INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION East London’s little secret On the doorstep of Canary Wharf but with a creative dockside identity all its own, the Isle of Dogs is an atmospheric and historic corner of London. Reimagined for a new generation, this vibrant and unique riverside neighbourhood is now home to DockEast, an innovative contemporary development at the heart of the renaissance. 2 3 LOCATION LOCATION 4 5 LOCATION LOCATION THE SHARD CANADA WATER TOWER BRIDGE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT ST. KATHARINE DOCKS CANARY WHARF VICTORIA PARK LONDON EYE ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL WAPPING THE CITY SHOREDITCH 6 7 ALL SAINTS Canning Town LOCATION 1,000 UNITS EAST INDIA 9 FOOD AND DRINKS BLACKWALL POPLAR 1 Boisdale 28 35 2 Iberica 14 13 18 3 One Canada Square WEST INDIA QUAY 4 Plateau 12 39 30 5 Roka 37 31 19 23 6 2 6 Giant Robot Street Food Market CANARY WHARF 22 7 Goodman Canary Wharf 1 5 3 8 4 8 The Ivy – Canary Wharf 43 38 24 25 9 The Narrow by Gordon Ramsay CANARY WHARF 10 Pepper Saint Ontiod HERON QUAYS 20 11 The Gun 21 29 12 Big Easy Wood Wharf 13 Burger and Lobster 2,000 UNITS 14 The Sipping Room 11 STAVE HILL ECOLOGICAL PARK 15 Lotus Chinese Floating Restaurant 7 Greenwich Peninsula 16 The George 10,000 UNITS SOUTH QUAY 17 Hubub Bar & Kitchen 18 KERB Street Food Market NORTH GREENWICH 19 Piggy’s Café Millharbour Village Skylines Village 20 640East 12,000 UNITS 400 UNITS 34 SHOPPING 21 Jubilee Place SIR JOHN MCDOUGAL GARDENS 15 ST. JOHN'S PARK 22 Cabot Place 16 23 Crossrail Place 10 CROSSHARBOUR 24 Canada Place 25 Waitrose and John Lewis 26 Asda Isle of Dogs Superstore Weserry Printworks 26 1524 UNITS 33 Asda Crossharbour ATTRACTIONS AND POINTS OF INTEREST 600 UNITS 27 National Maritime Museum (South of River) 28 Museum of London Docklands 29 The O2 17 32 30 Billingsgate Market MUDCHUTE 31 Crossrail Place Roof Garden MUDCHUTE 32 Mudchute Park and Farm PARK 33 Docklands Sailing and Watersports Centre 34 Greenwich Peninsula Golf Range 41 35 Trinity Buoy Wharf 40 36 Riverside Island Gardens ISLAND GARDENS ENTERTAINMENT AND FITNESS 37 Everyman Cinema Canary Wharf 36 38 Third Space Gym and Spa 39 Barrys Boot Camp EDUCATION 40 Canary Wharf College, East Ferry Primary (Ofsted Outstanding) 41 Canary Wharf College, Glenworth Primary (Ofsted Outstanding) Regeneration Developments 42 University of Greenwich, London (South of River) 43 UCL School of Management Underground Overground DLR National Rail Crossrail 42 GREENWICH 9 27 LOCATION Discover your London Journey times CANARY WHARF A 16 minute walk from DockEast, Canary Wharf QUEEN ELIZABETH HIGHBURY & ISLINGTON DALSTON JUNCTION STRATFORD OLYMPIC PARK INTERNATIONAL Station is well serviced by the Jubilee line and the DLR. The new Crossrail Elizabeth Line will also be STRATFORD running through Canary Wharf, and is due to be open Hackney by early 2021. CAMDEN TOWN JUBILEE LINE VICTORIA PARK Stra ord Stratford 12 minutes London Bridge 12 minutes Shoreditch BETHNAL GREEN Waterloo 11 minutes KING’S CROSS ST. PANCRAS REGENT'S PARK INTERNATIONAL Westminster 15 minutes WEST HAM Bond Street 18 minutes EUSTON OLD STREET Wembley 38 minutes MILE END UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Leamouth CROSSRAIL LIVERPOOL STREET Leamouth WHITECHAPEL Liverpool Street 6 minutes Tottenham Court Road 11 minutes MILE END PARK City SPITALFIELDS Bond Street 13 minutes PADDINGTON EXCEL EXHIBITION Paddington 17 minutes CENTRE TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD Whitechapel CANNING TOWN Heathrow Airport 39 minutes MARBLE LONDON SCHOOL CITY OF ARCH OF ECONOMICS BOND STREET BANK LONDON ENGLISH COVENT KING'S COLLEGE EAST INDIA TOWER GATEWAY NATIONAL GARDEN LONDON LIMEHOUSE ALL SAINTS Soho SHADWELL WESTFERRY BALLET CROSSHARBOUR EMBANKMENT TATE MODERN NATIONAL TOWER BLACKWALL GALLERY SHAKESPEARE'S OF LONDON HYDE PARK GLOBE The closest station to DockEast, Crossharbour is just SOUTHWARK LONDON BRIDGE a LONDON3 minute CITY walk away and gives you easy access to AIRPORT ST. JAMES'SPARK many key local and wider areas. CANARY WHARF O2 ARENA WATERLOO WESTMINSTER WESTMINSTER Southbank DLR ABBEY NORTH GREENWICH ROYAL ALBERT HALL CANADA Greenwich 12 minutes BERMONDSEY WATER CROSSHARBOUR Excel 26 minutes Westminster ELEPHANT & CASTLE UNIVERSITY London City Airport 25 minutes OF THE ARTS SOUTHWARK PARK Southwark Stratford 21 minutes MUDCHUTE Bank 19 minutes PARK Chelsea Lambeth GETTING AROUND IN June 2019, plans were announced for a new 7.5km UNIVERSITY cycle route linking Isle of Dogs with the centre of THE OVAL OF GREENWICH Hackney passing through Victoria Park, Bow, Mile End, BATTERSEA BATTERSEA PARK POWER STATION and Limehouse. GREENWICH Greenwich ROYAL OBSERVATORY Nine Elms NEW CROSS GATE GREENWICH PARK Underground Overground DLR National Rail Crossrail LEWISHAM Jubilee Line DLR Crossrail CLAPHAM COMMON 11 LOCATION LOCATION PROUDLY DIFFERENT Explore your neighbourhood This proudly different part of London