Once home to the Olympics, now home to loads of cultural institutions, a Westfield shopping centre, and West Ham FC.

Olympic Park: Nice to have a walk around

Saddler’s Wells East:
Contemporary dance space, sister venue of a north London institution.

London Aquatic Centre:
Zaha Hadid Olympic masterpiece. Might need to do all the registering and signing up to get in though.

V&A East Storehouse:
super interesting concept, I think you can go through their archivers on line and order a time slot to take a look. Might be useful for summer projects.

Westfield:
You know the score.

Very trendy full fo very trendy people – but some great places if you don;t mind the hipsters.

Crate:
Brewery and pizza.

Howling Hops:
Brewery and rotating food offers.

Lucia’s:
Open fire Mexican.

Silo:
Zero Waste Fine Dining

Just up the road, a nice park, some nice coffee shops, a great fruit & veg shop, and one of the best butchers in the UK.

Bear Brew:
They do a bacon naan (Dishoom rip off) and great coffee.

La Bakerie:
French patisserie and coffee

Harvey’s:
Fruit & Veg

The Ginger Pig:
London’s best butchers.

The Duke:
Nice pub, but had a really terrible Sunday Roast once

TimeOut’s coolest neighbourhood. They obviously haven’t been to Forest Gate. Essentially you want to head to Francis Road and have a mooch.

Yardarm:
Independent wine, bakery and provisions shop.

Marmelo Kitchen:
Another lovely deli. Also do supper clubs.

Deeney’s:
Scottish cafe, Haggis toasties. I like the vegan one.

A smaller version of Leyton.

The North Star:
A really great boozer that also has great pizza and Thai food. A nice walk from ours across the Wanstead Flats (one semi-treacherous road crossing) - doesn’t feel like your in London when you’re there though… other than the trendy crowd.

Homies on Donkeys:
Unsure if we should be recommending Mexican – but there you go… food is great, don’t rate the cocktails though.

Yard Sale Pizza:
A great pizza chain. Again, is it NY levels… I’ll let you decide. But a safe bet if you need to feed the family – multiple locaitons.