All hands to The Plough
Emma Piggott, one of the team behind the historic Homerton pub’s upcoming relaunch, speaks to the Citizen
Food & Drink
Yard Sale Pizza, Finsbury Park, food review: ‘Simple, playful, full-flavoured’
The restaurant’s latest ‘love-in’ sees musician Loyle Carner craft a Christmas chilli cracker
Living Dangerously with Pomegranates
Our resident food historian on the mortal pleasures of this godly fruit
Andi’s Wadadli Kitchen, Stoke Newington, food review: ‘Family and flavour on the menu’
The Great British Menu judge has rebranded her Stoke Newington haunt to reflect her Antiguan roots – and it does not disappoint
The Naturalist, Woodberry Down, food review: ‘The toilets are nice’
Compliments were hard to find after slow service and mediocre food at the borough’s new pub
Fine Food, Great Taste with Chef Christopher Bower at Well Street Kitchen
Get into a Christmas spirit with Chef Christopher Bower Pop up Nights. 6 course set menu @ £ 35.00
Cut + Grind, Dalston, food review: ‘No-nonsense celebration of all things meat and stodge’
Burger experts skilfully take on the contentious Sunday roast at this ‘proper East End boozer’
World first as Hackney gets all-weekend vegan market
Sean O’Callaghan, better known as the Fat Gay Vegan, extends his Hackney Downs market to Sundays
All in a pickle: Gillian Riley turns her eye to microbes
Our resident food historian on the ‘busy little critters’ found inside our guts
Fold, London Fields, restaurant review: ‘A slice of the Big Apple’
A New York-style pizzeria dishing up belly-busting ‘pies’
Smashing Kitchen, London Fields, restaurant review: ‘An oasis of calm’
‘It’s refreshing to go back to the essentials and eat vegan food that is actually, well, healthy.’
Wild courses: Gillian Riley explores the cultural traditions of preparing and eating game
Eskimo diets, venison and sixteenth-century Italian butchery are on the menu this month, courtesy of our beloved food historian
Stokey Bears, Haggerston, restaurant review: fresh beef and vegan relief
The already established eatery has a new place to call home, where it successfully unites those age-old friends, burger and milkshake
Carte Blanche, Hackney Central, restaurant review: a meal of two halves
Our reviewer was wowed by the sides and curios on offer at this new Mare Street restaurant – but the chicken and caviar was a bridge too far
‘Deities, not dinner’: Hackney and a plant-based past
Our resident food historian Gillian Riley points out that the vivid, varied vegan food we can now enjoy around the borough is rooted in traditions from hundreds of years ago
Picnicking on petals: the history of edible flowers in Hackney
“The time has come to brighten up our food with cheerful blossoms,” says our resident food historian Gillian Riley, who this month looks into Hackney’s role in the development of consumable blooms…