2008 is shaping up to be the year that street art went truly mainstream in London. Currently, you can see Banksy at Selfridges, a half-mile tunnel of talent in Waterloo and, for the eagle-eyed, that subtle bit of wall painting at the Tate Modern. Street art is also getting big in the more literal sense. Here are just a few of the supersized pieces around town at the moment. At the top of the......

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Franco’s Take Away 67 Rivington Street EC2A 3AY Nearest Tube: Old Street 0207 739 0231 6.30am-5pm (Monday-Saturday) Expect to Pay: £5 or less for a substantial amount of food Rating: 7 out of 10 Despite its seemingly hidden location (and Erol Alkan’s musing), this Italian (cum East Ender) sandwich bar is hardly any secret. Indeed, random queues can form......

Two bits of streetart for the price of one. Not that we're paying anything, mind. That's the beauty of this stuff. Free art. And you never know when or where you'll encounter it. Actually, to shift direction yet again, you can be fairly certain of finding strange things fixed to walls in this part of town. The crucifix of Rivington Street and Curtain Road has more wheatpaste and rogue tiling than the Ideal Home......

Sometimes Londonist just doesn't have all the answers, and we have to humbly ask our readers to educate our poor, ignorant minds. Such is the case with a recent splash of posters in that hotbed of street art known as Shoreditch. The whole area has been flooded by these strange framed bike reflectors. What are they? Who did 'em? Why? Why? Why? These ones are from Rivington Street, but we've seen copies all over......

We were hoping for a rather relaxing Sunday this weekend. While Saturday night will of course be spent bouncing along to "Dead Disco at the Garage, Sunday was going to be full of sleep and food - 2 of our favourite things. But then Shoot Shoreditch dropped into our inbox, and the idea of cosying up in bed all day being fed grapes, flew right out of the window. For starters, it's a treasure......