Autumn food openings + tasty offers

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The neighbourhood’s restaurant scene never stops evolving, with plenty of newcomers to try and tempting offers to lure you inside as the nights draw in.

Fish Island’s Unlock have a new menu launching today, and are offering 50% off all their gourmet pizzas through until 24th October.

Meanwhile, if you haven’t tried the classy pasta being served at Darling’s Eatery on Fish Island, autumn may well be the perfect season for a plate of their freshly made tortellini and rich sharing plates.

Exciting news of imminent newcomers includes the arrival of Carbobar on Cadogan Terrace (on the site of the former Italian Job pizzeria), which opens in early November serving, yes, more pizza, but also a variety of other Italian classics.

Also incoming this autumn is Templar, the brand new upmarket restaurant and wine bar at Stratford Cross, coming to us from the people behind East Village dining and drinking mainstay Darkhorse.

That will join relative newcomers Pizza East and Gordon Ramsay’s Bread Street Kitchen on the Stratford Cross piazza, where Gordon hosts a weekly daytime Bottomless Brunch every Saturday from 2pm-6pm and a Night Brunch from 7pm-11pm, all with DJs and live music in the iconic pavilion and terrace with its Olympic Park views.

🖼️ Angus Vasili fuses screen-printing, photography, and hand-finished textures, inspired by urban decay and its unexpected beauty. An exhibition of his colourful work can currently be seen on the walls of plant shop Repot until November, where all original artworks and unframed prints are available for purchase along with your next house plants.

🤖 Local artist Georgie Mason has a visual art installation at the Bloomsbury Festival all weekend, 18th-20th October at Conway Hall. AI and music symposium and jam provides a continuous, immersive experience for all attendees running alongside scheduled lecture sessions where specialists will discuss the intersection of music and responsible AI, exploring how these technologies are shaping the industry and research.

💌 Blending fashion, art, and social commentary, Collective Care is a new free exhibition in the Front Gallery and Foyer at London College of Fashion. It invites visitors to rethink the relationship between fashion and community wellbeing through contributions from emerging and established voices in fashion, art, and social sustainability. They challenge us to see care in all its forms; from intimate gestures of love to our shared responsibility for the world around us. Runs until 14th December.

🎶 Shedding Histories are back at Grow on Friday 18th Oct, 7pm-3am and ready to host another unique journey through the eclectic and underground, with their dynamic blend of global psych, funk, jazz and reggae. In this edition the residents will be joined by esteemed DJs and label founders Tim Garcia (Musica Macondo) and Chris Menist (Paradise Bangkok).

🛒 The mighty music vendors Phonica Records are back at No.90 this Saturday night, 19th Oct, with DJs Nick Williams and Luther keeping the floor moving until 1am.

🟡 Lean how to make Jesmonite Terrazo coasters at a special workshop being held at Hackney Bridge tomorrow, Thurs. 17th Oct. where you’ll pour, colour, sand, polish and seal your own coasters under the expert guidance of Manzo Design founder Nicky.

🧑‍💼 SHIFT are running a dynamic 1.5-hour workshop designed specifically for mission-driven startups and SMEs based in London. Mission to Market: Crafting a Value Proposition That Wins Customers and Investors will focus on crafting a compelling value proposition that not only communicates your mission, but also resonates with customers and investors. You’ll also get the chance to network with like minded peers from London-based SMEs and startups, on Wednesday 30th October, tickets are free.

❤️‍🩹 Local mentoring, sport and education powerhouse BADU are running Proud 2 Be: Health & Heritage Evening as part of their Black History Month celebrations. With panel discussions, workshops, stalls and therapy drop-ins on the contributions Black individuals have made to healthcare and medicine throughout history, at Plexel on Friday 25th Oct.

♻️ The Loop are hosting a free online deep dive into how business leaders from all industries can integrate the latest circular economy practices into their operations next Tuesday, 22nd October at 1pm. ReRoute KX - Turning circular challenges into opportunities for innovation is a 1-hour online workshop covering practical circular economy strategy, the process of turning circular challenges into opportunities for innovation and engaging the local community.

📈 Join Hackney Impact x Social Founders on 22nd October to hear from successful locally-based founders who have scaled their businesses into sustainable enterprises. Gain valuable insights and discover strategies for growth from Kate Revere (Revere the Residence) who launched a retail shop inspired by her creative eldest daughter Piper who has learning disabilities, autism and profoundly deaf, and from Thuta Khin (Leiho), who co-runs a social enterprise helping fund employment, skill building and personal development projects to help people gain experience to rebuild their lives.

👕 Bring your clothes, shoes and accessories to swap down at The Cave tonight from 6.30pm-9.30pm where they are hosting an autumnal wardrobe refresh event with all proceeds going to charity. A bag costs £2 for you to fill as you please.

🍻 Howling Hops Brewery are hosting their first Hackney Creatives Meet-Up at their Queen’s Yard Tank Bar from 5pm on Tuesday 22nd October. You get 15% off beers and a chance to network with other locals, plus there’s La Cumbia tacos and more when you get peckish.

💁‍♀️ The upcoming Digital Body Festival (15th-17th November at Hackney Bridge) is now recruiting for volunteers to help visitors and work with festival staff in the event’s five main areas: the interactive exhibitions, the screen-based gallery, the prototypes and workshops lab, the talks and panels area, and the performance programme. You’ll get a pass for all three days of the festival, tickets to all festival performances, local travel costs and refreshments during your volunteering shift.

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