East London Love: Unpackaged Moves to Hackney Posted by Unknown |

The brilliant Unpackaged has moved and last night celebrated its new Hackney premises. Founded in 2006 as a market stall, the super environmentally-friendly store sells its products unpackaged and is now also a bar and restaurant. To shop, bring whatever containers you like – jars, tupperware, old takeaway boxes, brown paper bags, plastic bags – and restock on groceries, cleaning products and toiletries (see the shop's product list here).

beunpackaged.com // Arthaus, 197 Richmond Road, E8 3NJ // Twitter // Facebook

Restaurant Favourite: Railroad Posted by Unknown |

1. We visited one of our favourite Hackney restaurants at the weekend, Railroad on Morning Lane. It's small, very cosy and serves up the most delicious dishes – each course offers three options; they really do meat so well, slow-cooked lamb and rare steaks, always a veggie dish too. We arrived at half seven when it was still quiet, but it quickly filled up. 2. Chicken livers with garlic and sage on toast to start, yummy. For the mains, shoulder of lamb and Onglet steak (forgot to photograph, too busy wolfing). 3. I like the tables for two by the windows the best. 4. The Cru Virunga chocolate cake was rich, moist and not too sweet, served with creme fraiche. Fresh mint tea on the side.

railroadhackney.co.uk

Suicide Blonde Digitally Printed Leather Accessories Posted by Unknown |

Heart Of A Fool card holder  

Love discovering cool brands doing something slightly different and with a sustainable edge to boot. Designed by Hackney-based designer Estelle Lordonne (she lives and works off Mare Street), the pieces are handmade by local leather manufacturers in small quantities with a focus on sourcing sustainable and carbon neutral materials – Suicide Blonde is one of the hand-picked labels that works with the London College of Fashion Centre for Sustainable Fashion on finding the best sustainable methods for crafting design. Just check out these amazing designs incorporating gothic themes and early cinematographic imagery – the images are digitally printed with a process that is similar to skin tattooing, not the easiest of techniques as it involves printing onto the leather before it is treated. Suicide Blonde has also designed a collection to accompany the Fashion & Textiles Museum's 'POP! Design Culture Fashion' exhibition which runs until Oct 27. The collection is available in The Shop@ FTM and you can also purchase direct from suicide-blonde.co.uk.

Heart Of A Fool coin purse

To Each Its Own coin purse

To Each Its Own laptop bag

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