in pictures

Giant birthday cake slicing is underway at the Covent Garden Piazza with a friendly all ages crowd queued up and keen to enjoy a free taste of celebratory Victoria sponge. With the Real Food Market in full swing and more than the usual buskers drawing …

Londonist strolled down to the Brick Lane Farmers’ Market yesterday to check out its launch (see our preview here). Small and manageable but with plenty of fresh produce, baked goods, lots of meat and more, the Brick Lane Farmers’ Market – actually located on Bacon …

Beer, curry and queuing. Yep it’s London. Throw in some Bangra beats and some heat lamps (ah summer in England) and you’ve got the Brick Lane Curry Festival. When much of London was lookin’ like a ghost town during this week’s Bank Holiday Monday, ye …

Opened back in February of this year, Adagio Pizza al Taglio brings the Roman concept of pizza “by the cut” to Soho. Priced by the weight, Adagio features a dizzyingly delicious line up of more than forty seasonally changing pizzas prepared fresh in traditional Roman …

Greenwich’s battery of marine and royalty related museums has been expanded today with the opening of Discover Greenwich. Housed in the Old Royal Naval College on the river front, the £6 million contemporary venue presents Greenwich’s maritime history with never seen before artefacts, an examination …

You’d have to have been working in the deepest basement office to miss the violent hail storm that hit the capital around 6.30pm yesterday. Rail services between London and Norwich were severely disrupted following lightening strikes. In London, meanwhile, many local rivers were on flood …

The Put People First march was held on Saturday – the first of the G20 protests. An estimated 35,000 people took to the cold and grey streets of London to demand action on climate change, poverty and jobs. All images from the Londonist Flickr pool.