| By: Laura Reynolds

Best Of Londonist: Restaurant Toilets, Edwardian Geocaching And Chocolate

Your Sunday morning best-of-Londonist weekly round-up. If you like it, please share it and forward to a friend.

London News

The number of people needing help for homelessness at the end of their tenancies has shot up.
Bus strikes expected for last week and this coming week have been postponed... yet we're faced with the prospect of more tube strikes, so don't celebrate yet.
Camden Town Brewery has launched a crowdfunding campaign for a second London site — while fighting a court battle with a Norwich Brewery over use of the word “Hells”.
If we can have pop-up shops, why can't we have pop-up tenancies?

Good Valentine's Day? If not, we hope it wasn't bad enough for you to resort to eating your heart out.
Turns out that the Edwardians of London had geocaching covered, long before you were even born.
We've brought you London restaurants in former toilets. This week, we showed you the glamour (and oddities) of London's best restaurant toilets.
Looking for gluten free restaurants in London?
Friday the 13th meets Valentine's Day in this week's London short film...
...and we've also got hold of 50 Shades of Grey director Sam Taylor-Johnson's award-winning short film from 2007, set round these parts.
Deep in a railway arch in Peckham, artisan crafters are making beautiful cooking knives.
N Quentin Woolf takes a tour of Art Deco London in our podcast.
Photos old and new of the world's oldest council estate.
Take a look at the arguments for and against rent control, and make up your own mind.
And finally, your Sunday challenge — how many of these London statues of monarchs can you recognise?

How To Hold Your Breath explores the economic crisis in Europe, with Faustian overtones ★★★★☆
French-American restaurant Counter opens under Vauxhall's railway arches — and is certainly on the right track ★★★☆☆
Dracula as a musical? Yep, someone's gone and done it. *Insert joke about raising the stakes* ★★★☆☆
We liked the menu at new Southeast Asian restaurant Bó Drake, but wished for a bit more smoke ★★★☆☆
New Hayward Gallery exhibition looking at 70 years of British history is a curatorial mess ★★☆☆☆
Kin Cafe has a pleasingly retro take on veggie food ★★★☆☆

Sheep, lions, and plenty of food: Chinese New Year is coming this week.
Tearing your hair out over half term already? Our extensive article covers ways to keep kids and teenagers entertained, whatever your budget.
The Chocolate Festival makes its welcome return to London, just in time for Easter (which is sooner than you think, by the way).
Horniman Museum's Plantastic exhibition is now open, perfect for the budding botanist in your life.
February is London LGBT History Month. Find out what's going on.
Tuesday is Pancake Day: find out where to watch races and where to eat them.
Launder money, get divorced or touch up an alien in this novelty games arcade in Covent Garden.