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London-based Scots have The Shoap in Islington for their haggis, neeps and tatties, the Irish have McCarthy’s in Tooting for their spice bags, Taytos and chicken fillet rolls (not to mention the myriad of Irish pubs), but for Welsh Londoners missing the taste of […]
Dun, dun-dun-dun dun, dun-dun-dun dun! If there’s one thing that’s gotten us through the dark, cold nights of January 2026, it’s been tuning into BBC 1 three nights a week to hear that melodramatic theme music. With traitor-on-traitor violence, multiple […]
Finally, some good news for London nightlife. The capital’s legendary queer party Duckie is making a grand return in 2026, but it’s going to look slightly different from its past iteration. The iconic LGBTQ knees-up took place at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern […]
In recent years Londoners have embraced rather a few Scandi wellness trends. Cold water plunges, outdoor lidos and communal saunas have been enjoying a major boom across the city, from Stratford’s outdoor community saunas to last year’s Summer Splash pop up at the […]
Who hasn’t dreamed of turning brutalist icon the Barbican into a nightclub? Even the least architecture-nerdy among us must surely have imagined how the labyrinthine space would look like as a club, with earth-rumbling beats and flashy strobes among its […]
The very first Poon’s Restaurant opened in 1973, bringing Cantonese food to the streets south of Soho and helping forge London’s second Chinatown (the first was in Limehouse). Founded by Bill and Cecilia Poon, it was followed by the celeb-magnet […]
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Congratulations, you’ve almost made it through what feels like the 7,586th week of January. It’s been a long old month – one mostly characterised by horrendous weather, back to work blues, failed attempts at self-discipline and scraping by with the few funds you have left […]