Your Sunday morning best-of-Londonist weekly round-up.
London news
- Shock horror: London train companies score badly in passenger satisfaction survey
- How London did in the 2014 Sustainable Restaurant Awards
- Would you swim in a lido on the Thames? City Hall is looking into the idea, here are a couple of design ideas
- A public restaurant is opening in Brixton prison
- New app helps you to find a parking space in London
- Watch your toes — escalator starts travelling backwards in malfunction at Cutty Sark DLR
- London food bank use up by 400% in two years
Must-read articles
- We caught a train through a Crossrail tunnel
- Green Lanes in Haringey: the best Turkish restaurants
- Tube nerds ahoy! Our video reveals the secrets of the Piccadilly Line
- We look at whether an Ultra Low Emission Zone should kill off the congestion charge
- Why you should visit London's court houses
- We've got photographs of the bits of St Paul's Cathedral the public don't usually get to see. Video coming soon.
- London's best classical music shops
- We speak to the CEO of Freedom From Torture, Keith Best, in this week's podcast
Top reviews
- Beautiful glass sculptures at Dale Chihuly: Beyond the Object
- The Fat Man's Wife, A 'lost' Tennessee Williams play discovered in 2000, gets its UK premiere
- Richard Hamilton, one of the Pop Art founders, exhibits at Tate Modern
- Science gets beautiful at the British Library's new exhibition
- Fire-inspired dance at Ignis is thought-provoking, but didn't set us alight
- But we did get wows with street dance show Blaze at Peacock Theatre
Things to do
- Reel Islington Film Festival returns on 28 Feb with the theme ‘Home is where I want to be…'
- Techy geekery next weekend at the annual Barbican Weekender
- A festival. Of chocolate. A chocolate festival. Need we say more? (it's in April, so here are some more chocolatey places you can enjoy in the meantime)
- Get involved with Thames21's River Watch project and undertake surveys at the water's edge
- Interactive games makers A Door in the Wall are back with a new murder mystery
- Smell David Cameron's roses this June, at Open Garden Squares weekend
- A new monthly film night dedicated to documentaries launches next week
- Pancake Day is coming up, here are some places where you can toss your batter
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