You’ve got four days off – here’s how to use them wisely
We know New Year’s Day is really the first Bank Holiday of the year but the long Easter weekend – four glorious days thanks to Good Friday and Easter Monday – feels like the first proper one, so you’ll want to make the most of it.
London weather is never one to play ball but spring does appear to be springing this year, with several days of blue skies and sunshine already under our belts. The long-range weather forecast is currently showing temperatures just above double digits and a mix of sunshine and cloud, so it may be a bit ambitious to plan a sesh on a rooftop bar or a pub garden, but we live in hope.
Given that it’s Easter weekend, there’ll be plenty of Easter-themed fun to get involved in, from hunting for eggs to stuffing your face with chocolate. If you’re after more than just sweet treats across the long weekend, then get booked into these new openings.
If the weather does take a turn, you can take advantage of the killer exhibitions currently running. The shows on Brazilian Modernism at the RA and science at Versailles at the Science Museum are closing at the end of the Bank Holiday, and the exhibitions on work and health at the Wellcome Collection and Anthony McCall at Tate Modern will be shutting the following weekend, so catch them while you can.
Go Hunting for Eggs With Top Cuvée
After another hoppin’ great success last year, Top Cuvée is getting on the Easter action once again by hosting another egg hunt in Highbury with a whole load of goodies up for grabs. And at this year’s hunt everyone is guaranteed some goodies as each participant will receive a tote bag and a full-size Tony Chocolonely’s egg. After meeting at Top Cuvée at midday on Easter Sunday, and fuelling up on hot dogs and wine, you can get involved in the interactive scavenger hunt by following clues and completing challenges. Once you’ve finished, it’s back to the shop to collect your prizes and grab your eggs
Sun 20th April 2025, from 12pm
189 Blackstock Road, London, N5 2LL
shopcuvee.com
Get High in Stratford at Roof East
Fancy playing a round of crazy golf, catching a movie, hitting some bullseyes or shaking it out with a dance class? Well you can do it all at Roof East. Yes the Stratford rooftop is re-opening in time for the Bank Hol weekend and it’s jam-packed with activities, including Rooftop Film Club, Sluggers batting cages, Birdies crazy golf, Arrows archery, Glitter Bowls lawn games, giant jenga, cornhole and table tennis. You can stay well fed and watered with the roof’s five bars and street food from the likes of Chick ‘n’ Sours, Piddaji and Cheeky Burger. And of course, you’ve got those mega views over the Stratford to enjoy too.
Fri 18th – Sun 20th April 2025
7 & 8 Stratford Multi Storey Car Park, Great Eastern Rd, London E15 1XE
roofeast.com
Pick Up Some Cute Easter Treats
If you can bear to break one of these cute chicks open, you’ll find a creamy white chocolate and peach oolong filling inside the pillowy steamed bun. They’re available at Bun House in Chinatown and Bun House Disco in Shoreditch from Good Friday until sold out, so get down there quickly if you want one.
Available from Fri 18th April 2025
Bun House, 26-27 Lisle St, London, WC2H 7BA
Bun House Disco, 118 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 7EE
bun.house
Go on the Big Egg Hunt Around London
Conservation charity Elephant Family has teamed up with Clarence Court eggs to place 100 giant eggs around London as part of a free public art exhibition. The likes of Mr Doodle, LUAP, Jimmy Choo, Manish Malholtra, Chris Levine, Dominic Harris, Anya Hindmarch, Chopard and Fortnum & Mason have designed an egg. You’ll be able to “collect” the eggs by ticking them off on a free app, which’ll reveal prizes along the way, and following the exhibition, the eggs will be auctioned off to support Elephant Family’s conservation work in Asia.
Fri 18th – Mon 21st April 2025
Various London locations
elephant-family.org
Check Out This Free Exhibition Exploring the Complexities of Communication
Berlin-based artists Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader, who have been collaborating for over a decade, are presenting 1880 THAT at the Wellcome Collection, making it their first major exhibition in London. The exhibition explores the complexities of communication, the relationship between sign language and spoken language, and what it means to live with the threat of losing your language. The exhibition takes its name from the Second International Congress on Education of the Deaf that was held in Milan in 1880, where policymakers pushed oral education over sign language, leading to the stigmatisation of Deaf people. With works spanning drawings, film and sculpture, Kim and Mader use humour to showcase the ripple effects that the Milan conference has had on Deaf education and identity.
Fri 18th – Sun 20th April 2025
83 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE
wellcomecollection.org
Experience Cherry Blossom Season at Outernet
Outernet London (aka those screens that you see as you’re leaving Tottenham Court Road Station) is bringing back its cherry blossom display for 2025. Created in partnership with the National Trust, Nature’s Confetti is an immersive show that’s designed to make it feel like petals are raining down on you from above. Videos of cherry blossoms from across various National Trust locations will be shown across the giant floor-to-ceiling wraparound screens, accompanied by a specially composed score by Father. As with all of Outernet’s displays, this one’s free and open to the public from 10am to late.
Fri 18th – Mon 21st April 2025
Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 8LH
@outernetglobal
Eat at the New Pub from the Team Behind The Baring
Since it opened in Islington in 2022, The Baring has become a real local fave as well as a hit with the critics, and now founders Adam and Rob are hoping to replicate that success south of the river. The duo are taking over The Crooked Well in Camberwell and reopening the pub on 15th April under its original 1863 name, The Kerfield Arms, with a similar stripped back aesthetic. Chef Jay Styler, who’s been at The Baring since it opened, will be leading the kitchen at The Kerfield Arms, cooking dishes like cuttlefish & lardo shish with pul biber chilli; fried pig’s head with smoked eel and warm tartare sauce; Yorkshire hogget with violet artichokes, bagna cauda and pine nuts; grilled monkfish with hand-rolled fregola and shrimp bisque; ricotta & nettle dumplings with broad beans and wild garlic buttermilk; and Gariguette strawberry & chamomile custard doughnut.
Fri 18th – Mon 21st April 2025
16 Grove Lane, London, SE5 8SY
thekerfieldarms.co.uk
See the Musical Adaptation of The Great Gatsby
It’s been a smash on Broadway and in 2025 producer Chunsoo Shin will be bringing his musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic The Great Gatsby to the London Coliseum. One of the most popular novels of all time, The Great Gatsby tells the story of mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby, who throws opulent parties at his Long Island mansion, but who, instead of joining in with the revelry, longs for his old flame Daisy Buchanan.
Fri 18th, Sat 19th & Mon 21st April 2025
London Coliseum, St Martin’s Ln, London WC2N 4ES
londongatsby.com
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