April 2020

• Seven Dials @ Home
• We want to see your sourdough for our new competition, Rate My Bake
• Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park Online
• Here’s a list of all the KFC branches reopening in London by next week
• Captain Tom Moore passes the £30m fundraising mark on his 100th birthday
• The unexpected things the Time Out team miss about London
• 6 ways to create a better weekday routine when you’re working from home
• Hungry Heart Springsteen-Athon
• Rare works by Banksy and Damien Hirst are going on display at this virtual gallery
• 10 heartwarming photos of love in lockdown (and how you can share yours as part of a new campaign)
• London councils are widening pavements to make social distancing easier
• Watch Benedict Cumberbatch in National Theatre Live’s ‘Frankenstein’ on YouTube tonight for free
• The Grammy Museum is hosting a virtual event celebrating Amy Winehouse’s ‘Back to Black’ tonight
• Wetherspoons is planning to reopen its pubs in June
• Smokestak is now delivering Saturday night barbecue food in London
• The British Museum is displaying 4 million items from its collection online
• #LeakeStreetLIVE (in your lounge)
• BBC Arts Museum from Home
• Seedlings for Solace is selling plants to raise funds for a domestic abuse charity
• This is how Shoryu makes its sensational flavour-packed nitamago ramen eggs
• Erykah Badu is leading a guided meditation on NTS Radio this weekend
• London’s ‘Breaking Bad’ bar is donating its yellow hazmats to NHS staff
• Bao’s hotly anticipated delivery service Rice Error is finally here
• Jodie Comer, Martin Freeman and Maxine Peake to star in a BBC remake of Alan Bennett’s ‘Talking Heads’
• Got quiz fatigue? Here are five other fun activities you can do with mates on Zoom
• KFC is reopening 100 UK stores as early as next week
• English National Ballet is streaming ‘Dust’ for free, a powerful dance tribute to WWI
• Cooking and baking workshops you can stream into your kitchen
• Online spice masterclasses with Arun Kapil
• London’s first public art walk The Line goes online
• Greggs to reopen select UK stores as early as next week
• Bread Ahead is launching a charitable e-book to help you up your sourdough game
• Sea Life London Aquarium is live streaming its sharks
• Gloria is now doing takeaway and its Big Lasagna is on the menu
• A cluster of Nando’s restaurants have reopened for delivery in London
• London to join a UK-wide minute’s silence today for key workers who have lost their lives
• A flock of pelicans has been spotted out and about in London’s West End
• Missing the movies? Curzon has created a ‘home cinema kit’
• Londoners are moving around more despite social distancing guidelines
• Boulangerie: Home Delivery
• The five-star Berkeley Hotel is now a free drive-through for London’s emergency services
• Vauxhall City Farm’s alpacas took part in the London Marathon
• Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren and Lenny Henry are hosting a ‘pub quiz’ for the National Theatre tonight
• Martin Parr, Juergen Teller and more are selling prints for £100 to support food banks
• Shake Shack is reopening London branches for delivery
• This Londoner is swimming 2.6km in a paddling pool in her back garden
• A Lebanese restaurant is delivering special iftar meals across London during Ramadan
• You can now take a virtual tour of London’s Underground Mail Rail
• Toxic air levels are down by nearly 50 percent on some of London’s busiest roads
• Missing the London Marathon? The 2.6 Challenge is happening this weekend
• ‘Outdoor space’ and ‘garden’ are on the rise in London property searches
• Green Rooms Market Online
• The Museum of Youth Culture wants Londoners to share pictures of their awkward teenage years
• ‘Jerusalem’ is back! Jez Butterworth’s landmark play set to return to London in 2021
• In pictures: Londoners are snapping the city looking sunny on their lockdown walks
• The best live concerts to watch on YouTube
• A star-studded ‘Les Misérables’ concert is available to download to raise money for charity
• You can now order food on Instagram at the tap of a button
• Moncada Brewery Taproom
• BrewDog is giving out free pints for when this is all over
• ‘Gangs of London’: five reasons to make the new crime saga your next TV binge
• Grayson Perry is launching a Channel 4 Art Club – and your artwork might be included
• Nando’s is launching a cooking series so you can peri-peri at home
• Watch Tamsin Greig in National Theatre Live’s ‘Twelfth Night’ on YouTube tonight for free
• The National Portrait Gallery is putting the BP Portrait Award online
• Social distancing could last in London until the end of 2020
• The Museum of London is collecting items from lockdown for its collection
• The Globe is putting two whole Shakespeare plays on iPlayer until August
• Pret has expanded its delivery service in London
