Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.
Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.
There’s now a Captain Tom branded London Dry Gin
A chance meeting between the fundraising champion and a former motorbike champion has resulted, possible improbably in a Captain Tom branded gin, being sold to raise funds for the Captain Tom Foundation.
Smithfield’s Christmas Eve auction – cancelled for 2020
Sadly, and not surprisingly, but the annual Christmas Eve auction at Smithfield meat market won't be happening this year.
Eat Out to Help Out extended in central London
A number of restaurants in Mayfair & Belgravia are extending the Eat Out To Help Out scheme through September, following a deal with the area's main landlord, Grosvenor.
Buckingham Palace starts selling its own gin
Fancy a gin made from botanicals taken from Buckingham Palace's own back garden?
The hospitality industry has been hit hard by the lockdown, and likely to struggle for months to come, so there's a campaign raising money for people laid off by the industry.
Honest Burgers delivering limited edition burger kits to the home
The burger joint, Honest Burgers has teamed up with online butchers, Turner & George to deliver burger kits to your home. And it's for charity.
Smithfield’s Christmas Eve meat auction returns for 2019
Good news for meat lovers and lovers of a meaty bargain as the exceptionally good fun Christmas Eve auction will return to Smithfield this year.
There’s a barbecuing “steam train” in Moorgate at the moment
If you head over to Finsbury Square at the moment, you'll see a very odd sight - of a black steam train surrounded by seating.
Photos from Smithfield’s annual Christmas Eve auction
Another year and Smithfield's famous Christmas Eve meat and turkey auction gets bigger and better.
Smithfield’s Christmas Eve meat auction returns for 2018
Good news for meat lovers and lovers of a meaty bargain as the exceptionally good fun Christmas Eve auction will return to Smithfield this year.
Tickets Alert: Gin tasting at Dr Johnson’s House
Even more than us living through the second Elizabethan age, the Georgians were obsessed with Gin, so where better for a Gin tasting than a Georgian house?
See an original Gin Lane, while sipping a gin
Later this month, the eclectic Sir John Soane's Museum will be putting an original engraving of Hogarth's famous Gin Lane on display.
Smithfield’s famous Christmas Eve auction is back
The annual tradition is back, with lots of money waving, turkeys flying and meat parading in an excitingly good natured morning of protein rich delights.
Ticket Alert: London Gin Festival
An annual gin festival returns to Tobacco Dock later this year, and early-bird tickets are now on sale.
Gin Tastings at the Transport Museum
The London Transport Museum has laid on a second Gin Tasting evening on 30 October.
Twinings Tiny Treasure House of Tea
One of London's smallest museums can be found in one of its oldest and smallest retail outlets, and is devoted to that most English of pastimes, the cup of tea.
The View Tube reopens next to the Olympic Park
As noted by Diamond Geezer yesterday and by myself today, the Greenway next to the Olympic Park has reopened, as has the View Tube at one end.
Dine upon the Danse Macabre at Barts Hospital this weekend
Barts Hospital in Smithfield has two museums, one which is open to the public most days, and another hidden away which is rarely open the public.
Christmas Lunch, that time of the year where huge families come together in mutual joy or loathing and eat, what is to be honest about it, a slightly larger version of a Sunday Lunch. Christmas Lunch also causes anyone who…
Talisker Tasting and an early Burns Night
Last night, a small coterie of bloggers were invited to a London bar for an early informal Burns Night style event – organised by a PR agency for the Talisker Whisky brand. London bloggers were invited along thanks to the…
Gin Tasting in the Foundling Museum
Last night I (along with some friends) had tickets to a gin tasting event being hosted by the Foundling Museum. The Museum is on the site of Britain’s original home for abandoned children and London’s first ever public art gallery…
