July 2021

• Could this be... the most beautiful restaurant in the world?
• Tom Daley’s former flat is up for sale
• Fish, Wings & Tings founder to open new restaurant in Brixton
• Glass barriers on the Thames are going to shield London from future floods
• Did somebody say... whisky wings?
• The Colindale street that changed an actor's life
• A new exhibition exploring Black live music opens at the Horniman today
• Check out Eggslut's intense edible breakfast bacon cloud
• The £15 congestion charge is being made permanent
• You'll battle zombies in this ‘Army of the Dead’ immersive experience
• London’s most complained about councils… revealed!
• You can now book tickets for Poussin and the Dance at the National Gallery
• It’s really happening: sign up for the pre-sale for Mark Rylance in ‘Jerusalem’
• Milk Train: the magical ice cream parlour with candyfloss clouds
• London is officially the best city in the world for students
• M&S criticised by Dishoom for their somewhat familiar bacon naan recipe
• There’s a massive new Beavertown collab ft. Dishoom and Crosstown Doughnuts
• There’s a new intimate nightclub in Bethnal Green
• The Royal Docks' plastic bubble ballet looks stunning and worth booking now
• A new community space is opening in the heart of the City this week
• The Science Museum has unveiled their new cancer exhibition
• The night tube won’t return until 2022
• The Dusty Knuckle bakery empire continues to grow
• Walthamstow's legendary SpiceBox is opening a second vegan curry house
• There’s a free summer party on London’s most iconic South Asian food street
• Spotify is launching a virtual experience with Notting Hill Carnival
• The Marble Arch Mound has already been closed
• London’s first ‘iceberg hotel’ is opening in Leicester Square
• 13 London cinemas are among the nation’s best, according to a new top 50 list
• Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes
• The best hotels in Greenwich
• The World Naked Bike Ride in London is on!
• The best hotels in South Kensington
• There’s an urgent call for Black Londoners to give blood
• South Facing Festival is promoting a load of free events
• Peter Capaldi unveils a giant pink starfish in Leicester Square
• A swanky new whisky bar is opening in Harvey Nichols
• Team GB’s wins are celebrated in these sprawling wall murals
• Five new restaurant openings we’re super jazzed about
• Your dog can drink cocktails at this new Hackney Wick bar
• Free kebabs for Covid jabs! Le Bab is offering the ultimate post-vaccine pressie
• Battersea Power Station’s Northern line extension is arriving in autumn 2021
• Selfridges is up for sale
• Climate change will put these areas of London underwater within a decade
• Notting Hill Carnival will be celebrated with a series of fundraising events this August
• Watch this guy will make the fastest falafel wrap you've ever seen
• Larry’s guest series sees Breddos Tacos and Ottolenghi chefs popping up in Peckham
• St John is selling teeny tiny bottles of Fernet-Branca, and it’s too adorable
• A new festival celebrating London club culture is coming to the city
• Here's what Iain Stirling reckons is a perfect Sunday in Queen's Park
• The Northern Lights will be recreated over Greenwich this summer
• Why is London flooding so much?
• Ombra is opening a new restaurant serving lunchtime Roman pizza
• Drink apple cider vinegar naked in a Japanese-style hot tub in Beckenham
• Kaleidoscope: this is what the first London festival since Covid looked like
• Try the world’s first french fry milkshake for free
• Number 90 and Studio 9294 announce a summer of love
• Stormzy waxwork to be unveiled at Tussauds
• These roads are still closed after the flooding in London last night
• There’s a brand new sculpture by Tracey Emin in east London
• London flooding: this website will tell you if you’re at risk
• Check out these ace vintage posters from Crystal Palace Bowl’s most iconic gigs
• Over £15b worth of London homes sit empty
• A Japanese market is coming to Coal Drops Yard
• Legendary Camden indie pub The Monarch has reopened as (drumroll)... Monarchy
• London Living: this fire station in Westminster is now home to 17 apartments
• The best hotels in Park Lane
• Phew! Max’s Sandwich Shop is open again
• Amy Winehouse's London: nine places connected to the star
• Much-hyped New York brunch spot Sunday in Brooklyn is now open
• London’s Michaela Coel has joined ‘Black Panther’
• All Points East is extending the festival fun with three days of free activities
• Sleep Out to Help Out – Glass Door’s homelessness fundraiser returns
• Six By Nico’s new gaff is offering a posh chippie menu – complete with a deep fried Mars bar
• Sherelle has visionary plans for London nightlife
• Peckham Levels sees the return of live music plus seven new street-food vendors
• A new Amy Winehouse exhibition pays tribute to the star ten years after her death
• Eastival is giving your favourite albums an orchestral makeover
• Exclusive: A new cinema is opening in west London
• £5 standing tickets are back at The Globe!
