Brick Lane. Filled with Indian restaurants and food shops, painted walls, fabric and art shops and a hive for a lively music scene.
This place is very cool! Every surface outside is covered in some kind of artwork or incredible graffiti and there are many studios/galleries that showcase just as much vibrance.
A few to visit:
ATLANTIS ART SUPPLIES: 60-68 Hanbury St (Off Brick Lane)
An art store filled with affordable materials, papers, all kinds of paints, and specialist items. You can get everything here!!
ROUGH TRADE EAST: Old Truwman Brewary
Here you can have coffee, browse albums of the latest movie and have your photo taken in one of those cool oldschool photo booths! Its hip and trendy and filled with such people.
SPITALFIELDS MARKET
SPHERE GALLERY: 73 Brushfield St (Old Spitalfields Market)
A gallery filled with infamous artists, anyone can put there work up in the space and the gallery owners work with the artists to help them advertise and get there work out there.
Brick Lane is filled with many small boutique fashion and jewellery shops, mostly made by independant designers. There are also vintage clothing shops like ROKIT LONDON and BEYOND RETRO.
There are many galleries as well including THE BRICK LANE GALLERY which has contemporary and street art, and also the STOLEN SPACE GALLERY which exhibitions 'Underground and Street art' in the Old Truman Brewary area next to Banksy and D Face graffiti works outside.
There is plenty of things to do in Brick Lane even if its just looing at the walls! In the area though there are many places that often play live music.
VIBE BAR: 91-95 Brick Lane
A lively bar with live music, DJs playing funk, jazz, reggae, hip hop and house and food set in the heart of Brick Lane.
ALL STAR LANES:
A venue for bowling, american diner style food and cocktails.
Brick Lane is close to both Commercial St and Spitalfield Market.
No comments:
Post a Comment