May 2023

• Anna Wintour is planning London’s answer to the Met Gala
• Exodus Festival
• Jazz Arts Rewired: Up Close And Personal
• All the best new London restaurant openings in June
• Tim Key: Mulberry
• A unique space for east London’s queer bookworms
• Marcin Dudek: ‘Neoplan’
• Valentina
• Tenacious D
• Chloe Petts: Transience
• A new exhibition is coming to London to celebrate Wes Anderson’s ‘Asteroid City’
• Meat Liquor
• A massive northern ‘bier palace’ is opening in the old Rainforest Café
• Will London fashion ever get over the death of Big Topshop?
• Next Generation Festival
• New Wayne McGregor / Corybantic Games / Anastasia Act III
• National Youth Dance Company
• Cody Dock Summer Live
• chapati club
• Savoy Grill
• Moki Cherry: ‘Here and Now’
• Piccadilly has had a dazzling technicolour glow-up
• Hackney Night Market
• Sci-Fi London Film Festival
• Yolkin
• Eddie Izzard: Great Expectations
• Curling at QUEENS
• Rose
• Every Leaf a Hallelujah
• Queer Britain Market
• London is getting a massive new £25 million ‘party boat’
• Charles Avery: ‘The Nothing of the Day’
• ‘Hardcore’
• Could this be London’s grandest and most glamorous cinema?
• You’ll soon be able to go inside the iconic domes at the Old Royal Naval College
• There’s a big West End summer theatre ticket sale on right now
• Is London’s World Naked Bike Ride... legal?
• Invisible
• The legendary Banner’s café in Crouch End is closing after 30 years
• Aspects of Love
• The Vagina Museum is set to reopen after hitting its fundraising target
• You can now see Penny Mordaunt’s very heavy sword at the Tower of London
• Jake Shears: ‘I love showing people a good time’
• The Comedy of Errors
• London is the official tech capital of the world
• Japan Centre
• Caliendo's Gelato
• Why are Londoners suddenly obsessed with Guinness?
• The Flying Scotsman is visiting London next month – here’s how to see it
• A popular London lido might be closed during the ‘mini heatwave’ this weekend
• Tola
• The Elizabeth line just made it a lot easier for holidaymakers to get to Heathrow
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Four London train stations are battling to be named the best in the UK
• Primrose Hill will soon be surrounded by metal gates to stop ‘antisocial behaviour’
• This London hotel has been crowned the best in Europe
• The Horniman Museum is getting a £10million revamp
• Soho’s best ice cream shop is reopening – and now it’s serving booze
• Six gross things we can't wait to see at the reopened Hunterian
• There’s an open call for kids to play Tiny Tim at the Old Vic this Christmas
• NTS: One Day
• Wimbledon bars and pubs
• Clapham Spring Market
• The best summer pop ups in London for fabulous food and cocktails
• CAMRA Kidbrooke Beer & Cider Festival
• South London is getting a new village, called Springfield
• A singles-only festival is coming to London in July
• The Greggs summer menu just dropped. Here's what's new
• ‘Dear Earth: Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis’
• Issy Wood: ‘Furni’
• The ‘Only Fools and Horses’ car is up for auction
• ‘China’s Hidden Century’
• Brokeback Mountain
• Depop's hosting a curated night market featuring some of its biggest resellers
• Sweeties at The Standard
• Bleak Expectations
• National Theatre Live: filmed live theatre shows and how to stream them
• Mandarin Oriental
• Wimbledon Tennis Championships: our top tips
• Wimbledon Tennis Championships 2023: your ultimate guide
• Elizabeth Line strike: dates and everything you need to know about the TFL action
• The Midland Grand Dining Room
• Shewolves
• Patrick Caulfield: ‘Pass The Peas’
• The Misandrist
• When is the London tourist attraction strike?
