Meet with Peter Harden (one half of the mastermind brothers behind the handy dandy Harden’s restaurant guides) and there’s a good chance you’ll be treated to an insightful and entertaining lesson in the history of restaurants … or of Brits and our relationship with food (compa...

Curated by Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) with support from the Department of Applied Social Sciences at London Metropolitan University, Liminal: A Question of Position opens tonight at the 2008 RIBA Award winning Rivington Place. With more than twenty artists investigating life in a...

Over the weekend, the Royal Lancaster Hotel offered a Fairtrade Banana Afternoon Tea with a selection of freshly prepared Fairtrade banana finger sandwiches, “banana fancies”, and a choice from a selection of Fairtrade teas. The introduction of this especially a-peel-ing menu coincided w...

Londonist indulged in a bit of a feast last night at newly opened Indian restaurant, Zeen. Located at 30 Drummond Street, NW1 2PA, Zeen is an impressive addition to a street already renowned for its curry houses. Open for a little over a month, Zeen’s founder Zeenat Harnal believes it is now t...

Back in July 2007 (yes way back then) we happened upon upstart Mexican street food vendor, Luardo’s, at the then rather puny Whitecross Street Market. Our review was positive, if not glowing. Anyway, we’ve been back recently (had the beef in chipotle sauce burrito) and are happy to repor...

Photography by Chris Osburn. When, Jennifer Klinec, founder-instructor of “new-school” cookery classes - Eat Drink Talk - asked Londonist to lunch recently, we thought “how can we refuse?” And when she mentioned she would be making pizza with radicchio, escarole and bagna cau...

Flowers are nice and all that, but this month, we’d like to take a different, shoppier look at the famed Columbia Rd. So flowers shmowers really, Columbia Rd is the shiznid for independent shops. Now that we’ve said that, we should probably note that a lot of these great shops are only o...

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Paolina’s Thai Café 181 King's Cross Road, WC1X 9BZ 020 7278 8176 MAP Mon-Fri,12pm-3pm and 6pm-10pm Sat, 6pm-10pm Expect to Pay: Around £7 for most mains The endearingly cartoonish plaque on the endearingly woo...

One of London’s most determined fine artists has teamed up with one of its most notorious. Expect masked gunmen slogging it out over criminal bounties (a la Martin Lea Brown) and big wet sloppy licks ‘n’ kisses from mouthy graffiti artist Sweet Toof at this Sartorial Contemporary Art exhibitio...

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Camden Food Co Liverpool Street Station, EC2M 7PY MAP Contact for opening hours Expect to Pay: Around £3 for a sandwich Blech. We thought we were doing ourselves a favour (or choosing the least harmful of a handfu...