Welcome to our guide for the area around Great Eastern Street in Hackney. Below we present a selection of upcoming events, local attractions and great places to eat and shop. The nearest station to Great Eastern Street is 'Old Street Tube' which is about 8 minutes to the North West.
East Village
89 Great Eastern Street, EC2A 3HX
Opened in 2007 by DJ/promoter Stuart Patterson, East Village reverses the Shoreditch trend towards drinking and socialising; by midnight,... More
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Lined with chic boutiques, every Sunday this historic street fills with a bright patchwork of hundreds of flower stalls. Columbia Road is the capital's most ...More
"In a Sunday Shoot anyone can walk in and almost anything can happen," says photographer Seamus Ryan. It's this element of surprise that appeals to ...More
The first newly built public art gallery in London since the Hayward Gallery opened in 1968, Rivington Place is a beautiful glass fronted building designed ... More
Opened on 5th October 2007, this Rivington Place art gallery is a £8m public building dedicated to culturally diverse visual arts. It's a joint venture ... More
In spite of the name, this boutique is very much more Shoreditch burlesque chic, than red light district raunch. High fashion designer lingerie sits alongside ...More
An independent Shoreditch gallery dedicated to exhibiting outstanding graphic design. Artists represented include James Joyce, a London-based artist and designer whose clients including Nike, Levi's, ... More
An exciting and relatively new restaurant that has knocked the socks off the Shoreditch locals since it opened. They thought that their dodgy haircuts and ... More
There's live jazz every Thursday, Friday and Saturday at this elegant Italian on Great Eastern Street set up by Alex Foley, owner of The Chapel ... More
City’s Print Journalism course is recognised as the best in London. Although places like Goldsmith’s are trendier, City is respected in the industry thanks to ... More
There's a real art to making cocktails. Don't be fooled into thinking it's all about shaking vigorously and pouring because, to be a proper cocktail ...More
Fantastic education in the complete selection of circus arts, including a degree in circus performance and an affordable six-week clowning course. They also present regular ... More
The third of these increasingly popular 1950s retro-America style bowling alleys opened in late 2008 to much critical acclaim. Located in the Old Truman Brewery ...More
This bohemian boozer was an integral part of the Shoreditch explosion. Tucked away down a cobbled East End alley it was originally a mecca for ... More
Plastic People boasts the best sound system in Shoreditch. This friendly, unpretentious space serves up seriously fresh music to a loyal crowd. Their no-frills ...More
Cargo were pioneers of the multi-tasking MDF concept (that's Music-Dance-Food, not cheap fibreboard) and boast one of the most imaginative live music line-ups in the ... More
In April 2005 Mouth That Roars opened MTR Studio 23 to bring together young people's creations to the public, to share their views and opinions ... More
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