"Once an old boozer on Well Street but now a pub-cum-house party, The Gun is a pub for every type of east London head. It’s one of the few Hackney pubs that combines a DJ and blunt fringes with excellent food. Downstairs is often heaving, but head upstairs and you can sit with a bowl of steaming crab katsu rice, homemade five-spice tofu wontons, and more modern Chinese and Vietnamese-influenced dishes. Come summer, bagging a spot on their suntrap terrace is also a move." - Heidi Lauth Beasley, Jake Oliver, Sinead Cranna