August 2020

• It’s official: Londoners (Robert Pattinson, included) have been returning to the cinema this week
• Genesis Mas Band founder Allyson Williams MBE on her first Notting Hill Carnival
• The prettiest conservatories in London
• A pop-up tropical hothouse is coming to east London
• Oh, snap! Plans for London alligator park have been scrapped
• Horse Meat Disco Summer Gymkhana
• ‘I am known as a wire man’: Meet pioneering Notting Hill Carnival sculptor Carl Gabriel
• How to have the perfect UK holiday this summer
• Ryanair is selling £19.99 flights to Portugal until midnight tonight
• London’s cherished cocktail bar inside a pie-and-mash shop sadly won’t be returning
• Day trip diary: Selsey
• In pictures: it’s annual weigh-in day for the animals at London Zoo
• Creamfields House Party
• Eat IN to Help Out: Deliveroo is launching discount deal throughout September
• Notting Hill Carnival 2020 will kick off on the big screens of Piccadilly Circus
• Fourpure is giving out free beer to those who spent their birthday in lockdown
• BOOM! There’s a new show about dub at the Museum of London
• It’s all you can eat at London’s cheese conveyor belt throughout September
• Francis Lee’s ‘Ammonite’ to close the BFI London Film Festival
• The British Museum is reopening this week and it’s really eerie
• A brief history of Rampage – Notting Hill Carnival’s biggest static soundsystem
• Socially distanced beer festival cancelled over safety concerns
• Can this man become good at cooking in one week?
• Free outdoor performances from the Royal Ballet have leapt up by Hoxton Docks
• Steve McQueen’s ‘Mangrove’ to open the BFI London Film Festival
• BFI London Film Festival is going nationwide – and virtual – this year
• Hype Dish: Padella’s ‘beautifully beige’ pici cacio e pepe
• Hype Dish: Gloria’s Incomparable Lemon Pie
• Hype Dish: Tōu’s inimitable Iberian katsu sando
• Hype Dish: Quo Vadis’s smoked eel sandwich
• Hype Dish: The Quality Chop House’s perfect confit potatoes
• This is officially the best campsite in the UK
• Arsenal fan favourite Piebury Corner has closed its pie shops
• Croatia, Austria and Trinidad and Tobago have been added to the UK’s quarantine list
• The Tower of London’s ravens are ‘bored’ and missing human company
• EasyJet is selling £19.99 flights to Italy and Cyprus until midnight tonight
• Day trip diary: Liverpool
• Taste your way around the UK
• London’s annual gathering of Harry Potter fans at Platform 9 3/4 has been cancelled
• The Paperworks
• The Rolling Stones are opening a shop on Carnaby Street
• Time Out meets John David Washington
• You can explore the Mail Rail again… on foot
• A free audio movie tour is coming to Leicester Square
• Three-Ingredient Recipe: Hot 4 U’s seaweed, fig and whole lemon tapenade
• Three-Ingredient Recipe: Pip Lacey’s pineapple smoothie
• Work for the NHS? Want a big free wedding? Head this way…
• We stayed in Harry Potter’s birthplace – and it was totally bewitching
• Hammersmith Bridge closed completely after heatwave causes cracks to worsen
• Meet the Londoners behind online club night Queer House Party
• Chim-chiminey! Outdoor cinema is coming to Battersea Power Station
• The National Theatre has announced its socially distanced return in October
• Yoga on the Beach
• Plant n Go
• Pick Your Own Lavender Harvest at Carshalton Lavender
• Greenwich + Docklands International Festival
• The New Normal Festival
• Touché
• ‘Sleepless’
• Quiz on My Face
• Jesus Christ Superstar: The Concert
• Use this cracking lightning map to find out when London will get lit
• London is experiencing its hottest weather since the ’60s
• Live Jazz on the Canal
• Nest Collective: Campfire Club
• Save Live Comedy
• Oh là là! Sloane Square has been turned into a pétanque court
• StreetEat
• Rosé prosecco to arrive in the UK sooner than we thought
• 333 Mother Bar
• London Zoo has welcomed its first ever Indonesian ‘demon pigs’
• Sadiq Khan has a plan to save London’s West End
• Vehicles set to be banned in six London parks
• Wildash London
• Rebuilding Beirut with Pride
• London Design Festival will go ahead in 2020, with an ‘Architecture for Dogs’ exhibit
• Royal Observatory Greenwich has made a starry, space-themed version of the tube map
• Five reasons why you should take a UK staycation this summer
• London is getting a nine-metre-tall mural of George Michael. Finally.
• We went to a one-to-one concert and it broke our hearts
• Love docs? London’s Open City Documentary Festival is online and onsale
• IBikeLondon Super City Disco Ride
• Summer Cycle at Kew
• Done with the drive-in movies? Say hello to cycle-in cinema
• Check out this drive-in cinema in a fancy-pants west London mansion
• 5 money-saving offers at London restaurants to help you get back ‘out’ there
• Longboys has opened in King’s Cross with the doughnut-éclair hybrid 2020 needed
• Master Bao
• Enjoy Bone Daddies’ ramen for just over a fiver this August
• Four of London’s biggest pantos won’t be going ahead this Christmas
• Rapha has opened a new pop-up in Canary Wharf
• The Bridge Theatre is staging Alan Bennett’s ‘Talking Heads’ (no Jodie Comer, though, sorry)
• Somerset House is unveiling two new outdoor installations
• Secret Cinema’s next big event will turn its audience into activists
• Time Out is back!
• Electric Ballroom
• Le Pont de la Tour
• How the Great British staycation made a comeback
• What London restaurant staff want you to know about dining out in the New Normal
• London’s back: damaged, quieter but also kinder
• We tried Burger & Lobster’s new picnic hamper
• A Black Lives Matter protest this weekend will mark the anniversary of the London riots
• Leading sustainable restaurant Cub won’t be reopening after lockdown
• Belgium, Andorra and the Bahamas have been added to the UK’s quarantine list
• London Marathon 2020 to be elite-only race held in St James’s Park
• Tate is covering London’s billboards with work by up-and-coming artists
• Londoners officially drank more than the rest of the UK during lockdown
• There’s a new classic and supercar drive-in cinema in west London
• Hit the road! Seven camping spots to visit in the UK this summer
• A nine-foot statue of an ‘everyday’ Black woman has been installed in east London
• London temperatures set to soar to a scorching 37C tomorrow
• This map shows you where you can go wild camping in the UK
• How to make Chick ’n’ Sours’ K-Pop chicken sandwich
• Extinction Rebellion is planning to blockade parliament
• The eight types of Londoner that have emerged from lockdown
• TfL has launched an app to help with social distancing in London
• Uber has teamed up with Thames Clippers for a London commuter riverboat service
• Can this man become good at poker in one week?
• Freud Museum London
• Gallery Mess