
Date Night East London: The Best Evenings Out Near Stratford
Dinner and a film. Again. Nothing wrong with it – but if you’ve been together more than five minutes, you’ve done that particular combination enough times to know that it’s
Dinner and a film. Again. Nothing wrong with it – but if you’ve been together more than five minutes, you’ve done that …
East London does Christmas properly. None of the frantic, overpriced, tourist-trap energy you get in central London. Instead: a neighbourhood that genuinely …
Most of London does Christmas theatre in the West End, where you pay West End prices, eat at a chain because it’s …
Waterloo gets treated as somewhere you pass through. Four million people a year come up those escalators, look at the departure boards, …
London Literature Festival 2026: Key Dates & Curator Dua Lipa is interviewing Zadie Smith about White Teeth. Two days later she’s on …
A 146-strong all-woman choir opens it. Steve Reich turns 90 and gets four events across the closing weekend, including one billed as …
The Music is Black Festival from East Bank closes with a bang. Black to the Future – the fourth and final live …
Anne-Marie Duff is one of the finest stage actors working today. Best known to millions for her role in Bad Sisters on …
London’s queer collectives are taking over Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park this August. Queer Frequencies – the third weekend of The Music is …
West Ham United are back at London Stadium for the 2026-27 season – this time in the EFL Championship. The club, the …

Dinner and a film. Again. Nothing wrong with it – but if you’ve been together more than five minutes, you’ve done that particular combination enough times to know that it’s

Most team building activities are quietly terrible. Everyone knows it. The facilitator with the laminated instructions knows it. The person who booked it definitely knows it by 11am when half

Seventy-five people crammed into a village. One of them is a demon. Most of them are lying. And somehow, it’s your job to figure out which is which. Blood on

East London does Christmas properly. None of the frantic, overpriced, tourist-trap energy you get in central London. Instead: a neighbourhood that genuinely knows how to put a night together, world-class

Twelve days, 251 films, 88 countries. The BFI London Film Festival turns 70 this year and the whole thing is anchored about five minutes from our front door. Wednesday 7

Most of London does Christmas theatre in the West End, where you pay West End prices, eat at a chain because it’s the only thing with a table, and fight