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In Dalston

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4 places in Dalston, grouped by what you'd actually go there for.

4 places · 4 checked in the last 90 days · newest 37 days ago

Nightlife & Sound 3

Nightlife & Sound
Rev.Dalston Superstore (official site)+3
Dalston Superstore

The One That Didn't Close

A queer bar and basement club on Kingsland High Street, open since 2009.

Start with the number, because it's the only way this place reads correctly.

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Nightlife & Sound
Time Out — The Divine+6
The Divine

The Glory's naughty sister, moved to Dalston

Jonny Woo and John Sizzle's queer drag hothouse, built where The Glory left off.

The Glory closed in Haggerston; Jonny Woo, John Sizzle and Colin Rothbart reopened a short walk away in Dalston as The Divine, and — unusually for a scene where a closure usually just means a closure — brought the actual competitions with them. LIPSYNC1000 and MAN UP, the lip-sync and drag-king contests The Glory…

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Nightlife & Sound
Time Out — The Jago (Haggerston bars/pubs guide)+6
The Jago

Built where a developer nearly won

In the old Hackney Gazette printworks, after developers forced its predecessor out.

Passing Clouds ran in this building — the old Hackney Gazette printworks — from 2006 to 2016, hosting close to 10,000 events before developers forced its closure. A community campaign got it listed as an Asset of Community Value, which is the only reason what happened next was possible: when the developer priced the…

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City & Culture 1

City & Culture
Time Out London — Common Press opens a second location+6
The Common Press Dalston

The Pub That Became A Bookshop

A queer bookshop, café and bar on Stoke Newington Road, open since June 2026.

97 Stoke Newington Road was The Pubb until it closed, reopened briefly under that name in late 2024, and then closed again. In June 2026 it became The Common Press Dalston — a second site for the queer intersectional bookshop that's run its original Shoreditch shop on Bethnal Green Road since 2021. Same floor plate…

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