December 2021

• The Big Dream
• People are sharing photos of painted mattresses around London
• Bottomless Drag Brunch
• Burns Night Bash
• Nolly Nights
• AJ Tracey is playing a blinder
• Young Vic
• These photos show that London is well and truly deserted
• Your unwanted Christmas presents can raise money for the homeless
• We Are FSTVL
• We ask London’s Christmas grotto Santas what they’re really thinking
• Mind-blowing theatre, gigs, films and exhibitions to look forward to in 2022
• Someone proposed Richard Curtis-style at tower bridge last night - and the internet reacted
• Some pointers on doing Dry January in London, from a seasoned participant
• The Time Out 2021 London animal power list
• 10 things that sort of defined London in 2021
• Time Out staff share their favourite festive traditions in London
• Time Out’s ten best London theatre shows of 2021
• What Omicron means for London’s winter theatre season
• Celebrate 15 key moments from 2021 with the London Eye on New Year's Eve
• How to have a totally perfect New Year’s Day pint
• These vintage photos of London in the snow are making us wish for a white Christmas
• Five really atmospheric places for a London winter walk
• 3 festive drinks that aren’t just Baileys on ice
• 6 ace things to buy yourself with your Christmas money
• London chefs share their non-festive Christmas food traditions
• 5 decadent New Year’s Eve takeaways for if you’re staying in
• Big Ben’s makeover will be ready just in time for New Year’s Eve
• Seven places in London linked to ‘A Christmas Carol’
• Did you even notice that 41 London bus routes were cut this year?
• Which alcohol-free spirit is the best for Christmas mocktails?
• The 10 best sports watches
• The best Bluetooth earbuds to buy right now
• The house from ‘The Girl Before’ is in London. But can you visit it?
• London’s museums have been hit by a wave of Covid closures
• Rishi Sunak announces £1 billion in bailout funds for businesses hit by Omicron
• Get hyped: These London festivals have already announced their 2022 lineups
• This TikToker is on a mission to draw every single pub in London
• London’s underground is going to get full mobile coverage for the first time ever
• Trafalgar Square’s New Year’s Eve celebrations have been cancelled
• The 7 best products to boost your wellbeing and fitness levels for 2022
• Is it going to snow in London this Christmas?
• What everyone can learn from the struggle to save London’s Latin Village
• The inaugural Time Out Restaurant Mascot Power Ranking
• How to get rid of your Christmas tree ethically
• An oral history of Rowans Tenpin Bowl
• Meet the future: 20 21-year-olds on life in London now
• Why is central London suddenly full of American sweetshops?
• AJ Tracey and Little Simz are nominees in the 2022 Brit Awards
• KidZanian Easter Egg-travaganza
• Off-limits London: Five hidden places we never get to see
• Sarap Filipino Bistro
• The International Space Station will be visible from London on Christmas Day
• Dialogue Hub
• Joe Allen
• Omicron cases have blown up in London (and government measures could be on the way)
• Things to buy to support London’s restaurants and bars right now
• The restaurants and bars shutting early because of Covid
• Pergola on the Wharf is supporting London’s hospitality with free Christmas dinners
• ‘We’ve lost about £30k in bookings and income’: how the new wave of Covid is affecting London’s restaurants (and how you can help)
• ‘Spring Awakening’ review
• Studio 9294
• How have Plan B and Omicron impacted London’s music venues?
• Help this youth worker put on a Christmas event for young Black LGBTQ+ people in London
• An immersive ‘Peaky Blinders’ show is coming to London next summer
• Why London’s terrible vaccination statistics aren’t quite what they seem
• Parts of Regent’s Canal are under threat. You can help save them
• A vision for a properly green London
• Little Simz is in a world of her own
• HD Cutz: the England team’s hairdresser
• The Lashana Lynch guide to finding inner peace
• DJ Sherelle’s manifesto for the future of London’s nightlife
• 11 extremely relatable tweets about Omicron in London
• Is there really a secret drinking den in M&M’s World?
