Clapton area guide

Clapton area guide

From pubs, bars, restaurants and shops, there are loads of things to do in this east London enclave. Check them out below
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As the creatives move further east, so places like Clapton become increasingly popular. And Clapton's quite the place these days, with loads of independent bars, boozers and restaurants keeping its new locals very well watered and fed. If the natural regeneration of areas like this is anything to go by, Shoreditch losing its lustre long ago was clearly no bad thing. After all, you can always rely on the cool kids of London town to find the next best thing.

What are your favourite Clapton haunts? Let us know in the comments.

The best bits of Clapton

15 reasons to go to Chatsworth Road, E5
Things to do

15 reasons to go to Chatsworth Road, E5

Chatsworth road smells amazing. Thanks to the fresh bread, exotic flowers, food stalls and reassuringly expensive scented candles all over the place, the whole...

Restaurants in Clapton

Pacific Social Club
Restaurants

Pacific Social Club

  • 4 out of 5 stars
Admiring the Pacific Rim postcards and tiki mask, the wall covered in vinyl inner sleeves (Columbia, Decca, ‘race records’ pioneer Okeh) and a...
Eat 17
Restaurants

Eat 17

  • 3 out of 5 stars
The Clapton end of Chatsworth Road has been smartening up its act for some time. But if you’d headed over the brow towards Homerton hoping to find...
Shane's on Chatsworth
Restaurants

Shane's on Chatsworth

  • 3 out of 5 stars
‘Shane’ is Kiwi chef Shane Harrison, who set up this very local restaurant in early 2012 on Chatsworth Road, an up-and-coming high street in...
Yard Sale Pizza
Restaurants

Yard Sale Pizza

  • 3 out of 5 stars
If you’re wondering whether this is the pizza place where Macaulay Culkin’s band played, then you’d be right. The ‘Home Alone’...

Clapton highlights

Palm 2
Restaurants

Palm 2

Deli and produce shop selling cheese, meat, fresh veg, bottled beers and wine and much more

Bars and pubs in Clapton

Clapton Hart
Bars and pubs

Clapton Hart

  • 3 out of 5 stars
No one seems to have informed the Antic group that Britain is in the grip of a devastating recession or that our pub trade is on its knees.
Oslo
Music

Oslo

  • 4 out of 5 stars
In case you didn’t know, Scandinavia is cool right now. The food, the fashion, the facial hair – plus the Vikings have invaded the British Museum....
Hand of Glory
Bars and pubs

Hand of Glory

  • 3 out of 5 stars
It sounds like a specialist room in a Vauxhall club involving holes in walls and a lot of trust, but this is the best name for a new pub I’ve heard in...
Windsor Castle
Bars and pubs

Windsor Castle

  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • price 2 of 4
At Clapton’s newly refurbished Windsor Castle, every inch has been spruced, smartened and straightened up, and it’s almost unrecognisable from its...

Love London Awards: last year's winners

Sodo Pizza Cafe
Restaurants

Sodo Pizza Cafe

  • 4 out of 5 stars
Sodo started as a pop­up at the E5 Bakehouse before setting up shop just up the road, with success spawning sister sites in Hoxton and Walthamstow. I’ve been...
Chatsworth Road Market
Shopping

Chatsworth Road Market

Clapton’s Chatsworth Road sure is old. In the ’30s it had up to 200 stalls peddling their wares up to five days a week. After the war the market dwindled and...
Springfield Park
Attractions

Springfield Park

If Springfield Park were anywhere but this slightly forlorn corner of Clapton it would be overrun with joggers, revellers and pram-toting parents; instead,...
Crooked Billet
Bars and pubs

Crooked Billet

  • 3 out of 5 stars
As relentlessly and inevitably as Aussie wickets, one by one the traditional pubs of Clapton fall to the trendy young incomers moving to this previously...