An 1856 Brewery. One Team. Every Detail.

The building at 503 Hackney Road has stood since at least 1856. It began as John Chandler & Co.'s brewery, supplying 35 East London pubs for more than half a century. A 120-foot chimney rose over Hackney Road from 1895. The trade press wrote about the company. John Edmund Chandler, F.R.G.S. - a gentleman brewer who owned a steam yacht and sailed the Mediterranean - was the man behind a brewery that served the working pubs of Bethnal Green. He died in 1898, aged 38. The contradiction is the story.

In 1911 Charrington's absorbed the business and the building became a workshop. It stayed one through the decades when Hackney changed around it. At some point the Mills family came to own the plot, and three generations held it across the post-war years and into the present. In 2015, Kevin Mills - with Jon and James Penn - restored the building that had been waiting.

The exposed brick, the timber beams, the ironwork, the skylight - these are not design choices. They are what was always there. We kept the bones and added modern hospitality. The result is a venue with real warmth and texture, not a blank-canvas warehouse that needs dressing up.

We are right between Bethnal Green and Cambridge Heath, in the heart of East London. Two minutes from Cambridge Heath Overground, eight minutes from Bethnal Green on the Central line. Buses stop directly outside.

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