The Time Out London blog team

Outdoor cinemas is back at the Barbican this summer. Hosted in the brutalist landmark’s Sculpture Court, Barbican’s summer season runs from Wednesday August 19 to Sunday August 30. On the year’s line-up is a kaleidoscopic array of films and filmmaking styles, ranging from Spike Lee concert docs to Denis Villeneuve science fiction, via the French New Wave and the best of Iranian cinema.  US indie cinema is spotlighted via Desperately Seeking Susan and The Florida Project, alongside a kaiju classic and a recent anime treat from Makoto Shinkai, Weathering With You. For Londoners, there’s a rare chance to catch 1996 coming-of-age classic Beautiful Thing, an LGBTQ+ drama filmed in Thamesmead and Greenwich, under the stars.Something for everyone, in other words, and plenty of opportunities to add some classics to your Letterboxd list. Tickets go on sale from the box office to Barbican members at 10am on Wednesday May 13, and to the general public at 10am on May 14. Standard tickets are priced £20, with concessions at £18, Barbican members £16.50, and under-18s only a tenner.  Here’s the line-up in full: Arrival (2016)Wed Aug 19, 8.30pm David Byrne’s American Utopia (2020)Sun Aug 30, 8.30pm  Offside (2006) Thu Aug 20, 8.30pm Atlantics (2019) Fri Aug 21, 8.30pm  Weathering With You (2019)Sat Aug 22, 8.30pmGhidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) + recorded intro by Kaiju expert Steven Sloss  Sun Aug 23, 8.30pm  The Florida Project (2017)Tue Aug 25, 8.30pm  Pierrot le Fou...

If you stroll down Old Compton Street at lunchtime and spot a queue of hungry-looking people snaking down the road, chances are they’re waiting for Noodle Inn’s bowls of biang biang and knife cut noodles. When Noodle Inn launched in September 2024, its bowls piled high with steaming hand-pulled noods quickly went viral. Riding the wave of its early success, it launched a second site in Spitalfields a year later and announced a third site across the river at Battersea Power Station earlier this year. While we’re still waiting for the doors of its site darn saaf to swing open, that’s not stopped the team from moving onto yet another new opening, this time in Covent Garden. ‘Located just a 10 minute walk from our OG branch in Soho, we are opening a brand new location in the heart of Covent Garden at 13 Maiden Lane. This will be our third Noodle Inn location,’ Noodle Inn announced on Instagram in April. The two-floor space, which was formerly home to Gordon Ramsay Street Burger, will have an open kitchen serving up Noodle Inn’s signature hand-pulled noodles and traditional street food starters.  While the exact menu hasn’t been released yet, judging by its existing sites we can expect Chinese-style burgers, pan-fried dumplings and its classic oil spill noodles.  Noodle Inn Covent Garden will open on May 16 at 13 Maiden Lane, WC2E 7NE. Did you see that this viral Korean corndog brand is opening its first south London restaurant? Plus: London’s best gastropub has been crowned by...

You can barely walk three paces in central Liverpool without bumping into some kind of tribute to the Beatles: there are the gang’s memorialised childhood homes, two whole museums, statues, murals, walking tours, and even the camera crews for Samuel Mendes’ forthcoming quartet of films. But even though London is where the Beatles honed their sound and played some of their biggest gigs, the infamous Abbey Road crossing is currently the only real site of pilgrimage for fans. Now, all that’s set to change, with an ambitious new visitor attraction springing up on a site that’s pivotal to the band’s story. And the location will be familiar to anyone who made it through Get Back, Peter Jackson’s epic eight-hour Beatles documentary, which captivated fans in 2021. It's Mayfair building 3 Savile Row, which was once the site of record label Apple Corps, which the band started in the 1960s so they could regain control of their finances and working methods. The big climax of Get Back is a public gig on its rooftop, with flabbergasted fans watching from the ground below, in what turned out to be the band’s last ever public performance. Two police officers scrambled to control the crowd’s hysteria, eventually climbing up to the roof and unplugging the amps. Now, that rooftop is getting the heritage site treatment, as part of a massive seven-floor museum. Photograph: Shutterstock In recent years, this Georgian mansion has been used as an unremarkable branch of preppy clothing chain...