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As you’ll know from our list of the best Bollywood movies, there are tons of exciting and original films from India. But just as many Hollywood classics are adaptations of foreign films, so Western cinema has found itself reinterpreted for a South Asian audience. Can you tell which film is based on which?
RECOMMENDED: The 100 best Bollywood movies
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1) This is ‘Kaante’, but which film is it based on?
Ocean's Eleven
Reservoir Dogs
Office Space
2) Which film inspired ‘Ghajini?’
American History X
The Wrestler
Memento
3) ‘Hari Puttar’ is a take on which family hit?
Harry Potter
Home Alone
Boyhood
4) Here's ‘Heyy Babyy’ – what film is it reminiscent of?
Three Men And A Baby
Honey I Shrunk The Kids
Kindergarten Cop
5) Which movie loaned some plot to ‘Koi... Mil Gaya’?
Avatar
The Last Airbender
ET
6) ‘Salaam-e-Ishq’ is a Bollywood take on which film?
Four Weddings and a Funeral
New Year's Eve
Love Actually
7) ‘God Tussi Great Ho’ bears a similarity to which American comedy?
Blues Brothers
Bruce Almighty
Dogma
8) Which cross-dressing caper does ‘Chachi 420’ borrow some plot points from?
Mrs Doubtfire
Big Momma's House
Tootsie
9) ‘Mohabbatein’ has a little of which school-days drama about it?
Our teenage years may be full of moments we'd rather forget, but these are the hundred classic teenage movies we'll always remember. Click away to find out how many you've seen, and check out our full exploration of the 100 best teen movies after you're done.
Max Gor has been a Londoner for the past 15 years, but it was only a couple of years ago that he discovered his passion for street photography. A software developer by day, in his spare time you can find him on the streets of the city, capturing scenes of the diverse communities that live here. (Follow Max on Instagram or Flickr.)
See some of our favourite photos – and some advice from Max – below.
The '90s had it all: surprising indie hits, blockbusters pioneering new kinds of CGI, a new wave of British cinema and innovative foreign films. See how many of the decade's greatest movies you've enjoyed below.
The list in full: the 50 best films of the 1990s
There ain't no rest for the wicker. Inside this humongous hamper, you'll find – among other things – savoury treats like smoked salmon, venison salami, cheeses and preserves; marzipan fruits, biscuits, figs and marmalade; and dry gin, vintage champagne and fine wine. Here's how to get one!
Now in their fifth year, the annual Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards celebrate the very best writers, publishers, programmers, image-makers and personalities working in food and drink today. An independent panel of expert judges, chaired by Ewan Venters, CEO of Fortnum & Mason, selects the winners from work published or broadcast during 2016.
Last year’s winners include Giles Coren for his work in The Times, Felicity Cloake for her work in G2, The Guardian and Olia Hercules for her debut food book, Mamushka: Recipes From Ukraine & Beyond.
One of the most coveted awards of the evening is voted for by you. The public crowned Nigella Lawson TV Personality of the Year in 2016. So, who really inspires you to appreciate good food and get cooking? Nominate your choice below, and one lucky winner will receive the Fortnum & Mason hamper worth £550, while two runners can tuck into the £250 version.
To win, pick your favourite from the list below.
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Al encuestar a 20,000 lectores de Time Out alrededor del mundo no sólo descubrimos las ciudades más divertidas para vivir, también encontramos datos jugosos en cuanto a la diferencia de cada metrópoli. Aquí los resultados en nuestra guía alternativa de las ciudades.
El Índice de ciudades de Time Out, en el que entrevistamos a 20,000 participantes para encontrar la ciudad más divertida alrededor del mundo, ¡tiene un ganador! Tras derrotar a 17 ciudades para llegar al primer lugar, Chicago parece llenar de regocijo a sus habitantes, incluso más que a los refinados de Melbourne. Y sí, hicimos la encuesta antes de que los Cubs ganaran la serie mundial.
A bit of a hidden treasure, this 140-year old venue has real retro charm. Typically it's only open to members – joining costs £20 a year, and you'll somehow need to find two current members to endorse you. But you can also catch locally-organised gigs in the main hall - the Peckham Chamber Orchestra often perform there.
It's also available to hire for non-members.
(Photos courtesy EJ Richards of FilmFixer.)
Get a lungful of this week’s Time Out! We’ve asked five nature writers to reveal London’s hidden wild side, from 8,000-year old woods to the Hackney nightjar.
PLUS, we chat with some drag kings, find you some sweet craft courses, discover the naff places you love and get the inside scoop on being a croupier at a London casino.
