The Time Out London blog team

If you’ve got the mullah to do your weekly food shop in Waitrose, well, you’re bougier than we are. For many of us, a visit to the posh supermarket is reserved for hard-to-find items in an Ottolenghi recipe or the occasional lunchtime treat when you’re having a bad day in the office.  From May, though, there will be another occasion when it’s appropriate to visit Waitrose’s swanky shelves: jetting off on holiday.  Yep, Waitrose is branching out into airport retail for the first time, starting with Heathrow Terminal 2. Thanks to a collaboration with Lagardère Travel Retail, which owns convenience chain Relay, by the end of 2026 Waitrose products will be stocked in four shops dotted around the terminal. The first Relay store, which is due to open next month, will be located past security on the upper level of the terminal. While we don’t know its exact opening date, we do know that once its doors are flung wide, it’ll be serving jet-setters seven days a week from 5am to 10pm. That’s plenty of time to pick out the perfect travel snack. As for the Waitrose products on offer, we can expect sandwiches from its No. 1 range, as well as wraps, salads, sushi, snack pots and fresh fruit. Croissants, granola, juices and smoothies will keep all the early risers well-stocked for the flight. Plus, you can breathe a sigh of relief, because meal deal offers will still be valid in Heathrow’s Relay stores. London Heathrow was officially the one of the busiest international airports in the...

Luna Carmoon’s first movie, puckish coming-of-age romance Hoard, was an attention-ripper back in 2024. Now the Londoner is back with a second project as a writer-director – a horror this time – and it’s just wrapped filming. To Make Ends Meat stars Mickey 17’s Naomi Ackie, Wuthering Heights standout Alison Oliver and French actress Armande Boulanger (The Returned). The trio play three women ‘all in debt to despicable men, their pasts, and each other, who find themselves bargaining to survive in the only language these men seem to understand: consumption and violence’. ‘This film has come from the belly of my soul, of all things, tar and family,’ says Carmoon in a statement. ‘From my grandmother’s experiences in Newington Lodge, to my mother Toni and the cleaning houses she took me to where darker things lingered, to teddies and chicken farms. So much of my family and our memories seep deeper than you’d think.’ ‘I cannot think of a more prevalent time than now to paint and stitch and weave to screen, it is my rage that has fuelled this. The weatherings of being a woman and how you are cannibalised by systems, by men, women and then by debts we sometimes write ourselves into because we believe we deserve it so. This has been made with all my blood, figuratively and yes, physically of all of me. I hope I know it will rupture, splinter and cry to us all when it is stitched together.’ Saipan’s Éanna Hardwicke co-stars in the film, which shot for six weeks in and around London....

The City of London Corporation, which governs the Square Mile, has committed to utterly transforming the business district over the next few years. The ‘Destination City’ programme wants to turn the financial hub into a ‘must visit’ destination seven days a week, meaning less of a focus on weekday city slickers and more tourism and community projects. St Paul’s Gyratory is getting a vast tree-filled revamp,  the shiny new London Museum is due to open its doors in Smithfield by the end of this year, the Barbican Centre is modernising its spaces and Leadenhall Market has ambitions to become a new foodie destination. And now the Corporation has revealed new plans, this time concerning annexe buildings in west Smithfield.  The annexe is a set of Victorian-era market, storage and engine structures near Farringdon. Comprising a fish market, cold store ‘red house’ and engine house, the site has been in disuse since the mid-1970s. Threat of demolition loomed until it was decided that the London Museum would sit within the block. According to plans revealed this week (April 20), from early 2028 the annexe will also be home to a new food market. Independent vendors and outdoor installations are planned to ‘complement activities at the neighbouring London Museum and enrich the visitor experience of the area’, the City of London said. Photograph: City of London Corporation We’ll have to wait until the planning application is approved to get the full lowdown, but the market is...