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GUIDE TO STRATFOR D, DOCKLANDS & GREENWICH BY DLR 2013 SHOPPING • EVENTS • ATTRACTIONS • BARS RESTAURANTS • NIGHTLIFE • CULTURE CONTENTS Published by Time Out Magazine Ltd Universal House, 251 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 7AB Tel 020 7813 3000 Fax 020 7813 6001 www.timeout.com Editor-in-Chief Tim Arthur Production Editor Dave Faulkner Managing Editor Magazine Greg Miall Guide editor Laura Lee Davies Sub editor Lewis Lyons Contributors Laura Lee Davies, Lewis Lyons, Catherine O’Dolan, Dave Oliver Design Thomas Havell Cover illustration Alex Mathers Map (page 31) [email protected] QUEEN ELIZABETH Picture research Oliver Puglisi Commercial Creative Director Adam Harris OLYMPIC PARK Creative Solutions Project Co-ordinator 6 Sarah Dawson Chief Commercial Officer David Pepper Docklands Light Railway CEO Aksel van der Wal Chairman-Founder Tony Elliott 12 GREENWICH Time Out Magazine Ltd is part of the Time Out Group: Director & Founder Tony Elliott Chief operating officer Aksel van der Wal WELCOME David Pepper Chief executive officer C International managing director Cathy Runciman E Group Financial director Paul Rakkar ur annual guide to exploring east and south-east O N M T O Printed by Polestar Bicester London by Docklands Light Railway is always E C N L refreshing to write, because the area we’re looking This is a product of T E O Time Out Creative Solutions: at is constantly evolving. S W 020 7813 3000 In 2012 the arrival of the UK’s first urban cable car and an © Copyright Time Out Group Ltd 2013. All rights reserved. All information was checked at event you might just remember – called the London 2012 time of going to press. The publisher and the brand partner cannot be held responsible for any errors. Olympic and Paralympic Games – added to east London’s already rich array of cultural and leisure offerings. For 2013, the state-of-the-art exhibition centre The Crystal at Royal Victoria Dock, one of the planet’s greenest buildings, comes into its own with an exploration of how our CANARY BICYCLE, world’s cities might grow in sustainable ways in the future, 8STRATFORD 18 WHARF 22 RIVER AND AIR while Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is quickly turning London’s newest postcode, E20, into a whole new destination for gig-goers, sports fans and families. New, too, for 2013, are downloadable podcasts that offer 4 EXPLORE BY DLR 15 WEST INDIA QUAY a narrated tour of the area as you travel by DLR (find out Your key to east and south-east London The perfect spot for waterside relaxation more on our back page). Following an eastward expansion 6 QUEEN ELIZABETH OLYMPIC PARK 16 MUSEUM OF LONDON DOCKLANDS of London’s public bike share scheme, Barclays Cycle Hire, The Olympic legacy: a new park and community London’s river and maritime history comes alive you can step off many DLR trains, or disembark from a river boat, and go even further on two wheels. 8 STRATFORD 18 CANARY WHARF Whether you live in this part of London or you’re looking Beyond Westfield there’s a vibrant cultural life Come for the shopping, stay for the entertainment for somewhere new to go for an evening out or a weekend jaunt, we’ve hand-picked the best of what’s on offer, from 10 ROYAL DOCKS 22 BICYCLE, RIVER AND AIR S E I London’s historic docks are a new leisure hub Carry on exploring when you get off the DLR V Stratford to Greenwich, via Canary Wharf and West India A D E Quay, the modern docks and the river. Green spaces and C N E 11 THE CRYSTAL 26 EVENTS R museums, markets and fashion malls, clubs and concert W A A stunning new building dedicated to future living Art, music, theatre, exhibitions and festivals L : halls, bars and restaurants – you can find them all in this D R O F guide, then discover for yourself just how easy they are to T A 12 GREENWICH 31 HOW TO GET HERE R T get to by Docklands Light Railway. S Great architecture, markets, museums and pubs Directions to all the main destinations 2 TIME OUT Explore by DLR 2013 Explore by DLR 2013 TIME OUT 3 CANARY WHARF EXPLORE BY DLR The capital’s buzzing business hub doesn’t switch off at 5pm; it becomes With stations as little as one to three minutes apart, the DLR a great destination for after-hours is the quickest and easiest way to get from the central tube culture and relaxation, five-star dining interchanges to destinations all over east and south-east and fashion shopping, comedy nights London – Tower Gateway to Cutty Sark in about 21 minutes, and live music –plus green spaces and Stratford to Royal Victoria for the Emirates Air Line in less specially commissioned outdoor art. than 10 