Autofoto is a collective dedicated to the restoration of analogue photobooths. Located on a street corner in the heart of London Fields, Autofotos' studio is a workshop, gallery and events space. Autofotos' mission is to ensure the survival of these beautiful machines and this unique medium of photography for future generations.
Autofoto
Located in this flourishing corner of East London, Lanterna offers canalside views and is open daily for coffee, drinks and food. The menu includes our signature stonebaked pizza, including vegan and gluten free options, alongside fresh pasta, antipasti and weekend brunch.
The Lanterna
Over 100 years ago The Elephant’s Head was born on Lower Clapton Road in Hackney. We bring this beautiful venue back to its roots with classic cocktails and ice cold beers. With our homestyle cooking, authentic italian pizza and a soundtrack of lost soul records on rotation, we create a vibrant atmosphere for all our guests & new friends to enjoy.
Elephant Hackney
Founded in 1987, the East and South East Asian Community Centre (ESEACC), is a charity dedicated to serving the ESEA community by providing a physical space that acts as a local hub for support with essential services, as well as access to social, wellbeing, and community activities.
ESEA Community Centre
Founded in 2001, we grew by identifying high-potential central London rentals before moving to Broadway Market in 2005. Our prudent model ensured resilience through the 2008 crisis, while early adoption of cloud tech allowed us to thrive through the 2020 pandemic. In 2023, we fully refurbished our office, creating an inspiring hub focused on employee support and professional growth.
Findlay Property
“Leigh’s is an idyllic De Beauvoir cafe that knows what it takes to become a cult London coffee spot—adorable branding and not feel like London at all. Gingham, bistro-style curtains shield the athleisure-clad regulars—who’d rather stare at the cottagecore spread of excellent Guinness cakes and cookies—from unsightly, bubble-bursting sights like, say, a bus.” S. Cranna
Leigh’s London
Tonkotsu East is under the railway arches next to Haggerston station in Hackney and is home to our Noodle Room. Since the early days we’ve put our heart and soul into every bowl – making our noodles, broths, katsu curries, gyoza and sides from scratch. You can watch our noodles being made if you grab a table here.
Tonkotsu
The Wilton Way Gallery is a community space in London Fields. Laid back and accessible, it showcases art from a quirky shop window and basement. Not restrained by convention, this gallery pops up in unexpected spaces citywide. Founded by Anna McHugh, an international curator and founder of the Hackney Art Trail and the expansive Hackney Art Week.
Wilton Way Gallery
Numbers Wine is a pioneering East London urban winery based in a former umbrella factory. Founded by Hugh Thorn and Caroline Price, they produce small-batch, low-intervention natural wines from English grapes like Bacchus and Pinot Noir. By partnering with responsible growers and minimizing sulphur, they ensure authenticity and quality in every bottle and can they release.
Numbers Winery & Event Space
Malavenda Café in Hackney is a cultural café with a Southern soul and an open spirit to the world. Here, food is intentional, music is truly heard, and art fills the space without making noise.
You might step in for a coffee and find yourself in a conversation about time, jazz, or a painting. A place to pause, reconnect, and rediscover yourself.
Malavenda Cafe
La Bouche is a French-inspired wine bar and restaurant in London Fields, Hackney, offering seasonal small plates, natural wines and a relaxed neighbourhood atmosphere. Known for its intimate, design-led space and ever-changing menu, it blends Parisian influence with East London dining culture, serving as a popular spot for casual drinks and shared plates.
L’eau à La Bouche
Rose Lipman Building is a Brutalist creative hub in De Beauvoir Town, associated with Create London, Whitechapel Gallery, Open School East and Mill Co. Named after Rose Lipman, a key figure in Hackney’s civic and educational history, it carries a strong local legacy.
The Rose Lipman Building
Donlon Books is an independent bookshop and publisher based at 75 Broadway Market in Hackney, London. They stock a carefully curated range of new and rare titles, periodicals, and printed matter spanning photography, art, critical theory, music, fashion, LGBT literature, counterculture, erotica, and esoterica, alongside hosting regular events and supporting independent publishing.
