January 2024

• Chinese Astronomy at Greenwich Royal Observatory
• Lunar New Year Dragon Dance
• David Tucker: ‘Dad’
• The Intergenerational Game: Lunar New Year Edition
• Lunar New Year at the BFI
• BFI Future Film Festival
• Frenchie
• London’s most valuable green spaces have been revealed
• Milk
• Regent Street could be getting a grand European-style makeover
• Archway
• Wingstop’s biggest ever restaurant is coming to London
• The Lady Hamilton
• Lunar New Year Lion Dance at Borough Market
• Covent Garden Health Spa
• London is the most affordable it’s been in a decade, apparently
• ‘Entangled Pasts, 1768–Now’
• Sune
• Seapa (aka Allan Mustafa) on his favourite pizza in all of London
• A new David Attenborough VR experience has launched in London
• It’s your last chance to see these six amazing London art exhibitions
• More strikes have just been announced for the London Overground
• Half term at the Florence Nightingale Museum
• Half term at the Royal Institution
• Loads of train stations in north London could be getting upgrades
• Ruben’s Reubens
• Wireless festival has announced five huge headliners for 2024
• All the best new London restaurant openings in February
• Three Uncles Camden
• Four London parks are getting massive makeovers
• ‘Desert Island Discs’ is coming to the West End for its first ever live shows
• 12 London art exhibitions to see in February 2024
• Will Thameslink be affected by train strikes this week?
• Andina Spitalfields
• 28°-50° By Night
• Plaza Suite
• The Manor House Hotel, Alsager
• Lobby Bar at One Hundred Shoreditch
• 12th Knot
• Bella Vita
• Nine of the UK’s best Sunday roasts are in London, according to the Times
• In the Round at the Roundhouse
• Northanger Abbey
• First look: this London exhibition shows off brand-new King Charles III banknotes
• 1 Old Billingsgate Walk
• Resy, one of London’s favourite restaurant booking platforms, is shutting down
• Delays on the Central Line will last for months
• This is how much you need to earn to be financially stable in London, apparently
• Tenderbooks
• Arros QD
• Costa Unbeliva-bar
• Soane Late: Drawing Inspiration
• Tate Modern Late with The Guerrilla Girls
• Ceviche Soho
• February Family Festival
• Hannah Japanese Restaurant
• Half Term at the Royal Museums Greenwich
• February half term at the London Wetlands Centre
• This Shoreditch restaurant has been named the best in London for 2024
• There could soon be a new way to pay for the Elizabeth line
• Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre has announced its summer season
• This beloved London zoology museum is reopening
• This London bridge may never reopen – but why?
• Shuvinai Ashoona: ‘When I Draw’
• ‘All of Us Strangers’: Andrew Haigh on the surprising London locations behind his ghostly love story
• Moto
• LGBTQ+ theatre in London
• Dinosaur rEvolution
• Pret A Manger is launching its first full kids’ menu
• South London music venue IKLECTIK needs your help to survive
• Crisp Pizza W6
• ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ and ‘Boys from the Blackstuff’ will lead the National Theatre’s summer 2024 season
• The Elizabeth line will be partially closed throughout February
• Callooh Callay Chelsea
• After over 100 years, this iconic London pie and mash shop is closing for good
• The Blackwall Tunnel will close again in March – but there’s good news for this weekend
• Cute
• The Serpentine Pavilion is getting a star-shaped redesign this summer
• Fenwick’s Bond Street store now has an official closing date
• Project 6
• Little Nan's Bar
• Fenwick’s Bond Street store will soon be taken over by charity shops
• Jeffrey Gibson: ‘Dreaming Of How It's Meant To Be’
• Stephen Friedman
• Phil Wang on his favourite restaurant in south London
• Jab
• Royal Philharmonic Valentine’s Opera Gala
• Valentine’s Gastrotour at Borough Market
• Valentine’s Day | Heroica Poetry Night
• The team behind The Glory is opening a brand-new queer venue in east London
• Out of Season
• TfL is making it much easier (and cheaper) to get around London by bike
• Science and Sip
• Popeyes is opening two new London restaurants this week
• Eight London gastropubs have been named the best in the UK
• Storm Jocelyn: here is the exact date and time the next massive storm will hit London
• Harwood Arms
• London is officially one of Time Out’s best cities in the world right now
• Shakespeare’s Globe has announced its 2024 summer season
• This surprising London art gallery has been named the world’s best ‘hidden gem’
• Alley Cats Pizza
• Two London coffee shops have been named the most popular in the world
• ‘Frozen’ the musical is closing in the West End
• Music festivals at Victoria Park will soon get much, much bigger
• Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical
