January 2023

• An erotic odyssey through London’s sexy restaurants
• The Man of Aran
• Mannions Prince Arthur
• The Life Goddess Store Street
• Now on the market: an amazing flat at the top of St Pancras station
• Old Spitalfields Market
• The UK’s first charity-shop department store has opened in Brent Cross
• Finsbury Park’s iconic Sylvanian Families shop is closing after 30 years
• Here’s how to get tickets for Madonna’s London shows
• Why is everyone in London getting bitten right now?
• Is it just us or… is London covered in rubbish?
• Avora: A New World Cocktail Experience
• Amanda from ‘The Traitors’ is hosting a ‘betray ball’ at Two Brewers tonight
• Oh dear: turns out that HS2 might not actually reach central London
• Everything you need to know about this year’s new blue plaques in London
• Bar Kroketa
• The Bar at the Dorchester
• Hackney plans to turn three-quarters of its roads into LTNs
• New report says London is the best city in Europe for street art
• Notting Hill Carnival founder Claudia Jones is getting a blue plaque
• Akub
• The Museum of London is bringing the Donald Trump baby blimp back
• Wilderness
• The best sex toys to buy online for Valentine's Day
• Black Boy Lane street sign vandalised after Tottenham road is renamed
• There’s a major immersive Disney exhibition coming to London
• Why London’s ingredient of the year is yuzu
• Academy Award nominee Paul Mescal is heading to the West End with the Almeida’s acclaimed ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’
• The Dorchester hotel has a brand new James Bond-inspired bar
• A brand new theatre has just opened in Elephant & Castle
• Aphex Twin will headline Field Day 2023
• Jacuzzi
• South London could be getting new public spaces the size of 194 football pitches
• We saw the Yayoi Kusama robot at Louis Vuitton and it’s terrifying
• Home X
• Dip & Flip
• Super cheap, entirely delicious meals for under £7
• Someone has renamed east London’s tube stations in cockney
• Pizza East Portobello
• Tozi Grand Cafe
• Cecconi's (Shoreditch)
• Battle of the Buns – a Lunar New Year showdown
• West End theatres might be the next to go on strike
• Liverpool Street station could be getting a serious glow-up
• The Camden Highline is finally happening
• Beauty giant Sephora is finally returning to London
• Yet another beloved London restaurant has closed down
• London gem Pollock’s Toy Museum says it must close
• Pastada
• Chet’s
• The Globe has announced its summer season (and the first ever price rise to its standing tickets)
• Josie Rourke: ‘I stopped being an artistic director in the hope I could do life things’
• 10 legendary West End restaurants to visit after the theatre
• Rules
• Guinea
• Controversial Soho club The Windmill wants to bring back naked dancers
• Brixton Academy has had its licence suspended for three months after crowd crush deaths
• There’s a new exhibition of photos of the Queen and her corgis
• The best cinemas in London for a date
• The Cinema in the Power Station
• How a neighbourhood meme went global: the fascinating story of Nat Has Herpes
• Gigantic shimmering bubbles will be appearing across the City this week
• Two out of five trains in London were disrupted last year
• It might snow again in London this week
• Suchard
• The nine best live podcast shows in London this year
• ‘Aspects of Love’ review
• Nutbourne
• How to use 2023’s bank holidays to get the most out of our time off
• Old Kent Road might be getting a brand new lido
• Half-term in London
• We win again: London named best city in the world to visit in 2023
• Liberty London is hosting its first ever in-store sample sale
• Paul Mescal will star in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ at the Almeida
• Spiritland
• 5 shows to see at the London International Mime Festival 2023
• London’s best new galleries
• 2023’s first newborn at London Zoo is a healthy two-toed sloth
• Battersea Power Station Light Festival is back this month
• Kangnam Pocha
• Arsenal has unveiled the artwork for the outside of Emirates Stadium
• Are the Parthenon Marbles actually leaving London?
• An apartment in the grade I-listed Isokon Building could be yours
• Ronnie Scott’s wants your unwanted musical instruments for deprived schools
• High Steaks
• There’s a big campaign to save the famous Hampstead Antique Emporium
• A 200-year-old pub in London Bridge has just closed without explanation
• ‘It was like being in a sci-fi movie’: Londoners share their favourite memories of the Trocadero
• London’s traffic is STILL the worst in the world
• London’s getting a huge new photography gallery
• The Star by Liverpool Street
• Saravana Bhavan
• The Ginger Pig
• If you do one thing in 2023… learn to sew
• St John Marylebone
• Fabled Holland Park celeb hangout Julie’s has closed after 53 years
• Le Bab, Old Street
• Princi
• 21Soho
• What's happening with the tube and bus price hikes?
• Angler
• Locals are sharing their biggest London icks
• Is this London’s best-value home on the market right now?
• Prince Bonaparte
• Madonna’s secret 40th-anniversary greatest-hits tour is coming to London
• Leggero
• All creatures great and small: London Zoo is doing its annual stocktake 2023
• Oriole
• Sticky Fingers
• These are the best new hotels coming to London in 2023
• RuPaul’s DragCon UK
• Will Elf Bars die in 2023?
• Now Elizabeth line rail workers are going on strike
• This is officially the best spa in London
• Go Ape Alexandra Palace
• Legendary Soho deli I Camisa & Son has been saved
• The No Trousers Tube Ride is happening again this January
• Romesh Ranganathan has done an epic vegan pizza collab with Yard Sale
• A legendary doughnut bakery is coming to London