Location: East End / East London
Top Things to do in East End / East London
The 10 Best Shopping in East End / East London, England
The crown jewels, Buckingham Palace, Camden Market…in London, history collides with art, fashion, food, and good British ale. A perfect day is different for everyone: culture aficionados shouldn't miss the Tate Modern and the Royal Opera House. If you love fashion, Oxford Street has shopping galore. For foodies, cream tea at Harrod’s or crispy fish from a proper chippy offers classic London flavor. Music and book buffs will love seeing Abbey Road and the Sherlock Holmes Museum (at 221B Baker Street, of course).
Restaurants in London
1. Mero Retro
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 4 reviews
2. Old Spitalfields Market
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 2,052 reviews
Open 7 days a week, it is the perfect antidote to the high street. We bring together small producers with local creatives and artisans, original independent retailers and a few well-known brands under one historic roof. Our daily market is home to a selection of carefully chosen traders, craftsmen, artists and artisans alike, picked for the quality of their product, and the stories they have to tell. We are interested in how things are designed, the creative process and the interesting people who produce the products you’ll find here. We champion quality and responsibly sourced products and we assess each operator individually on this basis. In the centre of the market floor you will find our ten fully fitted kitchens where we showcase exceptional contemporary and authentic cooking. We are proud to offer new levels of quality and variety in the dishes prepared by our chefs and operators, many of whom have already established great
Reviewed By Thomasero - Czech Republic, null
Nice selection of food (Dumpling Shack - ShengJianbao and Monty’s Deli - Pastrami Sandwich were our winners) after visiting Brick lane and its vintage shops.
3. Columbia Road Flower Market
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4.5 based on 673 reviews
Columbia Road flower market and shops are open every Sunday from 8am until about 3pm. As well as the market, there is also a mass of independent shops, selling everything from jewellery and vintage clothes, to antiques, cupcakes, art and furniture. Columbia Road is located in East London, in between Shoreditch and Bethnal Green, near to Brick Lane and Spitalfields.
Reviewed By Z1091OSamandad - London, United Kingdom
For many years have been visiting columbia road for flowers and plants. An established fliwer market with some quaint and quirky shops. A really enjoyable way to spend a sunday morning. Stall holders friendly a lively atmosphere it can get very busy due to popularity an quality of flowers plants. Thoroughly recommend a visit not just for green fingered gardeners for everybody.
4. Whitechapel Bell Foundry
5. Spitalfields
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 39 reviews
Spitalfields Market, is a traders, food and art market place in east London. It hosts an array of independent stall holders showcasing handcrafted goods, art pieces and other unique items. There are also food trucks and popups that add to the mix. Other shops, cafes, bars and restaurants including Galvin La Chapelle are in the area. It has active public art, music and events programmes.
Reviewed By Globetrave
Went to Spitalfields Market as well as visited the shops at Brick Lane which were a short stroll away. I like the variety of products sold which caters to the young and not so young. Nice variety of food stalls too. As its approaching Christmas, there was also Christmas carolling which added to the festive cheer. Well worth a visit.
6. The Approach
7. Bottle Apostle
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 12 reviews
Bottle Apostle wine shop in Hackney features daily sampling, tasting events and excellent wine purchasing advice. We aim to make buying outstanding wine fun and easy. Help yourself - Sample wine from our Enomatics in a relaxed enviroment. Everyday or special - Bottle Apostle is a wine store for every occasion... whether it's a bottle to accompany a Monday night movie or a wedding anniversary. We've something for everyone.
Reviewed By AleRos22 - London, United Kingdom
In Bottle Apostle I have found a fantastic selection of wine from all over the world! Iris was very helpful and professional with 2 suggestions of wine one from Portugal and one from South Africa simply delicious. I have also found and bought one of the best Italian white wine from Abruzzo region called “Ciu Ciu”. Thanks Iris I will definitely be back to buy more happiness! Ciao Alessia
8. Whitechapel Gallery
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3.5 based on 247 reviews
For over a century the Whitechapel Gallery has premiered world-class artists from modern masters such as Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Frida Kahlo to contemporaries such as Sophie Calle, Lucien Freud, Gilbert & George and Mark Wallinger.With beautiful galleries, exhibitions, artist commissions, collection displays, historic archives, education resources, inspiring art courses, dining room and bookshop, the newly expanded Gallery is open all year round, so there is always something free to see.The Gallery is a touchstone for contemporary art internationally, plays a central role in London’s cultural landscape and is pivotal to the continued growth of the world’s most vibrant contemporary art quarter.
Reviewed By futtock21 - London, United Kingdom
The main event here is the revival of Radical Figures occupying the largest two ground floor and two first floor visions. But as a free alternative there are four other exhibitions across the gallery’s other spaces. On the ground floor Carlos Bunga’s strange warehouse world of ladders, upside down chairs, antique mirrors, pots and irons. A sort of sculptural version of MIchael Craig-Martin without the neon or the colour for that matter. In the theatre Rachel Pimms’s Plates combining landscapes from Northern Ireland and Zimbabwe. Upstairs a reprise of a selection of mainly Spanish painting and photography by one Veronica Berber Bicecci. Most impressive for me was the revival of an exhibition of paintings by artists featured in The Return of The Spirit in Painting at the RA in 1981. Only five artists represented but what stunning paintings, all masterpieces in their own right from the likes of Bruce McLean, Julian Schnabel, Mimmo Paladino and even a Georg Baselitz. Had there been an exhibition fee for all five exhibitions would have been worth the price for this group of paintings alone. Some useful archival material is available about the original exhibition.
9. Petticoat Lane Market
Overall Ratings
3.0 based on 294 reviews
London's most famous market that is busy, noisy and full of interesting things to see, items to buy and characters to meet.
10. Lux Centre
Exhibition center for the arts.