• 8 of the best London walks
• The London restaurants and bars that won’t reopen
• Things to buy to support London’s cultural venues
• This is why you need to help London’s venues at the moment
• The best earplugs for sleeping
• Seven best video doorbells
• Nine essentials for hosting Christmas on a budget
• Last-minute Christmas gifts made by London businesses
• Grosvenor Square is being transformed into a stunning biodiversity garden
• The Congestion Charge will be suspended between Christmas Day and January 3
• Mariah Carey is doing announcements on the tube
• Yesterday’s Omicron announcement – what it means for London (and Christmas)
• A house that starred in ‘Love Actually’ is actually for sale
• Dr Alex from ‘Love Island’ has a pop-up shop in Notting Hill this week
• Eight amazing artworks you have to see at Bloomberg New Contemporaries
• Grab a free slice of pizza today in Notting Hill
• ‘There May Be a Castle’ review
• Can SAD lamps really help kick the London winter blues? We put one to the test
• The London events we’re looking forward to in 2022
• Hackney Showroom
• There’s an immersive Gustav Klimt experience coming to London
• The first Grenfell Silent Walk in 18 months happened last night
• We tried all of London’s most hyped meal kits – these were the best
• Hyde Park is getting a rewilding makeover
• Heads up, more tube disruption is expected this weekend
• The Mayor wants the government to support London’s vulnerable businesses right now
• The Trafalgar Square Christmas tree is the second most popular in the world
• In pictures: the Guildhall ‘Borealis’ lights look incredibly relaxing
• Rachel Jones: SMIIILLLLEEEE review
• The best of Peckham, picked by a cool local
• The London Transport Museum’s new PJs look very fly indeed
• Imagine Children’s Festival
• 10 restaurants in London to try this December according to Quandoo reviews
• ‘Beauty and the Beast’ review
• South London Vintage Kilo Sale
• Revealed: The REAL reason the Millennium Bridge ended up so wobbly
• Le Petit Beefbar
• The community kitchen that feeds Calais’s refugees and Camden’s homeless
• Four top-tier meal kits that cost less than £20
• Jenny Eclair: ‘Sixty (FFS!)’
• Here’s a load of great last minute Amazon deals
• Eight mouth-watering bags by London coffee roasters
• The six best festive scented candles to buy now
• Guinness is lighting up pubs in need with some boozy Christmas lights
• Sustainable Department Store
• East End in Fact and Fiction
• Aldi (yes, the supermarket) has opened a champagne bar in central London
• Winter on the Rooftop at London Bridge Rooftop
• Chin Chin has created an edible Christmas tree
• E-scooters will be fully banned from public transport from Monday
• Selfridges is selling Black Christmas decorations for the first time
• Hipster Hamper Co is helping you to gift sustainably this Christmas
• ‘And Just Like That’ : the internet is calling for a Samantha Jones spin-off in London
• 4 things you can do right now to live a greener life
• Wembley Park competition terms and conditions
• Feelings Library pop-up
• Why our restaurant of the year is a tiny family-run Thai place in Leytonstone
• These London pubs are serving takeaway mulled wine this winter
• How to have fun outside in London right now
• 10 of the best Christmas hampers to see off 2021
• The best bars for low-alcohol drinks in London
• These are the most festive streets in London this Christmas
• What Londoners from some of our venues learned about the city in 2021
• There's a new bowling alley in a Grade II listed building
• New Year's Day Sober Rave
• Morning Stars
• We love this TikTok about London’s loos
• London’s first Christmas sandwich festival is launching this weekend
• Napoli Gang and Eggbreak have created a Christmas panettone
• The Cause is closing – here's how a temporary party space in Tottenham became the city's best club
• What does the government’s ‘Plan B’ mean for London’s clubs?
• Trafalgar Square’s Christmas tree might be replaced by a sexier model
• Everything you need to know about the Tube strike this weekend
• What does the government's Plan B mean for London theatres?
