The Pavilion Cafe is a fantastic little cafe with a varied menu of fresh, often organic, dishes housed in a 115 year old former cricket pavi...

Your author doesn't get to the theatre enough, and when he was invited to go along for a showing of the new Yes, Prime Minister play la...

In your author's opinion, Clapham is an area with a real dearth of decent pubs, and that's what makes the Bread and Roses, on Clapha...

This morning, around 1,000 'gorillas' will descend on London for the annual Gorilla Run, which sees sponsored people dressed as gori...

Lee Valley Canoe & Cycle, at Stonebridge Lock, beside Tottenham Marshes, offers a range of stable open cockpit beginners kayaks, and Pri...

A PR person writes to let us all know that this evening the Natural History Museum is having a special one-off late event entitled After Hou...

The Calder Bookshop, otherwise known as the Bookshop Theatre, was established in 2000 by John Calder on the Cut, between Waterloo Station an...

A relative newcomer to North London, the Flowerpot, in Kentish Town, is a music venue and pub which hosts free gigs most nights. The managem...

The British Museum is full of unusual treasures, and lurking in Room 10 is an intriguing statue of a winged bull with the face of a man. It...

Surrey Docks Farm is a 2.2 acre city farm on the south bank of the Thames at Rotherhithe. It is home to goats, sheep, cattle, pigs, ducks, g...

St Peter's Barge, in Canary Wharf, is London's first and only boat church, offering spiritual guidance to those who live and work in...

Probably not worth the journey on its own, standing as it does beside a Travelodge and a Wilkinson in Kingston, David Mach's Out of Orde...

Believed to have been established as early as 1541, the Castle is on the corner of Furnival Street and Norwich Street, in the City. As with ...

We all know Leicester Square Cinemas can be hideously expensive, but for your money you certainly get a bit of history. Built, like much of ...

If you look high up in Sloane Square Tube Station, you will see the large square pipe shown below. This pipe holds what is left of the River...