Charlotte Street is home to some of the finest eateries in London, which means you have to fight for a table or book months in advance. But there’s also the small Japanese café here, Tombo, serving up delicious, fresh and authentic food. Katherine Brook reveals her experience. Think fresh poké, warming bowls of ramen and […]

Prepare to loosen your belt as a new restaurant featuring the UK’s first cheese conveyor belt has opened in Seven Dials Market in Covent Garden. Pick & Cheese works in the same way as a sushi conveyor belt: diners sit at the counter and grab as many plates of cheese as they like. Prices are […]

You needn’t check in to Fugitive Motel to check it out, as the ‘motel’ part of its moniker is just for show – it’s actually a new craft beer bar and kitchen which opened this summer in Bethnal Green. A stone’s throw from the V&A Museum of Childhood, the open-plan space includes a café, co-working […]

Is it a cocktail bar? Is it a train station? More importantly, is it any good? We send Neil Simpson to Soho’s Cahoots to get the answers. It doesn’t get much more London than Cahoots. This high-concept cocktail bar recreates a 1940s underground station, so much so that apparently visitors to London sometimes mistake Cahoots for […]

This London icon is slowly coming back to life, so Neil Simpson and Sarah Riches took a Thames trip to see its transformation. Battersea Power Station was designed by the Londoner Giles Gilbert Scott (the man behind the red telephone box) and opened in 1933, but by 1982 this ‘superstation’ was no longer in use. […]

The days when pubs were smoky no-go areas for kids are gone and families can now expect epic play areas with giant, colourful beanbags (The Eagle, Hammersmith), chalkboards for sketching (The Island, Kensal Rise) and even suspension bridges (The Duke of Kent, Ealing).  They’re all in zone 2 – as child-friendly spaces in zone 1 […]

This good-value Chinatown option offers both classic and contemporary dishes

This new speakeasy has all the trappings of a romantic night out

This casual Indian is ideal for a Regent Street shopping spree refuel