Stringray Globe

Stringray Globe Cafe’s Italian restaurant and pizzeria is packed on Sundays when the nearby Columbia Road flower market blooms into being. Of course, the restaurant puts on a range of great offers to lure you in at other times, too. Focusing on the food, specials change every day and make use of only seasonal produce, resulting in delicious, fresh main courses such as grilled rib-eye steak, duck breast, or the vegetarian pear and walnut salad with rocket, celery, blue cheese and pomegranate. East London diners – and flower fanatics visiting Bethnal Green from elsewhere in the city – have an incredible selection to choose from at Stringray Globe Cafe.

You can’t go past Stringray Globe Cafe’s pizzeria selection. Their pizzas are thin-crust, Italian-style, and are available with gluten-free versions as well as in convenient calzone form. The American Hot pizza is a spicy option, but that’s not all that’s on offer at this Columbia Road restaurant and bar. All the classic bases are covered, with regional variations on the Neapolitan pie keeping things interesting. East London’s Stringray, well-known to Haggerston and Bethnal Green locals as well as far-flung Londoners who make a habit of visiting the weekly Columbia Road flower market, is avowedly a restaurant with delicious food at great prices, but a whole lot more besides. Book your tables now, and don’t forget that Stringray boasts lovely courtyard seating for al fresco dining on summer days.