• A giant sculpture has just been unveiled in Highgate Cemetery
• Watch the Olympics and the British Lions at Eccleston Yards in Belgravia
• Is this the best place in London to watch the rugby?
• Vinegar Yard have an enormo-sun-trap terrace by the Shard
• We have a major crush on this Allpress x Happy Endings ice-cream sandwich
• ‘Van Gogh: The Immersive Show’ opens next week
• Bermonds Locke Hotel
• Two words, friends: Monopoly restaurant
• A new Elliot’s is opening in east London
• A woman pulled off a £4m diamond heist in London by replacing them with pebbles
• Tickets are now on sale to see Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley in ‘Cabaret’
• Pistonhead is giving away tons of beer to help struggling venues
• Art of London is taking colour to the streets
• Save the planet with a £15 dinner from Thomas Straker and Willy’s Pies
• The best tequila bars in London
• London’s best Margaritas
• Day trip alert: Kew Garden's 'Glow Wild'
• These fudgy chocolate buns from Din Tai Fung... there are no words
• Here’s your chance to explore a secret 100-year-old mail tunnel
• It turns out 30 percent of London’s public toilets are not accessible
• This Little Moons van is giving away free (free!) TikTok-friendly mochi
• Join a tapas tour in this mega celebration of Spanish food
• Bob Marley’s London flat is on the market for a cool £1.65 mil
• Love Local: Battersea
• Love Local: Archway
• The top London chefs running a greasy spoon
• Terms and conditions: Transport for London 2021
• Nine of the best ceramics made in London
• It’s nearly Christmas! Book Kew Gardens’ 2021 festive light trail right now
• You’ll need a Covid passport to go clubbing after September
• All Points East festival has officially raised its capacity this year
• Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca cocktails have launched at a Soho bar
• The mayor announces a network of ‘Cool Spaces’ across London to escape the heatwave
• The (literally) coolest restaurants in London
• ‘Freedom Day’: how the rules are changing
• McDonald’s Monopoly is coming back, baby
• Pubs and bars encouraged to keep table service by the government
• Eyes on the pies, Willy’s Pies are now Watford FC’s official food supplier
• Hype dish: Bao Noodle Shop’s beefy, brothy, healing noods
• Designer Yinka Ilori on growing up in Islington
• Yard Sale is opening a new pizza parlour in Crystal Palace
• 15 new things to do with the kids in London over the summer holidays
• It’s ‘Freedom Day’! Here’s what you should be getting up to
• It’s ‘Freedom Day’ but what does that mean for London’s pubs and restaurants?
