Brunching Out

From a shakshouka at Good Egg to a hangover cure at Arepa, here is a list of delicious brunch options around Hackney to intrigue and delight you. By Mersa Auda The Good Egg A Stokey favourite serving remarkable variations of Middle-Eastern street...

Therapy at -160C

A Japanese therapy technique that exposes a subject’s body to extreme cold temperatures is now on offer in Hackney. Popular among professional sports stars and celebrities, cryotherapy was developed in the 1970s and is used to treat inflammation and...
After opening last year, Victoria Park Market has set up a sister branch in Stoke Newington. Church Street Market runs every Sunday at William Patten School on Church Street from 10:30-3PM. The new food market boasts a variety of stalls offering different...
I was born in a town called Shizuoka in Japan. Famous for green tea, tangerine and Yamaha that produces motorcycles and musical instruments. I started pottery at one of the FE colleges as a hobby when I came to England...
From Sunderland, I came to London after university in Manchester. After living and working in places like San Francisco, Australia and Vanuatu I studied postgrad journalism here. I was set to move to East Berlin – and then I...
Lower Clapton Road’s Pages of Hackney was voted London’s Independent Bookshop of the Year at the British Book Awards. Winning was “an incredible honour” senior bookseller Ollie Simpson told Hackney Magazine, “We were really touched to read some of...
Hackney MP Diane Abbott, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and his wife cut the ribbon at the opening of Acoustic Brasserie’s second branch on Stoke Newington Church Street. Corbyn and his wife Laura are regular customers at Acoustic’s original Newington...
Legendary New York performance artist and singer Taylor Mac reframes the social history of America through three decades of song in this no-holds-barred extravaganza of music, art, activism and hugely entertaining mass ritual. Joined onstage by a 22-piece orchestra and...
The London Open 2018 brings together the most dynamic and critical contemporary art being made in the capital today. The latest edition of this triennial summer exhibition offers a free, lively space to discover new work and reflect on...
The Universal Now and further episodes is a mid-career survey of work by Abigail Reynolds at Peer, Shoreditch Library and Bookartbookshop. The three-way exhibition features a new film installation drawing on the artist’s recent journey in search of the...