Hackney - The Glass Magazine

Glass enjoys a canal view while dining at Hackney Wick hotspot, Barge East

July 12, 2021

TAKING a stroll around Hackney Wick can sometimes feel like you’re in another country. The picturesque Regents Canal runs through the heart of East London, and its neighbouring banks are filled with breweri...

Glass talks to British candlemaker and perfumer Jonathan Ward

Caroline Simpson

December 30, 2020

Beauty, Candles, Feature, Shopping Guide

Hackney-based British Jonathan Ward is a candle and perfume maker whose passion, commitment and consideration of all elements of his craft is exceptional. Following a successful career in fashion in New York, ...

Glass reviews Pophams Bakery – top-tier pasta and patisserie

Derby Jones

October 6, 2020

Dining, Feature, Food & Drink

A BAKERY that serves delightful artisan pastries by day and a riveting menu of handmade pasta dishes by night? It can’t be true. And yet it is. Head to Pophams Bakery in London Fields, a recent addition to an a...

Glass stops by new Hoxton restaurant OKN1

Charlie Navin-Holder

September 10, 2019

Dining, Drinks, Feature, Food & Drink

IF I told you that there was a restaurant two minutes’ walk from Hoxton station, where dining out for two wouldn’t cost you a week’s wages for a flashy, but ultimately disappointing meal, I’d expect no less tha...

Glass tastes the new Ribs and Roots menu at The Spread Eagle

Sally Roulston

June 19, 2019

Dining, Feature, Food & Drink, Restaurants

THE Spread Eagle is London’s first 100 per cent vegan pub and a true hidden gem on Homerton High St. Not only is the décor, furniture and everything behind the bar vegan-friendly – all of the food served is by ...

White Post Cafe, Hackney Wick – offering nightlife, workspace and more…

Lily Rimmer

February 25, 2019

Dining, Feature

LOCATED among the cobbled streets in the heart of Hackney Wick is the White Post Cafe, a cosy haven of ‘70s office style warehouse space and colourful decor. Since opening its doors in 2014, the White Post Cafe...

Glass dines at the newly opened The Dining Room in Mare Street Market

Lily Rimmer

February 8, 2019

Dining, Feature

SINCE opening its doors as the last addition to the indoor Mare Street Market indoor complex in early December, The Dining Room has won over guests with its modern British menu, quality driven drinks, and antiq...

Bat For Lashes to headline Mirrors festival

Katrina Mirpuri

October 25, 2016

Glass LIVE, Music, News

HACKNEY’S Mirrors Festival is returning this weekend after making its first debut last year. This year boasts a strong line-up of artists, with the event taking place this week in East London. The day festi...

Lily Loveless talks to Glass about her most recent project – Set the Thames on Fire

Justin van Vliet

September 27, 2016

Culture, Feature, Glass Talents

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HACKNEY-born actor Lily Loveless started her acting career as Naomi Campbell (no, not that one) in the second season of Channel 4’s award-winning drama Skins and since then she hasn’t stopped working, appearing...

Glass interviews British actor Saffron Burrow

Izzy Cammareri

February 12, 2016

Culture, Feature, Film, Television

Hackney-native Saffron Burrows first emerged on the acting scene at the age of 17, formerly trying her hand at theatre as a young adolescent. At the age of 15, Burrows found herself taking a dip in th...

Sue Tilley This Is My Life in art and fashion

Rachel McCormack

November 2, 2015

Art, Fashion, News

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SUE Tilley: author, model for Lucian Freud, and stalwart of the London fashion and clubbing scene, has been enjoying her first foray into the art world as a practitioner, rather than a model or a muse. Three c...

Eye-witness accounts – Glass previews UK artist Valerie Wiffen’s latest show of her exquisitely observed drawings and paintings

Caroline Simpson

April 29, 2015

Avant Art, Culture, Feature

BRITISH painter, London-based Valerie Wiffen’s latest show of work opens in east London next month and continues to develop and explore her deep interest in work made from exhibits in museums and collections al...

Glass sees trip-hop legend Tricky perform in Hackney, London

Arjun Sajip

March 30, 2015

Culture

Tricky’s tricks are best confined to the studio. Seeing him judder about the stage of St John-at-Hackney Church last Friday night made one miss the finer sonic details of his 1995 breakthrough album Maxinquaye,...

Fine print

Lisa Kim

August 7, 2014

Avant Art

It’s clear from London artist Aida Wilde’s work that she has a great love of animals big and small but a closer look at her latest series Habros reveals darker themes like issues of colonialism, t...

Eat chicks for Easter

Vicky Paterson

April 15, 2014

Dining, Feature

There’s a revolution happening in east London. A call for an end to the dude food movement of big meats and big potatoes, burgers the size of buildings and body parts so intimate it’s enough to ma...

Losing the plot

Benjamin Lovegrove

September 15, 2012

Culture, Feature

Twenty-seven-year old Ned Beauman lives in Brixton, South London. He was the youngest nominee on this year’s Man Booker Prize Longlist with The Teleportation Accident. Only his second novel, this transatlan...

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