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Fluffy mashed potato, sizzling juicy sausages, tasty lip-licking gravy… Mmm we’re almost sounding like an M&S food porn advert – but instead we’re talking about Mother Mash. It’s a “new take” on the traditional sausage and mash food den positioned expensively on Ganton Street just …

Mama Mouse: [To her eight happy children] My darling children, how happy you all look at our Monday morning breakfast table in our beautiful home in the Cheesegrater. Did you have a good weekend? Mouslings: We had a wonderful weekend! We went to all our …

You have approximately 48 hours until the most [insert adjective of choice here] holiday of the year descends upon us. If Londonist were a girl, she’d appreciate a box of chocolate and maybe some flowers. (And actually, if Londonist were a boy, some chocolate wouldn’t …

On Tuesday, Londonist’s favourite comedian, the brilliant if.comeddie best newcomer 2006 and Londonist interviewee Josie Long is taking a break from her current UK tour of last year’s show, ‘Kindness and Exuberance’ and doing her first ever preview for her next Edinburgh show on Tuesday …

This Day In London’s History 1554: Lady Jane Grey and her husband Lord Guildford Dudley are executed at the Tower of London. Named as successor to the throne by King Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey became Queen of England in July 1553. However her reign …

Anyone walking past Holborn Tube is sure to have all kinds of leaflet thrust upon them. But if you were passing by last Friday, you might have ended up with something worthwhile. A group of postgrads from St Martin’s have put together a handy map …

Shepherd’s Bush Empire, 23rd January Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan’s album, Ballad of the Broken Seas, tells timeless tales of love, regret, betrayal and heartache borne of long-suffering distance. So it is perhaps unsurprising that their performance at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire a couple of …

The snow may have brought London to a halt, but the blogorash just keeps spreading. Here are a few of the things that caught our eye out there this week… Thankfully Onionbagblogger‘s new darts (yes, darts) didn’t literally catch our eye, but we did it …

Valentine’s Day is only a few days away, and we here across the Gothamist network wanted to express, in the spirit of the holiday, just how much we love you, our readers. Don’t let it get to your heads, though. There are plenty of things …

Art prizes always create controversy; people seem to love to hate them and the media is so practiced at producing outraged copy about pickled sheep, elephant dung paintings, lights flicking on and off, unmade beds and other shock tactics of the YBA scene that there …