The Time Out London blog team

Ikoyi is regularly named one of the best restaurants in the world. In last year’s list of the planet’s top eateries by World’s 50 Best, Ikoyi was one of only two London restaurants to make the list (placing 15th overall).  But such greatness doesn’t come cheap. The sleek fine dining spot’s 14-ish course set menu comes in at a whopping £380 per person, making it one of the most expensive set meals in London (the most pricey is at Sushi Kanesaka in Mayfair, which is £420 a head).   Ikoyi, which opened in St James’s in 2017, won its first Michelin star in 2018. It scored its second in 2022, which is the same year the restaurant moved to swanky new digs at the 180 Strand building in Temple. I was lucky enough to visit recently and got to sample head chef Jeremy Chan’s quite spectacular cookery.  Leonie Cooper for Time Out And was it worth the whopping cost? Well, in a world where a decent Sunday roast might set you back £80 along with drinks, while a meal out in Soho can be anything upwards of £100 for even a casual dinner, it might not be so crazy. Especially when you consider that we were in Ikoyi for four full hours (6pm-10pm), and were presented with what is officially some of the greatest food in the world by an ultra talented team. Dishes at Ikoyi are made with the finest produce and rarest ingredients around, and presentation is as skilful as it is pretty. Chan’s big on technique, with days-long processes behind some of the dishes. Food at Ikoyi is, says Chan,...

This is a PSA for all west London based night owls and late-night workers – you’re getting a brand new night bus from the city centre. And you’re getting it as soon as this coming weekend.   The N118 route will launch on Saturday January 17. It’ll follow the same journey as the existing N18 bus, starting at Trafalgar Square and serving all the same stops up to Sudbury and Harrow Road station. From there, it’ll turn off towards Ruislip station in Hillingdon, travelling via Whitton Avenue West, Sheridan Terrace, Pett's Hill, Alexandra Avenue, Eastcote Lane, Victoria Road and Pembroke Road. This will be the first time there’s been a night bus to the Ruislip area since the 114 was suspended in March 2020. The arrival of the N118 means there’ll finally be direct links between Ruislip and key locations like Sudbury Hill, Wembley, Harrow Road, Kensal Green, Harlesden, Maida Hill and Paddington.  The new night bus will run seven days a week. On Fridays and Saturdays, it’ll run every 15 minutes and from Sunday to Thursday, it’ll operate every half hour.  The N18 will keep running at the same frequency, meaning that between Trafalgar Square and Sudbury and Harrow Road, there’ll be frequency of one bus every 7-8 minutes on Friday and Saturday nights, and every 15 minutes on Sunday to Thursday nights.  Bob Blitz, TfL’s bus planning network manager, said: ‘These improvements mark a really positive step for night‑time travel in northwest London. The introduction of route N118 will give...

Last year, London Heathrow was crowned the most connected airport in the world. The west London hub offered travellers flights to an impressive 226 destinations across 80 different countries and so, as you’d expect, it got very, very busy. In fact, a new report revealed that Heathrow was the world’s second-busiest international airport in 2025.  OAG looked at flight schedules data from January to December 2025 to discover which airports were the busiest internationally and globally (the latter included domestic flights) across Europe. The report reckoned that LHR had 49 million scheduled international seats in 2025, which is one percent more than in 2024 and four percent more than in 2019.  When OAG added together its international and domestic seat capacity, Heathrow emerged as Europe’s busiest airport and the fourth busiest in the world. Altogether, it had 52.1 million scheduled seats in 2025. Globally, the London airport was beaten by Tokyo Haneda Airport, Dubai International Airport and Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, which took the top spot.  The accolade comes a few days after Heathrow announced that it handled a record number of passengers in 2025 – 84.5 million. That’s an average of more than over 231,000 people arriving and departing each day. It also had its busiest ever December, with 7.2m passengers in total.  Photograph: Shutterstock Obviously, there’s a major gap between OAG’s seat capacity data and the actual number of passengers passing...