• The Parakeet
• Oxford
• Once on This Island
• Thirteen
• Top Cuvée want you to cycle from Bethnal Green to Brighton
• Greggs Leicester Square has won a legal battle to sell sausage rolls past midnight
• The Return of Benjamin Lay
• La Piñata Tequila & Mezcal Festival
• Dedication
• The Gun
• The Gun
• Man Up! Drag King Contest Grand Final
• The Counter
• Carlotta
• Sarah Sze: ‘The Waiting Room’
• How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
• Bold Tendencies, Peckham’s rooftop sculpture park, is reopening this week
• Pearl & Groove
• The Good Life Eatery
• Farmstand
• Ethos
• Ardiciocca
• Apres Food Co
• The team behind The Glove That Fits has opened a new outdoor venue
• The best toy shops in London
• 24 awesome alternative London tube maps
• 19 best fruit and veg boxes you can get delivered in London
• Maisie Cousins: ‘Walking Back To Happiness’
• Firsts Rare Book Fair
• Hot Sauce Society Presents: London Hot Sauce Festival
• Urban Greens
• Grown & Thrown
• Hackney Half Marathon
• Ruth Wilson: ‘you’ll watch me lose my mind’
• Jane Dickson: ‘Fist of Fury’
• The London LGBTQ+ Stand-up Comedy festival
• London Square Open Gardens
• River Stage
• Peter Doig
• Baller FC Women’s FA Cup Final Viewing Party
• Frank Auerbach: ‘Twenty Self-Portraits’
• Songs that make you fall in love with London
• The Mikado
• A Lewisham community centre with a free nursery is campaigning to stay open
• Plants and Potions: children’s workshop
• Yours Unfaithfully
• Chelsea Physic Garden: Kids Lab
• London Zoo Spring Family Festival
• Tarantino Live: Fox Force Five & The Tyranny of Evil Men
• The Unicorn
• Hot in Here
• Behind
• London might get a huge new heated rooftop swimming pool
• Speakers Corner Quartet: Album Launch Party
• Boqueria
• Ploussard
• The Ship in Borough is reopening
• P Franco rises from the ashes and will reopen in June
• House at the National Theatre
• Aquum
• How baked goods became the new streetwear for hungry Londoners
• E5 Bakehouse Sourdough Classes
• E5 Bakehouse
• Papi's Grill Restaurant & Bar
• Migrateful Cookery Classes
• Boat hire in London
• Sexquisite Slut Heaven for Pride Weekend
• Legendary Soho restaurant L’Escargot is back, baby
• West London is getting a ‘women’s only’ tower block
• A catastrophic harvest has put London’s only vineyard at risk of closure​
• Alcotraz Shoreditch: Cell Block Two-One-Two
• The Freak Scene
• Four things to see at Photo London this week
• These are the films Keanu Reeves thinks everyone should watch
• Brian Cox will return to the West End to star in ‘Long Day’s Journey into Night’ next year
• WE Party London: 7th Heaven London Pride
• Pre-Pride signpainting meetup
• K-pop Heaven: Blackpink Afterparty
• Marylebone Summer Festival
• Screening of 'Pride'
• Atlantis Art Materials
• Blanket Ban
• You can visit the ultra-ancient coronation chair at Westminster Abbey
• The Luna Cinema
• Marylebone Summer Festival Film Night
• Londis N16
• Nour Cash and Carry
• Crystal Palace Reptiles
• Think Vintage
• Loon Fung Supermarket
• Idle Moments
• Crypt of the Wizard
• Everything you need to know about King Charles III’s procession route, including map and start time
• Jessie Western
• Sephora
• Aelfred
• Jonas Lund: ‘In The Middle Of Nowhere II’
• Annka Kultys
• All the London road closures and travel restrictions for King Charles’s coronation: how to get around
• Prince Charles Cinema won't change its name for new king, but these places will
• London buses have been given a coronation makeover
• Meet the alternative kings of London
• ‘Accidental Death of an Anarchist’ review
• The Good Person of Szechwan
• Fortnum & Mason now has a 3D printed cocktail bar
• Richard III
• 5 magnificent ‘Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story’ locations you can visit
• Lofty's Furniture
• The best coronation events in London to celebrate King Charles III
• Six London pubs are up for sale, including a famous gastropub
• Where to watch the King’s coronation in London, including big screens
• August in England
• Why massive royal events seem to make London happy (even if lots of us couldn’t care less)
• Serotonin Vintage
• Retrouvius
• Artwords
• David Tennant will play Macbeth at the Donmar Warehouse this Christmas
• Santa Maria Novella
• Khan's Bargains
• The Old Curiosity Shop
• TFC Supermarket
• Third Man Records
• Phonica
• A ‘Dalmatian Cafe’ is coming to London
• London is getting a new women’s museum later this year
• Free Headshots at Ace & Tate Borough
• Here’s why Disney’s ‘Peter Pan & Wendy’ is great news for one London hospital
• You can now take a tour of London in the Queen Mother’s limo
• Shakespeare in the Squares: Twelfth Night
• Otto’s French Restaurant
• The V&A is opening its huge new photography centre this month
• The Coronation flypast could be called off due to bad weather
• The Talent
• Tesco is opening its first ever pub for the coronation
• ‘Saint Francis of Assisi’
• No Man’s Island
• Pharmacy 2
• The City of London Roman wall has been recognised as a national monument
• Coronation in Carnaby
• A 16th floor rooftop bar has opened in Battersea Power Station
• Jamie Oliver is opening a new restaurant in Theatre Royal Drury Lane
• Sundance Film Festival: London unveils its 2023 line-up
• The best alternative things to do over coronation weekend in London
• ‘Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece’
• Is this the end of the line for the Heathrow Express?
• Johnny Flynn: ‘I fall asleep to Richard Burton reading me “Under Milk Wood”’
• Time Out’s alternative Turner Prize shortlist
• Plot twist: Printworks may return to the same venue... in 2026
• Ace & Tate Borough Yards
• Jumbi
• Yours for £4.5 million: a lavish flat in a piano factory beloved by Beethoven