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Posts Tagged ‘food’

Death by Pizza, London Fields: ‘Vegan pizza good enough for an Italian grandmother’

By Tilly Armstrong | Thursday 25 July 2019 at 14:19

Young Vegans, who run a pie and mash shop in Camden, bring their latest venture to Hackney – and it’s ‘definitely worth a visit’

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Peck Peck, Dalston, food review: ‘Not just another greasy fast food joint’

By Tilly Armstrong | Wednesday 19 June 2019 at 17:04

Sutton & Sons’ new chicken shop on Graham Road is proving popular – and it’s ‘easy to see why’

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Mao Chow, Mare Street, food review: ‘Tempting for even the biggest vegan-sceptic’

By Gaia Caramazza | Friday 10 May 2019 at 14:48

Julian Denis offers up intimate, animal-free feasts from his new, permanent base near London Fields

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From fast to feast

By Gillian Riley | Wednesday 8 May 2019 at 12:59

Our resident food historian on late spring’s bounty

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Palm reading: Gillian Riley on coconuts

By Gillian Riley | Tuesday 12 March 2019 at 12:35

Our resident food historian on the well-travelled drupe, cocos nucifera

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EartH Kitchen, Dalston, food review: ‘Twists on brasserie classics’

By Lizzie Deane | Monday 11 March 2019 at 17:37

The restaurant attached to Hackney’s new arts venue is ‘brimming with potential’

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Nutty by nature

By Gillian Riley | Monday 18 February 2019 at 12:09

Our resident food historian cracks open the secrets of our seedy snacks

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Warnings over Brexit impact on food supply spark Town Hall review

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 6 December 2018 at 18:40
Hackney Town Hall

‘Setting up food resilience teams is something practical local authorities can do,’ says City University of London

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Bring on the artichokes! Gillian Riley on Caravaggio, veg and violence

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 27 April 2017 at 12:40
Detail from Giovanna Garzoni's Artichokes in a Chinese dish with rose and strawberries (c. 1650)

In her latest column, our resident food and art historian imagines the painter and GBH enthusiast storming through Hackney

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Honest Burgers, Dalston, restaurant review

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 16 February 2017 at 16:31
Honest Burgers

Our reviewer heads to Bradbury Street to sample the Dalston Chilli, Honest’s first “location burger”

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Club Mexicana @ Pamela, restaurant review: ‘a Hackney vegan love affair for the ages’

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 15 February 2017 at 17:51
The 'chicken' wings and cubed aubergine at Club Mexicana.

Kingsland Road bar says hola to a range of vegan Mexican food that successfully spices up Dalston’s life

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Lovin’ it: McDonald’s sponsors new kit for under eights football team

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 19 January 2017 at 09:48
Amir Atefi with members of the U8s team who received the free McDonald's kit

Fast food giant’s help for grassroots sports praised by Hackney Downs All Stars despite unhealthy nature of Big Mac and fries

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Pure vegan joint Temple of Hackney serves up seitan chicken next to butchers

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 16 January 2017 at 17:17
"Chicken" in a basket. Photograph: Temple of Seitan

New fast food eatery gets rave reviews from some customers but others question saltiness and prices

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Food advertising is not so innocent, say Hackney’s student filmmakers

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 21 December 2016 at 09:34

Youth of the borough make short film warning their peers about how food choices are shaped, driven, and manipulated by marketing messages

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London Fields resident Lucy Vincent campaigns for better food for prisoners

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 16 December 2016 at 16:58
Lucy Vincent. Photograph: Rosie Herdman

Following critical report by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons, journalist says feeding convicts more nutritious meals could help reform them

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Pretty F*cking Good Toast at Machine No. 3, restaurant review, Hackney Central – a masterclass in sourcing

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 12 November 2016 at 14:30
The Smoked Haddock toast, paired with Beavertown's Lupuloid.

The bar at the end of Well Street has teamed up with a toast-master for an excellent pop-up that runs until the end of November

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Do me a flavour – Gillian Riley on umami

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 30 August 2016 at 16:38
Monosodium glutamate (MSG): umami in its controversial chemical form. Photograph: J.M. Lawton

Known as the fifth taste, Umami is both a trendy concept and chemical substance – but above all a way of getting deliciousness into our food

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The red tide: a tomato tour from Naples to Stoke Newington

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 3 August 2016 at 14:15

Gillian Riley takes a sweeping look at the symbol of Italy that has captivated the rest of the world

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The red tide: a tomato tour from Naples to Stoke Newington

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 3 August 2016 at 14:00
Tomatoes on the vine.

Gillian Riley takes a sweeping look at the symbol of Italy that has captivated the rest of the world

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That’ll do, pig: Stepney City Farm wins Green Flag Award

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 19 July 2016 at 15:09

‘People in Tower Hamlets have a green space of the highest quality’

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