Mile End and Bow area guide

Greedy Cow is one of the few places in Mile End not serving sweaty donners, fried chicken or cups of terrible coffee. For this, as well as its commitment to...

An artisanal café that also serves as an art gallery for local artists, musicians, comedians, DJs and more.

Small café serving hot drinks and sandwiches on sourdough bread

A magician has disappeared during a magic trick and his apartment’s about to be bulldozed. You’ve got one hour inside it to find his book of secrets and...

The Children’s Park in Mile End Park is the place to head for a colourful and imaginative space that has a rope slide, scrambling wall, complicated climbing...

A relic of a pub, the Palm Tree has no time at all for the modern trappings most east London hostelries. Don’t expect the crispest of pints or the most...

It’s a beautiful bar with a great pedigree: an old glue factory transformed into a gin distillery. Tall ceilings, dusty brickwork and wooden stable doors...

And East End boozer by Vicky Park and Hertford Union Canal. They also serve sourdough pizza here.

There's more than a hint of the gastropub about this busy Bow boozer, with Sunday roasts proving particularly popular. The pub dates back to the late...

Delve into the history of an early experiment in public education

Drink like an East End local at this ‘proper’ boozer

Sip vodka and gin at an old glue factory transformed into a gin distillery

Walk or just relax at this popular riverside greenery spot

Greedy Cow is one of the few places in Mile End not serving sweaty donners, fried chicken or cups of terrible coffee. For this, as well as its commitment to...

An artisanal café that also serves as an art gallery for local artists, musicians, comedians, DJs and more.

A Roman Road bouique selling womenswear, menswear, jewellery, gifts, accessories and homewear. 

The park, set in a disused nineteenth-century cemetery, is the only woodland in Tower Hamlets and its 33 acres are home to a wide variety of wild plants and...