LDN: HOT OR NOT

I thought I'd done with Chiswick forever, so I was frustrated when I discovered that I'd have to schlep out there again, on my pre...

Yalin and I both agreed - we didn't dislike Spring Awakening , but we didn't like it either - and we wouldn't recommend it other...

It's a shame that it was only two days before the end of my job that we discovered the nearby gastropub, the Duke of Sussex. It would be...

Burnt by the Sun is a stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning Russian film of the same name. I remember watching the film and being struck by...

You'd better hope that the Warrington was a HOT, given that I was going to be eating there three times in the next week. The stunning Go...

The Notting Hill Coronet still seems to be experiencing heating problems in Screen 1 , its main theatre. Luckily, I didn't have to suff...

Brek had told me to give Altermodern a miss - I think boring was the term used for the Tate's triennial exhibition of modern British ar...

The paintings in the Van Dyck and Britain exhibition were really beautiful and a definite contrast to the stiff linear portraits of his pred...

I love the tagline for the Double Club , a temporary bar, restaurant and disco designed by Carston Holler; 'where the Congo meets the We...

Martin's favourite London restaurant is the old school seafood institution, J Sheekey . The building is split into two - the dark wood ...

Every first and third Saturday of the month, Somerset House volunteers take free guided tours of the building, including hidden spaces tha...

I've got my priorities right - skip the museum, go straight to the museum shop. London Transport Museum is a great place to buy unique ...

In a week I will be staying in the famous Unite d'Habitation, so I was really eager to learn as much as I could about its influential ar...

I don't know much about Le Corbusier, so I thought a talk about his work by Arthur Rüegg, Le Corbusier exhibition curator , would provid...

Dinner at deVille Restaurant, at the fashionable Mandeville Hotel , marked the beginning of farewells with my London friends (sob). Being a ...

Saturday night - opera; Sunday night - heavy metal. Secret Cinema has been on my London to-do list for a while, although it no longer has ...

The famous River Cafe is a London institution probably because (a) it's not cheap (b) it's hard to get a booking; and (c) it's i...

It was fitting that my Valentines Day night was spent in my most-loved London building, the Royal Opera House , and for my last ever ROH per...

Every telephone encounter I've had with Dehesa has always been prompt and friendly, so I already had happy expectations when I met up wi...

As a theatre-hound, I've been lucky to have a pretty good hit rate with my theatre jaunts. Once in a while, though, a piece of theatre a...