Can we get married there?

No licence. Hackney registry office is eleven minutes' walk and most couples do the legal bit at eleven and arrive here at one.

Can we bring our own wine?

Corkage is £25 a bottle, which is steep until you see the list. Most people give in and use theirs.

A long table laid down its length with autumn flowers, glasses and place settings

Restaurant

Quay Street

Shoreditch, London, London

A restaurant that closes for you. Sixty people, one room, and food that is the actual reason you booked it.

Seated: 60
Standing: 90
Beds: None on site
Indicative hire: £5,500–£12,000Price band 3 of 4
Dates open: Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn

Not a wedding venue, which is the point. It is a restaurant with a kitchen that does this every night, and on a Sunday they will close and cook for you.

Sixty seated across four tables or one long run of fifty-six if you are willing to lose a few. Exposed brick, filament light, no styling required and honestly none wanted.

There is no ceremony licence. Most couples do the registry office at Hackney in the morning and walk here.

What you get

Full restaurant closure, Sundays
In-house kitchen, no outside catering
One long table of fifty-six possible
Wine list rather than a package
No styling needed
Hackney registry office eleven minutes away

A plated course set down on a laid table

A single plated course on a laid table, photographed close

A table mid-service, wine poured and a plated course set down

Grilled meat and vegetables on a board, photographed from above

Questions

Can we get married there?: No licence. Hackney registry office is eleven minutes' walk and most couples do the legal bit at eleven and arrive here at one.
Can we bring our own wine?: Corkage is £25 a bottle, which is steep until you see the list. Most people give in and use theirs.

Where it is

Shoreditch, London

London, United Kingdom

51.5265, -0.0785

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Sample venue, invented for this build. Prices are indicative bands rather than quotes.

Ask us about Quay Street.

We will tell you what it is actually like on a wet Tuesday, what the quoted price does not include, and whether your date is realistic.

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