August 2021

• Bottomless bao might be London’s best brunch concept yet
• A new neon art installation has opened in Covent Garden
• ‘Creepy’ ‘Naked Attraction’ ads to be removed from London buses
• Liverpool Street’s Andaz hotel is launching a pop-up tattoo parlour
• There’s a new book celebrating the history of London pubs
• London is one of the most stressful cities in the world for driving
• A scheme to improve nightlife safety is extending across London
• Soho’s pedestrianised streets will reopen to traffic soon
• This is why you need to know about Appleton Estate’s Jamaican Jazz Series
• Terms and Conditions: Escape to the Caribbean
• Sadiq Khan plans to house Afghan refugees in London council homes
• Park Row
• London is one of the few places in the UK where Covid rates aren’t rising
• A floating church and a football stadium are among London buildings winning awards
• A first look inside London’s first Wendy's
• Bombay Sapphire competition terms and conditions
• Three Mobile competition terms and conditions
• Mass karaoke is way better than we expected
• Over 40 West End shows have reduced their prices for the next fortnight
• Walk on the ceiling at Westfield’s new Upside Down House
• The UK’s favourite garden is in London
• Greenwich + Docklands International Festival is back and better than ever
• Excelsior! Comic Con's London return has been announced
• Opium-smuggling sandals and slavery: there’s a fascinating new show about London as a port
• Brick Lane is going traffic-free on weekends
• Supa Ya Ramen is coming to Kingsland Road
• Open House: nine properties to see inside
• The BFI London Film Festival will close with ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’
• Matsudai Ramen to launch ramen deliveries and a London pop up
• New Culture Revolution
• Here are London's biggest outdoor drinking terraces
• Beefeater Distillery
• The Museum of Brexit will not in fact be in London
• September is full of amazing art exhibitions
• Fishmonger Fin and Flounder is launching a seafood shack
• Goodbye to Lena Dunham’s ‘Girls’, the show that launched a thousand thinkpieces
• The world’s first tequila taproom is coming to London
• Brioche is for losers: London's three best all-savoury burgers
• Hype dish: The Second City beefy sub at Bodega Rita’s
• GoBoat is offering free voyages for pups and their humans this Thursday
• ‘Ghosts’ actor Kiell Smith-Bynoe on rap battles and chicken shops in Forest Gate
• E-scooters to be banned from London parks over safety concerns
• Thames Limo London
• Tom Ravenscroft‘s perfect Sunday in Stoke Newington
• The Changing of the Guard is back at Buckingham Palace
• Ice cream kings Ben and Jerry‘s launch limited edition scoop in Soho
• Overheard in London: this week’s #wordonthestreet
• Masterchef legend Santosh Shah’s Nepalese pop-up sounds dope
• Pastaio is launching a new slushie series inspired by Soho’s coolest bars
• London fish and chip shops that aren't actually shite
• MAC
• Dragons and Mythical Beasts
• Palace skateboards and Stella Artois are opening two boozers
• Petersham Nurseries’ afternoon tea is helping to save India’s elephants.
