Our Partners

 A key part of HAKATA’s philosophy since the beginning has been to work with local craft producers as much as possible. This helps support our local community and other small passionate businesses, just like us.

We are very proud of the local London-based businesses we have selected to partner with and who provide premium-quality food and drink products for our food & drink menus. Below is a current list of the people and companies we consider our partners and friends.

Our Food Partners 

Eaten Alive (Wandsworth, SW8)  – we’ve been buying our kimchi and other fantastic naturally fermented products made in Wandsworth by Pat & Glyn’s award-winning business since we started our business in May 2019.  

 Hackney Gelato (Hackney, N1) – Sam & Enrico slow churn their award-winning gelato (40 Great Taste Stars and counting!) using premium ingredients just up the road from us in Hackney. We only list one dessert on our menu… and this is it!

Our Drink Partners

Orbit Beers (Walworth, SE1) – our relationship with Robert (founder) and his amazing team has continued to flourish every year since we first listed Orbit’s craft beers in May 2019. 

Paul Spraget, Orbit’s Head Brewer, has now created 3 collaboration beers for us, all of which have been incredibly successful and our bi-annual ‘Meet The Maker’ events are now legendary! 

We highly recommend that you go visit their taproom if you want enjoy drinking fantastic beer, good music and great BBQ meats (courtesy of Cue Point). 

Kanpai London Craft Sake (Peckham, SE16) – another wonderful small business success story and we are very proud to be, albeit in just a tiny little way, part of Tom & Lucy’s journey. Against all the odds, Kanpai have grown from a start-up in 2016 to an International award winning sake producer today… right here on our doorstep in Peckham! 

We highly recommend that you go visit their taproom if you want to learn more about sake and have a great time too. 

Jim & Tonic (Elephant & Castle, SE1 / Stratford, E15) – Jim and his team have been producing amazing small-batch ‘urban sustainable’ craft gins locally since 2016.  

They continue to go from strength to strength and have recently opened an incredible new distillery with kitchen & gin bars in Stratford, East London. Go give them a visit! 

We use Jim & Tonic as our house-pour gin. 

Bermondsey Mixer Co. (Bermondsey, SE1) – Lawrence and his team hand-craft a fantastic range of natural tonic waters locally here in Bermondsey using premium natural ingredients. 

Doghouse Distillery (Battersea, SW8) – our latest craft producer chosen to be one of our partners. Braden, an Ozzy (but we won’t hold that against him), and his team are based in SW London and are distilling some damn fine vodka, gin and whisky. Uniquely, Doghouse craft produce their Baller vodka from scratch using premium English grain. We’re super excited about working with them more closely in the future. 

East London Liquor Co. (Bow, E3) – another of our latest partners to be added to our roster, Alex and his team distil premium quality spirits in the heart of London’s East End. Keep an eye out for how we incorporate their fantastic products, specifically their rums into our cocktails. 

Square Root Soda (Leyton, E10) – Self-confessed ‘soda jerks’, Robyn & Ed started out brewing ginger beer in 2012… fast forward 11 years and they’re now running a multi-award winning, multi-million pound soda making company!  Despite all the challenges faced with launching a soft drink company and their now meteoric growth, they’ve stayed firmly rooted to their ethics of only using fresh natural ingredients (never from concentrate). Don’t you just love a success story? 

Bancroft Wines (Southwark, SE1) – Bancroft have been our exclusive wine supplier since we opened back in 2019.  Whilst of course their wines aren’t made locally, they are based local to us and provide us with the perfect selection of high quality, great value-for-money, organic vegan wines made by passionate producers from around the world.