Reviews

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What’s for Lunch? Seven Stars

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Seven Stars 53-54 Carey St WC2A 2JB Nearest Tube: Chancery Lane, Temple 0207 242 8521 11am-11pm (Monday-Friday) 12pm-11pm (Saturday) 12pm-10:30pm (Sunday) Map Expect to Pay: £10 or slightly more for …

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Londonist Live Review: Von Sudenfed @ Heaven

Mark E Smith summed it up best himself in 1998: “If it’s me and your granny on bongos, it’s the Fall”. But now it’s 2007 and Granny has a laptop and drum machine….. Thursday night at Heaven witnessed the latest chapter of Smith’s freewheeling output: …

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What’s for Lunch? Meson Los Barriles

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Meson Los Barriles Clerkenwell Location 55-63 Goswell Road EC1V 7EN Nearest Tube: Barbican 0871 3327054 10.30am-Midnight Daily Map Spitalfields Location 8 Lamb Street, Spitalfields Market E1 6EA Nearest Tube: Liverpool …

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What’s for Lunch? F. Cooke

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London Pub Reviews

An astonishingly workaday title for a book that features a singing otter, flying dinosaurs and a sheet of electronic tissue paper. Welcome to the madcap world of Paul Ewen, a softly spoken New Zealander with a knack of finding trouble in public houses. It’s a …

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Acacia Avenue: Who Could Live In A Street Like This?

Dull, suburban Middle Englanders, if the stereotype is to be believed. And it is. According to a survey by AA insurance (why?), if you live on an Acacia Avenue, you’re likely to fit the following profile: Their recipe for happiness involves never moving, never divorcing …

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Storm in a furry teacup

LinkMachineGo has been keeping us up to speed with the fallout over Alan Moore’s Lost Girls: Comic row over graphic Peter Pan / Sex acts’ Wendy is Panned / Hospital worry at “porn” take on Peter Pan’s Wendy / Alan Moore’s erotic Lost Girls / …

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Cogito Ergo Summary: Your Weekly Science Listings

These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com. This week’s summary was brought to you with the help of Inky Circus ….thanks Inky! Event of the week Pixar: …

Friday Film News

Getting the remake treatment this week is the fondly remembered Magic Roundabout, recreated in a very European computer generated style, with the added draw of celebrity voices, such as Kylie Minogue, Joanna Lumley, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent and Robbie Williams. This doesn’t save the film …

Friday Film News

The big release this week is raging smug-fest Oceans Twelve, a sequel to the remake of Oceans Eleven, and it’s not fairing well with the critics. Bradshaw in the Guardian maintains his always high standard of vitriol with probably the harshest line directed towards welsh …