• Are you ready for this? Extinction Rebellion has kicked off two weeks of protests
• A massive new Four Quarters arcade bar is opening this week
• Chef James Cochran's scotch bonnet collab with Sauce Shop looks a bit special
• Marugame Udon brings more oodles of noodles
• The Dilly
• In pictures: 16 years of the World Naked Bike Ride
• An ‘Only Fools & Horses’ pub is opening in Farringdon
• Grrreat news! Tigre Tacos finds new permenant home in Stoke Newington
• This fluffy, pink mezcal bar just popped up in east London
• Leytonstone Loves Film
• Next month you can see ‘Joker’ with its full glorious score performed live
• Escaped parrot becomes Waterloo Station's newest employee
• This banging Amsterdam avocado restaurant is coming to London
• 10 London-bound gigs and tours you'll want to book now
• An Islington pub could set a table football world record
• The five best London entries from this year's National Restaurant Awards
• Three London tattoo artists are helping oppose violence against women
• Put your hands up for Detroit, our lovely ’za
• Too Good To Go wants to help reopen one London restaurant shut by the pandemic
• East End chippy under threat due to its ties to Jack the Ripper
• Seven London music festivals you can still get tickets for
• Churchill's Old War Office is being turned into flats (and a hotel)
• This is not a drill: Nandos has run out of chicken
• London now has a mural of future prime minister Marcus Rashford
• Three London Paralympians you should get to know now
• In pictures: the World Naked Bike Ride swept through London
• Buns, baby: House of Cinn comes to Selfridges
• London’s best wings that will leave you clucking for more
• London’s answer to Disney World just got a step closer to reality
• There’s an immersive Caribbean party coming to Brick Lane
• Kenwood House is hosting what might be the cleverest festival ever
• Almost every London school is in an area with severe pollution
• Central London’s parking wardens are set to go on strike
• Not one but THREE festivals are coming to Clapham Common over the bank holiday
• The London Dungeon of all places is offering ‘shot for shots’
• Beavertown Brewery is opening its first proper pub
• Grab great street food at Black-Owned Hackney market this weekend
• This NYC dive bar-inspired parlour is giving away free pizza on Monday
• AllBright’s terrace is Elle Woods in rooftop form
• Lyles and Flor launch £20 Michelin lunch
• Homestyle Indian restaurant Gunpowder comes to Soho
• Buckingham Palace is getting hammered by bad TripAdvisor reviews
• There are two Marina Abramović exhibitions opening next month, and they’re free
• One tube line is worse than all the others for your skin
• Whyte Rushen to serve dinner inspired by Stamford Hill Estate and the offy
• *Actually* London isn’t that unaffordable any more
• Frieze Sculpture Park is coming back next month
• Find authentic Cuban food as Cuca pops up at Cinder
• This Walthamstow brewery is saving the cheetahs one sip at a time
• The Library Bar
• The Wolseley is facing a £1 million unpaid rent bill. That’s a lot of kedgeree
• Hampstead Heath is limiting the number of dog walkers allowed in the park
• More Mound mayhem: deputy council leader quits after costs balloon to £6 million
• The Cause is hosting a ‘Rave Safe’ all-dayer on Sunday
• The Central Line could be extended further into Essex
• Check out this unique London lakeside festival tomorrow
• Get in! London state school outperforms Eton in meeting Oxbridge targets
• Fitzrovia is getting an injection of Cuban culture
• Café Bao is launching Taiwanese-style breakfast
• All power to the Pretleteriat!
• Calm yourselves: there is NOT a crack in the Sky Pool
• Four Tet, Nina Kraviz and Moodymann DJ battles are coming to London
• Everything you need to know about this evening's meteor shower in London
• Angel Comedy at the Camden Head
• Natasha Zinko’s Mayfair café is where all the cool kids hang
• See Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Sian Clifford in conversation next month
• Some of your favourite movies are screening for free in Trafalgar Square
• ‘Beyoncé and Jay-Z took over the bar one night’: cocktail legend Mr Lyan on the home of his first bar
• Can you help? Lewisham food banks urgently need more volunteers
• Terms and conditions: City Pantry 2019
• Walthamstow Flea Market is returning to Truman’s Social Club
• The Outside Project is holding a sexual-health screening and Covid-19 jab drop-in session today
• Boxpark Croydon will be screening the ‘Love Island’ finale
• Support Cue Point’s scheme to make the restaurant industry more accessible to refugees
• Official! London has one of the world’s most Instagrammable neighbourhoods
• 4 London walks for when you’re sick of nature
• Hype dish: Hoppers’ perfectly balanced egg hopper
• Overheard in London: this week’s #wordonthestreet
• Daytime cars are going to be banned from Stoke Newington Church Street
• 6 art exhibitions worth leaving London for
• Lions on the loose in the West End!