has a strong independent spirit amongst the creative community who are making it their home. Here you’ll find a patchwork Originally a bustling hub for shipbuilding and maritime of old riverside streets to explore while discovering what makes the area tick. industry in the 19th Century, the Isle of Dogs has always The mix of characterful old pubs, eclectic restaurants and artistic cafés will soon been a distinct London neighbourhood. Shaped by make you feel at home. its geography and history, it’s where the old dockside past meets its inspirational new future. IBERICA LA TERRAZA 12 13 LOCATION LOCATION WHERE OLD MEETS NEW DISCOVER 640 EAST Perhaps the perfect old East End local, The 640 East’s story began with the conversion George is the place to go to really soak of two shipping containers (640 being up the old neighbourhood atmosphere of the square footage) into a café serving the Isle of Dogs. But even here things are specialty grade blends from across the changing. On the menu you’ll find crispy world. After partnering with Islington’s squid with truffle and Parmesan fries artisan producers Caravan Coffee alongside Maureen’s Pie & Mash, an East Roasters, the inventive owners now open End institution ran by the same family for up 640 East in the evening with the help nearly 60 years. And remember it’s liquor of breweries like Beavertown and London never gravy. Fields. So you can end as well as start your day here. Under the maxim ‘Leave The Heard Behind’, Black Sheep Coffee is as fiercely independent as you might expect from their name. Founded in 2013 by Eirik and Gabriel they have a knack of sourcing the most interesting Arabica beans around. INVENTIVE BARS THAT FEEL LIKE HOME In the eves of a former Victorian chapel Hubub Bar & Kitchen is an arty slightly Bohemian kind of spot. Whether you arrive for a long brunch or the perfect patty with beef sourced from John Charles of Blackheath, the community ambience will have you feeling like a local. Make sure you check out the regular exhibitions on the wall and the programme for the small theatre downstairs. 14 15 LOCATION LOCATION DOCKSIDE LOCALS STREETFOOD At the Grade II listed pub The Gun open East London’s street food scene has also well and truly fires and river views from the terrace arrived here. The latest chapter in the story of Street complement one of the best Sunday roasts Feast, Giant Robot takes over a rooftop on a dockside in East London. Another popular dockside footbridge with some of London’s best vendors – from place is the curiously named Pepper Saint Black Bear Burger to the Thunderbird wing kings. Begin Iniod (Iniod stands for In Isle of Dogs), a small the night with rounds at one of the four bars with a 38 pub with mismatched furniture overlooking tap craft beer selection before moving on to the 360° the tranquil waters of Millwall Dock. Island Bar for cocktails. Over at West India Quay, Try their modern European dishes like five- Kerb houses residents like Hanok Korean BBQ and the hour ox cheek and beef dripping potatoes. classic Taiwanese lunchbox of Bian Dang. RENOWNED DOCKSIDE RESTAURANTS Head to the docks and you’ll find renowned restaurants making the most of their waterside setting. In an elegant room with a buzzy atmosphere, Robatayaki specialists Roka will have you coming back for Northern Japanese small plates like Yaki Hotate (Scallop Skewers). A modern British restaurant with a great STREET FOOD CREATIVE NEARBY LOCATION little oyster bar and cigar library, Boisdale is known for its jazz and blues nights (Jools Holland is Patron of Once the testing ground for lighthouses and other Music here). maritime equipment, Trinity Buoy Wharf is now a vibrant creative community with tenants like English From Michelin starred Casa Marcial in Asturias, Chef National Opera. Part of an award winning architectural Nacho Manzano now helms the kitchen at Iberica. recycling project, Container City houses artists’ studios Alongside the classic tapas, make sure you try Nacho’s and other creative work spaces. With art trails, a favourite dish Autumn, a mushroom and chestnut broth sculpture park and London’s only lighthouse it’s a great inspired by a walk in the forest. Then there’s Goodman, way to spend an afternoon. Make sure you see Martin a steak house on South Quay with meat dry-aged Richman’s steel and light sculpture The Ascenda 1977 on-site and selected by the chefs at each sitting. and Marcus Vergette’s Time and Tide Bell that rings to Check “The Cut” black board for the day’s choices or mark each high tide. be like a regular and ask them to cut your steak to order. BOISDALE RESTAURANT 16 17 LOCATION LOCATION Feel good by the waterside With Canary Wharf just a At the southern end is the Riverside Island Ever thought of a dip in the Thames? short walk away and the Gardens, where views across to the Royal Don your wetsuit and join the club on one West End a quick hop on the Observatory of Greenwich really do take of its open water swimming mornings.