The Common E2

General information

The Common is a brand new cafe and architecture studio in East London, situated 10 min walk from Bethnal Green station, at number 53 Old Bethnal Green Road. As this area has seen a growing number of young professional practices and studios set up in the last few years, we feel that The Common will fit into its surroundings and cater for its existing and emerging local neighbourhood.

The Common officially opened to the public on Monday the 26th of January 2015.

The Common is defined by 2 characteristics :

- An independent cafe with a local attitude, a place of gathering, offering excellent quality coffee and healthy food as well as comfort and relaxation, a place where people will be familiar and feel at home.

- An architecture and design studio mixed within a public cafe and social meeting place, which offers a common working environment for anyone who wishes to collaborate with other designers, conduct their days business, or to simply have meetings or group workshops.

The main vision for The Common is to create a friendly, welcoming environment for working, sharing ideas, meeting and socialising. We are passionate about great coffee, food, customer service, architecture, art and design. We are a young, ambitious new cafe who will boast a team of like-minded, outgoing and hospitable baristas and staff.

The Common hosts two architecture and design studios:

Common Ground Workshop: www.commongroundworkshop.co.uk

Collective Works: www.collectiveworks.net

The Common offers a long 20 seater table which runs diagonally through the space with in-floor power and hi-speed fibre optic broadband which can be used by anyone and free of charge. Later in the year we will also open up part of the basement to hire for private meetings.

The Common Menu will be seasonal and begins with a winter offer of:

Coffee range including:

Espresso
Cappuccino
Latte
Flat White
Piccolo
Long Black
Mocha

Other hot drinks include:

Hot chocolate
Organic and herbal teas

Cold drinks:

Freshly squeezed orange juice
Independent range of soft drinks
Locally pressed juices

Breakfast range:

Porridge
Ham & cheese croissant
Granola yoghurt
Toasts (range of different breads) with selection of spreads - help yourself from the side counter
Breakfast pastries and loaf cakes
Home made waffles
Boiled eggs and ham, smashed avocado and parma ham over sourdough (on weekends)

Lunch range:

Selection of soups - rotated weekly
Selection of toasted jaffles (enclosed toasted sandwich)
Selection of salads
Selection of quiches - rotated weekly

The Common is open 7 days. Week days from 8am - 5pm and weekends from 9:30am - 5pm.

The Common will open until 11pm twice monthly to hold design exhibitions and talks.