AND, we’ll tell you all about the Clerkenwell café that made our socks roll up and down, reveal the boozer that’s apparently #reinventingthelocal, chart the dizzying future of our city’s skyscraper boom and preview the best outdoor cinema programmes announced for the summer. There’s loads more but I’ve run out of time, so you’ll just have to read it. Deep breaths...
You can also buy this week’s issue from Wednesday on your Apple or Android device, so you can swipe, pinch and scroll through at your leisure.
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It’s currently wisteria season in London, as foul purple flowers burst forth from sinister climbing vines and depraved Instagram addicts flock to document the disturbing ‘phenomenon.’
UGH:
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Many viewers may find the following scenes distressing:
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AVERT YOUR EYES, CHILDREN!
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Has God forsaken us? For surely these vile building snakes were not part of His creation:
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An insult to the laws of nature:
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Such frightening facades as these often cause passers-by to vomit in terror:
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Once seen, it cannot be un-seen, no matter how hard you try:
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Several photos were removed from this article, and subsequently banned by the Government:
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Hearts were warmed on Coldharbour Lane on Thursday, as a great big proposal was displayed for the world to see on the Ritzy Cinema’s readograph.
‘Made me smile on the way to work this morning!’ said Faith.‘Good on ya, Hannah!’ said Dee.‘I hope she says yes!’ said Treeceratops.
But did she say YES? We found out!
Our craftily romantic proposer, Hannah Shanks, 28, put in extensive preparations to set up the big surprise for her first girlfriend (awww) of eighteen months, Katy LeLion.
‘I’d known for at least six months that I wanted to propose on the Ritzy’s board,’ said Hannah. ‘We had our first kiss outside it, and we love looking out for the personalised messages on it as we pass it every day on the way back and forth from work. But I just couldn't wait any longer to marry her. She’s a pretty exceptionally brilliant human being.’
Conspiring with Katy’s colleague Claire to get her a day off, Hannah asked the Ritzy to put the sign up the night before so it she and Katy could spot the sign on the next morning’s commute. Here it is, ready to go...
Cute Lesbians: coming to a cinema near you 🌈
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And preparing for the potential of an early discovery, Hannah instituted a shared ‘morning phone detox’ habit the week before, so Katy wouldn’t spot any spoiler-rific messages from friends who’d spotted the sign early. SNEAK LEVEL: MAXIMUM.
Aboard their usual bus the next morning, with Katy feeling
In case you didn’t know, April 1 is International Pillow Fight day, with people in cities from Budapest to Los Angeles getting together for some squishy-weaponed combat. Naturally, Londoners were spoiling for a feathery (OK, synthetic microfibre) fight, and photographer Alex Coman was on the scene to document the carnage.
WHACK!
KAPOW!
THWACK!
BAM!
KABLOOIE!
SLAM!
OOOF!
HIYAAAAH!
THWAMP!
SMASH.
AH.
EH.
DONE.
ROZZER-APPROVED.
Fancy a go? Stick April 1 2018 in your diary. Or for more big-kid stuff, jump in London’s glow-in-the-dark ball pool bar.
Cheese: your booty call, your fromage-with-benefits, your mozzarella fella.
Cheese will always be there for you, treating you sensually, tenderly, caerphilly.
You’re just a mixed-up good girl with one fatal weakness: a burning desire for the pressed curds of milk. And you don't give edam who knows it.
1) Raclette Brothers, various locations
These brothers melt the hell out of a wheel of cheese.Then use it to smother some lesser, non-cheese ingredients.They’re popping up in Bermondsey at the moment – check their Twitter for all the details.
2) Androuet, Spitalfields
A video posted by Jessica Khor (@jessicakhor) on Dec 17, 2016 at 8:17pm PST
Fondue – the cheesiest thing of all. Question: is it legit to dip cheese in fondue? Asking for a friend.
3) St. Moritz, Soho
A photo posted by Sam Kelm (@samkelm) on Dec 4, 2016 at 11:44am PST
With each morsel, as you consume the fondue, the fondue also consumes you, spiralling through the stars for ever, like that bit in ‘La La Land’.
4) Archie’s, Deptford
A photo posted by Archie's (@archiesbarldn) on Nov 21, 2016 at 8:56am PST
This exotic dish is known as ‘queso fundido’.(That’s some sexy foreign words for ‘melted cheese’)Cheese is the international language. The language of love.
5) The Cheese Truck, various locations
A photo posted by The Cheese Truck (@thecheesetruck) on Jan 10, 2017 at 12:07am PST
Will you just LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THIS SANDWICH. Sweet Lord, have mercy. (Also, they’re opening a pe
London: quite nice, really?