• The loveliest London beer garden to spend this summer heatwave in
• Vaccine passports are coming to the West End this week
• 4 things to try barbecuing this weekend
• Escape reality with a candlelit concert of anime soundtracks at Guildhall Yard
• London Transport Museum has a green-themed summer planned for all the family
• Pop-up vaccination centres are appearing in London parks
• A taste of LA’s Koreatown is coming to Soho – complete with a Yakult cocktail
• There's going to be a four-day tube strike in August
• Europe’s largest trainer festival is coming to London this summer
• Eating on the street to continue as alfresco licences extended until 2022
• Feast your eyes on Covent Garden's new neon sculptures
• ‘Rockets and Blue Lights’ review
• The businesses still encouraging Londoners to wear masks after Freedom Day
• A stage version of ‘The Da Vinci Code’ is coming to London
• Camden Town Brewery has designed pyjamas to wear to the pub
• Celebrate the lush films of Wong Kar-wai at Wun’s Tea Room
• José Pizarro is opening not one but two new restaurants
• Have a hot snax summer at this legendary London deli
• Sadiq Khan is appointing Mayors of Play
• Walthamstow has a tricked out new enormo-fountain
• Dreamhouse Records
• Oasis Go Kart Track
• Night Tales are opening a rooftop bar on Oxford Street
• Afternoon tea – but for wizards – is coming to Soho
• Lehmann Maupin
• The Water House Project looks like a pretty big deal
• There's a new Japanese festival coming to Kew
• Big Ben
• Lobos Soho
• Celebrate mango season at Jikoni with a special mango menu
• Five London restaurants where you’ll feel like you’re on holiday
• A brand spanking new bierkeller is coming to London Bridge
• Clink Prison Museum
• Sydenham Gardens
• King Henry’s Walk Garden
• A two-day hot sauce festival is coming to Peckham
• Culpeper Community Garden
• Myddelton House Gardens
• Badger Badger
• Peckham Audio
• You can now stay overnight at the British Museum Penthouse
• Masks will still be compulsory on public transport in London after July 19
• This wine club wants to be different from all the other wine clubs
• What does ‘Freedom Day’ mean for London’s theatres?
• This lido with pizza should be your summer priority
• Palms Trax is heading up a ten-week residency at Phonox
• This super-keen ‘Freedom Day’ festival starts at one minute past midnight on July 19
• There are kimchi and rhubarb pizzas in Hackney and we’re into it
• A free late-night art festival is happening in east London this weekend
• Hampstead Theatre
• You can get vaccinated at Tate Modern this Friday
• A floating truck is handing out free ice cream on the South Bank tomorrow
• A new London mural celebrates our Euros heroes
• Celebrate Freedom Day with free beer
• Hackney is getting a knicker-making school
• Ginza St. James’s
• Kaleidoscope is London’s first big festival since lockdown
• Party in the forest at new drum ’n’ bass fest Electric Woodlands this September
• Hot stuff: Acme Fire Cult brings plant-based live fire-cooking to Dark Arts
• The National Gallery is showing its most famous paintings outdoors
• In pictures: London reacts to England’s Euro 2020 final defeat to Italy
• Joo Won is in residence upstairs at Bun House for two months
• London has a new Number One hotel – and it’s not the one you think
• In pictures: South London's basketball scene is vital
• London’s 10 best new pizza restaurants
• Northern Soul is coming to Finsbury Park this summer
• Meat the new neighbours – London's best butcher is coming to Newington Green
• Cor blimey – there’s a pie and mash cockney brunch coming to Camden
• A massive Italian food hall has come to London
• Dalston’s newest cocktail bar is a little bit of Mahiki in east London
• A secret London station is opening for the first time in 70 years
• Nine pubs to watch England in the Euros final you don’t need to book
• Want to watch the Euro 2020 Final in Trafalgar Square? ACT NOW!
• Where to watch Euros in London: best places to watch the England vs Italy final
• London Zoo’s ‘mystic meerkats’ have confirmed that England will win the Euros
• There’s a campaign to rename London ‘Sterlingrad’ if England win the Euros
• Will we get an extra bank holiday if England win Euro 2020?
