Restaurants

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

G Kelly

Bethnal Green: 414 Bethnal Green Road, E2 0DJ

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

Nando's

Bethnal Green: 366 Bethnal Green Road, E2 0AH

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

Taste of Bitter Love

Hackney Road café

Hackney: 276 Hackney Road, E2 7SJ

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

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: 0.5 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: 0.5 mls

Campania Gastronomia

Campanian café on Columbia Road

Hackney: 95 Columbia Rd, E2 7RG

Distance: 0.5 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: 0.5 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: 0.5 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: 0.5 mls

Green Papaya

It’s refreshing to see a Vietnamese restaurant that proudly highlights its specials. At Green Papaya, dishes of the day are cheerfully splashed across a blackboard...

Hackney: 191 Mare Street, E8 3QE

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: 0.7 mls

Empress of India

Smart gastropub or upmarket neighbourhood restaurant? We’re not quite sure, but at 6.45pm on a Friday, the Empress, despite its mosaic tile floor, lofty ceilings and...

Hackney: 130 Lauriston Road, E9 7LH

Distance: 0.7 mls

Fish House

The Fish House formula of retro-stylish takeaway chippie juxtaposed with table-service restaurant is mostly successful. The two elements are kept separate, physically...

Victoria Park: 126-128 Lauriston Road, E9 7LH

Distance: 0.7 mls

Anatolia Ocakbasi

Both the somewhat barn-like restaurant and the takeaway at the front are usually busy, with a fast turnover of customers. Haydari (a mix of fresh yoghurt, garlic,...

Hackney: 253 Mare Street, E8 3NS

Distance: 0.7 mls

Tre Viet

This veteran café does a brisk trade every night, when Vietnamese families and office workers (many bringing their own alcohol) squeeze into the tables for a feast....

Hackney: 251 Mare Street, E8 3NS

Distance: 0.7 mls

Pavilion Café

In August 2007, tea merchant Rob Green and Australian chef Brett Redman transformed this park café overlooking Victoria Park’s lake. It now serves a menu of organic...

Victoria Park: Victoria Park, Crown Gate West, E9 7DE

Distance: 1.3 mls

Hai-Ha

The extensive menu at this typically busy local canteen may look overwhelming but choose carefully and you'll be amazed at how fresh and flavoursome the food is here....

Hackney: 206 Mare Street, E8 3RD

Distance: 0.7 mls