Shoreditch Guide
Staying in Shoreditch is an excellent choice for visitors to London. In recent years, Shoreditch has become the most happening neighbourhood in London and a hub for creatives and visionaries. Shoreditch is home to a number of design-conscious galleries, trendy concept stores, Brick Lane Market and Columbia Road flower market. This guide covers the very best speciality coffee shops, mixologist cocktail bars and top-notch eateries in the neighbourhood.
Sorry Coffee Co
Sorry Coffee Co is located inside the trendy clothing store Kit & Ace. The interior of this boutique-cum-café is an Instagrammer’s dream with a colour palette of marble, copper and white. A beautiful copper Marzocco is used to make flawless coffee which is served inside ever-changing designed paper cups. Clothes are perfectly draped on copper hangers and stage lights spell out Sorry overhead.
Unit 1, 19–29 Redchurch Street, London
Monday to Saturday: 10:00am to 7:00pm
Sunday: 11:00am to 5:00pm
Sunday: 11:00am to 5:00pm
Cream
This industrial-interiored café is an excellent choice for stellar speciality coffee in Shoreditch. Floor-to-ceiling glass doors open out onto the street creating natural light and fresh air aplenty.
31 New Inn Yard, London, EC2A 3EY
Monday to Friday: 8:00am to 4:00pm
Saturday to Sunday: 10:00am to 5:00pm
Saturday to Sunday: 10:00am to 5:00pm
The Bulldog Edition
Located inside the ultra-hip Ace hotel, this café along with the rest of the hotel’s ground floor has become the hangout place for locals in the area. The coffee is excellent and the atmosphere is low-key cool.
100 Shoreditch High St, London E1 6JQ
Open every day from 6:30am to 6:00pm
Coffee shops
Additional coffee shops to try include Ozone Coffee Roasters, Brooklyn Coffee, Counter Albion and Shoreditch Grind.
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Dishoom
Dishoom is every Londoner’s favourite Indian. Fans return time and time again for the wicked spice-infused cocktails and Indian tapas. Open from breakfast through to dinner, every dish has a unique spice combination and something special about it.
7 Boundary Street, London E2 7JE
Monday to Wednesday: 8:00am to 11:00pm
Thursday to Friday: 8:00am to midnight
Saturday: 9:00am to midnight
Sunday: 9:00am to 11:00pm
Thursday to Friday: 8:00am to midnight
Saturday: 9:00am to midnight
Sunday: 9:00am to 11:00pm
The Clove Club
One of London’s best restaurants, the Clove Club has a Michelin star for a reason. Every dish is inventive and favours British ingredients which are often overlooked. The result is a tasting menu where each course seemingly gets better than the last. Their signature dish of raw Orkney scallop with Perigord truffle, hazelnut and clementine is a thing of beauty.
Shoreditch Town Hall, 380 Old Street, London
EC1V 9LT
Monday: 6:00am to 11:30pm
Tuesday to Saturday: 12:00pm to 2:30pm, 6:00pm to 11:30pm
Tuesday to Saturday: 12:00pm to 2:30pm, 6:00pm to 11:30pm
Lyle’s
Lyle’s has earned itself a neat reputation among Londoners. The ever-changing menu focuses on fresh produce; the peas are podded daily, the lettuce leaves homegrown and the fish farmed in Britain. The all-white interior provides a bright space to enjoy the tasting menu.
56 Shoreditch High Street, London, E1 6JJ
Monday to Friday 8:00am to 11:00pm
Saturday: 12:00pm to 11:00pm
Saturday: 12:00pm to 11:00pm
Beagle
Located in the arches of Hoxton train station, the setting for this restaurant is one of a kind. The highly acclaimed Beagle has received rave reviews for its simple and superbly executed menu. The cavernous space includes a restaurant to one side and a cocktail bar to the other, both as good as each other.
397-400 Geffrye Street, London E2 8HZ
Monday to Friday: 7:00am to midnight
Saturday to Sunday: 8:00am to midnight
Saturday to Sunday: 8:00am to midnight
The Attendant
The dishes served at the Attendant are pure Instagram gold. As well as serving excellent coffee, they also have a wonderful breakfast, brunch and lunch menu prepared by head chef Dima Kurenia who used to work at Michelin-starred Chiltern Firehouse. Standout brunch dishes include the vanilla and passion fruit French toast and smashed avocado with feta, lime and chili on sourdough.
74 Great Eastern Street, London, EC2A 3JL
Monday to Friday: 8:00am to 6:00pm
Saturday to Sunday: 9:00am to 6:00pm
Saturday to Sunday: 9:00am to 6:00pm
Restaurants
Additional restaurants to try include Andina, Pizza East, Bistrothèque and L’Anima.
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The Boundary
The Boundary is Shoreditch’s coolest rooftop bar. When the sun comes out, the terrace is buzzing with hipsters drinking summary cocktails and enjoying the relaxed vibe. Once the sun has gone down, head downstairs to the underground bar and restaurant which is the epitome of cool with dimly lit lighting, high ceilings and exposed brick walls.
2-4 Boundary Street, Shoreditch, London, E2 7DD
Open every day from 11:30am
Barbour and Parlour
Barber & Parlour indulges guests in a whole host of beauty treatments – the New York style beauty emporium houses a hair salon, barbershop and manicure bar. After you've been preened and pampered, head downstairs to the basement cinema and cocktail bar. Movies and a new hair-do all under one roof? This might be a novel concept for London, but it's likely to catch on.
64-66 Redchurch St, London, E2 7DP
Open every day 9:00am to 11:00pm
Ace Hotel
The communal ground floor of the Ace Hotel is both cavernous and cosy at once. The lobby bar is ultra-cool both in design and atmosphere. It’s a hub for creatives and hipsters who come for the inventive cocktails and laid-back vibes.
100 Shoreditch High St, London E1 6JQ
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The Hoxton
The Hoxton is one the trendiest hotels in the heart of Shoreditch. It houses a fashionable cocktail bar, speciality coffee shop, photo booth and gourmet restaurant under its roof, meaning you never need leave the hotel. That being said, with all of Shoreditch's hotspots right on the doorstep you won't have to go far to explore. The downstairs bar-brasserie is one of the hippest places in town attracting dozens of non-guests every night, but upstairs the rooms remain so quiet that you would never know there is a secret party going on a few floors down. Popular with those in the know, rooms at this design-conscious hotel tend to go very quickly.
81 Great Eastern St, London EC2A 3HU
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Columbia Road Flower Market
Only a short walk from Shoreditch you’ll find the world-famous Columbia Road flower market. Londoners flock here on Sundays to pick up tissue paper peonies and violet-hued hydrangeas to decorate their apartments. It has become somewhat of a Sunday tradition, not just for the flowers, but also for the atmosphere, coffee shops and cool hangouts along the street.
Columbia Road, London, E2 7RG
Sunday: 8:00am to 2:00pm
Victoria says:
August 15, 2016 at 10:44 am
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August 23, 2016 at 11:04 am
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