Hackney

• You Call the Shots is a residency-fuelled bar in Hackney from the team behind The Plough

   

  A new bar is coming to Hackney, taking the space that was once Silver Lining (and very briefly House of Hades). You Call the Shots comes from the same team as The Prince Arthur in London Fields and The Plough in Homerton (Emma Piggott and Jonathan Mercer) but this will be a little different to those pubs. 

• The best restaurants in Hackney

  

  Spread out across the borough of Hackney on the east side of London, you'll find some of the city's most innovative restaurants. We've rounded up the best.

• Darling's Eatery and Studio serves up fresh pasta on Hackney's Fish Island

  

  Looks like Hackney Wick's Fish Island is doing pretty well for itself at the moment with restaurants. We've already reported on the upcoming Inis opening there and Test Driven new pizzeria

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• Test Driving Unlock - unique Neapolitan pizzas in Hackney Wick

  

  Unlock sits by the canal in Hackney Wick, mixing up art and gourmet pizzas. We took a stroll down by the canal to have a closer look.   

• Inis will serve up British and Irish food on Hackney Wick's Fish Island

  

  There's been some debate recently on what makes a neighbourhood restaurant. However, we figure that if you've spent the past decade living somewhere, that's surely got to count for something. And locals Lynsey Coughlan and Lindsay Lewis have lived in Hackney for ten years before deciding to open their first restaurant.

  Inis, which will be part of Fish Island's The Trampery campus, is going to serve up a mix of British

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• Bun & Sum brings smash burgers to Hackney

  

  They're already a big deal in Mile End and now LA-style halal smash burger specialists Bun & Sum are opening in Hackney too. With Bun & Sim's Farbez Uddin recently crowned best chef at the National Burger Awards, this is a pretty good time for their second opening. 

  The menu should be pretty similar to their first opening, so you can expect burgers like their Big S Mac (yes, that's their

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• Fat Whyte Slims is Whyte Rushen's weekend burger bar

  

  27/12/24 - updated with menu details and start date

  Whyte Rushen launched a hugely popular restaurant (and without much in the way of fanfare either) in the shape of Whyte's in Hackney at the tail end of last year. And things continue to change with the restaurant, with it pivoting to a

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• Unlock mixes Napoli-style pizzas and art in Hackney Wick

  

  Hackney's getting a new pizzeria and it's from two Napoli-born siblings, so we should be getting something pretty authentic with this opening. 

  Unlock comes from Arianna and Giovanni Izzo. Arianna is the chef, who previously worked as a pastry chef at Tarallificio Leopoldo in Naples, and she's joined by her brother Giovanni. 

  Pizzas are the main event here, made from traditional 30-hour fermented dough,

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• Big Night restaurant is taking over the old Nest place on Morning Lane

  

  When Hackney restaurant Nest announced its move from Hackney to Shoreditch, their old space on Morning Lane suddenly became available and a new restaurant duo have taken it over. Jack O'Connor and Joshua Ralphs both met while working at Larry's in Peckham where Jack was head chef. Their combined CV is a tour of London's hippest restaurants like Flor, Lasdun and Jolene, so news that they're opening their own

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• Whyte Rushen goes permanent with Whyte's restaurant in Hackney

  

  Updated 4/12/23 with opening date

  Whyte Rushen, once chef at top places like Brat, Scully and Kerridge's, has been running sell-out pop-ups up all over town, teaming up with places as varied as Quo Vadis and Jollibee but now he's settling down in Hackney.  

  It's early days on what to expect from the place and his cooking so far has been extremely varied. A taste of what's been at

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