The Time Out London blog team

Warning: what we’re about to tell you is guaranteed to get your stomach rumbling. That’s because the capital’s best curry houses – restaurants serving the finest Hawker-style Malaysian classics, elevated home-style Filipino cooking and South Asian delicacies – have been revealed by a new list (see, we did try to tell you). Out to celebrate the nation’s best Ruby Murrays is the Asian Catering Federation, which intends to highlight ‘the very best Asian cuisine nationwide’ by compiling an annual list of the UK’s top 100 curry restaurants.  Curry houses in the Big Smoke took up more than a fifth of the list, which was selected by public vote and recommended by the Asian Catering Federation’s expert panel.  It’ll come as no surprise that plenty of Time Out faves made the ranking, including Indian barbecue restaurant Brigadiers. Taking cues from colonial army messes in India but with a slick modern twist, the restaurant brings a bold energy to Bloomberg Arcade. It’s known for its smoky butter chicken wings, achari beef ribs which melt off the bone, goat belly vindaloo samosas and a tray of seven different poppadums.   Brigadiers   Modern Indian restaurant Kutir also featured. The first solo project from Rohit Ghai, one-time exec chef of JKS restaurants (Trishna, Gymkhana, Hoppers), Bombay Bustle and Jamavar, serves a regularly rotating seasonal menu of dishes which represent the vast diversity of Indian cuisine. Michelin-starred Quilon, which has been serving up specialties...

When Studio Ghibli/RSC stage team-up My Neighbour Totoro debuted at the Barbican in the autumn of 2022 it was to a storm of hype and delirious reviews: a phenomenon was born. At its zenith, the publicity images audaciously held back so much as a whisker of the gigantic puppets that represented benign, inscrutable forest spirit Totoro and the bizarre living transport the Catbus, their absence a promise of how impressive they were (they’re bloody spectacular). A transfer to the huge Gillian Lynne Theatre followed two lengthy sell-out Barbican runs, but all things must come to an end and the fact they actually started using images of Totoro on the ads a year or so ago was at least a harbinger of the end. There is also the matter of a limited number of theatres of size in London and a large amount of shows – many of them big-scale Broadway musicals – jostling for place. Photo: Manuel HarlanMy Neighbour Totoro, Gillian Lynne Theatre, 2026 So Totoro will be boarding the Catbus out of London: but not until next year, meaning if you haven’t seen it yet or would like to see it again, you have plenty of time to do so. Because demand has peaked, it’s relatively easy to get hold of good tickets, especially if you book far enough in advance. Let’s be clear: it remains a popular show, and they’re not going to start giving tickets away. But it’s worth checking out theatre sales and the like for its possible inclusion, and the cheapest tickets are less likely to be sold out. Regardless,...

Sea Containers, the glamorous five-star Thames-side hotel on the South Bank, has already cemented itself as a go-to cocktails spot in London thanks to its bar Lyaness, manned by Mr Lyan, aka Ryan Chetiyawardana, who is widely considered one of the best mixologists in the world.  But, while Sea Containers’ cocktail bar has made waves with its experimental menus and use of weird and wonderful ingredients (the current menu contains cocktails made with ‘tree caramel’ and ‘micro-organisms’) and has become the only London venue to achieve an esteemed three-pin rating from The Pinnacle Guide, over the corridor, the hotel’s ground-floor restaurant has never achieved the same notoriety. But could that be about to change?  The Sea Containers Restaurant has just announced a new partnership with famously foul-mouthed chef Gordon Ramsay, launching Gordon Ramsay at Sea Containers from autumn this year. Few details have been announced about the collaboration, but we do know that it will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner inspired by its riverside setting. It will also have a riverside terrace for alfresco dining.  Andy Wenlock, CEO of Gordon Ramsay Restaurants Global, has said that the new restaurant will capture ‘the vibrancy of the South Bank while upholding the standards of quality, atmosphere and hospitality that define our restaurants globally’. Until then, the restaurant will be open as usual if you want to enjoy sweeping panoramic views of the South Bank along with dinner. Did you...