Restaurants

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: 0.3 mls

Water House

Water House, the new branch of the equally lauded Acorn House , has garnered huge publicity on the back of the efforts it makes towards sustainability. Being down a...

Shoreditch: 10 Orsman Road, N1 5QJ

Distance: 0.3 mls

Hung Viet

The newest addition to Kingsland Road

Hoxton: 134A Kingsland Rd, E2 8DY

Distance: 3564.8 mls

Song Que

After all this time, Song Que still sets the benchmark for exceptional Vietnamese cooking in London. It’s an efficient, canteen-like operation commanding the corner...

Shoreditch: 134 Kingsland Road, E2 8DY

Distance: 0.3 mls

The Loft

Private dining club

Dalston: Unit 2a, 315 Kingsland Rd, E8 4DJ

Distance: 3564.8 mls

Taste of Bitter Love

Hackney Road café

Hackney: 276 Hackney Road, E2 7SJ

Distance: 3564.8 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: 0.4 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

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: 0.4 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: 0.4 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: 0.4 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: 0.4 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: 0.4 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

LMNT

From the moment you walk in you know you’re in for an unusual experience. Your table might be in a huge amphora, or up some steps to a tiny gallery with only enough...

Hackney: 316 Queensbridge Road, E8 3NH

Distance: 0.4 mls

Campania Gastronomia

Campanian café on Columbia Road

Hackney: 95 Columbia Rd, E2 7RG

Distance: 3564.8 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

Faulkner's

It’s clear that the more recent Turkish owners of Faulkners are attempting to appeal to old-school East Enders – this chippie’s original patrons – rather than...

Dalston: 424-426 Kingsland Road, E8 4AA

Distance: 0.5 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...

Shoreditch: 150 Hoxton Street, N1 6SH

Distance: 0.5 mls

Tay Do Café

The façade of this tiny café does it no favours. The frontage is often obscured by a bus stop directly in front of the doors, and its fluorescent sign speaks more of...

Shoreditch: 65 Kingsland Road, E2 8AG

Distance: 0.5 mls

Hanoi Café

In its owners’ own words, Hanoi Café offers ‘homemade Vietnamese cuisine in a relaxed atmosphere’, which is a pretty accurate description of this charming...

Shoreditch: 98 Kingsland Road, E2 8DP

Distance: 0.5 mls

Mien Tay

Regional fare on Kingsland Road

Shoreditch: 122 Kingsland Rd, E2 8DP

Distance: 0.5 mls

Que Viet

Taking over the former site of Au Lac, this newcomer has a completely new look, making it the most elegant Vietnamese restaurant on the block. A heavy, leather-bound...

Shoreditch: 102 Kingsland Road, E2 8DP

Distance: 0.5 mls

Tay Do Restaurant

Shoreditch: 60-64 Kingsland Road, E2 8DP

Distance: 0.5 mls

Viet Hoa

Once a Kingsland Road institution, often credited with introducing Londoners to authentic Vietnamese cooking in the 1990s, Viet Hoa had become a shadow of its former...

Shoreditch: 70-72 Kingsland Road, E2 8DP

Distance: 0.5 mls

Bacchus Pub & Kitchen

Loyal fans of Bacchus in Hoxton panicked when it closed recently, but they need not have worried as it reopened just a few days later as the more relaxed but equally...

Shoreditch: 177 Hoxton Street , London, N1 6PJ

Distance: 0.5 mls

The Bruncheon Club

Secret Sunday brunch club

London: a secret location, E8

Distance: 3564.8 mls

Royal Wok

Mainland Chinese food in Bethnal Green

Bethnal Green: 507 Hackney Rd, E2 9ED

Distance: 0.6 mls