The Hackney Supper Club is a series of one-night-only dinners inside a converted 1856 brewery on Hackney Road. Forty seats per night. One menu, written for the evening. A rotating cast of chefs working out of our kitchen for one service only.

This is a guide to what the series is, how the list works, and the chefs who have cooked here so far.

The Format

Forty guests. One long table down the room. Three or four courses, depending on the chef. Doors from seven, seated by seven-thirty, three hours on the table. A cocktail on arrival, a wine pairing through the meal, and a room lit almost entirely by candles.

Every supper club is a one-off. The menu is built for that night and that chef and does not run again. When the seats are gone, they are gone.

We run a handful each season. Dates are announced to the list first and typically sell out before they reach a wider audience.

The Venue

The Hackney is the building that was Chandler’s Brewery from 1856 until 1911. Exposed brick, steel beams, a skylight, timber overhead. Sixty seated capacity, which means a supper club of forty is deliberately below room limit so that the table can be long, the spacing generous, and the room properly dressed.

The kitchen is built for this kind of work. Chefs arrive in the morning, prep through the afternoon, and serve one service. No covers before, no covers after.

A fuller history of the building is in our piece on 503 Hackney Road.

The Kitchen and the Chef Rotation

The supper club is not tied to one resident chef. The point of the series is the rotation: different kitchens, different backgrounds, different menus, the same room.

We work with chefs we have eaten with, chefs our guests have flagged, and chefs brought in through partners who curate food culture across the city. Each chef takes full control of their menu. We host, we pour, we light the candles.

If you are a chef and want to cook a supper club here, there is a section for that on the supper club page.

Previous Supper Clubs

A Taste of Toronto with Sepps

A plant-based Friendsgiving menu from Sepps, cooked for one night in the main hall. Long table, candlelight, a menu that leaned into the Canadian-Thanksgiving-meets-East-London angle without either side feeling like a gimmick.

Do Not Disturb with Ella Williams, in collaboration with The Nudge

A dinner with chef Ella Williams, curated with The Nudge around the “Do Not Disturb” concept. One menu, one night, sold out to the list before public release.

Both dinners ran the same shape: arrival drink, seated service, a room that was full by eight and still full at eleven.

What Is Next

The next supper club is in build. Dates are confirmed to the list forty-eight hours before they go public, and seats typically sell inside that window.

If you want the drop first, the supper club list is how. It is a short email a few times a season with the next date, the chef, and the seat link. Nothing else.

For Chefs

If you want to cook a supper club at The Hackney, we are actively booking the rest of 2026 and into 2027. You bring the menu and the team. We bring the room, the service, the bar, and the audience on the list. The kitchen is yours for the day.

Details and the enquiry route are on the supper club page.