Spooky season is brewing and to celebrate we've got a sensational Brunch Book Club for October! This month we’re reading Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid and heading for brunch at Martello Hall, Hackney. Then, it's off to Bar 161 for drinks and delightful conversations in a vibrant setting.
See you at brunch! 🥂📚🥑
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Martello Hall, Hackney
Martello Hall has transformed the old victorian building into a decadent and louche cocktail bar-cum-restaurant in Hackney over three floors. All day and night the food is centred on their wood fired oven imported from Modena, Italy. Everything on the menu is made in house every day from their 48 hour fermented pizza dough to their homemade pasta. They use the best ingredients they can and cook from scratch. Pizzas include the best sellers Rock Star Margherita and Smokey Bandit alongside some new pizzas like The Hot Don with ‘nduja, finocchiona, pickled chillies, hot red pesto and oregano. Open early, Martello Hall offers great breakfast including red and green smoothie bowls and truffle scrambled eggs with chilli.
The real flavours however are to be found on the drinks menu. Doubling up as a gin distillery, Martello Hall offers an array of carefully concocted gin cocktails and home-made creations. They run Cocktail Masterclasses and Gin Blending Masterclasses where you can blend your own bespoke gin to take home.
Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid comes a reimagining of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare’s most famous villainess, giving her a voice, a past, and a power that transforms the story men have written for her.
The Lady knows the stories: how her eyes induce madness in men.
The Lady knows she will be wed to the Scottish brute, who does not leave his warrior ways behind when he comes to the marriage bed.
The Lady knows his hostile, suspicious court will be a game of strategy, requiring all of her wiles and hidden witchcraft to survive.
But the Lady does not know her husband has occult secrets of his own. She does not know that prophecy girds him like armor. She does not know that her magic is greater and more dangerous, and that it will threaten the order of the world.
She does not know this yet. But she will.