We’re collecting Londoners’ favourite things about living in the city, big and small. Maybe it’s a particular place, time, vibe, person. It could be something everyone loves, or something that’s special just to you. In any case, tell us what and why in the box below. Favourite suggestions will be included in an upcoming issue of Time Out magazine!
[Photo: Roselyne Calle Mirio]
Fill out my Wufoo form!
Speaking to people on the tube? LOL, right?
But just a minute there, taciturn types. Because it turns out our reserved ways have a predictable side-effect – in our survey of 18 global cities, London came out as the loneliest.
According to our City Index survey, 55 percent of Londoners said it could feel lonely here sometimes, compared to just 10 percent of the friendly citizens of Lisbon.
When it came to meeting new people, only 7 percent of Londoners strongly agreed the city was a good place to make new friends, and just 4 percent thought it was easy to find love here, putting us seventeenth out of the 18 cities for sociability. And we're 14 percent less likely than the average city to have made a new friend recently.
So what is it that makes London such a tricky place to make new social connections? A few reasons emerge from our research.
As you might have noticed, we tend to keep ourselves to ourselves, making us 25 percent less likely to chat with a stranger than the effusive people of Chicago.
We're 24 percent less likely to have randomly bumped into a friend recently – maybe because the city is so sprawling – reducing those chance encounters that can create a cosy feeling of community.
Compared to other cities, Londoners have been living here for six fewer years than the average in other cities, so lots of us haven't yet established a new network of friends – a recurring theme on discussion groups like Reddit's r/london.
Of the people who've lived in London for less
The search for solace:
Currently so hungover that I'm watching a documentary on happiness to see if I can ever feel it again.
— Alexander Smith (@alexsmith908) January 17, 2017
The inexplicable visions:
I'm so hungover that I opened my eyes and was startled because I thought I saw Chris Rock standing in my room, but it was just a lamp.
— I am fake news (@validness) January 15, 2017
The desperate plans:
Im so hungover that I actually considered rolling down the stairs to avoid walking. Fuck this.
— Mandamonium (@Thugs_N_Kisses) January 6, 2017
So hungover that I considered sticking my head in a bucket of Spanish rice to soak up the alcohol like I'm some iPhone that got wet
— Jake Bowman (@RealJakeBowman) January 2, 2017
Forgetting your phone has a brightness setting:
So hungover that I'm wearing my sunglasses at night because I can't deal with the brightness on my phone 💀👍
— Chanel No. 3 (@dakotakayyy) December 30, 2016
Manually controlling your homeostatic functions:
I'm so hungover that I'm controlling my heartbeat intentionally and that's the only reason it's still tickin
— Budds (@Budds_) December 27, 2016
Crying at EVERYTHING:
I'm so hungover that I've just full on bawled at a video of some corgi puppies
— meg (@chewbaccy_) December 24, 2016
I'm so hungover that I was reduced to tears by finding tomato soup at the back of my cuboard
— michael. (@mikey9710) December 10, 2016
So hungover that I just cried at a Kanye tweet,
There are so many excruciating components to this 20-second video, watching one time simply won't be enough.
Witness and video creator Joe Gilmore explains:
'After leaving our office Christmas party I found this awesome fella who had had one too many sherries and was trying to walk the wrong way down the escalator. After a bit of encouragement from everyone down below, he decided he'd take a faster, albeit more bumpy route to the bottom! Although it looks bad he was actually fine in the end, and we managed to get him home safely! Sure he had a nasty hangover in the morning though!'
So there you have it – he was fine, so you're allowed to laugh.
Or check out the top five annoying people on the escalator.
"Let's go to the pub," they said."Which pub?" I said."ALL OF THE PUBS!" they said.
The UK is home to 24,727 of 'em according to this map, which, zoomed out, is more than enough to crash your computer.
With so many to choose from, it leaves the problem of where one ought to drink next. Fortunately, some kind Canadian mathematicians have worked out the shortest route to visit every pub in the UK.
It's beautiful.
Best of all, it's a circular route, so by continuing onwards from any local drinking hole, you'll eventually return to your starting point, 28,000 miles and – at the marathon-a-day pace of a beer-fuelled Eddie Izzard – just under three years later.
(NOTE: you'll also be drinking at 23 pubs a day, every day, for the entire duration. Consult a medical professional before embarking on this adventure.)
Consulting the mammoth text file, the route first arrives in London at the Abbey Arms, SE2...
...finally finishing the capital's boozers, 2393 stops later (admittedly with a 934-pub detour into Buntingford, Little Hallingbury and other jewels of Hertfordshire) at the Greystoke, W5.
It's all explorable on this splendid interactive map:
We've found our office's Friday night local so we've got our marching orders...
See you at the bar, yeah?
For quality over quantity, try our list of London's 100 best bars and pubs.