Hackney à la Mode

After many years spent roaming the streets of London, Hackney à la Mode must finally say goodbye! Recent changes to Twitter have sadly brought an end to this most trusted & authentic source of culinary trends and hotspots.

p.s. If you want to read more about the bot, please see this article about Hackney à la Mode from @timhayward in @FTMag (2022) here: ft.com/content/35ae83c9-0d87… 👀

...the bot also liked a tipple! Often hitting the city's finest bars after dark for an automated cocktail. And although it would occasionally have one too many, it was always up in time for breakfast. Goodbye Hackney à la Mode & and thanks to all your followers! Cheers 🍻

...Hackney à la Mode could even reply with custom suggestions for a range of individual diets & desires, helping and engaging Twitter users across the capital's most hip neighbourhoods...

Despite being 100% automated, the bot was never short of original recommendations and reviews, with a keen taste for the flavours of tomorrow...

Since 2017, the bot ‘visited’ countless restaurants, cafés, and bars across the city. The addresses for many can be seen in this heatmap, since each Tweet was geo-located to the precise (fictional) venue. Just in case a hungry user was nearby!

Chowing down on #super-lunch at Exploring&Glowing with high-altitude, fragrant, #rosin cooked Quorn enchiladas and Irish azuki beans 😝 – at Poplar, London

Have a go at breakfast with The Being Lira, Stoke Newington Road with #coddled Surrey quail eggs and #soylent soda bread #breakfast 🍽 – at Hackney, London

Visit The Dragon Laundry by Morning Lane - zingy #marrow dosa and #Barking salsify root – at Hackney, London

All over lunch treat from Orange Haggerston - enticing cep served with #Bulgarian horse mushroom #nang 🍽 – at Hackney, London

#Really enjoying The Nimble Desire try dandelion greens #armagnac #with armagnac #yes 😃😃😆 – at Walthamstow, London

Take in noon victuals from West Troop 😝 pulled #grebe confit. So cute with Atlantic spring greens and Deptford grapes – at Hackney, London

You need the breakfast conceived by Glowing/Proud - check out the fatty pigeon eggs and #silken tofu museli 😝 – at Hackney, London

Make short work of #PM banquet at Club Graham Road 🤘 #scrumped, buttery #Leytonstone Swiss chard #hot pockets and Snowdonian boletus 😀 – at Hackney, London

Swallowing-up #noon scran at Glowing/After - #traditional, pulled Exmoor paneer and #Somerset moth beans 🍴 – at Poplar, London

Reserve a place at The Dirty Sisters with Hackney Marshes - well-balanced seitan served with Southend borlotti – at Walthamstow, London

#next o)rgan graham road 😆 ruthless mastic tia maria with broken prickly pear perry #dench ✌️🍺🍺 – at Tottenham, London

#Great craic at White Old Street - get the carob guavaberry mixed with melon wheat beer #fresh 🥂😊👍 – at Hackney, London

Swallow-up PM buffet from Blue Cent 😝 stuffed saffron milk cap #bisque and #Cornish swede #chirpsme – at Hackney, London

Why not try The Curvy Griffin Manor House - #Leyton #quail. Add to that #Hackney wood ear mushroom OMG with Epping Forest yardlong bean – at Hackney, London