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Steven JoyceEach year, the makers of the world’s flakiest, doughiest baked goods are put to the test at the annual Pastry Awards. Hosted by La Liste, a global restaurant and hotel guide, the awards dish out prizes to the pâtisseries, […]
Image: Model Market Before it shut up shop in 2021, Lewisham’s Model Market was one of London’s go-to street food destinations. But foodies have been rejoicing since the end of last year, when it was announced Model Market will reopen […]
Photograph: Wikimedia Commons The Queens in Crouch End is one of the grandest pubs north of the river. Built as a companion piece to Green Lanes’ iconic The Salisbury between 1899 and 1902, CAMRA describes the Grade II-list venue as a ‘superb […]
Photograph: Euan Cherry/BBCUpdate: we now know a lot more about the stage play of The Traitors. Called The Traitors – Acts of Betrayal, it will run at the enormous Gillian Lynne Theatre from May 11 next year. Its big USP […]
Photograph: Shutterstock/Robert WilsonThe good thing about the West End’s large stock of relatively blandly named theatres is that there’s always something to rename after our greatest stage legends. Following in the recent footsteps of the Harold Pinter Theatre (née the Comedy […]
Image: James PotterLondon’s tube map is a design classic because its interwar creator, Harry Beck, took the then-radical step of taking the messy, wibbly-wobbly intricacies of real-life train routes and turning them into something streamlined and neat. And since he […]
Photograph: KidWe’ve been waiting for this news for a while and frankly, we’re thrilled to announce that former Mangal II chef Sertaç Dirik is opening a brand new restaurant in Soho. Dirik is joining forces with restaurateur David Carter of Oma, […]