April 2022

• You can now use Citymapper to plan your Elizabeth line journey
• You can now get an Uber Boat all the way to Barking in east London
• Uber is now taking Londoners’ pets (for an extra fee)
• The Mantl
• Wembley Park has announced a new line-up of free, grassroots gigs
• Kew Gardens’ Food Forever programme is BACK
• Become London's very first rooftop bar tester
• Taste of London has revealed its full line-up, and it’s cracking
• Sleep in the building where The Rolling Stones made rock ’n’ roll history
• Koko: the hidden history of Camden’s cathedral of indie sleaze
• Upstairs at The George
• Coca-Cola has opened a flagship clothing store in Covent Garden
• UK Asian Film Festival
• Harry Potter fans can now visit Professor Sprout’s magical greenhouse
• In more good news: London house prices are at their highest EVER
• Canada Water is next to get the King's Cross big regeneration treatment
• The Ukraine Freedom Orchestra will be playing the Proms this summer
• Blackhorse Beer Mile officially becomes ‘a thing’ this Sunday
• This year’s Proms will be the first to feature video-game soundtracks
• Covent Garden has a beautiful new independent cinema
• Hype Dish: Facing Heaven’s crispy sweet-and-sour seaweed toast
• A countryside meadow has popped up in Trafalgar Square
• How Jessie and Lennie Ware became the first family of food
• Lush is giving away 100,000 bath bombs today
• On your marks, get set... fight! A retro arcade is coming to Soho
• Andi Oliver remembers finding the community of her dreams in London
• Imad’s Syrian Kitchen
• Mike Bartlett: ‘Donald Trump is a Shakespearean figure’
• An opera on a beach! A ghost hunt in Brent Cross! A trans Pinocchio! LIFT is back
• Dumpling Shack is opening its first restaurant in London
• Stone Nest
• London’s first queer museum is ready to welcome you at last
• Munya Chawawa is the funniest man on the internet
• The location of the immersive Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera exhibition has been announced
• London’s most-loved dish is NOT curry, pizza, burgers or fish ’n’ chips
• Exclusive: this year’s Sundance London line-up is announced
• The Queen gets a massive Thomas Heatherwick ‘tree of trees’ for her jubilee
• Wisteria here, wisteria there, wisteria everywhere
• Doc’s DeLorean from ‘Back to the Future’ has landed in London
• The London Eye is turning orange for Stephen Lawrence Day
• Famous actors will perform a one-off West End comedy made of text messages
• Brilliant things to do in London on Earth Day
• Westminster Abbey is opening its roof for the first time this summer
• Five huge London pub beer gardens
• Seven groove-fuelled London events to check out this Record Store Day
• Your actual Robbie Williams is exhibiting his paintings at Sotheby’s
• The Florence Nightingale Museum is finally reopening
• How to get involved with Cook for Ukraine in London
• This Camden pub has unveiled a spectacular Simpsons mural
• AJ Tracey is appearing on a charity single raising money for Grenfell
• A London park could be renamed in honour of Diane Abbott
• London chefs tell us their kitchen nightmares
• Camden Market Hawley Wharf
• A ‘Mega Greggs’ flagship store is opening in Leicester Square this summer
• Terra
• Meet the chef behind Time Out’s best London restaurant of 2022
• A serious scientific examination into when iced-coffee season actually starts
• Wimbledon BookFest
• Delicious Pho
• Rai
• 'Off Menu' hosts James Acaster and Ed Gamble share their ultimate London meal
• A massive new musical about Nelson Mandela is coming to the Young Vic
• ‘Top Boy’ is now sponsoring Hackney Wick FC’s new strip. What?
• An African-themed redesign of London Underground’s logo is getting a permanent home
• A London pizzeria is offering free ‘liquorice pizzas’ inspired by the BAFTA-winning film
• CityStack is levelling up London’s independent pubs
• The mystery of London’s ‘dark kitchens’
• A new exhibition about grime music is coming to the Museum of London
• London’s going to hit 21C over Easter bank holiday: here’s how to make the most of it
• A beautiful 1920s M&S on Oxford Street is being demolished and people are unhappy
• Otherworld
• Londoners: is the £7 pint actually here to stay?
• One London restaurant is charging £10 per head to bring your own birthday cake
• Extinction Rebellion protestors stopped Lloyd’s of London from opening today
• Over 1,300 new jobs and new homes are coming to Walthamstow
• Brixton Market’s Chishuru named Time Out’s best restaurant of 2022
• Canary Wharf is getting a leafy green makeover
• This south London neighbourhood is ‘the best place to live’ in the capital says the Sunday Times
• The Bank of England Museum has reopened its doors after two years
• Doña
• London’s Boris Buses AREN’T going to be withdrawn after all
• Londoners are reacting to THAT notorious £17 pie-and-pint ‘deal’
• London buses have been turned into refuges for the homeless
• The world’s largest Lego store is launching in London
• The world’s best photos have come to London
• Guts Gallery
• Kindly Londoners are welcoming over 2,000 Ukrainian refugees into their homes
• London theatre’s biggest awards are back this weekend – here’s who will win
• Marvel at tiny artworks at mindblowing new exhibition ‘Small is Beautiful’
• The Night Tube is returning to these three lines from next month
• London thunderground: tube noise complaints are on the rise
• Meaningful mural painted in memory of ‘EastEnders’ legend June Brown
• The Jubilee line is getting permanent 4G after successful pilot
• The oldest house in London is available for rent
• Harry Potter’s Tom Felton stars in the Tower of London’s immersive Gunpowder Plot show
• Pride in London has announced this year’s parade route
• Chelsea in Bloom
• The UK’s first Corgi Cafe is coming to London
• Absolute legends Tom Daley and Sir Ian McKellen partied at the Troxy together
• Extinction Rebellion‘s ‘highly disruptive’ series of protests are kicking off this weekend
• South Western Railway is giving away free rounds after work
• A glorious mini heatwave is expected in London over Easter weekend
• SENSAS London
• The new Elizabeth line moquette just dropped
• The tube network is going to be thrown into chaos this Easter
• Lahpet West End
• HMV’s flagship Oxford Street store has turned into an American candy shop
• Brilliant Corners has opened a new space called Mu
• These new London buses have skylights and phone holders
• BrewLDN
• There’s a petition to make the National Covid Memorial Wall permanent
• Temaki
• June Brown – Dot Cotton from ‘EastEnders’ – has died aged 95
• Here are the most outrageous London April Fool’s Day jokes we’ve seen so far
• There’s an immersive vomit exhibition by Bompas & Parr opening next week
• Top Cuvée’s boozy Easter egg hunt is back and better than ever
• A garden symbolising racial and climate injustice is coming to the Chelsea Flower Show
• These are the weirdest things people have done at immersive events