Dalston
24 rooms on the London list
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Turkish ocakbasi2 here
- Yeni Umut 2000 Dalston — A long charcoal grill runs down the back wall, and Smoking Goat's cooks eat here after service.
- Mangal 2 Restaurant — The charcoal trench sits in the counter and at least one part of every dish crosses it.
Restaurants12
OrenBib
Destination · Levantine · Dalston · $$$
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A pitta packed with hake and grilled in lamb fat, which the London editor of The Infatuation called one of the best things you can eat in the city (The Infatuation).
Lagom
Solid · Live-fire BBQ · Dalston · $$
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Jay Rayner went looking for a cheap dinner, found Elliot Cunningham cooking over coals in a railway arch, and wrote that a plate of golden beetroot was "the best plate of the stuff I have eaten in years" (The Observer).
Mangal 2 Restaurant
Solid · Turkish ocakbasi · Dalston · $$
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Ali Dirik came from Istanbul in 1987 and opened what his family says was London's first ocakbasi within four years, then opened this room in 1994.
AngelinaMichelin
Solid · Japanese-Italian · Dalston · $$$
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Thirteen courses, rewritten every five weeks, which works out at about ten different menus a year out of one small kitchen on Dalston Lane.
The Midyeci Dalston
Solid · Turkish seafood · Dalston · $
walk-in
The roll is a mini somun ekmek that Akdeniz Bakery makes specifically for this shop, which Vittles reads as "a very good sign that the details are being thought about" (Vittles, 2024).
Acme Fire Cult
Solid · Live-fire · Dalston · $$$
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The Marmite on the sourdough starts as 40FT Brewery's leftover beer yeast, and the ancho chillies that go into Acme's hot sauce go back over the wall into the brewery's schwarzbier.
Little Duck The Picklery
Solid · Ferments / wine bar · Dalston · $$$
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The kitchen makes the pickles, ferments and drinking vinegars in the room and sells them by the gram or the jar, so the menu moves with whatever finished this week (Square Meal).
Micky's Chippy
Listed · Fish & chips · Dalston · $
walk-in
Jake Missing's description of the chips is the whole case for this place: "some fat, some crispy, some soggy, all perfect" (The Infatuation, January 2025).
Voodoo Ray's
Listed · Pizza slices · Dalston · $
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Pizza by the slice barely exists in Britain, and this counter cuts a wedge off a 22 inch New York pie until 2am on Friday and Saturday (The Infatuation).
The Good Front Roomnew
Listed · Caribbean · Dalston · $$$
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The name is a room: the front room in a Caribbean house kept spotless for a special guest, that no child was ever allowed into, which is what Dom Taylor's great-aunt Myrtle kept and what he built a restaurant out of (The Good Front Room).
Five Fingers
Listed · South Indian · Dalston · $$
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Chettinad cooking is the black-pepper end of Tamil food, and here the lamb version runs 13.95 on a Kingsland High Street menu that also stretches north to biryani and tandoor.
Craft beer2
Red Hand
Solid · Craft beer dive bar · Dalston · $$
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Sixteen keg lines, a bottle list built on 750ml sharing formats, and not one handpump in the building.
40ft Brewery Dalston
Listed · Craft beer · Dalston · $$
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The specials come off a 40-inch pilot kit, so what is on that tap today is unlikely to be there next month.
Cocktails6
Three Sheets Dalston
Solid · Cocktail bar · Dalston · $$$
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Max Venning got the keys on a Wednesday and was pouring on the Friday, and when the first customer wandered in off Kingsland Road and asked what the bar was called, he had to admit he had not decided (CLASS).
Warehaus
Solid · Cocktail bar · Dalston · $$
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The rhubarb in the gimlet has already been pressed dry for a drink at the sister bar, and gets distilled here anyway: "we distil this already-pressed rhubarb and make a gimlet out of it," and the espresso martini's spent cold brew gets redistilled and topped with cream soda…
392 Kingsland Rd
Solid · Cocktail bar · Dalston · $$
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The bar has no name on the door, so it answers to its own postcode: a dark frontage on Kingsland Road with the address over it and nothing else (The Nudge).
mu
Solid · Listening bar · Dalston · $$
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There is no stage. The musicians play a couple of feet from the tables, Wednesday to Sunday, and the food comes off a robata grill in the same room (The Nudge, venue).
Silk Stockings Cocktail Bar
Listed · Cocktail bar · Dalston · $$
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Three different operations have run this room on Dalston Lane since 2015, so any review you read about it needs a date checked before you trust it (Time Out).
Wine1
Dan's
Solid · Natural wine bar · Dalston · $$
walk-in
The retail shelf is the wine list: more than 600 bottles from Dan Long's own merchant business, Natty Boy Wines, drinkable at the table for £15 corkage (Hot Dinners).
Coffee1
Kaffa Coffee
Solid · Ethiopian coffee · Dalston · $
walk-in
The beans come off a plantation in Kaffa, the Ethiopian province Markos Yared named the shop after and the one tradition credits as coffee's birthplace, and he roasts them on site in Gillett Square (Hackney Citizen, 2015).
Bakes & sweet2
Banh
Solid · Vietnamese banh mi · Dalston · $
walk-in
Christine Tran trained in pastry at Le Cordon Bleu, and she spent a year developing the baguette before she would sell a sandwich on it, because standard baguettes hurt her gums (Vittles, 2024).
The Dusty Knuckle Bakery
Solid · Sourdough & sandwiches · Dalston · $
walk-in
Max Tobias spent thirty-eight pounds on ingredients for the first test batch, sixteen loaves, in 2013, and the bakery that came out of it still trades from a forty-foot freight container in a Hackney car park (Time Out).
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