STREET SCENES

Brick Lane, the hustly-bustly East London strip that snakes between Whitechapel and Shoreditch, has a renewed pedestrian-friendly ambience. There’s still the tempting aroma of the 24-hour

(thebeigelshop.com), the eclectic markets, bars and street art but vehicles are now banned from sections of the one-kilometre-long thoroughfare at weekends and on Thursday and Friday evenings. The result? Licence to mill about among the buskers and the burgeoning alfresco scene, perhaps stopping for a fragrant South-Asian bite and a spot of people-watching at tables that now flank the neon-lit BYO curry houses.

Where Brick Lane meets Osborn Street, sleek new bistro-pub-boutique-hotel

(thebuxton.co.uk)

Beigel Shop The Buxton