Restaurants

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: 0.1 mls

Nando's

Bethnal Green: 366 Bethnal Green Road, E2 0AH

Distance: 0.1 mls

G Kelly

Bethnal Green: 414 Bethnal Green Road, E2 0DJ

Distance: 0.2 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: 0.3 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: 0.3 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: 0.3 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: 0.3 mls

Taste of Bitter Love

Hackney Road café

Hackney: 276 Hackney Road, E2 7SJ

Distance: 3564.2 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: 0.4 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

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: 0.4 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: 0.4 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: 0.4 mls

Royal Wok

Mainland Chinese food in Bethnal Green

Bethnal Green: 507 Hackney Rd, E2 9ED

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: 0.5 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: 0.5 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: 0.5 mls

Green & Red

Tequila bar Green & Red is miles away from the world of studenty tequila slammers. The staff’s knowledge may be patchy, but only 100% agave tequila is served....

Shoreditch: 51 Bethnal Green Road, E1 6LA

Distance: 0.5 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: 0.5 mls

Sheba Brick Lane

Sheba Brick Lane Indian restaurant in the heart of London’s iconic Brick Lane is top of everyone’s list for flavour, quality and service. Sheba, the second-oldest...

Shoreditch: 136 Brick Lane , London, E1 6RU

Distance: 0.5 mls

The Brickhouse

This supper club is home to burlesque bombshells, cabaret stars and magic performers most nights of the week. A flavoursome Modern European menu offers the choice...

Brick Lane: 152c Brick Lane, E1 6RU

Distance: 0.5 mls

Les Trois Garçons

Although Les Trois Garçons resembles a happy collision between a taxidermist’s (it’s a toss up between the giraffe’s head and the whole swan for the most OTT...

Brick Lane: 1 Club Row, E1 6JX

Distance: 0.5 mls

Chaat

Bangladeshi café in Shoreditch

Shoreditch: 36 Redchurch St, E2 7DP

Distance: 0.5 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: 0.5 mls

Luncheonette at All Star Lanes - Brick Lane

Following the success of the Holborn original, the newest All Star Lanes outpost is tucked away on Brick Lane in London’s East End. With its retro 50s décor and...

Aldgate: 95 Brick Lane , London, E1 6QL

Distance: 0.5 mls

Rootmaster

This vegan eaterie sited in an old Routemaster bus is just the ticket. It is staffed by an ebullient team and filled with nostalgic details such as wind-down windows...

Brick Lane: Old Truman Brewery car park, off Dray Walk, E1 6QL

Distance: 0.5 mls

Story Deli

This cosy little pizzeria is ideal for a chat and a chew. Inside you’ll find rough-hewn tables, little pod stools, big wax church candles and ambient music (Kruder &...

Brick Lane: 3 Dray Walk, The Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, E1 6QL

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: 0.6 mls