The Time Out London blog team

Always wanted to ride the London Eye, with all its views of the Thames and central London, but always found the pods a bit... grey? Here’s just the thing. The iconic London attraction is launching a floral installation to celebrate spring. With flowers framing the pod windows and colourful decals on the glass, a limited-time experience will let you peer through petals out towards the Big Smoke’s loveliest sights.  For those hoping to add some extra flourish to their trip, the Eye is also offering a limited-edition spring afternoon tea and a Lego Botanicals experience. In the former, the high-tea menu will serve floral treats, lemon and lavender mini cupcakes and fruit tarts. The brick-themed latter, which has been made in collaboration with Lego Designers, will see guests building their own Lego Botanicals Daisies Posy to take home.  The flowery makeover will be perfectly suited to the season: it’ll feature throughout much of April and over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend. If you want a colourful Eye experience, it’s running from March 27 to May 4.  Stripecom You can book tickets for a flowery Eye capsule for only £29 – the same price as regular (non-blooming) trips. The spring afternoon tea will start from £75, while the Lego activity will cost £59. You can pre-book on the London Eye website here.  London Eye is just one of several London attractions doing big things for Easter 2026. For little ones, Hampton Court Palace is hiding Lindt Gold Bunnies across the estate...

If you’re in Peckham on a Saturday night and struck with a sudden urge to shake a leg, there’s no shortage of venues for a great night on the razzle. And joining that line up of top venues – The Carpet Shop, Jumbi and The Greyhound being just the tip of the iceberg – is the newly renovated Peckham Palais. After standing vacant for nearly 15 years, it was announced last year that the legendary venue would be getting some much-needed TLC thanks to the Night Group, the same minds behind east London’s Night Tales, NT’s Loft and Netil360. The result is a new multi-room club and cultural venue on Rye Lane. Entering the building, you’ll notice a lobby and box office on the ground floor, where peeling plaster and chipped paint hint at the venue’s storied past.  Photograph: Fare Inc The first floor is now home to The Ballroom, a cocktail bar and events space with room for 250 people to sip cocktails and listen to vinyl. The room gives strong ’70s vibes, with raspberry-pink walls, leather and PVC booth-style seating and oak details all adding to the old school aesthetic. All sounds very classy and civilised, right? Well, if you’re looking to let loose a little more, descend into the basement and find a 470-capacity nightclub. The space’s designers, Night Group and architects Nikjoo, have paid particular attention to the sound in the subterranean space, decking it out with a bespoke five-way Funktion-One sound system and giving it ‘precision acoustic treatment’. The building...

If the tantalising arrival of spring has you itching to get out and explore London wildlife, here’s some exciting news. The capital just got another designated nature reserve. This month Ealing Council named Warren Farm in Southall a Local Nature Reserve. The meadow, which was once a sports ground, has been mostly empty for 15 years. Gradually, the park has been rewilded into a grassland habitat for wildflowers, birds, butterflies and bees.  Warren Farm is most notable for its skylarks – in fact, almost a quarter of London’s entire skylark breeding population calls the space home. Other local critters include hairstreak butterflies, barn owls, little owls, and kestrels.  Photograph: Richard Carter Photography London’s newest nature reserve is part of a wider project called Brent River Park: a 50-year-old string of green-spaces connected by the River Brent, which runs from Barnet into the Thames via Southall. Warren Farm will also form part of West London Regional Park, a series of connected leafy spots between Ealing and Hounslow.  At 24.8 hectares, Warren Farm Nature Reserve is only slightly bigger than St James Park (about the size of three football fields). Alongside the Local Nature Reserve declaration, the council is building a cricket and football field on Imperial College London land to replace the sports grounds.  Leader of Ealing Council Cllr Peter Mason said that nature reserve designation will provide ‘a much-needed green lung for this part of the borough.’...