The Time Out London blog team

London-based Scots have The Shoap in Islington for their haggis, neeps and tatties, the Irish have McCarthy’s in Tooting for their spice bags, Taytos and chicken fillet rolls (not to mention the myriad of Irish pubs), but for Welsh Londoners missing the taste of home, options have been severely lacking. That is until now. London is getting a brand new cafe focused on produce from the most overlooked of the Celtic nations. Bara (the Welsh word for ‘bread’) will open at 44-46 Choumert Road in Peckham next month. As far as we know, it’ll be the capital city’s first cafe fully dedicated to championing Welsh grub. Expect shellfish from Pembrokeshire, cheese from Caerphilly, beer from Portmadog, salt from Anglesey and coffee from Carmarthenshire.  Bara’s menu features a lineup of hearty sandwiches, including one inspired by a traditional Swansea breakfast. It’s stuffed with cockles, dry-smoked streaky bacon, leeks cooked in butter and a spoonful of laverbread which is a Welsh delicacy made by cooking seaweed down to a paste.  There’s also a lobster roll (pictured above), a ‘Caerphilly Cheesesteak’ made with eight-hour smoked Welsh beef brisket, brown crab rarebit and Welsh honey butter pancakes. From 7.30am on weekdays there’ll be breakfast options like traditional bara brith (tea bread) and a leek bubble and squeak, egg and cheese focaccia.  When it comes to drinks, there’s still and sparkling water from the Welsh mountains, Tiny Rebel Welsh lager, Gaza Cola, coffee sourced...

Dun, dun-dun-dun dun, dun-dun-dun dun! If there’s one thing that’s gotten us through the dark, cold nights of January 2026, it’s been tuning into BBC 1 three nights a week to hear that melodramatic theme music. With traitor-on-traitor violence, multiple secret relationships, some truly iconic knitwear and more gasp-worthy plot twists than Claudia Winkleman has had spray tans, this might just have been the best series of the camp-as-Christmas gameshow yet. Can Rachel and Stephen’s Celtic alliance take them all the way? Does Faraaz know more than he’s letting on? Will James finally vote out an actual traitor? We’ll get all the answers from 9pm tomorrow during the climactic finale. And if you fancy watching it somewhere with a wee bit more atmosphere than your living room, there are a bunch of live screening parties happening across London, many of which are free to attend. So don your cloak, grab yourself a chalice of wine and settle in to catch all the drama at one of these London venues screening the final episode. The best Traitors finale screening parties in London Oslo, Hackney Hackney Central bar and nightclub Oslo will be showing the finale on two huge screens, with tables of 4, 6 and 8 available and £5 pints until 10pm.  1A Amhurst Road, E8 1JB. From £11.33 for a table of 4. Picturehouse, Finsbury Park Witness all the drama unfold from the cabaret-style seats in this plush cinema’s event screening room. Tickets include bottomless popcorn and a free Traitor’s Tipple...

Finally, some good news for London nightlife. The capital’s legendary queer party Duckie is making a grand return in 2026, but it’s going to look slightly different from its past iteration.  The iconic LGBTQ+ knees-up took place at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern (RVT) for 27 years before throwing its final shindig in 2022. Co-founded by former London Night Tzar Amy Lamé, since it began in 1995 Duckie has been a trailblazer for London’s queer nightlife scene, hosting parties, performances and DJ sets all over London.  RECOMMENDED: Time Out celebrates 27 years of nightlife legend Duckie.  Duckie announced on social media that it would be coming back on March 7 2026. It’s moving on from its south London home at the RVT to St Paul’s Church Hall in Stoke Newington. Duckie claimed the change in location was to avoid ‘greedy, right-wing south London pub landlords’. The new iteration of the night also promises to have a cheap bar, free buffet and cups of tea. The night will run from 7pm until 11pm because the organisers ‘wanna be in bed by midnight’, and will be bi-monthly, because ‘no-one goes out much anymore’. Duckie’s famous ‘door whores’ Jay Cloth and Father Cloth have now retired, to be replaced with ‘door butchers’ Libro and Tink.  View this post on Instagram A post shared by Duckie Vauxhall (@duckievauxhall) As for the soundtrack, expect to hear ska, rocksteady, dancehall, funk and soul music, alongside a sprinkling of glam rock and pop. The night’s original...