Every month, the folks at Fancyapint? get together to vote for their top ten favourite pubs. These are recently visited pubs that for one reason or another (the ambience, the booze, the company) stuck in their collective memory. Kindly, these booze-savvy Fancyapinters have decided to share their latest picks with Londonist and all our readers. Cheers! Here’s the current list from Fancyapint? in no particular order of merit. They assure us that all ten......

Every month, the folks at Fancyapint? get together to vote for their top ten favourite pubs. These are recently visited pubs that for one reason or another (the ambience, the booze, the company) stuck in their collective memory. Kindly, these booze-savvy Fancyapinters have decided to share their latest picks with Londonist and all our readers. Cheers! Here’s the current list from Fancyapint? in no particular order of merit. They assure us that all ten......

Is it just your imagination, or is Londonist going all literary on you for the second time today? No, it’s true: we’re just that geeky. But if the Bard’s birthday bash doesn’t have you all hot and bothered this week (speaketh it softly, or surrender thine literati creds), here are a few alternatives to keep you otherwise engaged. Tuesday: If you haven’t booked already, there are still a few seats left to hear Isabel......

Photography courtesy of Simon-K via the Londonist pool on Flickr. Interested in your drink-related photos appearing on Londonist? Click here.......

Every month, the folks at Fancyapint? get together to vote for their top ten favourite pubs. These are recently visited pubs that for one reason or another (the ambience, the booze, the company) stuck in their collective memory. Kindly, these booze-savvy Fancyapinters have decided to share their latest picks with Londonist and all our readers. Cheers! Here’s the current list from Fancyapint? in no particular order of merit. They assure us that all ten......

Photography courtesy of Matthew Gidley via the Londonist pool on Flickr. Interested in your drink-related photos appearing on Londonist? Click here.......

Every month, the folks at Fancyapint? get together to vote for their top ten favourite pubs. These are recently visited pubs that for one reason or another (the ambience, the booze, the company) stuck in their collective memory. Kindly, these booze-savvy Fancyapinters have decided to share their latest picks with Londonist and all our readers. Cheers! Here’s the current list from Fancyapint? in no particular order of merit. They assure us that all ten......

A man rolls into a bar. Sounds like the start of a dumb joke? It’s not. Wheelchair-enabled people like going out in the evening as much as anybody. What does appear to be a joke is how difficult it can be to find info about wheelchair accessible pubs et al in London. We did a bit of online snooping and were dismayed by the lack of resources out there. What material we did come......

Chris at Cheese and Biscuits, lists the top ten things he hates about London restaurants. We heartily agree with point #10. Stonch’s Beer Blog takes its readers on an 1881 pub crawl in Clerkenwell. The ladies at Cupcakes Take the Cake interview the owner of Kensington’s Buttercup Cake Shop. An American in London has a ocakbasi overdose in Dalston. Photography by Chris Osburn © 2008......

Photography courtesy of only because mushroom asked me to via the Londonist pool on Flickr. Interested in your drink-related photos appearing on Londonist? Click here.......

Every month, the folks at Fancyapint? get together to vote for their top ten favourite pubs. These are recently visited pubs that for one reason or another (the ambience, the booze, the company) stuck in their collective memory. Kindly, these booze-savvy Fancyapinters have decided to share their latest picks with Londonist and all our readers. Cheers! Here’s the current list from Fancyapint? in no particular order of merit. They assure us that all ten......

Every month, the folks at Fancyapint? get together to vote for their top ten favourite pubs. These are recently visited pubs that for one reason or another (the ambience, the booze, the company) stuck in their collective memory. Kindly, these booze-savvy Fancyapinters have decided to share their latest picks with Londonist and all our readers. Cheers! Here’s the current list from Fancyapint? in no particular order of merit. They assure us that all ten......

Despite our hard-partying populace, London has produced only a few drinks named after it. Beer drinkers have London Pride of course, but those that fancy a cocktail – who are usually lovers of choice, after all – are limited to the London (gin and maraschino liqueur), the London Fog (gin and Pernod) and the Mayfair (an upscale version of the gin and orange juice so beloved of Snoop Dogg). That’s a pretty paltry selection,......

The name of the band Korpiklaani means 'forest clan' in Finnish, so perhaps it isn't so surprising that the band started their set at Camden Underground an hour or so late. Our theory is that they got lost on the Tube, distracted by the leafy promise in such place-names as Oakwood or Wood Green or Green Park, only to be met with bitter disappointment upon venturing aboveground. What really matters is that Korpiklaani eventually......

We nearly always mention the monthly Late at Tate Friday nights because each month the events, ideas and people involved are more weird and wonderful than the last. It's all about winning this month in Late at Tate Britain: Jackpot. Winning and prize-giving is consuming the various Tate Galleries as the annual Turner Prize exhibition of shortlisted artists is relocated to Tate Liverpool. In Tate Britain, there's the Turner Prize: A Retrospective exhibition instead......

Cameras at the ready. It's time to get Green. That's the theme of the Shoot Photomonth's event being held this Saturday. But green what? Well, anything really. Traffic lights, jumpers, trees, jelly beans. Even the bit of mould you cut off the loaf of bread this morning. Just as long at it's green. Now you have to register for this event in advance which is why we're telling you about it now. But it's......