• Printworks has just announced its comeback line-up
• Rihanna’s Fenty is coming to Westfield
• Pizzeria Mozza to open restaurant at Treehouse Hotel
• The V&A has announced its programme for the 2021 London Design Festival
• Sadiq Khan: ‘The climate catastrophe is being brought home to us’
• Upskirt photographer arrested at Bank and jailed
• London's teens are officially the cleverest in England
• This poodle riding around London on a scooter will make your day
• A sculpture exhibition for the NHS is coming to London
• ‘Bach & Sons’ review
• Mamma Pastrama! A new pastrami sandwich shop is coming to Carnaby
• ‘This Is Going To Hurt’: the West End reopens with this hilarious and passionate NHS monologue
• ‘Carousel’ review
• Cheese! Jam! Alexandra Palace Farmers’ Market is open again
• London would have come 21st in the Olympics
• Open House Festival
• 48 affordable rooftop homes are coming to Harrow
• The London Design Festival
• Help fund a Keith Flint mural in Hackney
• London is rammed full of pop-up vaccine centres
• A work that inspired Picasso is going on show at the National Gallery
• The stunning Museum of the Moon returns to London this month
• Rock on! Abbey Road Studios is opening its doors to the public
• The team behind Noble Rot have opened a wine shop, Shrine to the Vine
• London's museums are getting snap happy in the first #MuseumInstaSwap
• Terms and conditions: Love Local £100 voucher
• Win 1 of 5 £200 Dr. Martens vouchers: terms and conditions
• Win one of five £200 Dr. Martens vouchers
• Beavertown announces its wacky birthday brews
• The best cheap hotels in the Lake District
• Ice-cream heaven is coming to Covent Garden
• The Tramshed Project is holding its last meal on Sunday
• JetBlue is offering cheap flights from London to New York
• Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
• The government is finally saying it will step in to help festivals
• Book now to experience a huge immersive dance event at Battersea Arts Centre
• How rare is this? There’s a new queer-owned restaurant on Ridley Road
• More very high quality pizza is coming to London
• A year-long sound art installation by Yuri Suzuki is coming to the West End
• There's a new sustainable bar in Hackney Wick
• WATCH: Bukayo Saka reacts to wall of messages of support at Arsenal training ground
• The Dishoom home feast kit has arrived
• You can watch outdoor screenings of ‘The Lion King’ and other film faves for free
• A legendary graffiti-clad east London pub returns to action this weekend
• A hotel on the South Bank has opened a kitchen garden
• Where to watch the Tokyo Olympics in London
• This show about Holocaust survivors is uplifting and inspiring
• There’s a show of late Mark Rothko paintings coming to London
• Every phone scam you might fall for in London right now
• Watch two Londoners do every single Olympic event in the capital – in 46 hours
• 14 brilliant, real-life club nights to book this summer
• London has one of the most Instagrammable bookshops in the world
• The Vagina Museum is hunting for a new home
• London’s quality of life makes it the world’s ‘city of choice’
• Printworks have launched a brand new room
• The best hotels in Westminster
• Camden Town Brewery returns to London with a massive tank party
• Yoko Ono wants you to mend the world (and some pots) in her new exhibition
• The best hotels in north London
• 18 things to do in London before you’re 18
• Ahoy! Take a peek at Captain William Bligh’s nautical-themed house
• Help Fat Macy's build a training academy
• You can get vaccinated at Heaven nightclub this Sunday
• The best hotels in south London
• There’s a new festival of summer lights in Canary Wharf
• Explore Kew Gardens by bike at Summer Cycle
• ‘Chick-in’ at this finger lickin’ KFC-themed hotel suite
• London’s best nightlife to book this week
• ‘The Last Five Years’: magnificently bittersweet musical
• ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’: the Globe is back and how we’ve missed it
• ‘Romeo & Juliet’ review (Globe)
• The four-day tube strike has been called off
• More heavy thunderstorms forecast for London
• ‘Anna X’ review
• Handel & Hendrix in London
• ‘Amélie the Musical’ review
• ‘The Prince of Egypt’ review
• You can now meet Little Mix’s waxy avatars at Madame Tussauds
• ‘Constellations’ review
• ‘The Windsors: Endgame’ review
• Jersey Boys
• ‘Twelfth Night’ review
• The Islington Townhouse
• There’s now a Berghain-inspired fitness class in London