NEWS & EVENTS

London’s West End theatres attract millions of people every year – from seasoned theatre-goers to those out for a special celebration. However, every spectator expects to enjoy the performance and emotionally…

It’s Friday night and the streets of The City, on the outskirts of Shoreditch, are dense with after-work socialisers. Yet amidst the crowds and impervious buildings, like a twinkling button on a grey suit, is a…

Self-described as a ‘velvet fist in an iron glove’, Iron Bloom is a new restaurant and cocktail bar in Shoreditch. With hard-edged industrial warehouse décor framing a menu of succulent dishes and delicate…

There are a plethora of places to work in East London but none quite like 42 ACRES Shoreditch. Set on Leonard Street, on the 4th floor of an old converted school house, it is part sanctuary, part…

Summer is about to arrive in Shoreditch and things are getting all levels of hippie happy.Meditate at the Sense of Space art installation at Exchange Square. Embrace your inner eco-warrior at the Lost Vegas…

David Divers is a Senior Project Manager at MOLA and has worked on archaeological projects across London for over 25 years. In this blog, he explains why The Stage is unlike any other archaeological project he…

Embracing the longer, warmers days there is plenty to get you out and about in Shoreditch this April. Get going with some coffee at The London Coffee Festival, catch a film at East London Film Festival and…

We all faced it at school: dealing with Shakespeare’s mysterious “metre”, and the brain-scrambling term “iambic pentameter” (yes, apparently those are real words).Iambic pentameter means a line of poetry ten…

A penthouse treehouse… located in the middle of Shoreditch... containing a Steinway concert grand piano. A series of increasingly implausible statements. There’s another: this is the location of a monthly opera…

We recently featured Shoreditch’s most Romantic Restaurants. We’d add Humble Grape’s new offering on Liverpool Street’s Devonshire Row to the list. As well as an ideal date night location, it also provides a…

On entering The Town Hall Hotel I could be stepping back in time to a 1920s gangster movie.Originally Bethan Green’s old council town hall, the hotel is all polished art deco grandeur, with coffered ceilings,…

Eat, drink, shop, play, learn and party your way through March with the help of our March round-up.Eat: Vegan TreatsFrom the fully-fledged to the tentative vegan, March is ready to shower you with kale,…

January is over. We can now eat, drink and enjoy ourselves fully once more. Shoreditch is providing the sustenance with a Craft Beer festival, Pancake Day gluttony and a Creme Egg toastie. There are Valentine’s…