• Get a free burger if you share a surname with one of the England squad
• There’s free outdoor opera and dance in Covent Garden all weekend
• Pergola Paddington has opened a Parisian-themed wine terrace
• Get free G&Ts from a giant ice cube on the South Bank
• An inflatable art exhibition opens in London today
• Crosstown launches its first vegan cake doughnut
• Eggoland is the new egg-based restaurant run by an Afghan refugee
• Justice for lobsters! It might soon be illegal to boil crustaceans alive in London
• Beavers are being reintroduced to London 400 years after becoming extinct here
• A Beatrix Potter exhibition is coming to the V&A
• The Disney musicals pop-up is back in Covent Garden and bigger than ever
• You can now have a picnic in Buckingham Palace’s huge garden
• Tap Tavern Richmond
• Six new London restaurants we think are great
• Artist Lakwena has brought some colour to Covent Garden
• Five huge outdoor spaces to watch Sunday’s Euros final
• The Goring is getting a pony in residence this summer – and he’ll join you for afternoon tea
• Scoff a fish-’n’-chips pizza to celebrate England in the Euros
• Golden Goose Theatre
• The Serpentine Lido in Hyde Park has reopened for the summer
• Tramshed Arts
• Brixton Courtyard
• The dos and don’ts of London small talk right now
• The 5 unspoken rules of eating out in 2021
• The first ever Meatliquor pub opens in Forest Hill
• London cinemas can return to full capacity from July 19
• Bar Crispin is opening in Soho with 150 wines and black-garlic ice cream
• Brick Lane
• Westfield London
• Eastbrookend Country Park
• Bush Theatre
• Boris to extend pub opening hours by 45 mins for Sunday’s Euros final
• Canada Water Theatre
• The 5 unspoken rules of gigging in London now
• The 5 unspoken rules of public transport right now
• Migration Museum
• Terms and Conditions: Pinterest Competition 2021
• Step inside a giant ice cream at this immersive Magnum experience
• Getting your first jab this week? You could win Euro 2020 final tickets
• Trafalgar Theatre
• Street Cat Bob is getting his own bronze statue in Islington
• Between the Bridges
• Loads of performance art is happening across London this weekend
• Pret are selling their famous Christmas sandwich... in July
• ‘Hamilton’ star on the pizza that changed his fate
• Overheard in London: this week’s #wordonthestreet
• Peckham Levels is back in business
• 50 secondhand shops that really, really cool Londoners love
• Chaos Karts
• Hundreds of trans faces are going to be on the Fourth Plinth
• Hype Dish: Ave Mario's stracciatella ice cream cake
• Jurassic Encounter
• London's first French toast cafe has just opened
• There’s a Euro 2020 ‘Football Village’ next to Tower Bridge (it’s showing Wimbledon too)
• We tried Selfridges’ honey-themed restaurant
• Where to watch Wimbledon outdoors in London with a drink in your hand
• There’s a Fleabag gin, because of course there is
• Say hello to the ‘chuffle’, a chocolate truffle and cheesecake hybrid
• There are now walk-in vaccine centres all over London
• Eastival is Street Feast’s brand new food and music fest
• Customise your noodles at Marugame Udon’s first London restaurant
• This weekend you can squeeze inside the belly of a whale and watch a mini-circus
• An adorable wine van is dishing out free tastings
• This new Spitalfields spot is a matcha bar by day and cocktail joint by night
• Bring an elderly pal to Brixton Brewery and get free beer
• Highgate Cemetery is getting a radical makeover
• Holy T-bones! A Batman-themed restaurant is coming to Soho
• Borough Market is now open on Sundays
• A pop up e-scooter training track is at Westfield today and tomorrow
• A new mega-restaurant from the people behind Gloria opens today
• In pictures: Londoners enjoying summer through history
• London’s first zero-waste theatre is coming to Canary Wharf
• The world’s first-ever show of van Gogh self-portraits is coming to London
• Toxic caterpillars are infesting London’s trees
• The London Craft Beer Festival has got ale, Django Django and cult food
• South east Londoners rejoice: Bromley’s getting a brand new boozer
• ‘Freedom Day’ looks like it’s going to be a sunny one
• Meatopia 2021 reveals its highly meaty headline chefs
• London’s been voted a Top 5 city in the world for remote working
• Clubs and venues aren't going to demand Covid passports after July 19
• Work for the NHS? Got terrible hair? You’re in luck
• Natty wine boys Top Cuvée to open Bethnal Green shop and cellar bar
• The best London wine shops doing home delivery
• The West End's first ever drag season will slay your summer blues
• A colossal dragon puppet will lead London’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations
• Tennis cupcakes and football burgers – the season of sporty snacks is here