Victoria Park · Hackney
The Empress
A Michelin Bib Gourmand gastropub off Victoria Park
- Address130 Lauriston Road, South Hackney, London E9 7LH
- Phone020 8533 5123
- Websiteempresse9.co.uk
- OwnershipIndependent pub
About The Empress
One of the borough’s most decorated gastropubs — a Michelin Bib Gourmand, two AA Rosettes and a Top 50 Gastropubs listing — in a Victorian building near Victoria Park.
The Empress has built up a genuinely serious set of accolades for a neighbourhood gastropub: a Michelin Bib Gourmand, two AA Rosettes, a place on the Top 50 Gastropubs list and a five-star Time Out rating. The cooking is modern British and seasonal, built around named local suppliers — Swaledale Foods for meat, Fin & Flounder for fish, E5 Bakehouse bread, Climpson & Sons coffee — inside a Victorian pub building with an attached dining room.
On tap
A biodynamic and low-sulphur-leaning wine list.
Food
Modern British seasonal cooking; an acclaimed Sunday roast; Monday burger night.
More pubs in Victoria Park
- The People's Park TavernA grand Italian-palazzo-style pub with its own on-site brewery
- The LauristonCooking the good stuff since 1991