May 2021

• When are London’s big musicals and theatre shows returning in 2021?
• ‘The Sun, The Moon and The Stars’: Kibong Tanji gives an unmissable performance in this grief-soaked monologue
• A Covid memorial garden has opened in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
• A pollen bomb is coming to London this weekend
• These captivating photos sum up everything great about pubs
• Hype Dish: Pockets’ totally stuffed falafel pitta pocket
• Activist Lady Phyll on experiencing racism growing up in London
• This Clapham bar is doing Euro screenings with bottomless lager
• Great Guns Social
• Hamper time! Picnic with the Best of Borough Market
• Wilton’s Music Hall is finally reopening this week
• The Proms are back this summer with live audiences
• Jimi Hendrix just got a plaque in east London where he wrote ‘Purple Haze’
• Yinka Ilori's new ultra-colourful basketball court is a slam dunk
• Alan Partridge is bringing his ‘Stratagem’ to The O2 next year
• Scared of heights? Don’t have dinner suspended 100 foot above London then
• Korean corndogs – London’s latest street-food trend?
• This new rooftop pizza joint should be your summer 2021 hangout
• Four perfect podcasts for theatre lovers
• Five podcasts that will immediately lift your spirits
• Top of the pods: the best podcasts about music
• South Bank area guide
• South Bank bars
• Overheard in London: this week’s #wordonthestreet
• Ed Gamble on why he can’t wait to get back inside London’s restaurants
• A vegan sausage roll vending machine is coming to the South Bank
• This undeniably spectacular hotel is opening tomorrow
• 37 brilliant London restaurants that are doing walk-ins
• A huge new Four Quarters game bar is on its way
• Rudy's Soho is giving away 10,000 free pizzas
• When will it be sunny again?
• There are two new exhibitions of Bob Dylan paintings opening
• Pizza Hut has created a roast dinner pizza with gravy and roast potatoes
• A Yayoi Kusama-themed afternoon tea has launched in London
• Which of these artworks do you reckon should go on the Fourth Plinth?
• Exclusive: The first and only picture of Ave Mario’s carbonara raviolo
• There's going to be a vigil held for Sasha Johnson this afternoon
• ‘Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied Tunisia’ review
• Hilary Mantel’s ‘The Mirror and the Light’ comes to the West End stage in September
• Ladies and gentlemen of London; pray silence for the Pleeseburger
• Best gifts for movie lovers this Christmas
• Double jazz: Ronnie Scott's has reopened and London Jazz Week is go
• The 100 best paintings in London: Wallace Collection
• The 100 best bars and pubs in London: after work drinks
• The 100 best paintings in London: Courtauld Gallery
• The 100 best bars and pubs in London: special occasions
• The 100 best paintings in London: Imperial War Museum
• The 100 best paintings in London: Dulwich Picture Gallery
• The 100 best cheap eats in London: 15 dishes for a fiver and under
• The top ten restaurants in London
• The 100 best bars and pubs in London: nights out
• Saoirse Ronan to star as Lady Macbeth at the Almeida Theatre
• The 100 best paintings in London: 50-41
• The 100 best paintings in London: 40-31
• The 100 best paintings in London: 20-11
• The 100 best paintings in London: 100-91
• The 100 best bars and pubs in London: daytime drinking
• The 100 best paintings in London: 60-51
• The 100 best paintings in London: 90-81
• The 100 best paintings in London: 80-71
• The 100 best paintings in London: 70-61
• The 100 best paintings in London: Kenwood House
• The 100 best paintings in London: 30-21
• The 100 best paintings in London: British Museum
• The 100 best restaurants in London: 100-1
• The 100 best dishes in London
• The people behind Pop Brixton and Peckham Levels have launched a new space in east London
• Someone's put a very attractive pub inside one of the London Eye pods
• 'Queenie' author Candice Carty-Williams is writing a BBC drama about Black music in London
• Everything you need to know about London theatregoing in 2021
• Does the 'Indian variant' mean more lockdown for London?
• The V&A’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ exhibition opens this weekend
• ‘Magic Mike Live’ is back, and this time there’s bottomless prosecco
• Hark: the bluebells are out at Highgate Wood!
• Have you been to the east London beer garden with a model railway in it yet? (If not, why not?)
