LONDON — Hackney Wick seems one of the few areas of London that’s still on the cusp of gentrification. Around the corner from the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park , it’s benefiting from upgrades tied to the 2012 Olympics and has become a hipster haunt brimming with bars, breweries and a smattering of shops.

With its wall-to-wall warehouses, Hackney Wick, in east London, looks at first glance like a postindustrial hinterland. Yet many of those warehouses host popular watering holes, busy workshops and budding brands, a few of which operate shops of a particular kind.

Steps away from the newly rebuilt Hackney Wick tube station and in a vast Victorian yard is Crate Brewery, a onetime print factory used by squatters, where a thin-crust pizza cost 13 pounds ($17), a new zero-waste restaurant has open ed and outdoor tables overlook a narrow canal and buildings emblazoned with rainbow-colored graffiti.