Venues in East London
Two addresses and no middle ground: Shoreditch for a late licence and a raw room, the Greenwich peninsula for arena scale.
Shoreditch
Gloria
Italian Restaurant
Up to 174 guests
A 1950s Capri fantasy on Great Eastern Street: striped banquettes and floral garlands upstairs, a mirrored basement below.
Shoreditch
Plates
Vegan Restaurant
Up to 25 guests
The UK's first vegan restaurant to win a MICHELIN star: a 25-seat Old Street dining room from siblings Kirk and Keeley Haworth, with a separate Food Studio for private takeovers.
Shoreditch
Roast Shoreditch
British Restaurant
Up to 135 guests
Borough Market's Roast in its second home, inside Virgin Hotels London-Shoreditch, with seasonal British cooking from an open kitchen.
Shoreditch
Shoreditch House
Members' Club
Up to 250 guests
Soho House's Tea Building club, with a rooftop pool over the City. The Lofts, a 250-capacity loft with bar, screen and terrace, is bookable without a membership.
Shoreditch
Boundary Bar & Brasserie
British Restaurant & Bar
Up to 150 guests
The ground-floor bar and brasserie of the Boundary hotel in Shoreditch, built around a 20-metre zinc bar and hired whole for up to 150.
Shoreditch
Brat
Basque Restaurant
Up to 120 guests
MICHELIN-starred, Basque-influenced live-fire cooking on a Shoreditch first floor; private hire and full buyouts run through its sister site beneath a London Fields railway arch.
Shoreditch
Cycene
Modern British Restaurant
Up to 16 guests
A Michelin-starred tasting room at the top of Blue Mountain School in Shoreditch, seating just sixteen, with a private Hearth Room for chef-led dinners.
Shoreditch
Tavern
British Restaurant
Up to 62 guests
A candlelit British bistro on Old Street from the team behind Restaurant St Barts, with an open kitchen at a black slate counter and a full buyout for 62.
Shoreditch
Osteria Angelina
Italian Restaurant
Up to 20 guests
A restored Victorian warehouse off Blossom Street where the Angelina founders cook Italian food with Japanese ingredients. The private dining room is self-contained, with its own entrance and a dedicated server.
Shoreditch
The Clove Club
Modern British Restaurant
Isaac McHale's two-Michelin-starred restaurant in the Grade II-listed Shoreditch Town Hall, serving a seasonal British tasting menu and available for private hire.
Shoreditch
Aethos London Shoreditch
Members' Club
Up to 300 guests
Aethos's first UK hotel and members' club in Shoreditch, where the Willow Room and its terrace turn from co-working space by day into a DJ-driven social hub at night.
Shoreditch
Seed Library
Cocktail Bar
Up to 150 guests
Mr Lyan's basement cocktail bar beneath One Hundred Shoreditch: analogue in approach, vinyl at the weekend, and available whole for up to 150 standing.
/ About East London ▾
East London carries two addresses in this directory and they could hardly be less alike. Shoreditch sits on the City’s northern shoulder, a parish of furniture workshops and printing houses that turned over to studios, bars and hotels through the 1990s and 2000s; Rivington Street, Redchurch Street and the Old Street approaches still set its tone. North Greenwich is a 150-acre peninsula wrapped by 1.6 miles of the Thames, reclaimed from a gasworks and given over to The O2 — opened in 2000 as the Millennium Dome and converted to an arena in 2007 — with the Design District beside it.
So the hire product splits cleanly. Shoreditch answers the party that wants a raw room, a late licence and a crowd arriving on foot: rooftops, warehouse floors, hotel basements and private rooms above kitchens doing serious work. North Greenwich answers scale — arena audiences, exhibition halls and corporate hospitality — and very little in between. A private dinner of forty is a Shoreditch question; a launch for two thousand is a peninsula one. The region is thin by count, and that is a fact about where the rooms are rather than a gap we intend to pad.
Both are well served, and differently. Shoreditch has Old Street, Liverpool Street and the Overground within a few minutes on foot, so a City guest list arrives in ten. North Greenwich has the Jubilee line, the river boats and the cable car, and it holds a great deal of parking, which starts to matter once numbers pass a thousand. Shoreditch runs late by habit and by licence. The peninsula empties quickly after an arena show, so a private room out there wants a transport plan of its own.