• Sheridan Smith is starring in new ITV drama series ‘Isolation Stories’ airing in May
• World Book Night
• London picks the Hollywood star it wants to be locked down with (and, no, it’s not Tom Hanks)
• The Southbank Centre’s Earth Day 2020 celebrations
• Olafur Eliasson has created some trippy environmental Instagram art for Earth Day
• Singing With Nightingales: Live at Home
• EasyJet is selling £14.99 flights for Easter 2021 right now
• Stephen Fry is hosting a virtual pub quiz for charity
• Golden Bee
• Gemma Arterton, Julian Barratt and Rory Kinnear among stars of new lockdown theatre ‘Unprecedented’
• A hungry flock of sheep has taken over an empty McDonald’s
• Sway Gallery
• Damien Hirst has made rainbow art for your window using the wings of butterflies
• Broadway on Demand is bringing UK audiences 100+ shows to stream
• Chinatown’s venues are sharing recipes, tai chi tutorials and Mandarin lessons for free
• Molly Soda‘s Tour of Tumblr
• It’s Earth Day – here’s how to take part at home
• Magnum is sending out free DIY ice-cream kits to bored Londoners
• Hotels, cabins and treehouses around the UK are offering NHS staff free holidays
• Earth Day at Somerset House
• Pizza Express just shared its ‘secret’ margherita pizza recipe
• Stanley Tucci is showing the world how to make the perfect negroni
• Louis Theroux has launched his first podcast to save us all from lockdown
• London Fashion Week is going digital so you can finally join the front row
• Shakespeare’s Globe is streaming ‘Romeo and Juliet’ for free for the next fortnight
• Parks in Lewisham could close if the public don’t follow social distancing rules
• National Gallery staff have been recreating paintings from its collection while in lockdown
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• Learn about ‘ghost’ tube stations with the London Transport Museum’s new video series
• Honest Burgers launches limited-edition DIY burger kits to support food banks
• This London delivery service is rescuing plants from going to waste while raising funds for the NHS
• Get David Attenborough to teach your children geography and biology
• 31 Londoners reveal their worst ever date
• London bus journeys will be free during lockdown (and we all have to use the middle doors)
• Bar Américain at Brasserie Zédel
• Watch David Tennant’s ‘Richard II’ for free – and loads more Shakespeare plays
• Culture in Quarantine: ‘Wise Children’ at the Old Vic
• Apples and Snakes at Home
• English National Ballet is streaming Frida Kahlo ballet ‘Broken Wings’ for free
• All your friends are cheating in those virtual pub quizzes – here’s the proof
• What life is like in London during lockdown
• Enjoy cocktail hour at ‘Downton Abbey’ tonight via a live stream
• A litter of baby wild boar has arrived at Whipsnade Zoo and it’s exactly what we need right now
• A London theatre is streaming Dame Judi Dench in conversation with Gyles Brandreth, darlings
• Pizza Pilgrims is posting kits so you can make great pizza in a pan
• Get a birthday message from a bored celeb in lockdown – including Akon, Mike Tyson and Mandy Moore
• The Royal Ballet is streaming award-winning ‘The Metamorphosis’ for free tonight
• London’s lockdown is being extended for at least three more weeks
• A celebrity photographer is selling his entire archive – from Bowie to Beyoncé – to support the NHS
• Audible’s new podcast stars your favourite comedians – from French & Saunders to Kurupt FM
• London’s small museums warn they might not survive
• Grayson Perry, Antony Gormley and Gillian Wearing create at-home pack for budding artists
• A London biscuit company is sending DIY icing kits to homes
• The BBC is airing Euro ’96 to fill the football-shaped hole in your life
• Wagamama has launched a cooking channel so you can ‘wok from home’
• A psychologist-approved guide to not falling out with your flatmates during lockdown
• You can still get Gail’s hot cross buns in time for Easter
• Can’t sleep? Facebook’s new free movie club is a dream for insomniacs
• A London boutique is delivering fancy DIY candlemaking kits to light up your isolation
• London’s local garden centres delivering plants to your door
• Step into a virtual rainbow as this London art exhibition goes online
• Dating apps have changed during lockdown, but is it for the better?
• A free Roku movies channel has launched – kicking off with a treat for football fans
• The Royal Albert Hall is streaming free live concerts from artists’ living rooms
• You can now get Dominque Ansel’s cronuts delivered for a self-isolation sugar hit
• The cancelled Chelsea Flower Show is now selling thousands of plants online
• Borough Market Festival is streaming free food masterclasses this bank holiday weekend
• Which lockdown cliché are you?
• This London chocolate shop can get Easter eggs to your door in time for the weekend
• Should I keep my cat indoors during the coronavirus crisis?
