Hackney
14 rooms on the London list
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Restaurants5
MigaBib
Destination · Korean · Hackney · $$$
booking essential
Two national critics reviewed this room a year and a half apart and both of them ended up writing about the same plain white bowl of ox-bone broth.
Shankeys
Destination · Irish-Indian · Hackney · $$
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Poitin goes into the coupe with lime and Kerrygold butter, and it also goes into the turmeric butter that gets slathered over the potatoes, which is what makes this Irish-Indian rather than Irish-and-Indian.
Dough Hands East
Solid · Pizza · Hackney · $$
walk-in
Three London chefs were asked separately where the best pizza in the city is, and all three named this one.
Casa Fofó
Solid · Modern tasting menu · Hackney · $$$$
booking essential
The menu is rewritten every morning around what the suppliers sent, and nobody gets a choice about any of it.
Provisions3
Hill & Szrok3◆
Listed · Whole-carcass butcher and deli · Hackney · $$$
walk-in
The butcher's block that used to be a communal dinner table for twelve is a butcher's block again, and the shop behind it still buys whole animals and cuts them down to the offal (Hill & Szrok, BigHospitality).
All Good Beer
Listed · Craft beer & natural wine · Hackney · $$
walk-in
In the eleven days before this was written the six taps here poured Verdant twice, then Two Flints, Beak and Azvex, with no beer repeated (Untappd).
London Starnight Supermarket.just added
Listed · East Asian grocer · Hackney · $
walk-in
An East Asian grocer on Mare Street that stays open until nine, six days a week.
Craft beer2
The Five Points Taproom & Courtyard
Listed · Craft beer · Hackney · $$
walk-in
Two casks from a brewery you otherwise only meet in cans, poured in the warehouse where Five Points brews them.
Hackney Church Brew Co.
Listed · Craft beer · Hackney · $$
walk-in
A handpump has gone on a bar that ran ten keg lines and nothing else.
Pubs & cask3
The Cock Tavern
Solid · Cask ale and cider · Hackney · $
walk-in
Six or more real ciders alongside four Howling Hops beers, which is what won it both the beer and the cider award from its CAMRA branch this year.
The Spurstowe Arms
Solid · Pub with a pizza kitchen · Hackney · $$
walk-in
Dough Hands run the pizza oven here Tuesday through Sunday, and the tomato pie with stracciatella is the one to order.
The Gunnew
Listed · Japanese pub food · Hackney · $$$
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Kotaro Ogawa, who runs Aragawa in Mayfair, reopened this Well Street pub in February 2026 pouring Guinness and cooking wagyu.
Cocktails1
The Last Tuesday Society & Absinthe Parlour
Solid · Absinthe bar · Hackney · $$$
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The two people who own this bar went and built the first dedicated absinthe distillery in the country, two miles up the road in Leyton, and the house pour is theirs (The Spirits Business).
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