Atkins Square is a few minutes’ walk from the shops, bars, restaurants and cafes of Mare Street. Of note are local wine bar and shop 107, Charles Artisan Bread and My Neighbours the Dumplings on Lower Clapton Road. The weekly food market on Chatsworth Road is easily reached in under fifteen minutes by foot and Hackney Picture House, London Fields Lido and the Grade II* listed St John at Hackney, an eighteenth-century chapel and live music venue, are also located nearby.