• National Theatre Live: ‘Jane Eyre’ is streaming for free tonight on YouTube
• This London chocolatier has shared a DIY Creme Egg recipe
• The balls have dropped! Pizza Express just shared its ‘secret’ dough ball recipe
• Leon is now doing home delivery – and all profits will go to supporting the NHS
• ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ review: ‘A tour de force of wobbly-eyed emotion’
• The Royal Opera House is streaming ‘Così fan tutte’ for free tonight on YouTube
• Record Store Day isn’t happening, but here’s a map of independent shops delivering vinyl
• Greggs has shared the recipe for its famous steak bake
• What Time Out Spain’s editors want you to know about lockdown
• This website is selling plants from garden centres that would have gone to waste
• Night night! Tom Hardy is reading bedtime stories on the BBC
• Boredom, booze and body cramps: London illustrators capture what our lives are like now
• Hampstead Theatre is streaming NHS drama ‘Tiger Country’ and ‘#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei’
• National Theatre Live: ‘Treasure Island’ is streaming for free on YouTube tonight
• You can now order cocktails on Deliveroo from London’s top bars
• Pret has re-opened ten London stores for frontline staff at nearby hospitals
• War veteran Capt Tom Moore raises close to £13m for the NHS by completing 100 laps of his garden
• You can now book tickets for ‘A Christmas Carol’ at the Old Vic in November
• Some of London’s top chefs are making meals for NHS workers
• The Thames Path is now partially closed to runners and cyclists
• London is getting new lanes for cyclists and pedestrians
• Sink The Pink Presents: The BIG Pub Quiz’ with Wildcat Gin
• This London photographer has taken haunting photos of her local park every day
• World Naked Bike Ride has been cancelled
• Beers, brews and baking: the best home-delivery offers this week
• In pictures: Londoners reveal the best blossom they’ve seen during lockdown
• An injured fox cub was rescued in one of London’s parks at the weekend
• Secret Cinema launches its latest immersive experience – and it’s on your sofa
• Sushi Cupcake
• Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to become a testing site for NHS staff
• Independent Ceramics Market online sale
• A Londoner has been sharing tree names and descriptions on the pavement for local enlightenment
• Flight Centre has created a video dedication to the world of travel – and it’s lovely
• Virtual South African Safari
• Giz & Green Monday Night Fakeaway
• Virtual Peckham Car Boot
• Beavertown X DJ Bunny Bread
• The Hook Presents: Britain's Biggest Pub Quiz
• Camp Bestival Presents: Stay at Home Easter Sleepover
• Shakespeare’s Globe is streaming ‘Hamlet’ for free until Sunday April 19
• Morrisons has teamed up with Deliveroo to sort your supermarket shopping woes
• Toxic fumes in London are at their lowest in 70 years
• London’s Victoria Park reopens ahead of the bank holiday weekend
• TfL is trialling a new method of getting on to buses to protect drivers
• 15 places that appear in ‘An American Werewolf in London’
• Looking for like-minded people during lockdown?
• Londoners told to respect social distancing along the city’s canal towpaths
• DIYsolation
• HintHunt
• These Londoners performed the balcony scene from ‘Romeo and Juliet’ for the whole street to enjoy
• ‘Rumpelstiltskin’ online show
• London is actually better at self-isolating than the rest of the UK
• How to volunteer in London during the coronavirus pandemic
• Grace Jones’s Meltdown has been postponed until 2021
• London is so empty that they’ve repainted the Abbey Road zebra crossing
• Deliveroo has launched a service to get Passover provisions to those in isolation
• Visit the home of author Marian Keyes in Penguin’s new streaming series
• Brockwell Park closed to the public at the weekend after receiving more than 3,000 visitors
• The Virtual Craft Market
• Live from Animal Crossing by House House in conversation with The White Pube
• Heathrow airport closes one of its runways with many flights from London grounded
• You can now take a virtual tour of the Painted Hall, London’s answer to the Sistine Chapel
• NHS Nightingale was opened by Prince Charles (via video link) this morning
• London’s NHS staff can claim free transport via Addison Lee’s Donate a Ride scheme
• Really great reactions to last night’s Clap for our Carers in London
• An entire herd of deer has taken over an empty corner of east London
• Top London bakers on the one thing you can do to spice up your banana bread at home
• CirqueConnect with Cirque du Soleil
• You can see the new Andy Warhol Tate Modern exhibition for free – via a virtual tour
• Live Grilled Cheese Toasties From Morty & Bob's
• The Boiler House
• You can join a virtual hangout for dachshunds and their humans
• National Theatre Live: stream ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ for free on YouTube tonight
• Claridge’s has offered beds to NHS staff and carers
• The Wimbledon tennis championships have been cancelled
• A camgirl’s guide to looking cute while video calling your crush
• How to tweak your desk so you look professional on work video calls
• Can Londoners go outside, how often, who with, and should we all wear a mask?
• The Design Museum’s awesome new series of digital events stars creators like Camille Walala
• The UK is getting its first virtual pug café – yes, your prayers have been answered
• A London charity is fundraising to deliver surplus food to those in need
• Wilder
• Volta do Mar
• The Melusine
• The Betterment at The Biltmore
• Seven Park Place by William Drabble
• No.35 Mackenzie Walk
• Lucky & Joy
• Loyal Tavern
• In pictures: Londoners pull together to turn the ExCel centre into a hospital in a fortnight
• One staff member recalls the highs and lows of Ice Bar, which has just announced its permanent closure
• We're launching a new Facebook group to keep Londoners connected
• The Cheese Bar has launched a mac ’n’ cheese delivery service in London
• A London pottery studio is sending DIY clay kits to homes
• Koi Ramen – Elephant & Castle
• Kapihan
• Dandy
• Black Bear Burger