• Lina Stores is opening its first restaurant in west London
• Bankside’s Frost Fair
• Depeche Mode at London’s O2 Arena: support acts, start time and everything you need to know
• This borough has been named London’s safest area to raise a family
• Emma Cousin: ‘Tunnel Vision’
• The world’s first ‘floating terrarium’ is in London – and you can stay in it
• Nine amazing artists you have to see at Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2024
• Six London areas have been named England’s best places to retire
• Good news: more loos are coming to the tube
• Rejoice, a super rare (and cute) baby gorilla has just been born at London Zoo
• You can get a grave next to Karl Marx for £25,000
• Bring Me the Horizon at London’s O2 Arena: everything you need to know
• Barbara Kruger
• A massive storm is heading for London: here’s the exact date it will strike the capital
• Hooray! London bus and tube fares are not going up this year
• Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch
• Kew Orchid Festival
• Brooklyn Beckham is opening a restaurant in London next week
• Revealed: the London boroughs where house prices have risen (and fallen) the most
• Painting and Prosecco Valentine’s Special
• ‘The Kitchen’: How to build a terrifyingly dystopian London in 6 steps
• Family Valentine’s Day Chocolate Workshop
• Woman with a Movie Camera Summit 2024
• Legendary Camden gay pub The Black Cap is officially reopening
• Beloved London charity and members’ club The House of St Barnabas is closing
• Wish You Weren’t Here
• TDQ Steaks
• Cirque du Soleil: Alegría
• Legendary London restaurant St John is opening a pop-up in Fortnum & Mason
• Cowbois
• The Predator Vault
• Snow will hit London again this week: here’s the exact date deep freeze is expected
• HOKO Café
• Quercus at Sun Street Hotel
• The Dusty Knuckle Harringay
• Japanese Whisky Tasting at Ginza
• Band of Burns
• Burns Night at Mama Shelter
• Leo's
• This & That
• Benedict Cumberbatch leads the ludicrously starry guest cast of new comedy play ‘Whodunnit 3’
• This iconic red London phone box could be yours for £15,000
• When You Pass Over My Tomb
• Battersea Power Station is now officially one of London’s most popular attractions
• The Breakfast Club is opening a new restaurant in the West End
• Lagom
• B&M is opening three brand-new London stores
• Kin
• Cilantro
• ‘The worst part of eating eight hot dogs a night? The salt poisoning’: Ginger Johnson’s favourite spots in London for shopping, walking and drinking
• These are the best (and worst) London Underground lines, according to ‘science’
• NoMad London
• Self-Raising
• This supersonic jet will go from London to New York in just three and a half hours
• Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
• Entrañas (Insides)
• This Might Not Be It
• This city has been named London’s cheapest commuter town
• Frank Skinner: 30 Years of Dirt
• Rewind
• London’s getting a brand new cinema... on the Thames
• Condo 2024: there’s an amazing city-wide art festival happening in London this weekend
• Royal Institute of British Architects
• Heralding Spring at Chelsea Physic Garden
• Luisa Omielan: Bitter - Valentines Special
• Backyard Cinema: Romeo and Juliet
• Tube fares could get ‘dynamic pricing’ – here’s what that actually means for travelling around London
• Rivoli Ballroom Valentine’s Day Pop-up Cinema
• Orchids Festival at Kew
• Franco Manca
• A campaign has been launched to stop using real bearskin in the King’s Guards’ caps
• Roti Stop
• A brand-new community sauna has opened in east London
• Iconic London department store Fortnum & Mason is expanding
• Kim’s Convenience
• Robert Ryman: Line
• London Experimental
• Chinatown is getting a fancy new pagoda
• Make January sparkle with complimentary Champagne at these 13 excellent restaurants
• These London boroughs had the biggest wage hikes in the last decade
• Four London areas have been named Britain’s ‘most depressing’ towns
• London’s legendary Jack the Ripper pub has gone up for sale
• Alert! It could snow in London next week
• Meet the Londoners who swiped right for ‘friend dating’
• London Short Film Festival 2025
• You’ll soon be able to get direct flights from London to this spectacular island destination
• Love Lates at the Science Museum
• Valentine’s at the Last Tuesday Society
• Turn It Up: The power of music
• Straits Kitchen
• Costumes from ‘The Crown’ are on display at this free exhibition
• The Last Show Before We Die
• These iconic women are getting blue plaques in London this year
• The DLR is getting steering wheels so you can finally ‘drive’ the train
• Zeit & Zaatar
• Festok
• Tamini Lebanese Bakery
• Al-Jabal Bakery
• What’s up with the spate of London gallery closures?
