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......

Let Londonist help you celebrate one of Britain’s most cherished traditions, the Sunday Lunch. The Snooty Fox 75 Grosvenor Avenue, London N5 2NN Nearest Tube/Overground: Highbury & Islington/Canonbury (so close!) 020 7354 0094 Expect to Pay: £7.95 to £10.95 and £12.95 for the legendary "Full Bifter" Rating: 8 out of 10 The Snooty Fox is a perfect lazy, lounging Sunday afternoon boozer. Tucked away by Canonbury Station away from the hustle of Islington the kitchen......

Daily Candy tweaks its culinary repertoire at a secret cooking class in Clerkenwell. Slonik at Edible London visits the Malmaison-ized Fox and Anchor twice in one week! An American in London checks out Crazy Homies in Notting Hill (she’d go back but …) Posting for Food and Drink in London, Ben Bush accuses Waterloo Brasserie of perpetrating a fishy felony. Photography courtesy of D I C K S D A I L Y's photostream......

Well, it’s over for another year. Time to settle down, relax, and get ready for another batch of shopping in the January sales. On TV, Londonist likes: Carmen (BBC2, 13:45-16:25) This just might be the world’s most famous opera, and even if you’re not an opera fan, you’ll definitely recognise some of the songs. From the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, this production features an international cast, impressive sets and live animals. My......

Okay, first of all, the bad news: both the opening and closing previews at the Barbican's London Korea Film Festival are already sold out. Boo! If you were hoping to check out Park Chan-wook's latest I'm A Cyborg, But That's Okay, or the Cannes-pleasing Breath (pictured left) by Kim Ki-Duk, then you're out of luck. The sell-out is testament to the reputation for excellence that Korean cinema has gathered in the last decade, and......

At Londonist we are often chuffed when Londoners 'do quite well'. At least initially. Like most Brits, we love The Underdog - right up until that moment when they become A Loser. Then we slag them off vitriolically, sit arms-crossed in a huff on our collective sofa, mumble that we "never liked them anyway" and promptly forget all about them when the next Underdog comes along. What's cockney for 'schadenfreude' anyway? When Shirley MacLaine......

View Larger Map So what happened to all those lovely new towers we were promised? The Shard, the helter-skelter, the cheesegrater and their friends have been around as designs for years. But where have they got to? If you've checked the City skyline lately, you'll notice it's all cranes. Things are finally happening and everything's in place for a new-look London for 2011. Here's a tour of five of the more prominent sites, all of......

There are plenty of nice places to walk around in the posh Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC): Kensington Palace, Kings Road, Harvey Nichols... Streets, parks, palaces and shops are all a shade nicer than the rest of town but only a very select handful of privileged people get to call it local. You jammy gits. Nonetheless, this summer, the Arts Service team of the RBKC have kindly put together a lovely little......

There's no question in my mind that My Space is a wonderful thing but I find it alternately inspiring and overwhelming when you get a glimpse of the sheer number of bands and promoters are out there trying to do their thing. It doesn't help that at the majority of gigs I've played on the so-called "toilet circuit" I haven't been that keen on the other bands, I'm not someone who will randomly pop......

There's so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it's almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don't have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist's London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also caught up with modern-day fictional London, with the Fantastic Four and 28 Weeks Later. It was a week of insanity over at DCist. They started the week off with......

Sick and tired of wading through the bleepings and scratchings of super trendy MySpace-famous outfits we thought we'd offer you a break from them, too, with a good old-fashioned dose of angular noise from the truly fabulous Popular Workshop. They've played more gigs than you've had hot dinners, their frontman looks dapper in a hat and if John Peel was still around they'd have set up home at Maida Vale studios by now, so......

We thought we’d take a break from linking up Onionbagblog, and instead sample a scallion of a different persuasion. Olly’s Onions serves up small helpings of news in a satirical sauce. A bit like The Onion, then. (What is this connection between bulbous edibles and current affairs piss-takes?) This week, Olly drops by a trendy boozer: The White Swan just off Ladbroke Grove has been serving a loyal clientele for decades, but since it......

It's the time of year that sends compulsive list makers in to a frenzy, and this girl is no exception. It's the Notes From The City Official 2006 End Of Year Things-That-Laura-Liked Summary - catchy! It's as much a list of things I really think everyone should check out as a list of my favourite things from the year, so follow the links at will... Top 10 Albums 1. The Eraser - Thom Yorke 2.......

We just got sent the above photo in a text message. Yes, it's a bit of a shonky photo, but it makes us very excited - it's a tale of two pubs. Once upon a time there was a wonderous pub just behind Centre Point called The Conservatory. Stocked with a bar full of very cheap drinks (£4.50 for a bottle of wine in W1??), an amazing table football kit and a quiz machine,......

We don't often use Fox News as a news source (who does?), but it's that time of year when the dumber stories start floating to the top of the news streams like gas bloated corpses and no one does dumb like Fox. Here we have that old chestnut - crap left behind in Black Cabs: One cabbie reported a man leaving his drunken girlfriend behind in the cab as a "tip" for the driver.......

There was a strong display of British talent at the International Emmy Awards. Graham Norton was there too. The success of Brit shows has sent the Americans into a remake frenzy according to The Times: Life on Mars, the BBC time-travel drama starring John Simm about a Manchester detective who is catapulted back to the 1970s, won the best drama award. David E. Kelley, the producer behind Ally McBeal, is now writing an American......

