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Frizzante@Hackney City Farm

Hackney City Farm, 1A Goldsmith's Row, E2 8QA Full details & map

Café: Modern European

Time Out says 1 Users say 5/5 Rate it

By Time Out Editors Posted: Nov 28 2011

It's the clamour of families ruddy-cheeked from a visit to Hackney City Farm that saves the large main space of the farm's high-ceilinged café from feeling a little cold. The outdoor area, buffered from Hackney Road by a container garden, is a more atmospheric spot.

Yes, Frizzante has a functionality-over-style vibe, but it also has a confident-sounding menu. Sadly, the cooking was found wanting on our most recent visit. An octopus and cuttlefish salad was clean-tasting, though the grilled polenta underneath was soggy, while a frittata was almost as chewy as the woodchip underfoot. Potato, leek and stilton soup may have been a mite autumnal for an August menu, but it hit an appropriately rustic note.

Breakfasts - meat or vegetarian options - looked to be better value than our choices. That sausage might repeat on you when you visit the pigsty, though.

Tags: European, Modern European, Families & kids, Outdoor : Dining, Something different, East, Shoreditch, Budget, Café

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Frizzante@Hackney City Farm details

Address

Frizzante@Hackney City Farm

Hackney City Farm, 1A Goldsmith's Row E2 8QA

Transport Hoxton rail

Telephone

020 7739 2266

Frizzante@Hackney City Farm website

Lunch served 10am-4pm Tue-Sun. Dinner served 7-10pm Thur

Main courses £5-£17

Credit cards MC, V

Facilities

Tables outdoors ( 10, park ), Babies and children welcome ( children's menu; high chairs; nappy-changing facilities ), Booking advisable ( dinner ), Available for hire ( autumn and winter only ), Disabled ( toilet )