December 2020

• Royal Vauxhall Tavern
• Ready-made Sunday: Jamz Supernova’s favourite places in Crystal Palace
• The science behind why comfort food is actually a thing
• A Charli XCX super fan gives their tips on stanning from a distance
• 7 brilliant brunches to get delivered for New Year’s Day
• Fun things to do in London if you’re alone at Christmas
• 5 London walks for blowing away the Christmas cobwebs
• Black LDN
• New Year’s Day Parade
• Four local London radio shows to get into now we’re stuck in Tier 4
• Christmassy things you can still do in Tier 4 London
• 10 great films to watch on TV over Christmas
• The Drive-In
• Five cool bits of London nightlife venue merch to buy yourself as a Christmas present
• The best of Leicester Square, picked by a clued-up local
• Canary Wharf Connected by Light
• The best New Year’s Eve meal kits to get delivered
• Christmas at the (Snow) Globe
• Will we be able to travel this Christmas?
• 14 simple London pleasures we can’t wait to have back
• Three writers share their favourite London walks
• In 2021, let’s celebrate the little things
• 12 annoying quirks of London gigs that we’d give anything to get back
• How to channel big-night-out energy in your own flat this NYE
• London cabaret club Café de Paris closes after 96 years
• Top London chefs reveal the ingredients that make their soups extra comforting
• Can you get a refund for your cancelled Christmas travel?
• Four London music experts reveal how they find new artists in lockdown
• 11 things we never thought we’d miss about London
• Christmas shows you can stream from London’s best theatres
• Can you travel out of Tier 4 in England right now?
• What does Tier 4 mean for London over Christmas?
• Looking a Lot Like Christmas
• The best festive cocktails from London bars to have delivered this Christmas
• Uh-oh. London restrictions could be tightened again after Christmas
• Choose your own adventure: the office Christmas party
• Best dishes of 2020: London chefs reveal the tastiest things they ate this year
• Five influential Londoners reveal the best places they found in 2020
• Santa’s Little Slag
• Wavey Garms XXXmas Pop Up
• Queer House Party is throwing a free virtual rave on Christmas Day
• Quiz, Actually
• The best mince pies you can still get delivered
• Unabashed optimism to set you up for 2021 from Londoners who launched new businesses in the pandemic
• The six UK breaks we went on this year
• The London Underground map has a brand-new line
• Accidentally Wes Anderson X The Old Bank Vault
• A giant model of planet earth is rolling back into the Painted Hall
• How the Black Cultural Archives continued to thrive in 2020
• How Londoners can support the Black music industry right now
• YouTube is streaming shows from London’s best theatres this Christmas
• Terms and conditions: £20 Uber gift card 2020
• This pub is helping the vulnerable and homeless but it needs your support
• How long will London be in Tier 3 for?
• The Bingo Babes Christmas House Party with Wildcat Gin
• How to get Christmas dinner delivered in London this year
• What’s the deal with New Year’s Eve in London this year?
• Here’s what we’ve learned about London in this Very Weird Year
• London’s restaurants worry about Christmas food waste after Tier 3 U-turn
• 45 cool things we learned about London in 2020 (after it all went to shit)
• Help save the London Chinese Community Centre
• Will London’s hairdressers and barbers be open during Tier 3?
• Brightly coloured bumper cars are taking over Somerset House’s courtyard
• ‘It made me weep’: Sian Clifford from ‘Fleabag’ on her new virtual play
• What tier is London in and what does it mean for you?
• Olivia Colman and Kenneth Branagh are voicing a ‘Peter Pan’ audio play for charity
• A new Kerb street food market is coming to Oxford Street
• Local Lifesavers: readers reveal the local shops that got them through 2020
• Every birthday you were invited to this year
• What would Tier 3 before Christmas mean for London?
• Overheard in London: this week’s #wordonthestreet
• 10 must-see Christmas lights trails near London
• A new service lets you book a musical theatre show for your doorstep
• This outdoor dining terrace has a canopy made from umbrellas lost on the tube
• This Google doc shows London dining terraces with heaters
• Sherelle: ‘We’re going to have to rely on the goodness of local communities to get the music sector back on its feet’
• Most googled: Why are there so many foxes in London?
• Check out this year’s lights on London’s most Christmassy street
• The London Underground won’t be running overnight this New Year’s Eve
• Accessible theatre and a football club tackling youth violence: great London organisations helping Black communities
• New Beacon Books was the UK’s first Black publisher, and it’s still educating Londoners 50 years on
• Black history landmarks to seek out around London
• Meet the Londoner who created a support system for Black fathers
• Candice Carty-Williams reminisces about the Camberwell market of her childhood
• Three Black-owned businesses you need to get to know
• Munya Chawawa’s guide to ditching your bad shopping habits this Black Pound Day
• June Sarpong: ‘We need to look back to leap forward’
• Chef James Cochran shares his favourite Black-owned restaurants in London
• Black-owned shops in London that should be on your radar
• David Lammy: ‘Shopping is not a neutral act’
• Bedazzling DIY Christmas wreath kits to have delivered in London
• Travis Alabanza reminisces about The Royal Vauxhall Tavern
• How to fill your home with festive foliage
• MOBO Awards
• A mulled wine festival is coming to Covent Garden this Christmas
• How to make Smoke & Salt’s salt-baked carrot recipe
• Five children’s books perfect for Christmas gifts
• The Churchill Arms is proof that even 2020 can’t stop London’s festive glow-up
• Londoners have named the city’s most iconic dish
• Michel Roux Jr’s restaurant forced to close for good
• The nine best Christmas meals to book at London restaurants
• Work on the tallest building in the City is now complete
• Dane Baptiste on his first stand-up gig, in a London wine bar
• Hype Dish: Dishoom’s cult bacon naan roll
• Eco greeting cards, hampers to help the homeless and a scheme for older Londoners: great London causes to get behind
• Son of a Nutcracker! You can order an ‘Elf’ home-dining kit
• How Ridley Road’s community has become more important than ever this year
• Overheard in London: this week’s #wordonthestreet
• 10 of the best London novels (you probably haven’t read)
• Holy guacamole! Breddos tacos is finally on delivery
• The best of Elephant & Castle, picked by Joy Crookes
• Swiss Bread Bakery & Café
• Selfridges is hosting an open-air Christmas market filled with street food
• What are the chances of snow in London on Friday?
• Restaurant and bar staff set to protest over latest Tier restrictions
• A Zoom call with Santa, three festive food kits and a virtual office party: we tried doing Christmas online
• Flock Together: meet the London birdwatching group for people of colour
• The Royal Albert Hall celebrates 150 years of immigration for its 150th birthday season
• There’s a major new music venue coming to west London
• ‘I honestly might move here’: Monét X Change gets ready to take the stage for London’s Dragatha Christie murder mystery
• Londoners back Bakerloo line extension to Lewisham (and beyond)
• Actor Jade Anouka on her formative years in a New Cross flatshare
• Overheard in London: this week’s #wordonthestreet
• How to properly take care of the bike you bought in lockdown
• Spiritland and Pastaio are taking over a warehouse with DJ tunes and pasta plates
• Trinity Buoy Wharf
• A one-acre rooftop forest is coming to London
• This new directory lists 100 local London businesses to shop with this Christmas
• London’s Olympic Park is getting a blossom memorial garden for victims of the pandemic
• Watch ‘A Christmas Carol’ performed inside Dickens’s actual London house
• The National Theatre has launched its own streaming platform