Childrens' literature is big business at the moment and currently, everyone has a reading age of about 12. But while Harry Potter, Alex Ryder, the Series of Unfortunate Events and His Dark Materials are seeing us through long train journeys and creating amusing scenarios in bookshops as adults rampage and pillage the childrens' section, the Grandfather of childrens' literature who got us all started on this reading lark is not forgotten. Most will remember......

Fitzrovia wasn't always so. It was once plain North Soho, though it was far from plain. The poet and chronic Sohoitis victim J. Meary Tambimuttu Christened the area 'Fitzrovia' after the Fitzroy tavern on Charlotte Street, where he frequently became pissed and, in his intoxicated state, hired nubile young receptionists. There have been repeated failed attempts to rename the area Noho (NOrth of soHO), in the New York fashion. This is silly, as SoHo and......

It's difficult to say where we stand on gastrobpubs. For a start, the issue is not really important enough for us to give it much thought. But on the other hand we do like our food (and drink). But on the other hand aren't restaurants for food and pubs for drinking? You see: it's a complicated issue. Maybe someone should raise a question in Parliament. Anyway, the reason we're banging on about gastropubs is......

For Crying Out Loud. Will this never stop? In Tim Moore's excellent 2002 book, Do Not Pass Go, there's that lovely story of the cabbie who turns to his fare and says, "London. Great town, this. Or it will be when it's finished." And that's fine, that really is fine. London is a Work In Progress. But this is just taking the piss somewhat. We'd just got through bemoaning the fact that one of......

As mentioned on Friday the No Limit Texas Hold´em Strip Poker championships were held over the weekend. Congratulations to John Young, a 32-year-old freelance writer from Slough who stared down all comers and then gave his own money-maker a shake for yet another good cause: "We said we would give 10,000 pounds to Cancer Research if John dropped his trousers at the end of the match and he duly obliged," a spokesman for the......

This week I've been getting really excited about all the new bands I keep seeing and hearing. Since starting to play gigs in Lewisham and meeting a lot of the Lewisham/New Cross bands I've been impressed not only by the music but by the sense of community they're building up and the DIY attitude they display in every aspect of their work. They're just doing their thing, releasing independent EPs and split singles, gigging all......

As of tomorrow The British Library will be showing off its most recent acquistion: a collection of work by William Fox Talbot. This historic photographic archive was previously held by the National Trust above the Fox Talbot Museum at Lacock in Wiltshire, and access was very limited. But the Talbot family wanted the public and researchers alike to get at the images, which include some of the first photographs ever taken, so they turned......

As if it's not fantastic enough having a huge great elephant wandering around town, very soon we might also get to witness Jack Bauer scurrying around the streets of the capital. Yes, that's right, Keifer and the rest of the 24...erm...posse are apparently coming to London to film the movie version of the series. Sutherland told Jonathan Ross that "We'll shoot the film here. We're really excited about it. In the US 24 was......

This day in London’s history 1984: WPC Yvonne Fletcher was shot and killed in St James's Square during a protest outside the Libyan Embassy. She was the first policewoman to be murdered on duty in Britain. The event inspired car insurance salesman Michael Winner to etsablish the Police Memorial Trust and a memorial to WPC Fletcher was commissioned for the square. In 2005, the National Police Memorial was unveiled by the Queen, it stands......

Cockneys, the stereotypical Londoners, are famed for their slang. Rhyming slang used to be commonplace within the sound of Bow bells, but it seems that young cockneys, are now reverting to more modern colloquialisms. They have gone from using ‘spritten English’ (text language etc.) to a new type of inner city slang. A study by Sue Fox, who has recently been looking at the use of traditional cock-er-nee slang in inner city London, has......

So how's that for a sensationalist headline. Job at Fox news now please? Of course we don't mean that Muslims have been banned from the tube, rather that the word has been removed from the advertising campaign for new US thriller series: Sleeper Cell. Sleeper Cell tells the 9 part tale of Michael Ealy's Darwyn Al Sayeed, a Muslim FBI agent who poses as a prisoner in order to infiltrate a fundamentalist group run......

Londonist spotted this poster outside the Stockwell Baptist Church on South Lambeth Road the other day and felt compelled to take a quick snap. It's good to see that the Church aren't relying on those tired old images of Jesus and angels etc and have decided instead to embrace the likes of Matthew Fox, Dominic Monaghan and...er, that big bloke who plays Hurley. It's not about to make us foresake our Sunday morning 'fry......

Earlier this week kissy couples were wading through roses and red tissue paper deeper than an east coast snow dump and singles shook a tiny, lonely fist (no ring!) at it all. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 - Valentine's season is in the can, finally. Austinist is already pulsing with SX energy and posting on the People's Choice Award nominees and the short films that will be playing while......

Three men in their early 20s were stabbed in the ticket hall at Holloway Road Tube station last night. One is serious but stable with stomach injuries. The other two have cuts to their hands and arms. One man has been arrested. A reporter for the Daily Mirror has been arrested after trying to land a job at Buckingham Palace. The farce surrounding the rebuilding of the Royal London hospital and St Bartholomew's is apparently......