Restaurants

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: 0.1 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: 0.1 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: 0.1 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: 0.1 mls

Mien Tay

Regional fare on Kingsland Road

Shoreditch: 122 Kingsland Rd, E2 8DP

Distance: 0.1 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: 0.1 mls

Tay Do Restaurant

Shoreditch: 60-64 Kingsland Road, E2 8DP

Distance: 0.1 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: 0.1 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: 0.2 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: 0.2 mls

Zen Satori

Set on a bland stretch of modern, residential Hoxton, not five minutes from the square itself, the on-site restaurant of the Oriental School of Catering is smarter...

Shoreditch: 40 Hoxton Street, N1 6LR

Distance: 0.2 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: 0.3 mls

Campania Gastronomia

Campanian café on Columbia Road

Hackney: 95 Columbia Rd, E2 7RG

Distance: 3564.5 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

Taste of Bitter Love

Hackney Road café

Hackney: 276 Hackney Road, E2 7SJ

Distance: 3564.5 mls

Hoxton Apprentice

We don’t want to be too harsh on what is, after all, a training restaurant set up by the Training for Life charity to teach the homeless and jobless a trade in...

Shoreditch: 16 Hoxton Square, N1 6NT

Distance: 0.3 mls

Monsieur M

Modern Vietnamese in Shoreditch

Shoreditch: 380 Old Street, EC1V 9LT

Distance: 3564.5 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

Macondo

Hoxton Square café

Hoxton: Unit 2b, 8-9 Hoxton Square, N1 6NU

Distance: 3564.5 mls

Leila's Shop

Recently-expanded café-deli

Shoreditch: 17 Calvert Avenue, E2 7JP

Distance: 3564.5 mls

Lennie's

On a sunny Sunday morning, Lennie's is the place to go for a fry-up. Set out along the pavement, its wooden tables soon fill up with hungry – and hungover –...

Shoreditch: 6 Calvert Avenue, E2 7JP

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

Shish

At 7pm we were the only people in this spacious, clean-lined branch of the mini-chain. By 8pm almost all the tables were full. It’s easy to see why Shish packs out...

Shoreditch: 313-319 Old Street, EC1V 9LE

Distance: 0.4 mls

Saf

Saf sets new standards for vegan and raw food restaurants. Part of an international chain (branches in Istanbul and Munich), US-based executive chef Chad Sarno...

Shoreditch: 152-154 Curtain Rd, EC2A 3AT

Distance: 0.4 mls

Comedy Cafe

The Comedy Café is one of the few purpose-built comedy clubs in London. So come on down to Shoreditch - it's a right laugh! You're not just booking dinner, though,...

Clerkenwell: 68 Rivington Street , London, EC2A 3AY

Distance: 0.4 mls

Furnace

Pizzerias probably outnumber phone boxes in London these days. Furnace opened in 1999 and seems to have been busy every night since. The restaurant attracts local...

Shoreditch: 1 Rufus Street, N1 6PE

Distance: 0.4 mls

Trafik

If you like style bars alive with a contagious vibe and the sound of funky music, then Trafik gets the green light every time. A superb sound system and top name DJs...

Shoreditch: 40 Hoxton Square , London, N1 6PB

Distance: 0.4 mls