Donlon Books
Clissold Park Tavern is a neighbourhood pub on the edge of Clissold Park in Stoke Newington, Hackney. Offering a relaxed, welcoming atmosphere, it serves seasonal food alongside a wide range of beers, wines and cocktails. Popular with local residents and park visitors alike, it acts as a social hub for gatherings, informal meet-ups and community life.
Clissold Park Tavern
Luminary Bakery presents work by Emma Niamh Turpin, an Irish-born, Hackney-based painter exploring the female experience, emotional embodiment and the mind–body connection. Moving between abstraction and figuration, her layered paintings use acrylic, oil stick and pencil to create textured, expressive surfaces. The exhibition is hosted within Luminary’s social enterprise space, which supports women rebuilding their lives through training, employment and community.
Luminary Bakery
The Arches is a studio space in railway arches 346+347 Beck Road, Hackney, E8, London. Set up in 1995 by Frances Quesnel, it has been running as a charity to support artists providing low cost spaces and to serve the wider community.
The Arches, Beck Road
Albers is a neighbourhood restaurant in De Beauvoir reworking familiar bistro dishes through subtle reinterpretation rather than reinvention. Warm, intimate and tightly packed, the space blends the atmosphere of a dinner party, pub and art venue. Alongside its food programme, Albers regularly hosts exhibitions, supper clubs and collaborative events connecting Hackney’s food, art and music communities.
Albers
e5 Bakehouse is a Hackney railway-arch bakery founded in 2010, known for organic sourdough, heritage grains and sustainable baking practices. Alongside its café and community-focused programme, it regularly hosts cultural events and exhibitions.
e5 presents Icons of London by Nicholas Ferguson, alongside work by illustrator Sue Dray and artist Victoria Caution.
e5 Bakehouse
We The Conscious is the UK’s only breath-led multidisciplinary studio, rooted in the belief that breath connects how we move, feel and live. Based in Hackney Downs, it offers somatic practices including aerial relaxation pods and yoga, alongside The Method® — combining breath, movement, mindfulness and self-expression..
We The Conscious
Unlock Pizza combines Neapolitan pizza, cocktails and a rotating art programme. Set by the canal on Fish Island, it’s known for its 30-hour fermented dough, experimental toppings, and its role as a creative hub showcasing local and international artists.
Unlock
The Cannery in De Beauvoir is a neighbourhood restaurant known for seasonal British-inspired dishes, relaxed interiors, and a strong brunch reputation, attracting locals for coffee, wine, and small plates in a calm canalside setting.
The Cannery
Rio Cinema is a historic independent cinema in Dalston, London, showing arthouse, mainstream, and community screenings. It features an art deco interior, live events, and film festivals, serving as a cultural hub for local audiences and visitors in Hackney area.
Rio Cinema
Hackney Picturehouse
Originally Hackney Central Library and later a concert venue, this landmark building was converted into a cinema in 2011, creating some stunning interior spaces. The Picturehouse touch has brought a mix of modern industrial glamour and urban cool to this Hackney Cinema, which is overtly bold and brutalist in construction. It's a fun, funky and impressive place to hang out.
Shine opened in 2003 when founder Carla Octigan combined her background in hairdressing with a passion for complementary health. Now home to a team of more than 65 practitioners across hair, beauty and bodywork, Shine also supports local artists through regular exhibitions.
Shine on the Green
Artist Hervé Constant opens his studio exploring his work across video, photography and sound, exploring perception, memory and place through interdisciplinary and time-based practice.
Hervé Constant Studio
A locally owned independent optical boutique specialising in sustainable eyewear, rare vintage archive pieces, and carefully curated designs from independent eyewear brands- all supported by expert eye care in Stoke Newington.
Eyes of Stokey
The Scolt Head is a traditional London pub in De Beauvoir Town, known for seasonal British food, craft beers, and a relaxed neighbourhood atmosphere. It offers a cosy dining room, garden seating, and popular Sunday roasts attracting locals and visitors.
The Scolt Head
SPACE Studios
SPACE Studios present Open Studios - an opportunity to step inside the working environments of artists and designer-makers across two East London studio buildings: Sara Lane and Timber Wharf. Over the course of the weekend, artists will open their studios to the public, sharing works in progress and finished pieces, offering insight into their materials, methods and day-to-day practices. Features Triangle Ceramics pop up.
