Business Design Centre
Within walking distance from the many restaurants, bars and shops and a short walk from Spa Heights is the Business Design Centre – one of Londo’s leading exhibitions spaces. Offering exhibitions including the annual Art Fair, Times Educational Supplement SEN Exhibition, Country Living Spring Fair and much more, BDC's central London location and reputation means that more often than not there’s a fair to cater for all tastes and interests.

Sadler’s Wells
Sadler's Wells is a theatre with a strong, dynamic contemporary programme, uniquely dedicated to bringing the very best international and UK dance to London audiences. The present building on Rosebery Avenue in Islington opened in 1998, after a major fundraising programme, supported by Lottery funding.

Sadler's Wells breaks new ground in theatre design with its stylish, accessible front-of-house areas, flexible auditorium and purpose-built entertaining and meeting spaces. But behind the stylish glass, brick, wood and steel of the new theatre is a 250 year history and six previous theatre buildings which have all carried the Sadler's Wells name and occupied the same site since the very first Sadler's Wells theatre opened in 1683. From cutting-edge performance to mainstream contemporary dance, tango to tap and flamenco to family shows, the joy of movement and celebration of dance are always at the heart of Sadler's Wells.

When Sadler's Wells set out to build a new theatre on its historic site in Islington in 1996, the company moved to the Peacock Theatre, with its central location just off Kingsway. When the new Sadler's Wells theatre opened in 1998, the Peacock stayed on to play an important role in the Sadler's Wells group. Since 2003, a refurbishment programme has rejuvenated the foyer, ticket office and bars, while outside, the newly pedestrianised surroundings have given the Peacock a contemporary profile, fully worthy of the Sadler's Wells name.

The Eagle
A gastropub is a British term for a public house which specialises in high-quality food a step above the more basic ‘pub grub’. The name is a portmanteau of pub and gastronomy and was coined in 1991 when David Eyre and Mike Belben opened a pub called The Eagle in Clerkenwell, London. They placed an emphasis on the quality of food served, though The Eagle was not the first pub to offer good food. The success of the Eagle spawned hundreds of imitators, some excellent, some not so good.

Islington
The antique shops and market (confusingly called Camden Passage) are a few minutes walk from the tube station, on the same side of the street going up towards Islington Green. If you want Chapel market, for fruit 'n veg, clothes, homeware etc. or the new N1 Centre, for your high street stores and cinema complex. Upper Street is Islington's high street. There is an abundance of restaurants, bars, design shops, and top-end designer clothes shops (and estate agents).