Forge & Co.

Brasserie in Shoreditch
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7 / 10 from 1 review
Address
154- 158 Shoreditch High Street
Shoreditch
London
E1 6HU
Map
Telephone
020 7729 0007
Cuisine
Brasserie
Region
Shoreditch
Nearest Station
Shoreditch High Street
0.08 miles
Opening Summary
Mon - Fri: 8am - 11pm
Sat - Sun: 10am - 11pm
Restaurant Facilities

Big Screen TV

Children Welcome

Credit Cards Accepted

Music Played

Live Music Played

Booking Advisable

Forge & Co is a unique new social workspace in the heart of Shoreditch.

We offer fully serviced coworking offices plus individual desks, hotdesking, studios, galleries, and event spaces over four floors of a 1950s Modernist building.

Forge & Co’s ground floor is entirely given over to The Canteen, serving seasonal modern British cuisine to our residents, members and the local creative community. The Canteen’s full bar offers contemporary cocktails, a friendly affordable wine list, and brewery-fresh local craft beers including London Lager straight from the tanks.

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Forge & Co. Exterior
Forge & Co. Exterior

All In London Review

Ace aesthetics in a venue that does a little bit of everything

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If you were looking for one venue in Shoreditch that tidily sums up the place then you could do worse than starting with Forge & Co. Now, I’d like to describe the place as a restaurant and bar but in truth it’s so much more. Not content with sorting the eating and drinking part of your life for you, it also provides ‘co-working stations’ and team studios across multi-levels to take care of the business side for you too. So far, so Shoreditch. You might snark about this kind of place but all I can say is that with the Ace hotel doing a similar trade across the road – albeit in a more informal manner with its laptop workstations at every turn – Forge & Co. at least separates the work/leisure space. I don’t know about you but when I’m out in the evening for food and drinks I don’t want ten Apple logos glowing at me as I wind down…

Housed in a 1950’s building, the sharp, lounge interior is all about the style. There’s the relaxed informal sofa seating, carefully defined dining area and enough dashing interior touches to appreciate that this aesthetic took some planning.

The drinks menu consists of a range of small brewery beers on draught, cocktails and premium spirits while the food comes from the ‘Canteen’ in what is supposed to be “a nod to the eateries of the bygone trade union days.” Choose from classic trade union era dishes like roasted beetroot & walnut, whole sea bass and ox heart burgers. Okay, so the trade union thing is worth an eye roll but besides that Forge & Co. is as shiny and pretty as you want this kind of place to be. Famous DJ’s have curated the daytime playlists and there are nights on from Thursday through the weekend. Its heavily weighted towards the aesthetic side of things but what can I say, I like it.

Reviewed by T.A.O
Published on Jul 5, 2015


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