May 2023

• Anna Wintour is planning London’s answer to the Met Gala
• All the best new London restaurant openings in June
• A unique space for east London’s queer bookworms
• Valentina
• A new exhibition is coming to London to celebrate Wes Anderson’s ‘Asteroid City’
• Meat Liquor
• A massive northern ‘bier palace’ is opening in the old Rainforest Café
• Will London fashion ever get over the death of Big Topshop?
• chapati club
• Savoy Grill
• Piccadilly has had a dazzling technicolour glow-up
• Yolkin
• London is getting a massive new £25 million ‘party boat’
• Could this be London’s grandest and most glamorous cinema?
• You’ll soon be able to go inside the iconic domes at the Old Royal Naval College
• There’s a big West End summer theatre ticket sale on right now
• Is London’s World Naked Bike Ride... legal?
• The legendary Banner’s café in Crouch End is closing after 30 years
• The Vagina Museum is set to reopen after hitting its fundraising target
• You can now see Penny Mordaunt’s very heavy sword at the Tower of London
• Jake Shears: ‘I love showing people a good time’
• The Comedy of Errors
• London is the official tech capital of the world
• Japan Centre
• Why are Londoners suddenly obsessed with Guinness?
• The Flying Scotsman is visiting London next month – here’s how to see it
• A popular London lido might be closed during the ‘mini heatwave’ this weekend
• Tola
• The Elizabeth line just made it a lot easier for holidaymakers to get to Heathrow
• Four London train stations are battling to be named the best in the UK
• Primrose Hill will soon be surrounded by metal gates to stop ‘antisocial behaviour’
• This London hotel has been crowned the best in Europe
• The Horniman Museum is getting a £10million revamp
• Soho’s best ice cream shop is reopening – and now it’s serving booze
• Six gross things we can't wait to see at the reopened Hunterian
• There’s an open call for kids to play Tiny Tim at the Old Vic this Christmas
• Wimbledon bars and pubs
• The best summer pop ups in London for fabulous food and cocktails
• South London is getting a new village, called Springfield
• A singles-only festival is coming to London in July
• The Greggs summer menu just dropped. Here's what's new
• The ‘Only Fools and Horses’ car is up for auction
• Depop's hosting a curated night market featuring some of its biggest resellers
• Sweeties at The Standard
• National Theatre Live: filmed live theatre shows and how to stream them
• Wimbledon Tennis Championships: our top tips
• Elizabeth Line strike: dates and everything you need to know about the TFL action
• When is the London tourist attraction strike?
• The Parakeet
• Oxford
• Thirteen
• Top Cuvée want you to cycle from Bethnal Green to Brighton
• Greggs Leicester Square has won a legal battle to sell sausage rolls past midnight
• The Gun
• The Gun
• The Counter
• Carlotta
• Bold Tendencies, Peckham’s rooftop sculpture park, is reopening this week
• Pearl & Groove
• The Good Life Eatery
• Farmstand
• Ethos
• Ardiciocca
• Apres Food Co
• The team behind The Glove That Fits has opened a new outdoor venue
• The best toy shops in London
• 24 awesome alternative London tube maps
• Firsts Rare Book Fair
• Urban Greens
• Ruth Wilson: ‘you’ll watch me lose my mind’
• River Stage
• A Lewisham community centre with a free nursery is campaigning to stay open
• Behind
• London might get a huge new heated rooftop swimming pool
• Boqueria
• Ploussard
• The Ship in Borough is reopening
• P Franco rises from the ashes and will reopen in June
• House at the National Theatre
• Aquum
• How baked goods became the new streetwear for hungry Londoners
• E5 Bakehouse Sourdough Classes
• Papi's Grill Restaurant & Bar
• Migrateful Cookery Classes
• Boat hire in London
• Legendary Soho restaurant L’Escargot is back, baby
• West London is getting a ‘women’s only’ tower block
• A catastrophic harvest has put London’s only vineyard at risk of closure​
• Alcotraz Shoreditch: Cell Block Two-One-Two
• The Freak Scene
• Four things to see at Photo London this week
• These are the films Keanu Reeves thinks everyone should watch
• Brian Cox will return to the West End to star in ‘Long Day’s Journey into Night’ next year
• Marylebone Summer Festival
• Atlantis Art Materials
• You can visit the ultra-ancient coronation chair at Westminster Abbey
• Londis N16
• Nour Cash and Carry
• Crystal Palace Reptiles
• Think Vintage
• Loon Fung Supermarket
• Idle Moments
• Crypt of the Wizard
• Everything you need to know about King Charles III’s procession route, including map and start time
• Jessie Western
• Sephora
• Aelfred
• Annka Kultys
• All the London road closures and travel restrictions for King Charles’s coronation: how to get around
• Prince Charles Cinema won't change its name for new king, but these places will
• London buses have been given a coronation makeover
• Meet the alternative kings of London
• Fortnum & Mason now has a 3D printed cocktail bar
• 5 magnificent ‘Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story’ locations you can visit
• Lofty's Furniture
• The best coronation events in London to celebrate King Charles III
• Six London pubs are up for sale, including a famous gastropub
• Where to watch the King’s coronation in London, including big screens
• Why massive royal events seem to make London happy (even if lots of us couldn’t care less)
• Serotonin Vintage
• Retrouvius
• Artwords
• David Tennant will play Macbeth at the Donmar Warehouse this Christmas
• Santa Maria Novella
• Khan's Bargains
• The Old Curiosity Shop
• TFC Supermarket
• Third Man Records
• Phonica
• A ‘Dalmatian Cafe’ is coming to London
• London is getting a new women’s museum later this year
• Here’s why Disney’s ‘Peter Pan & Wendy’ is great news for one London hospital
• You can now take a tour of London in the Queen Mother’s limo
• Otto’s French Restaurant
• The V&A is opening its huge new photography centre this month
• The Coronation flypast could be called off due to bad weather
• Tesco is opening its first ever pub for the coronation
• Pharmacy 2
• The City of London Roman wall has been recognised as a national monument
• A 16th floor rooftop bar has opened in Battersea Power Station
• Jamie Oliver is opening a new restaurant in Theatre Royal Drury Lane
• Sundance Film Festival: London unveils its 2023 line-up
• The best alternative things to do over coronation weekend in London
• Is this the end of the line for the Heathrow Express?
• Johnny Flynn: ‘I fall asleep to Richard Burton reading me “Under Milk Wood”’
• Time Out’s alternative Turner Prize shortlist
• Plot twist: Printworks may return to the same venue... in 2026
• Ace & Tate Borough Yards
• Yours for £4.5 million: a lavish flat in a piano factory beloved by Beethoven