April 2023

• We tried the huge new Pret menu drop and here’s what’s good (and not so good)
• London's black cabs have been fitted with some very important new equipment
• Langbourns Bar & Dining
• Sad times: Pret’s coffee subscription goes up in price. Again!
• Kentish Town tube station will be closed for a year
• Brunswick House
• Return of the king: HMV is coming back to its Oxford Street home
• All the best new London restaurant openings in May
• Kenneth Branagh will play King Lear in the West End for 50 performances only this autumn
• The best London art exhibitions to see in May 2023
• You can rent an actual Uber horse-drawn carriage for the coronation
• Ceru
• The Cross
• Daikin Centre
• East London could get not one, not two but three new outdoor pools
• Frankie Thompson: Catts
• The Tower of London’s Beefeaters have had a beefy glow-up with new uniforms for the coronation
• Euphoria, filth and mayhem: why do people love Infernos nightclub?
• The Savoy Grill has had a plush vintage Hollywood glamour makeover
• London has been crowned the best city in Europe for 2023
• The Met Police have called for Brixton Academy's licence to be revoked
• Five Miles
• Grow Tottenham
• Sylvanian Families Shop
• Lidl might open a store in Knightsbridge
• Printworks enters its final week
• A Kensington town house with impeccable literary credentials is up for sale
• O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
• London in the sun is touched by the gods
• A first edition Shakespeare text from 1623 has gone on display
• Rustique Literary Cafe
• There’s a huge immersive street art exhibition coming to Camden
• Village 512
• Leaves of Glass
• Coronation Bank Holiday Special: DE Experience
• A tasty guide to London’s most sustainable restaurants
• A pint-loving journalist has created an indispensable map of London pubs with late licenses
• The UK’s first LGBTQ+ comedy club is opening in London
• Late: ‘Seven Worlds, One Planet’
• Lucy Wong
• Potter & Reid
• A massive manor house that inspired James Bond is up for sale
• BBC Earth Experience
• Layla Bakery
• Streetwear heroes Aries have opened their first store, and it’s in London
• ‘Dead Dog Bridge’ in Camden has reopened to the public at last
• People are starring in their own Wes Anderson films on TikTok
• Deeney’s
• Close-Up – The Twiggy Musical
• When is King Charles’s coronation and how can I see it?
• Madame Tussauds has a new royal display ahead of the King’s coronation
• There's a huge new 60ft Damien Hirst sculpture in Greenwich Peninsula
• The DLR could finally extend to Thamesmead
• An immersive Shakespeare museum is opening in Shoreditch next year
• Adeel Akhtar: ‘I don’t know if there’s a market for a tiny Asian superhero’
• Glowing animatronic swans will fill the Thames at this year’s Greenwich + Docklands Festival
• Commuters rejoice: Waterloo station is getting a big refurb
• Swift Borough
• More than half the homes in London's most exclusive postcodes are empty
• Hundreds of vintage London street signs are being sold off
• Asda has launched a self-driving car delivery service
• Greggs gears up for a fight over the Leicester Square sausage roll ban
• The best hotel in London has been revealed
• An e-bike proficiency scheme has been launched in London
• The Langham
• Seven London art exhibitions we can’t wait to see in summer 2023
• Smith's Bar & Grill
• St James's Hotel & Club
• A new West End ticket sale is cutting the price of London’s fanciest theatre seats
• 9 tips for saving money at the movies
• Lights, camera…demolition? Camden Council reveals £110m ‘Mini-Hollywood’ plans
• Here’s why locals are kicking off about the state of Finsbury Park
• East Dulwich Tavern
• Skylark Roof Garden
• Next month’s Lizzy Line timetable changes could make your commute even faster
• London is the UK’s official ‘nepo baby’ capital
• A legendary, spectacular plant has flowered for the first time at Kew
• This London bridge could be the city’s first to charge a toll
• Three London Wetherspoons have been named among England’s best
• Wait, are TfL making the tube cheaper on Fridays or not?
• MC Grindah's Taste Cadets and Yard Sale have done a collab charity pizza
• The National Portrait Gallery is going to have a late-night cocktail bar
• Someone has reimagined London with nine boroughs and the internet has mixed opinions
• Someone’s been nicking merch from the big ‘Star Wars’ exhibition
• Stella’s
• London bar reviews
• Thwarted magic: the bizarre London buildings that never were
• Live in style, above a former art deco London cinema
• A phone is reported stolen in London every six minutes
• So Restaurant
• Publiq.
• London on Screen: The Summerhouse Estate in ‘Top Boy’
• London on screen: visit the Covent Garden flat that housed a Hitchcock serial killer
• Rambutan
• King Charles III's Coronation Walking Tour
• Brown’s Covent Garden reveals its rather ravishing refurb for its fiftieth anniversary
• Papi
• So Last Century Winter Vintage Market
• London Metropolitan Archives
• Marugame Udon
• Over 50,000 people benefit from TfL’s ‘Family and friends’ travel perks – you could too
• Over a third of London’s youth clubs are set to close without new funding
• Here’s where to find Lindsay Lohan’s mansion in ‘The Parent Trap’
• London on Screen: What happened to the house in Mike Leigh’s ‘Naked’?
• London on screen: the guinea pig-themed café from ‘Fleabag’
• London on screen: the strip club from ‘Mona Lisa’
• London on screen: How ‘GoldenEye’ turned Somerset House into St Petersburg
• London on screen: the tailors from ‘Kingsman: the Secret Service’
• London on screen: how Greenwich played home to the Paris uprising from ‘Les Misérables’
• Legendary boozer The Prince of Peckham is opening a second venue
• London on screen: the mansion block from ‘Repulsion’
• London on screen: the flat from ‘About a Boy’
• London on screen: the pub from ‘Help!’
• London on screen: the house from ‘Hellraiser’
• London on screen: the blue door from ‘Notting Hill’
• London on screen: the church from ‘The Omen’
• Why are pub bag thefts so high in London at the moment?
• A guy’s going viral on TikTok for tapdancing on the tube and no one knows why
• An incredible 1930s art deco cinema in Harrow is being restored and reopening
• A London council wants to create an ‘urban forest’ beside the Thames
• Here’s what ‘Quadrophenia’s iconic Vespa café looks like now
• Paul O’Grady’s Battersea Dogs & Cats Home tribute fund passes £200k
• Titanosaur: check out the gigantic new dinosaur at the Natural History Museum
• Nine out of ten Londoners love our famous public transport system
• Spring has sprung for Newham Council as it opens a new community garden
• Oranj
• Sloane Street is getting a frankly unnecessary £46m makeover
• Benihana Piccadilly
• Raye: ‘There’s an unspoken thing about south London’s energy’
• Beauty Club London
• Europe’s oldest surgical operating theatre is reopening
• Bottoms up! Noble Rot is opening its third London restaurant this week
• ‘Titanosaur: Life as the Biggest Dinosaur’
• Five great things not to miss at Star Wars Celebration this weekend
• Londoners want to stop more pollution of the Thames with sewage
• London House