Restaurants

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: 0.3 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: 0.3 mls

Namo

Charming young waitresses patter around attending to diners at this modest little café, sister to Huong-Viet in Dalston . The surroundings are mellow if slightly...

Victoria Park: 178 Victoria Park Road, E9 7HD

Distance: 0.4 mls

Britannia

Victoria Park gastropub

Victoria Park: 360 Victoria Park Road, E9 7BT

Distance: 0.4 mls

G Kelly

Bow: 526 Roman Road, E3 5ES

Distance: 0.5 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

Morgan Arms

When much of the point of chains is to offer uniform standards, it’s curious that this outlet of Geronimo Inns is our favourite by such a margin. It’s popular with...

Bow: 43 Morgan Street, E3 5AA

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: 0.6 mls

G Kelly

Bow: 600 Roman Road, E3 2RW

Distance: 0.6 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: 0.6 mls

Royal Wok

Mainland Chinese food in Bethnal Green

Bethnal Green: 507 Hackney Rd, E2 9ED

Distance: 0.8 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: 0.8 mls

Orange Room Café

In an area around Mile End station swamped with uninspiring kebab and chicken shops, the Orange Room Café is a treat: a charming, ramshackle Lebanese restaurant...

Bow: 63 Burdett Road, E3 4TN

Distance: 0.8 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: 0.8 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: 0.9 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: 0.9 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: 0.9 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: 0.9 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: 0.9 mls

G Kelly

Bethnal Green: 414 Bethnal Green Road, E2 0DJ

Distance: 0.9 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: 0.9 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: 0.9 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: 0.9 mls

The Counter Café

Café near future Olympic Stadium

Hackney: 4a Roach Road, E3 2PA

Distance: 1 mls