Guide to Shoreditch26/10/2026 Alfred Hitchcock learned to make films in a converted railway power station on Poole Street in Hoxton, and The Lady Vanishes was shot there in 1938
Shoreditch News26/10/2026 A plaque to Newton Dunbar and the Four Aces, the Dalston club where Desmond Dekker and Jimmy Cliff played, is due to go up on Collins Tower, facing the site of the club that was knocked down in 2007
Shoreditch News26/10/2026 18th Floor, a rooftop restaurant and bar on top of The Gantry hotel in Stratford, opens for dinner on Thursday 29 October, with steaks for sharing, Scottish lobster and DJs at weekends
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch26/10/2026 A plaque to Newton Dunbar and the Four Aces, the Dalston club where Desmond Dekker and Jimmy Cliff played, is due to go up on Collins Tower, facing the site of the club that was knocked down in 2007
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch26/10/2026 18th Floor, a rooftop restaurant and bar on top of The Gantry hotel in Stratford, opens for dinner on Thursday 29 October, with steaks for sharing, Scottish lobster and DJs at weekends
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch26/10/2026 Barbs, the Bajan restaurant at the Queen of Hoxton, has started a Friday night fish fry on Curtain Road modelled on Oistins in Barbados, with 90 minutes of bottomless rum punch for £20 with a main
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch25/10/2026 Spiritland has opened a listening bar for 100 people in the Barbican’s Lakeside Room, where a full album is played every day at 5pm, and it stays open only until July 2027
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch25/10/2026 Roast, the Borough Market restaurant, has opened its second site inside the Virgin hotel on Curtain Road in Shoreditch, serving breakfast from 7am and a separate halal Sunday roast menu
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch25/10/2026 House of Hackney is holding what it calls its biggest sample sale yet at The Box in Hackney from 6 to 8 November, with up to 80% off and a £2 entry fee that goes to Hackney Food Bank
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch24/10/2026 Howl At The Moon in Hoxton can let 30 people drink outside until 10pm after Hackney councillors agreed a compromise with residents who say drinkers push pedestrians into the road
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch24/10/2026 Lou Sanders is curating the next Empire Nights at Hackney Empire on 29 January, with Joe Lycett, Ayoade Bamgboye and Figs in Wigs on the bill and tickets from £17.50
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch24/10/2026 2000 AD, the British comic that gave the world Judge Dredd, will celebrate its 50th birthday with a two-day event at Protein Studios in Shoreditch on 6 and 7 March 2027
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch23/10/2026 The Three Sheets brothers are opening Berryman’s, a 20-person standing-only martini and oyster bar two doors from their original Dalston bar, on 13 November
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch23/10/2026 Magician Harry Milas is bringing a new show directed by Patrick Marber to the rooms beneath Shoreditch Town Hall for three weeks from 20 November, with tickets at £20
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch23/10/2026 York Hall in Bethnal Green, the boxing venue whose ring has hosted Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, will stay closed until January at the earliest after Legionella was found in its water
