Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Waterside Café Barbican Centre EC2Y 8DS Map Average Lunch Price: £8 Rating: 8 out of 10 There’s no middle ground when it comes to the Barbican. Londoners either love it …
Like an invisible web of impossibly magic pockets of the internet hovering in London’s heavens, weird and wonderful WiFi proliferates enabling us tech-savvy, laptop bearing citizens to maintain our social networking and blog addictions pretty much 24/7. Unsurprising news, then, that wireless networks in London …
This Week In London’s History Monday – 11th June 1988: The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute (a.k.a. Mandela Day Concert) takes place at Wembley Stadium. On a scale approaching the Live Aid concert that took place some three years earlier, more than 600 million people …
‘If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy all her friends?’, and ‘Where has all my money gone’ are two of the imponderables listed on the Any Questions Answered text service’s website as favourites. In the latter case, the wonga may well …
Yesterday we brought you news about the ‘World In One City’ project – two comedians, Alex Horne and Owen Powell, looking for Londoners from every country represented at the UN. We caught up with Alex and Owen to quiz them about their Herculean task. What …
NOTE: Although many of the venues in this map are still providing free wifi, we’re no longer updating the map as it’s proving an impossibly challenging task. Free wifi can now be readily found throughout town. For the same reason, we’ve also withdrawn our …
Craving Vietnamese food in the city? Well now you can satiate your noodle soup desires at the restaurant Pho found in Clerkenwell. Unlike its brethren congregated along Kingsland Road, Pho stands out as the only Vietnamese restaurant amongst the more upmarket dining options on St …
< Battersea Power Station’s future remains in doubt as the fantastic hulk of the art-deco building itself remains in sorry dereliction. Yesterday, the Guardian reported that the new owners of the £400m prime 36+ acre riverside site, Treasury Holdings, had scrapped development plans approved by ...
Transplants from across the pond can occasionally be heard bemoaning two particular things about food in London: 1. The dearth of good Mexican food in London 2. The dearth of good Mexican food after 11 p.m. in London (or, for that matter, the dearth of …
We’d like to start this week’s run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn’t for them, the rest of us wouldn’t be here. They celebrated their birthday by nabbing an interview with Entourage star …
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