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 […]

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

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This month, London’s latest zero-waste restaurant opens in the east.

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The V&A’s Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams exhibition is sold out, but this fancy afternoon tea offers a solution