Albion

Bar in Shoreditch
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7 / 10 from 2 reviews
Address
Boundary London
2 - 4 Boundary Street
Shoreditch
London
E2 7DD
Map
Telephone
020 7729 1051
Region
Shoreditch
Nearest Station
Shoreditch High Street
0.03 miles
Category
Bars
Delivery
https://deliveroo.co.uk/menu/london/shoreditch/albion-breakfast
Opening Times
Monday Open 08:00 - Closes 23:00
Tuesday Open 08:00 - Closes 23:00
Wednesday Open 08:00 - Closes 23:00
Thursday Open 08:00 - Closes 23:00
Friday Open 08:00 - Closes 23:00
Saturday Open 08:00 - Closes 23:00
Sunday Open 08:00 - Closes 23:00
Venue Facilities

Food Served

Disabled Facilities

Children Welcome

Contactless Payments

Delivery Service Available

Credit Cards Accepted

Outdoor Area

Albion is an all-day cafe, bar, and grocery located on the ground floor of Boundary London. A Shoreditch icon, Albion has been feeding the hungry folk of the area for almost ten years.


Albion specializes in simple, modestly-priced British food in a stylish and relaxed setting. The menus champion the best seasonal produce and artisanal ingredients from around the United Kingdom from staples like sausage & mash and a daily pie to regularly changing salads and sandwiches. The in-house bakery produces all the bread, pastries and baked goods daily which are all available to eat in or take away. From coffee and juice to draught beers on tap, including an Albion IPA as well as a great value wine list to delve into you’ll not go thirsty at Albion.

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All In London Review

Traditional British grub at this Shoreditch caff

It’s a weekend lunchtime, and a mixture of trendy youths in day-glo hoodies and skinny jeans and fashionable young professionals carrying laptops/blackberries/broadsheet papers roam around. The location is Shoreditch, and I’m about to step into light and airy café The Albion for people-prying and a glass of Rose.

Wanting a light snack, I balk at the £8.50 price tag of mushrooms on a slice of toast. Why, I could buy four loaves of bread, a bottle of olive oil, a bulb of garlic and four Portobello mushrooms for that much, I thought to myself. My moaning stops the second I taste the first mouthful however. This is pure mushroom and garlic heaven, and by the time I’m finished I am convinced the toast buried under tender slices of Portobello sprinkled with parsley is excellent value.

The hearty British menu is traditional in the extreme, think Welsh rabbit (or rarebit, to give it its correct spelling), crackling, and cauliflower cheese; desserts include crumbles and bread and butter pudding. Its simplicity is refreshing, more so as everything is prepared to a high standard - even the thickly cut chips with beef dripping are above average.

What’s even better is being able to sip a Bloody Mary with your breakfast, or drink a Kir Royale with lunch. The bakery is rather exciting too; peruse the large, ‘proper’ scotch eggs (none of that stuff you get in supermarkets that passes itself off as the real thing), the sourdough bread and the cakes…the mouthwatering, luscious cakes. You can taste the fruitiness of the Easter cake just by looking at it, along with its generous layers of sweet marzipan.

The shop also sells fruit and veg, and specialty British jams, cheeses and condiments, which no doubt come in handy to guests of upstairs hotel The Boundary, part of the same company - Prescott and Conran, the latter being Terence Conran - and where the upscale French eatery Boundary and descriptively named rooftop bar Boundary Rooftop are.

Both the shop and caff (as they like to call it) are conveniently open till midnight every day of the week, and upon closer inspection of the menu it reveals to be inexpensive – the vast majority of the dishes are under a tenner. A real Shoreditch highlight.

Reviewed by Leila
Published on May 7, 2010


User Reviews

Mole2theFloor

Jan 31, 2014

This is a very pleasant cafe for afternoon tea or a coffee - it's not the cheapest but there's free wifi and the cakes from the on-site bakery are very tasty. I've also tried the chips with beef dripping which are delicious!
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