East London's top 10 budget eats | Travel. St John Bread & Wine, Spitalfields On the face of it, let alone in a "budget eats" feature, £5.70 seems an awful lot to pay for a bacon butty. It is one of the themes of this series, however, that – particularly when you're eating on a tight budget – value is more important than cost. And the St John bacon butty is indisputably worth every one of those 570 pennies. It comprises two large chargrilled slices of proper artisan bread from the on-site bakery, thickly buttered and liberally stuffed with Gloucester Old Spot bacon. The rashers have a good three-quarter-inch rim of gloriously silky translucent fat around their outer edge.
In its generosity, its use of supreme ingredients, in its hilarious disregard for anything you might describe as healthy eating, it is Fergus Henderson (owner of this and the more famous parent restaurant, St John) on a plate. Beigel Bake, Brick Lane Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian The Gun, Docklands Frizzante, Hackney and Rotherhithe Cay Tre, Hoxton. The Hackney Podcast | Your semi-regular serving of Hackney driven fare. London flatshare flatmate flat and house to rent. About Hackney City Farm. For over 20 years, Hackney City Farm has been giving the local community the opportunity to experience farming right in the heart of the city. We offer children and adults the opportunity to get up close to a range of farmyard animals; see, smell and plant vegetables and other food plants; and learn new skills to live a healthier, happier life with a lower environmental impact.
As well as running our own courses and volunteering sessions, we are a home to various other social enterprises and community groups. We aim to be a centre for environmental improvement and a hub for projects for the improvement of the community and local environment. History Hackney City Farm was established in 1984 inspired by the success of the newly formed Kentish Town City Farm. Read more Jobs Current vacancies at the Farm. London Short Film Festival | 7th – 16th January 2011.