minutes, and Bank to Canary Wharf in 11 minutes. MUSEUM OF LONDON WEST INDIA QUAY DOCKLANDS This relaxed quayside setting offers Travel through centuries of riverside STRATFORD shops, entertainment and a rare chance life at this museum housed in a As Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to enjoy alfresco terrace drinking and magnificent Georgian dockside blossoms into a new destination in dining in London – and it’s just a couple warehouse. From the Mudlarks play east London for living and leisure, of minutes’ walk across a footbridge area and free activities for families to Stratford town centre steps up to the from bustling Canary Wharf. thought-provoking galleries, walks, plate, with Westfield Stratford City, talks and evening events for adults, the biggest urban shopping mall in there is something for everyone. Europe, and a cultural quarter that includes some of the most innovative performance spaces in London. EMIRATES THE CRYSTAL This state-of-the-art building at Royal AIR LINE Victoria Dock is a ‘Sustainable Cities’ Along with initiative established by Siemens. Barclays Cycle Visitors can check out the inspiring free GREENWICH Hire, river services and the DLR, exhibition about how we understand With a rich maritime, scientific, architectural and the cable car that links north with and live in an ever-evolving world. royal heritage, Greenwich isn’t short on history. south across the Thames has played But the lively market, The O2 and a vibrant arts a major part in bringing 21st-century and bars scene also make it one of London’s London eastwards. most exciting and diverse neighbourhoods for nights out and relaxed weekends. For more information and ideas for days out, go to tfl.gov.uk /dlr 4 TIME OUT Explore by DLR 2013 Explore by DLR 2013 TIME OUT 5 Get here by DLR Stratford International CHARLOTTE and Stratford are the UNITY KITCHEN nearest DLR stations to Queen CAFE ‘I came by DLR – Elizabeth Olympic Park it’s much more interesting than going under- been transformed into nearly ground. I’m going 3,000 new homes, a school for to The O2 later, my son wants to children aged three to 18, as well go to Nike and as cafés and bars, set among 27 I’m getting a landscaped acres. present for my Although things will still be mum, I don’t taking shape in the next two know what yet.’ years, to the north of the main park, east Londoners have Looking ahead to 2014 already been enjoying the new Over the winter months, further landscape. The Northern progress will be made on the Parklands will be developed long-term project to transform the further in coming months, but entire former Olympic Park. already this wide green space Anyone who went to the Olympic links Hackney Wick and Leyton or Paralympic Games couldn’t fail Q K U R RELAX AND HAVE FUN IN … with the waterways and wildlife of to notice how the Games venues E E A Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. were spread across a waterside N P E C landscape around the River Lee. I L P Family gatherings The Wetland Walk is already wants a drop-in ‘pay and ride’ I Z M Families have been quick to adopt open, and in spring 2014 the session, and the facilities will A Y QUEEN ELIZABETH B L the brand new southern section of Queen include new features not seen at Tumbling Bay E O T playground as a favourite way to Elizabeth Olympic Park will open London 2012 – a one-mile floodlit H H T keep busy kids happy, with a up as a new waterfront area road cycle circuit, a remodelled O E L B sandpit, den-building, insect trails called Canal Park along the Lee version of the Olympic BMX track OLYMPIC PARK Y A and walkways among the treetops. Navigation, linking the new and 8km of mountain bike trails. M Z I P L At the nearby Timber Lodge, neighbourhoods with existing This will make the VeloPark the Renamed early this year, the former Olympic Park was I C E always designed to have a second life after the Games, the Unity Kitchen Café (020 communities, and the restored first venue in the world where P N A E leaving a lasting and meaningful legacy for Londoners 7241 9076) is a social business 1930s Carpenters Lock will BMX, mountain biking and road E R U that not only serves delicious hot reopen. Cleaning and restoration and track cycling can all be K Q Reveal your inner sports hero handball, fencing and goalball and cold food from 8am to 8pm of the Lower Lee Valley’s historic enjoyed in one place. Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is during London 2012, has daily, but is also the focus for free waterways will also be completed You’ll be able to hire a bike very much a work in progress and reopened as the home of the and low-cost family events.