New Oxford Street

Photography by Chris Osburn Yes, the views from Paramount are phenomenal (truly stunning actually) but how’s their new morning menu? Invited by to give the restaurant’s new breakfast and brunch menu a tasting, Londonist left pleased to have taken the lift up to the stylish …

Looks like another wave of Space Invaders has been unleashed upon the capital. The pixelated wall-huggers have been regular visitors to London and other cities for over a decade. We even mapped them once, but the folks at Platial seem to have bowdlerized our data. …

Where are London’s most punny shops? We asked you for the best examples of wordsmithery on the high street. Shops that give the pun back to the punters. Those outlets that would carry a plaque stating ‘By appointment to HRH Richard Whitely’, were the famous …

The Londonist Music Minions have had a night off from their hectic gigging schedule tonight, and we hope that you have done the same. The party season is rapidly approaching, and you need at least one laid-back evening to conserve your energy for the rest …

For a publisher based on Broadway, New York, The Little Bookroom seems obsessed with the pockets of oddness that permeate our city. A few years back, they published City Secrets London, a bumper book of anecdotes about the capital. Their latest guide The Traditional Shops …

They’re not on New Oxford Street, that’s for sure.

If there was a list of London’s most influential clubnights over the last ten years, then Monday-nighter Trash would definitely be on it. Originally hosted at Plastic People (then on Oxford Street) in 1997, it set out to merge the boundaries between dance and rock …

Riding on the success of Air Traffic, London based Circuits played at Oxford Street’s 100 Club last Tuesday and we were there to see what the band billed as “one to watch in 2006″ by Nokia are all about. With influences such as The Police, …

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 …

This day in London’s History 1978: Man executed with brolly. Unless you live in Chile, the date September 11 will only ever be remembered for the one, obvious historical event. Of course, plenty of other stuff can claim today as its anniversary, including the remarkable …