December 2022

• Staffordshire bull terriers are the most stolen dog in London
• This is officially the worst train station in London
• The Thomas Hardy tree has fallen down
• That hyped £11 milk bread has arrived in London
• This ‘Emily in Paris’ heart-throb star has just opened a north London dive bar
• Alexandra Palace’s future is under threat
• Veggie Pret to shut all but two London branches
• Latteria
• Isarn
• Brother Marcus
• There’s a massive Boxing Day sale for West End theatre tickets
• Taku
• London Underground is finally getting 4G
• ‘Aftersun’ and ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ dominate London’s film award nominations
• London’s new Ticket Bank will give away 1,000 free theatre tickets a week
• London's rudest, funniest panto jokes of 2022
• With Milk
• London will darken its Christmas lights for Ukraine today
• 2022: The year that young Londoners unplugged
• The Greenhouse
• Pivaz
• A Soho toilet is up for sale
• Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium is getting a facelift
• Liz Kingsman: the reluctant comedy phenomenon
• Springfield Park Café
• Sadiq Khan is running for a historic third term as London Mayor
• The Ship
• The Blue Posts
• Stephen Graham: ‘My daughter said she’d disown me if I didn’t do “Matilda the Musical”’
• The tastiest things we ate in 2022
• For sale: the 200-year-old London mansion with TWO blue plaques
• Town Hall Hotel
• Two historic London cab shelters have been added to the National Heritage List
• London Underground has high levels of toxic air pollution
• West Hampstead Arts Club
• Wilder Gallery
• The Wilds
• Brentwood Theatre
• Jump Evolution
• Haynes Park Tennis Court
• Raphael Park
• Goodmayes Mural
• South Park
• The Ciderhouse In Forest Gate
• Stratford Boat Tours
• Woolwich Centre Library
• Rise Climbing
• Middle Dock Outdoor Pool
• Spitalfields Charnel House
• Ealing Project
• Ceramics Café
• Hanwell Zoo
• Sri Guru Singh Sabha Gurdwara
• The Curve
• Jump In Trampoline Park
• Berry Hill Park
• Norden Farm Centre for the Arts
• Loddon Nature Reserve
• Reading Museum
• The Tamil Prince
• This year’s Aqua Shard Xmas tree is helping Great Ormond Street Hospital
• Whitehall’s historic Old War Office is being transformed into a swanky food hall
• Yumchaa
• Surprisingly classy Xmas gifts you can make with stuff from the cornershop
• When Abby Met Claud
• The best new restaurants of 2022
• The Racketeer
• A Christmas Carol (Bridge Theatre)
• Club Soda Tasting Room
• There’s a Salvador Dalí immersive experience opening next week
• TikTok is going wild for this London loo that’s basically a mini-nightclub
• This new Battersea Power Station hotel has a pool with a truly incredible view
• London art exhibitions we can’t wait to see in 2023
• All Souls Christmas Carols and Orchestra
• David Hockney is launching an insanely immersive King’s Cross exhibition space
• The UK’s biggest LGBTQIA+ film festival has just announced its 2023 dates
• A new ‘Mamma Mia!’ reality show is coming to ITV
• A London gallery has been turned into a pub
• Why now is the perfect time to visit Warner Bros. Studio Tour: The Making of Harry Potter
• Tim Minchin’s ‘Groundhog Day’ musical is returning to London next year
• Turbine Theatre
• Woolwich Works
• You can see 2022’s Turner Prize-winning installation on this Hackney street
• Mount St Restaurant
• 12 amazing artists you have to see at Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2022
• Speedboat Bar
• It’s going to snow in London next week
• The best gigs of 2022 in London
• Where to watch the World Cup 2022 in London
• Central London is getting its first new public space in a decade
• An Asda Express has opened in north London
• Crazy for You
• Crazy for You
• A Wimbledon pub is serving free Xmas dinner to anyone alone on December 25
• 500 ‘genuinely affordable’ new homes are being built in Tottenham
• This historic London cinema is under threat of closure
• ‘We Will Rock You’ is returning to the West End after nine years away
• What cost-of-living crisis? Harrods is selling £750 Christmas crackers
• Everything we know about Kate Middleton’s Christmas carol concert
• London's most outlandish Christmas trees, ranked
• Lime Tree Hotel
• The best hot yoga and bikram in London
• How the Trocadero blew London’s mind then vanished for ever
• You can get bargain pastries galore at London’s first Greggs outlet store
• The iconic Fenwick’s department store on Bond Street is closing after 130 years
• Goods Office
• Jack Solomons Club
• Sophie's Soho
• Greenwood
• D Grande
• Luna
• Revealed: how much it costs to rent a flat in each London borough
• The best (and worst) art exhibitions of 2022
• Someone has created a tube map that’s ‘fairer’ for south London
• Cowshed Carnaby
• This new map shows London’s most deprived areas
• Sh!t Theatre’s Sing-a-long-a-Muppet Christmas Carol
• What’s going on with Uber drivers right now?
• There might be a giant new billboard in Piccadilly Circus
• Café de Paris reopens under a new guise
• The House of Commons is (literally) full of rodents
• Peter Kay Live in London at the O2
• This iconic London tiki bar is being evicted just after Christmas
• Check out what Euston station will look like after its £2.6 billion makeover
• ‘Love Island’s fave Turkish restaurant Sheesh is opening in Mayfair
• Sad news: the legendary BBC Maida Vale recording studio is going on sale today
• Canary Wharf is getting a fancy new drawbridge after four years of planning
• James Norton will star in a new West End adaptation of ‘A Little Life’ next spring