This change has provided major benefits — a bigger range of businesses on the high street, job opportunities for local people in a growing town centre, and better connections with the rest of London through improved transport infrastructure. But it has also created challenges. The pace of change and growing population has highlighted issues like the housing shortage affecting all of Hackney and London, the pressure on the management of public spaces, and longstanding issues such as the relative lack of green spaces and poor connections around the town centre.
The Dalston Conversation was launched in September so local people could tell us what they love about Dalston, the challenges they experience, and what changes they would like to see us make in the area.
This feedback is now informing the Dalston Plan — a new set of guidelines to shape the future of Dalston, setting out how we intend to deliver the homes, jobs and facilities needed in a way that protects its unique heritage and puts local residents, organisations and businesses first. This includes identifying ten opportunity sites that can accommodate over new homes as well as workspaces and commercial space for a growing town centre.
Booze is in plentiful supply too, with everything from cocktail bars such as Three Sheets to craft beer bars and run down pubs.
For film fans, the Rio is a special place. The two screens show a varied programme of new indie releases as well as regular double bills and classic matinees. Weino BIB started life as a pop-up serving wines from bags in a box, making them not only better for the environment but also cost effective too, which essentially means you get cheaper glasses of great vino.
The wines are mostly natural and you can also bring your own bottle, which you can fill up from the boxes and kegs to take-home. The food menu which is put together with ingredients from the deli also available to take home and sourced from the best local suppliers — Cobble Lane and Dusty Knuckle to name just a couple.
The menu changes daily, like some good looking meats and cheeses, plus plenty of epic sounding vegetable dishes like wild mushrooms with truffle and thyme and charred leeks, romesco and almonds.
On Sundays it switches to an all guns blazing roast line up. The roast beef is nigh-on perfection, and comes with Yorkshire puds, carrots, parsnip puree, duck fat roast potatoes and some buttered greens just for good measure. Get a side of the truffled cauliflower cheese and your Sunday will be sorted.
Markey, known for its workwear-inspired womenswear, has its first perm shop in Dalston. The store looks the part with pastel powder coated industrial fittings, pink velvet curtains and mint tiles.
As well as stocking the L. Markey collections, including those signature boiler suits, the shop also carries pieces from independent labels like YKRA from Hungary and Toasties from Paris. The designer store is like a maze and contains individual product rooms, a record store, cafe, gallery and club space.
Online mag HUH. Once an ABC cinema the main building was left derelict for years only to be rediscovered, restored and relaunched in — both the theatre with seating and the concert hall standing now host gigs, poetry readings, DJ sets, talks and more. Gone are the pool tables, giant screen, gambling machines, and sticky floors and in their place are smart modern tables, white walls, a cocktail bar and a simple but effectivefood menu.
Amidst the concrete jungle of Dalston is an escape from the masses. Dalston Roof Park is a music venue, a roof garden where you could be doing anything from raving to yoga to laughing at comedy on the plushly turfed lawn filled with flowers and palm trees.
As well as street food, the cocktail bar is always in full force so you know the good times will be flowing all summer long. The three most numerous groups are of white British, black African and black Caribbean birth or descent. This is a deprived area, but no more so than the rest of the borough.
Dalston culture house Dalston Kingsland station reopened in on the North London line in and Dalston Junction closed three years later, when the service to Broad Street station ceased. View larger OpenStreetMap. Please support this website by adding it to the whitelist in your ad blocker.
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