Student Guide to Hackney Wick
How to make the most of London’s most exciting neighbourhood – without breaking the bank…
Review: Park Kitchen & Bar (PKB) at Sadler’s Wells East
A brilliantly realised menu, drawing upon many local producers, elevates this sunny all-day hangout to an essential dining destination, too
Review: Kokin – tuna meets fire at The Stratford
The new sushi restaurant now at the iconic skyscraper’s 7th floor and terrace
The Best Eating & Drinking on Fish Island
Your timely reminder to go visit these amazing restaurants, bars and cafes this summer while we wait for better bridge access…
Review: HERA, Greek-inspired dining at Stratford Cross
This thoroughly modern restaurant may be far from the taverna, but it’s filled with Mediterranean flavours, and much more
Review: Bamboo Mat, East Village
Nikkei food – where Japanese sushi meets Peruvian ceviche – and great cocktails at this popular local spot
Review: Figo Stratford
More than just another pizza and pasta parlour, we found ourselves falling for Figo
Review: Soul Mama, Stratford’s new live music venue & restaurant
Pianist Ben Waters and his talented band play as we sink the Tingalings
Upcycle, recycle, full circle
For some years, scaffolding boards and other ‘waste’ materials from the Olympic Park were used for mezzanine-building, warehouse modifications and much more in Hackney Wick. Almost a decade ago, Tom Fletcher created his Rejuce factory in a Fish Island warehouse, collecting discarded fruit from a wholesale market. Another warehouse-dweller I knew fantasised about closed-circuit hydroponic […]
Fit out to public house
It’s said that the celebrated photographer David Bailey’s grandmother collected glasses there and was paid in gin. Certainly printers, mechanics, scrap metal merchants and more all bowled into it before its closure in the mid-90s. Then all-night ravers and partyheads found more discrete ways in until the door was breeze-blocked a few years back. An […]
