On the overwritten street, the menu is the history book. Each layer left different food behind, so eating the three layers one meal at a time is the most honest way to digest the district Estimate.
Three layers, three meals
Layer · Food · Where
Jewish layer · hot salt beef beigel · Beigel Bake (No. 159, 24 hours)
Bangladeshi layer · curry · the curry strip at Brick Lane’s southern end
Present layer · flat white and brunch · specialty cafés around Shoreditch
Beigel Bake has run around the clock since 1974 Fact, so it slots in anywhere — morning or 3am. Curry works best at dinner; coffee is the comma between markets.
The container layer
Boxpark, beside Shoreditch High Street station, was stacked from shipping containers in 2011 Fact — a testbed of street food and small brands. Like it or not, this is how the district’s newest layer eats and drinks — and as Episode 9 will show, the speed of this layer’s expansion is precisely what the argument is about.