• Palmyra’s Kitchen
• A world-famous cocktail bar is coming to Soho
• Antechamber
• An abandoned park-keeper’s cottage in Notting Hill is for sale for £1.75 million
• Heart
• Science Museum: Lunar New Year Late
• This beloved London toy museum is reopening as a pop-up
• Ambergris
• The Most Precious of Goods
• Nobu Park Lane
• Blood on Their Hands
• Rehab the Musical
• From Rod Stewart to Gabrielle: train station gigs are taking over London
• London is officially the slowest city in the world
• Copper Chimney
• The Unfriend
• This top London university has opened an outpost in Singapore
• Cottons Shoreditch
• Made in Brasil
• Fenwick’s iconic Bond Street store is apparently having a massive closing down sale
• All the best new London restaurant openings in January
• London has been named Europe’s best destination to visit this year
• Chef tips to help you raise your food game this Christmas
• The Boy at the Back of the Class
• Hai Cafe
• Beloved London rooftop bar Pergola is closing this month
• Medusa’s First Kiss
• Cheap tickets alert! You can get massively discounted tickets for London Zoo this week
• Pergola Paddington
• Kew Gardens’ Orangery could be getting a dazzling makeover
• Tidy
• Brasserie Zédel
• These are London’s most popular cycle routes, according to Lime
• Ready Steady Lift Off!
• In pictures: London’s No Trousers Tube Ride 2024
• Zheng Bo: ‘Bamboo as Method’
• Cookery classes you can do at home
• Online yoga and meditation classes to try at home
• NAOMI
• ‘rukus! Black Queer Legacies’
• Urooj Ashfaq: Oh No!
• Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence
• Stewart Lee: Basic Lee
• It’s official: two of Britain’s best Sunday roasts are in London
• James Acaster: Hecklers Welcome
• This London bridge is introducing weight limit fines
• The best gigs and concerts in January
• From the Caribbean to Coventry: Plotting the Rise of 2Tone
• Midnight Apothecary Wassail
• MimeLondon
• How to get around London during next week’s tube strikes, including which Underground services are running
• Treehouse Hotel
• Ron Nagle
• La Strada
• Air quality is about to be majorly improved at these two London tube stations
• This south London train station could be getting a makeover
• Giselle
• After 8 years, this popular London kids’ attraction has been forced to close
• Peter Kay at London’s O2 Arena: timings and everything you need to know
• Kagami
• Now on the market: a spectacular penthouse in Battersea Power Station
• A MasterChef finalist has been forced to close his popular south London restaurant
• Enzo Mari at the Design Museum
• 28°- 50° Wine Bar & Kitchen Oxford Circus
• London’s legendary no-trousers tube ride returns this weekend
• The best new London theatre openings in January
• 11 London art exhibitions we can’t wait to see in 2024
• Two London landmarks will feature on brand-new coins for 2024
• King’s Cross station is closing for two weekends this month
• Mestizo Mexican Market
• Scully St James’s
• Duck & Waffle
• SUSHISAMBA Covent Garden
• SUSHISAMBA
• London could soon get free wi-fi across the entire city
• Minority Report
• This important London tunnel could soon close for 9 months
• First look: these two London tube stations are getting major upgrades
• It’s official: Britain’s 10 most expensive roads are all in London
• Afterglow
• 1979