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Jerusalem Tavern 55 Britton Street EC1M 5UQ Nearest Tube: Farringdon 0207 490 4281 11:00am - 11:00pm (Monday – Friday) Map Expect to Pay: around £7 for food, around £3 for most pints Rating: 9.5 out of 10 As one beerintheevening reviewer put it, “The only downside to this pub is that it is closed at weekends.” Londonist would like......

Sometimes a burger and fries is the only thing that will satisfy your hunger. Something simple and straighforward that you can hold in one hand, neatly packaged in two pieces of tasty bread that have soaked up the juices and sauces that ooze so delectably out of the multitudinous burger fillings piled up in between. But at other times... at other times, a person needs to pick delicately and carefully through the cracked shells......

We know how much you guys love free beer and film screenings. Almost as much as we do! So, when we got an email alerting us to an event combining both of these things, we felt duty bound to pass on the information. With the imminent release of Rodriguez/Tarantino double-feature Grindhouse, Tiger Beer and Firecracker have teemed up to remind us of the joy and wonder that the double-feature brought to audiences in the......

Forbes Magazine have just published their list of the world’s richest, including a break-down of the most lined pockets in London. The full article’s worth a read. Did you know London is something of a tax haven for the super-rich? Makes you feel proud, doesn’t it? Here’s a run-down of the top five: 1. Laksmi Mittal Who he? The world’s fifth richest chap. Made a few bob from trading in steel. A magnetic magnate?......

The -ists this week had politics on the brain. And what goes better with politics? Partying-- that's two great tastes in one. Oh, and Kevin Federline...can't forget about Kevin Federline. That's three great tastes in one. -Chicagoist celebrated the election news but cried in their Beer of the Week as Da Bears lost for the very first time. And in continuing with our theme, previewed an actual K-Fed show! -DCist caught the President stumped on......

Let's take a look back at a week that raised this Zen koan: if Kevin Federline got into a wrestling ring with a wrestler, who would you root for? Austinist was in an entertainment state of mind as they covered the dickens out of the Austin Film Festival, depicted all the Big 12 football coaches as South Park characters, and interviewed Jose Gonzalez. Chicagoist talked about the passion as they bid adieu to Bell......

The Tiger Eye Firecracker Showcase kicks off tomorrow night with an opening night preview of Kekexili (Mountain Patrol). There's free Tiger beer before hand and a Q&A session afterwards. Thanks to the kind folks at Firecracker Magazine and Tiger Beer, Londonist readers have the chance to win one of four double passes for tomorrow night's event at The Curzon Mayfair (6.45pm). Read on and then answer the simple question for a chance to win.......

Going to the pub is lovely. There's the bar, there's the row of pumps, each one a gateway to a different beer experience. There may be games to play with your friends. There may be some entertainment laid on by the management. There's food and places to sit and sip your drink. Imagine that pub experience magnified and enlarged to fill Earl's Court. That's the CAMRA organised Great British Beer Festival, that is. For......

Over the weekend we received an email in response to our post last week about the 'Smurf' who was arrested for for using threatening words and behaviour at Twickenham Stadium. The email is from "a good friend" of the aforementioned Smurf (who is apparently called Lenny) and explains a few of the mitigating details around the incident. We'll let you be the judge and jury on this one: [Lenny] started his day in Cornwall......

A while ago we decided we were going to tackle the problem of pub quizzes. Some are great, some are rubbish and some just are never advertised. So, we reviewed the Bedford in Balham and The Railway in West Hampstead and then, promptly forgot about the idea. But today the hankerchiefs can go away, don't fear Pub Quiz Patrol fans, for we are back! Hurrah! And the dubious honour of review number 3 goes......

(To the tune of Love and Marriage.) Whips and beer. Whips and beer. Go together like a slap and Germaine Greer. OK, it doesn’t quite scan, but nobody’s perfect. Least of all our medieval ancestors, who sported huge beer guts and enjoyed whipping one another. Or at least that’s the ancestral picture we’re painting after reading about a couple of recent archaeological finds in the capital. It’s all well-timed PR by the Museum of......

It is Thursday, which is Friday in disguise, and this Londonista is a tad dry in the mouth already. Parched to be more precise. So today we are talking about beer related technology. If anything, just to fill the void until knock off time and its Pub o'clock. Now we all know going to watch your mates play Sunday league football can sometimes be a bit of a drag. Time away from the bar......

The other day in the Londonist offices we sat down over a cup of tea and a couple of biscuits and realised that we were neglecting an important element of the fabric of the capital: the pub quiz. Everyone loves a pub quiz. It's like an IQ test with booze. So it makes sense that Londonist should start to document some of the finest pub quiz experiences to be had in the city...plus it......

For the foodies who like their meals without any animal influence, there's a real treat in store. It's the London Vegan Festival this Sunday (25th September) and Kensington Town Hall will be packed to the rafters with meat-free goodness. Celebrate veganism with like-minded people enjoying lots and lots of lovely food and drink, and also music, speakers, campaigning and rescue groups and the chance to meet the best ethical suppliers around. Apart from the......