi cooking in London. The restaurant is modest,...

Whitechapel: 222 Whitechapel Road, E1 1BJ

Distance: 0.6 mls

Rochelle Canteen

To reach Narnia you went through a wardrobe; here you press the buzzer on the door of this former school to enter another world. Grimy Shoreditch is left outside, and...

Shoreditch: The Canteen, Old School Building, Arnold Circus, E2 7ES

Distance: 0.6 mls

Beach Blanket Babylon

Our two visits to BBB were an education in how hospitality should not be done. Which is a shame, because it's a gorgeously designed open-plan bar and restaurant, with...

Shoreditch: 19-23 Bethnal Green Rd, E1 6LA

Distance: 0.6 mls