• This immersive retro game thingy looks downright fun
• This is the London borough with the most pubs
• Two elite fried chicken joints are coming to Earl's Court
• Some saint is compiling a doc of every grassroots gig planned in London
• We’ve had a first look at that Yayoi Kusama exhibition, and wow
• An augmented-reality go-kart track is coming to London
• The best films for kids this half-term
• Archer Street Soho
• Inspiring weekend breaks that Londoners will love
• Eataly’s opening two new restaurants and a cookery school this week
• London's venues are celebrating their re-openings
• Did you know that the British Museum used to have cats on its payroll?
• Fancy a movie on the beach? London (yes) has you covered
• KuPP
• Tate has created a Yayoi Kusama-themed lunch menu
• Your official Phase 3 starter pack
• Theatres are finally reopening on May 17 and you should be excited
• The best online escape rooms to try from home
• ‘Moulin Rouge! The Musical’ finally has a West End premiere date
• Brace yourself: St Paul’s might close if it doesn’t get funding
• David Hockney has designed a tube sign and some people are angry about it
• London’s getting its biggest new theatre for 45 years
• The Old Vic marks one year closed with a heart-warming vid
• Go Ape Battersea
• When will your local cinema reopen?
• Historic London shop Arthur Beale is closing. Here’s why that matters
• We’ve got the details of the ‘Monopoly: Lifesized’ game. It sounds fun
• Croydon Airport Visitor Centre
• London’s biggest beer garden is coming to the South Bank (with explosions)
• Work has started on the big artificial hill at Marble Arch
• London’s got its first mochi bar
• London’s catching the ‘parklet’ bug
• Le Bab is opening a fourth London restaurant
• Is this the nicest picture of a sandwich we’ve ever seen?
• Soho club Orange Yard is relaunching with a new line-up this month
• Exclusive: Junction 2 festival line-up revealed
• Jollibee’s flagship restaurant opens in London next week
• ‘London’s longest happy hour’ is coming to four new locations
• Dua Lipa just paid tribute to the Spice Girls with her performance at the Brits 2021
• I'm sorry to all men, women proved they are undoubtedly superior at the Brits 2021
• Watch Elton John and Olly Alexander perform 'It's A Sin' at the Brits 2021
• Brit Awards 2021: all tonight's winners
• Here are four – yes, four – new record shops that I’m excited about
• Chick ’n’ Sours and Hot 4 U have created a strawberry chicken parm sandwich
• Get ready to have your eyes melted with Ryoji Ikeda’s new ultra-immersive exhibition
• London’s museums are finally reopening: here are their can’t-miss exhibitions
• A tribute to when Geri Halliwell wore that Union Jack dress to the Brits
• EXCLUSIVE: Sadiq Khan outlines a £6m year of fun for London
• Book your tickets to London's massive Banksy exhibition
• Remember those posh dodgems at Somerset House? They’re actually happening this summer
• Here are all the countries UK travellers can visit without quarantine right now
• Covent Garden’s getting a three-week-long rosé festival. Yes!
• Win a £200 bar tab at Electric Shuffle – plus shuffleboard for up to six people
• Meatopia has announced its London line-up
• ‘Sculpture in the City’ returns for its tenth year
• Dark Arts Coffee’s sales went up 1,000% during lockdown
• Not one but TWO comedy festivals have been announced
• PSA: This crazy pink mansion just outside London is available to rent on Airbnb
• This immersive Doctor Who live show is opening this month – book it now!
• ‘Under Milk Wood‘ review
• Ahoy! Floating cinema is coming to London in June
• Unit HQ
• Is this gallery now London’s most beautiful art space?
• Today’s London elections – when we’ll get results (oh, and don’t forget to vote!)
• What’s next for London’s cinemas?
• You can book tickets NOW for Tate Modern’s Yayoi Kusama ‘Infinity Rooms’ show
• You – yes you – can name the Tower of London’s new raven chick
• ‘Walden’: Gemma Arterton is great in this bold eco-parable
• ‘Harm’: the Bush is back with a giant rabbit and a smart tale of millennial ennui
• Wisteria is back – don’t act like you’re not bothered
• Get in: Peckham rooftop bar Frank’s Cafe is back for sunny summer
• Slow Richies
• This garden restaurant is haunting my every waking hour
• Ice caps, forests and avocados: the London Design Biennale looks ace this year
• Same but different: how should London change post-pandemic?
• I’ve drunk hundreds of takeaway pints – these are the ones I’d recommend
• Central London is getting a new forest with 400 trees
• The Perception at W Hotel