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The big IRL Topshop comeback is underway, with the brand’s first physical retail store opening inside Liberty this August

Popular Hackney Wick brewery CRATE is heading to Canary Wharf to open another waterside site serving craft beer and pizza

Nuno Mendes’ Fitzrovia restaurant Lisboeta is closing, with new Portuguese restaurant Luso taking over the site

Lambeth Council and developers London Square have revealed plans for a new mixed-use development on the Pop Brixton site

10th – 12th October 2025

Layo and Zoe Paskin are bringing back iconic nightclub The End for one special weekend this autumn, with a takeover of KOKO

Partner restaurants have been announced for the Chancery Rosewood, the luxury new Mayfair hotel on Grosvenor Square

A deal has been reached but the pub still needs £500K to seal the deal Last week, we reported that the Queen of the South…

Immersive theatre group Punchdrunk are once again breaking new ground with LANDER 23, a new live-action video game experience launching next month. Blurring the line between…

This is not a drill – the Black Parade is coming to London Next Year In words we never thought we’d say in 2025: My…

Prince Charles Cinema eyes second London site amid fight for its original home It’s been a turbulent year so far for the Prince Charles Cinema…

Crisp Pizza, run by Carl McCluskey, is opening in at The Marlborough in Mayfair with a helping hand from the Devonshire team.

The popular Tulse Hill pub could be closing Just two years after Queen of the South first opened its doors, the pub, which has since…

Former Sosharu chef Alex Craciun and his wife Aleksandra Jazevica are behind dual concept restaurant Aces Foodcraft

Fan in Lima, Peru (one of the best Japanese-Peruvian restaurants in the city) has gone international and opened an outpost in Notting Hill

Arcade Food Hall is gearing up for a third London opening in Covent Garden, opening not too far from the original location

24th November 2025 – 25th January 2026

Immersive moon experience ‘The Moonwalkers: A Journey with Tom Hanks’ will run at the Lightroom gallery in King’s Cross.

Sundays in August 2025

With TfL Cycle Sundays, all Londoners and visitors can get free unlimited 60-minute Santander Cycles rides every Sunday in August

17th September 2025

It will be a “night of music, reflection and hope” Brian Eno, along with Khaled Ziada, Khalid Abdalla, and Tracey Seaward, is curating fundraising concert…

We’ve teamed up with our mates at Pretty Decent Beer Co to brew the All Aboard the Sausage Press Express pale ale

13th – 21st September 2025

If you like nosing around other people’s pads then you won’t wanna miss Open House Festival, which is back this September

Chiang Mai noodle bar Khao-Sō-i has become a cult fave for its signature Khao Soi and now it’s coming to London

Imad Alarnab, the founder of Imad’s Syrian Kitchen, is continuing to celebrate the food of his homeland by opening Aram at Somerset House.

Brothers Ozgur and Sidar Akyuz, who operate Cafe Beam, have chosen Canary Wharf as the destination for their new modern Turkish concept Nora.

Restaurateur Nam Parama Raiva has taken over the Patara site from her aunt and flipped it into the still-Thai Platapian

Simpson’s in the strand, which has been shut since the pandemic, is being reborn thanks to Jeremy King and the Savoy.

London is getting a Museum of Brutalist Architecture and it will be housed inside the Assembly Hall of Camden’s Acland Burghley School

Alley Cats is opening a third pizzeria in Notting Hill, showing that west London is getting in on the city’s pizza boom

Layla Bakery in Ladbroke Grove has become one of the most beloved bakeries in town and now it’s opening in Acton

Carnival is back in London across the August Bank Holiday, and here’s the all-important Notting Hill Carnival route map

The Perseid meteor shower, a result of debris flying off the Comet Swift-Tuttle, is peaking this August with up to 150 shooting stars an hour

After being appointed Culinary Director of The Beaumont Mayfair back in April, Lisa Goodwin-Allen is opening Rosi this September.

Nieves Barragán Mohacho is opening Legado (meaning ‘legacy’), in partnership with JKS Restaurants, in Shoreditch this summer.

15th September 2025

The annual charity event Who’s Cooking Dinner? is back to raise even more money for leukaemia research

14th August 2025 – 5th January 2026

Blondie in Camera 1978, coming to the Barbican Music Library, features 50 images taken by photographer Martyn Goddard

Conveyor belt restaurant Pick & Cheese is coming to Camden, taking the place of The Cheese Bar in Camden Market

Gordon Ramsay has acquired the Le Gavroche site in Mayfair, which will now become home to Bonheur by Matt Abe

It’s the news that Oasis fans have been waiting for for sixteen years – Liam and Noel have made up and are going on tour

The City of London Corporation has granted permission for the 45-storey 63 St Mary’s Axe to be erected close to the Gherkin

Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art is the first-ever UK exhibition dedicated to the house and it’s opening at the V&A next spring.

Henry Moore: Monumental Nature at Kew Gardens will be the largest outdoor exhibition of the artist’s work ever presented

Funds have been made available for additional security for Notting Hill Carnival, following a leaked letter shows the Carnival chair

The Bayeux Tapestry is going on display at the British Museum, returning to the UK for the first time in almost 1000 years

Get ready for a haunting experience as Paranormal Activity is coming to the West End with a brand new immersive adaptation.

The first ever Hackney nighttime strategy has been launched by Hackney Council with the aim to make the borough safer

22nd September – 1st October 2025

The Fleurs de Villes Downton Abbey display will feature floral mannequins inspired by the characters and the period fashion of the show.

Jamie Allan, one half of Four Legs and The Plimsoll, is taking over Hoxton pub The Macbeth with good friend Patrick Nolan

The V&A has announced that it has secured the extensive archive and will open it to the public at a new centre in 2025

The team at The Peninsula is pausing Brooklands for two months and offering an entirely new concept called Soleil by Claude. 

After successfully launching riverside pub The Waterman’s Arms in Barnes, Joe Grossmann is taking over The Shaston Arms in Soho.

Brian Woo, who opened Vietnamese restaurant Cô Thành in Hong Kong in 2017, is bringing it to Covent Garden this September.

Sourdough Sophia is opening a fourth bakery in Hampstead, following sites in Highgate, Essex Road and the original micro bakery in Crouch End

1st August – 14th September 2025

Artist Lucy Sparrow is back first UK show in four years with The Bourdon Street Chippy – a fish & chip shop made out of felt