About the Cafe
The Gallery Cafe is a unique Vegetarian and Vegan cafe situated near the Museum of Childhood and Museum gardens in Bethnal Green. The Cafe provides wonderful value for money food, the best coffee for miles around, an airy environment with windows looking out onto a beautiful English garden and a wonderful environment to meet and hang out with friends, or work (we have free WIFI) in a friendly community environment.
The Gallery Cafe is part of St. Maragaret's House, a charity organisation which owns the beautiful Georgian building the cafe is housed, and rents space for community organisations and charities at affordable prices and sometimes free- so by eating here you are supporting worthwhile work in the community!
The Café offers a wide range of vegetarian and vegan food and a varied selection of teas, coffees and soft drinks. It has become a favourite meeting place for those working in St. Margaret's House as well as for the local people. Friendly staff and a pleasing environment combine to create an important focal point for the House.
More than just a cafe, we are also a lively and succesful music venue. We have a weekly open mic every Wednesday and free live music every Friday night as part of our Free Fridays events. We offer the community a diverse program of affordable music, poetry and craft events which are run by a combination of external promoters, volunteers and our in house events team. We provide a platform for local musicians and budding promoters to showcase their talents and get involved in their local music scene.
The Gallery lives up to its name by having quality art exhibitions on its wall which change each month, and also takes part in Time Outs' First Thursday initiative.
The Cafe is available for private hire, and makes a wonderful venue for catering and events. Please enjoy exploring these pages and finding out more about the Cafe- but that's no subsititue for coming to see us for yourselves!
See our What's On section for more details of our forthcoming events.
Opening Hours
Monday-Friday 8am-9pm
Sat: 9am - 9pm
Sun: 9am - 9pm
(N.B our hours do vary slightly when we have events and we may be open later than advertised on certain days)
