Hackney Wick

Hot on the heels of Bara Café opening in Peckham comes another fully-fledged Welsh food business, hoping to entice Londoners through its doors.

Anyone hailing from Cardiff will know about Donald's, which is actually a Kiwi-inspired pie and coffee shop that started life as a street food business, selling pies from a cricket club in the Cardiff suburb of Radyr. Now friends Gareth Owens and Harri Rees have opened their first place outside Wales, in Hackney Wick.

Right now it's a weekend-only affair serving up its core range of pies like Mince Beef & Cheddar, Butter

25/6/26 - updated with menu and opening date

At the end of last year, Douglas McMaster's Silo shut the doors in Hackney Wick (over Crate Brewery), but now Uncle Hon's BBQ is taking the space over, having completed a successful Kickstarter. 

Founder Man Hon Luk (who lives in the area) has learned his BBQ know-how the proper way, learning his skills in the home of BBQ: Austin, Texas. Since then, he's been popping up all over London and eventually

As he prepares to open his first restaurant there, Hon's BBQ, Man Hon Luk shares his favourite food and drink spots in and around Hackney Wick