Spread Eagle, Homerton, food review: ‘There can be roast without the ruthlessness’
The pub’s pre-Tier 4 festive feast proves today’s vegans ‘really can have it all – apart from good imitation cheese, apparently’
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Eat Hackney Vegan Cookbook, Helena Smith: ‘A smorgasbord of food ideas suitable for everyone’
Try your hand at recipes donated by chefs across the borough in support of local causes
The Joys of Sludge
Our resident food historian on beauty in beige, and why ordinary folks in the Middle Ages had it right with their ‘dreary but delicious’ diet
Maison Patron, Blackstock Road, food review: ‘Dinky and delightful’
This French gem, which was open for just one week before lockdown forced it to close, is ‘ready to charm once more’
The Citizen Gardener: ‘Even looking at a picture of a river or a wood can improve your mood’
Kate Poland on the mental health benefits of plants, efforts to ‘normalise’ gardening for Black and minority ethnic people, and some surprisingly speedy snails
Nebula Pizza, Hackney Road, food review: ‘A little slice of heaven’
This brand new restaurant made out of shipping containers offers a ‘safe, fun, and jolly good night out’
Exploding grannies and sleepy pears
Our resident food historian on Italian legends and the joys of pears with cheese
Flat Earth Pizza at The Plough, Homerton, food review: ‘Inventive grub that doesn’t hurt the planet’
Our reviewer emerges from lockdown for a ‘guilt-free evening of astounding food’ at this vegan pizzeria-in-a-pub
All the fun of the furlough
Our resident food historian takes us through the intrepid legionary’s enforced break, during which he keeps himself busy with sidelines in saffron and fish sauce
The Citizen Gardener: ‘Be radical and grow your own food’
Kate Poland on how we can take advantage of the increased interest in food-growing during lockdown
Hackney’s urban farmers call for more Town Hall support for local food growing
Clapton and Homerton Urban Growers Organisation asks council for same amount of funding given to tree planting
VIDEO: How to sprout beans at home
Debbie Mitchener of Cordwainers Grow shows you how to grow your own beansprouts in lockdown
Coronavirus: How local restaurants are adapting to the lockdown
Switching to deliveries, teaming up with local charities, turning into farm shops – businesses across East London are changing to survive
Coronavirus: Made in Hackney launches free food delivery service for vulnerable people
Community cookery school teams up with local restaurant to provide plant-based meals for those most in need
The Waterhouse Project, Mare Street, food review: ‘Supper club fine dining that’s all very un-London’
Former Galvin chef Gabriel Waterhouse’s tasting menu delivers, but prepare to ‘flex your talking-to-new-people muscle’
Barboun, Old Street, food review: ‘Soaring highs and plummeting lows’
The Levantine restaurant is ‘beautiful and refined’, so it’s a shame the food doesn’t quite match up