Fran’s in Hackney is an all-day caff that will take you from a day-cancelling full English to jacket potatoes, pies, and pastas in the evening.

Night Tales is a super fun, supersized Hackney bar that's open until 3am on Fridays and Saturdays.

Lagom is an industrial, dimly lit barbecue restaurant inside Hackney Church Brew Co. in Hackney. It's part beer hall, part shrine to things cooked over the fire.

The best restaurants in Hackney, around London Fields, and along Hackney Road.

An evening at Shankeys—an Indian-Irish restaurant in Hackney—is like being at a wedding reception when the free bar has been in play for a couple of hours.

Sesta is a moody little Hackney restaurant pouring fun wine and making decent modern European small plates.

Yuki Bar is a moody wine bar and Japanese small plates spot in a Hackney arch, run by a former sommelier at Noma.

A moody Hackney cocktail bar with stylish modern European small plates, You Call The Shots is ideal for first dates and casual nights with close friends.

Violet Cake's pink building, chalkboard menu, and elegant green signage sets the California-inspired tone of this bakery in Hackney.

Dough Hands is in the kitchen at Hackney pub The Spurstowe Arms, serving excellent thin-base pizzas.

You’ll instantly feel like part of the family who run Miga, an excellent Korean restaurant in Hackney.

Baltic Sea Food is a seafood canal boat that sets up shop in Tottenham Hale, Enfield, and Hackney. It's one of our favourite ways to spend a sunny afternoon in London.

The Spurstowe Arms, an unofficially Ganni-sponsored Hackney pub, is a sea of XXL crochet scrunchies and the odd glistening tooth gem or two.

Although the ice cream from Bennys Broadway hits the spot, you should order the soğuk baklava from the small, takeaway dessert shop in Hackney instead.

You should 100% be getting a pork-filled takeaway sandwich from Bánh Mì Hội-An in Hackney Central. In fact, you probably want two.

Serving coffee and pastries during the day, and wine and cocktails in the evening, La Camionera in Hackney is a sexy, laid-back alternative to East London’s louder queer destinations.

Cosy and casual, A Portuguese Love Affair is a Hackney cafe with great Portuguese food and one of the best pastel de nata in London.

Dalla is an unerringly stylish Italian restaurant in Hackney that prides itself on beautiful vintage aesthetics and hearty cooking.

The Deli Downstairs is the superior place in Hackney to stock up on top-tier snacks.

Bun & Sum is a casual smashburger spot in Hackney where it's worth holding out for a seat.

If clubs are impersonal, sticky-floored sweatboxes, Diddy’s in London Fields is the anti-club. Plus it serves good coffee in the day.

Mexican Seoul is a Mexican-Korean street food spot in Hackney with the kind of lovable energy usually reserved for litters of Andrex puppies.

The pasta doesn’t quite live up to the hype, but Tom's Pasta—an Italian restaurant in Hackney Downs—is still a fun place to visit to see and be seen.

Wave is a vegan spot in Hackney with an LA health spa feel and excellent pancakes.

Bake Street is a brilliant neighbourhood cafe opposite Hackney’s Rectory Road station that serves legendary weekend brunch specials.