Londonist Presents The Charles Dickens Quiz @ Foyles
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Charing Cross Road
Superb Site-Specific Art On The Edge of Soho
The final, Final Year Show for Central St Martins on Charing Cross Road
New Restaurant Review: Chipotle
Photography by Chris Osburn As watered and dumbed down as an American style chain of bean slingers could ever be, “gourmet burritos and tacos and barbacoa” restaurant Chipotle has now opened here in London. The self described Mexican grill is a comfortable enough spot to …
Espresso Book Machine: Waugh While You Wait
Image by microabi At a time when the future of printed media looks ever imperiled, a Charing Cross bookshop has taken a gamble on a device that suggests there’s life yet in paper and glue. The Espresso Book Machine, unveiled this week by Blackwells, is …
The Death Of Murder One
Image by See Wah The Charing Cross Road-based crime and mystery bookstore, Murder One, is set to close for good today, with the knife-wielding assassin none other than that perfidious, inscrutable villain known only as ‘consumer apathy‘. After spending the past few years trying to …
Caption Competition: Man In Box
Walking along Charing Cross Road of a summer’s evening, Londonist was startled to find this telephone kiosk, and its inhabitant, in a refreshingly horizontal attitude. Time to resurrect the old caption competition, wethinks. Image by M@
Shoot & Eat: Café Ciao
It’s late and you’re somewhere near Leicester Square. You want to sit down and rest those dance-weary feet – or like Londonist, you are a glutton and you’re looking for some dessert. Head to Café Ciao with its range of gelati displayed and giant plastic …
Listen Up! Portico Quartet
Every now and again we try and bring you the finer things in life. Sure, there’s loads of indie, goth, electro and Viking death metal to talk about but what about music on the more classical end of the spectrum? Portico Quartet are currently touring …
London On The Cheap
Last full week before Christmas, we expect your bank account’s feeling the strain. All that Christmas shopping and partying taking its toll? If you want to make the most of being out and about before Christmas cabin fever and complete exhaustion set in then we’re …
Westminster Council Wins Freesheet Battle
When Westminster City Council took on the free newspapers London Lite and The London Paper, Londonist was fully supportive. Tired of the masses of papers scattered around the city at the end of each day, the Council asked that Associated Newspapers (owners of London Lite) …
Book Signing: Digitiser’s Mr. Biffo, Charing Cross Road
If you played video games in the 90s, chances are that you also read Digitiser, Channel 4′s Teletext games magazine. It was renowned not only for its incisive, honest gaming news, but also for the surreal humour of lead writer Mr. Biffo, which was responsible …
