Your Sunday morning best-of-Londonist weekly round-up.
Must-read articles
- Train delayed AGAIN? Play Londonist train bingo on your commute.
- There's more to Wimbledon than tennis and Wombles.
- Four of the weirdest beers London ever drank.
- Add some sunshine to this dreary weather with London's best Hawaiian food.
- Creative bunch, you lot. We asked for your poems about the Underground and you did not disappoint.
- Is this what the future of London looks like?
- The best pubs for playing games in London. Did your local make the list?
Did you know...
- ...London could have looked completely different if Wren had his way.
- ...why Big Ben is on every bottle of HP Sauce (and yes, we know Big Ben isn't the tower)?
- ...about the secret laboratory inside The Monument?
- ...Beatrix Potter was a Londoner? Read all about her London life.
- ...what swan tastes like? Here's everything you need to know about swans in London.
- ...about London's other transport museum?
- ...about the YMCA swimming pool at Tottenham Court Road?
London news
- Some London councils are now receiving funding to tackle rogue landlords.
- A zero waste restaurant has opened in Notting Hill, using food that would otherwise be thrown away.
- London's first super sewer has opened. See pictures here.
Top reviews
- Step inside Miro's studio in Mayfair ★★★★☆
- We've reviewed January's most talked about art exhibitions so you know which ones are worth going to.
- Literary orphans are the subject of this beautiful new exhibition at Foundling Museum ★★★★☆
- Is the sun setting on Cirque du Soleil? ★★☆☆☆
- Painting The Modern Garden at Royal Academy of Arts is an Impressionist rollercoaster ★★★☆☆
- We loved Saul Leiter's everyday street photography ★★★★☆
Things to do
- Suffragette season comes to the Houses of Parliament.
- Laugh in the face of love at these Valentine's comedy events.
- Get drunk medieval style on a wine walk of the City.
- 12 non-cliched things to do on Valentine's Day.
- 10 unusual ways to get fit this February.
- Go to the flicks with some of the Londony-est films around.
- Discuss how to solve the housing crisis, tonight at Camden People's Theatre.
- Half term will soon be here. Take a look at this lot to keep little Londoners busy.
- Join Ian McKellen on bus tours around London visiting the locations used in his 1930s style Richard III.
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