• The nine best pieces of home gym equipment
• The best weighted blankets to buy now
• Bags: Inside Out
• The six best cordless drills to buy online now
• The best robot vacuum cleaners
• Here's six great SAD lamps to use this winter
• The best water bottles to buy now
• 10 best blenders to buy now
• Depop’s creator is launching a new app for foodies
• Love Come Down NYE
• A re-creation of the Northern Lights opens this weekend
• Enjoy Dumpling Shack after dark at two Old Spitalfields Market lates
• Near and Far Studio 54 NYE
• The Beirut Groove Collective NYE Party
• Movimientos NYE Tropical Fiesta
• These London bars have been named as among the world’s 50 best
• The new ‘Plan B’ restrictions: what they mean for London
• Yatay
• Comedian Munya Chawawa on trying (and failing) to become the Tupac of east London
• Bowie: Starman and the Silver Screen
• Sip a David Bowie cocktail at ramen joint Heddon Yokocho
• Three great cheese-and-wine events in London this December
• West End theatres will dim their lights tonight in honour of Antony Sher
• Made in Hackney has launched a crowdfunder for its community meal service
• Tiesto One Night in London
• Daniel Watkins is hosting a winter takeover at St Leonards in Shoreditch
• Flor is giving away pastries at the launch of its new Bermondsey bakery
• Banksy wants to buy the prison where Oscar Wilde was banged up
• ‘The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage’ review
• Meet the artist creating London's only East Asian LGBTQ+ clubnight
• Birdsong Festive Shop
• In pictures: check out this free immersive exhibition at Now Gallery
• Secret Santa gift ideas
• The 10 best coffee grinders
• The 10 best kitchen knives
• The 10 best chocolates to buy online right now
• The nine best hiking boots
• The 10 best dehumidifiers
• The nine best air purifiers to buy online now
• The 10 best duvets
• Dirty Dancing
• The ten best toasters to buy online now
• The nine best tablets for kids
• Royal Opera House Tea Dance
• Folk
• Revealed: Time Out London’s 2021 Best of the City award winners
• The Tower of London’s moat is going to be filled with wild flowers
• Pinocchio
• Prince of Peckham
• Cyrano de Bergerac
• New Year’s Eve dinners at London restaurants to book now
• Gatsby: The Musical
• Peggy for You
• The cook who just wouldn’t quit: welcome to Imad’s Syrian Kitchen
• Warehouse
• Three places to have an actually good Christmas meal with your mates
• Festive Film Club
• The Rhythmics
• Festive Jazz Club
• Overheard in London: this week’s #wordonthestreet
• Hype dish: Sunday in Brooklyn’s seriously stacked pancakes
• Comedymania: Whole Box O Laughs Christmas Special
• The UK’s first alcohol-free off-licence is coming to the West End
• ‘Operation Ouch! Live on Stage’ review
• Winterfeast Beer Festival
• A Dream Getaway with Selfridges
• Quintessential London Christmas activities
• Yo!ga
• Morso
• Ten really, really good pub gardens with heaters
• La Rampa Bar
• Reggie Yates on the area of London that changed his understanding of class
• Madison Restaurant & Rooftop Lounge
• Exclusive: Somerset House’s Summer Series is back next July
• London’s tastiest dishes and drinks of 2021
• A Fight Against… (Una Lucha Contra…)
• A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
• The Snow Queen
• The Wonderful
• ‘Measure for Measure’ review
• Jama & Drys pop-up
• Stormzy is hosting a Christmas party for Croydon residents tomorrow
• Mighty dinos are coming to bask on the banks of the Serpentine next week
• New Year's Eve at Madison
• New Year's Eve at Bluebird Chelsea
• ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ review
• ‘Life of Pi’ review
• Your loveliest shots of London’s Christmas light displays
• The West End has made a map of the best Christmas shopping spots
• Yoshitomo Nara: Pinacoteca review
• And lo! Trafalgar Square's Christmas lights will switch on tonight
• Some amazing London refugee projects, as chosen by you
• There are Tomb Raider and The Matrix immersive events coming to London
• Fair Play
• Annabel’s has transformed into a giant gingerbread house
• Red Bull Rubik's Cube World Cup
• Trafalgar Square’s Christmas tree is looking worse for wear – and the internet has reacted
• The London Gay Men’s Chorus has soundtracked 30 years of queer history – this is its story
• Whamageddon starts right now. Here’s everything you need to know
• Listen to this extremely eccentric London Christmas advent podcast
• Fabric NYD
• Jim Carter is set to host a live Q&A with Bridgerton's cast
• Adonis NYD
• Transmissions NYD
• A vigil is taking place on Carnaby Street today to remember the victims of Aids
• NYE 2021: The Prohibition Party
• Vengaboys at The Clapham Grand
• Donate a coat to a 'Take One, Leave One' rail to help London’s rough sleepers
• The Peckham artists’ collective imagining an alternative way of co-living in London
• Rhythm Section NYE
• The Cause: Goodbye Sweetheart
• This historic Fitzrovia boozer is getting a Michelin-starred makeover
• Bun House's festive offering looks predictably adorable and also delicious
• Printworks has announced its 2022 lineup and we're buzzing already
• Ruth Wilson returns to the West End next year in ‘The Human Voice’
• Whiskey and Jamón Tasting
• A new Everyman cinema is opening in Borough this December
• Art Refuge: Wish You Were Here
• My Cookie Dough pop-up