Tours and Tickets to Experience Old Truman Brewery
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Old Truman Brewery
- One of the Old Truman Brewery’s best-known residents is Rough Trade East: a record store that hosts free concerts and visiting musicians throughout the week.
- Sample sales and designer pop-up events are regularly held on site; come ready to score a bargain (and bring cash).
- Due to uneven surfaces and the lack of accessible toilets on site, the Old Truman Brewery may be difficult for wheelchair users and others with limited mobility to access.
- The Old Truman Brewery is known as a street-art hub: look out for the ever-changing graffiti murals that adorn the area.
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There are plenty of ways to experience the Old Truman Brewery. Looking at ratings and reviews previously given by customers, these are the best tours available right now:
While it’s free to visit Old Truman Brewery, East End tours help you navigate the area and get a feel for the local culture. Food tours of Brick Lane and Spitalfields cost from around US$120 and typically include enough tastings to make up a meal. Standard walking tours start from around US$85.
Old Truman Brewery is a fabulous place to sample East London’s varied selection of street food. Food trucks here sell everything from artisan sausages and American-style sandwiches to buffalo wings, Greek gyros, and Tibetan dumplings. Perched on the corner, you’ll also find the great-value Mexican joint DF Tacos.
Yes, Old Truman Brewery encompasses some of Shoreditch’s hottest watering holes. There’s the Brick Lane staple of Bar 1001, where you can drink cocktails and cans of Red Stripe on comfy sofas, and JuJus, a zebra-striped venue that also offers British-Afghan fusion food cooked on a barbecue.
Just like East London, the stores at Old Truman Brewery are delightfully diverse. You can find big brands such as Birkenstock and the famous Rough Trade Record store, where live performances take place 7 days a week, alongside a skateboard shop, an alternative art store, and a gallery called Cemars. There’s also Vintage Market, the UK's largest collection of vintage boutiques.
Yes, the Old Truman Brewery is near several popular attractions. It’s just a minute’s walk from Spitalfields Market, the commercial hub of the historic neighborhood of the same name. It’s also just off Brick Lane, an East London road famous for street art, vintage stores, bagel shops, and curry houses.