The website for this new French wine bar and shop states that 'It will offer something that this little area has been missing for some time.' Although this...

This Dalston store - peddling avant-garde fashion for men and women alongside rare music, periodicals and accessories - houses one of London's most...

If it's Saturday, then it must be Hackney's Broadway Market, at least as far as east London's fashionably attired food-lovers are concerned. Many of the...

While some of London's Argentinian restaurants might put on airs and graces, Buen Ayre has that scruffy, laid-back charm that its near-namesake capital does...

While Broadway Market is clogged with whippet-walkers, busking indie bands and buggies, Netil Market (just a few steps away from the main drag) is an...

Nestled between a hip new hairdresser's and a cool clothing/design store, Wilton's has made locals very happy indeed. The pared-back design of corrugated...

The Ponsonby district is Auckland's hipstertown, full of cool bars and brunchy independent cafés. Shoreditch is the approximate London equivalent (a...

It's the sort of place that could only exist in Hackney. A former barbers and a Nigerian wine bar have been knocked together, given a lick of paint then...

Yes, it's yet another Hackney café, but the Russet brings something all of its own to the mix. The site canteen for Hackney Downs Studios, it describes...

It's sad to see a restaurant we once rated highly slip, but Green Papaya doesn't seem to be quite the place it was. There are things to recommend - this is...

A short distance from the Vietnamese restaurant corridor that runs north from Shoreditch, Tre Viet on more mundane Mare Street lacks the manic explosion of...

Admiring the Pacific Rim postcards and tiki mask, the wall covered in vinyl inner sleeves (Columbia, Decca, 'race records' pioneer Okeh) and a dresser of...

You don't book a seat at this brunch-based twist on an underground restaurant, you 'join' the 'club'. You don't get your own table, you pull up a seat with...