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Airport grub doesn’t have a particularly good rep – and it’s not hard to see why. Often aviation hubs’ food options are small and limited to big-name (typically fast-food) chains, and come with a significant price hike.  If you find a decent airport food outlet, then it’s worth making note – and over at Bloomberg the publication’s editors have done just that. Bloomberg recently named the best airport restaurants in the world ‘according to business power travellers’, crowning eight terminal restos that are a cut above the rest.   Excitingly for Londoners (and those visiting the capital anytime soon), one of Bloomberg’s airport restaurants is at a London airport. Le Café Cyril Lignac at Louis Vuitton at Heathrow Terminal 2 features in the list. Le Café Cyril Lignac opened last October and adjoins a Louis Vuitton store. The menu is by French chef Cyril Lignac (also behind Bar des Prés in Mayfair), and it offers an all-day menu of both pastries and fancy sit-down food. If you’ve been to LHR’s Terminal 2 in recent months, you may well have caught sight of the new restaurant – it’s practically impossible not to spot thanks to its bold curved façade. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Louis Vuitton (@louisvuitton) About Le Café Cyril Lignac, Bloomberg wrote: ‘Tucked inside the undulating entryway to the sparkling new Terminal 2 store, this upscale cafe marks the first collaboration between LVMH and acclaimed French chef Cyril Lignac. ‘His croque...

The weekend sun seems to have given London a shake up, as though it has injected colour back into the city. Blossom is growing on trees, flowers are shooting up from grass, and the city’s museums and galleries are also gearing up for a new lease of life, with all sorts of exciting exhibition openings in the calendar for this month.  From striking Munch portraits at the National Portrait Gallery to evocative photography documenting everyday life in northern Britain, these are the best new exhibitions arriving in the capital as spring starts to show.  Six London art exhibitions to see in March 2025  Photograph: Seated Model on the Couch, Birgit Prestøe, Edvard Munch, 1924 © Munchmuseet. Photo: Munchmuseet / Sidsel de Jong. Edvard Munch Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery We all know Edvard Munch’s masterpiece ‘The Scream’, but there was a lot more to him: this show at the National Portrait Gallery catalogues the great Norwegian expressionist through his portraits of family, friends, fellow artists, writers, art collectors and others in his lifetime. Intimate, energetic and deeply human, this exhibit is set to remind us why Munch had such influence in his sphere and far beyond.   Edvard Munch Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, March 13-June 15 2025. More details here. Textiles: The Art of Mankind From the clothes we wear to the furniture in our homes, textiles are functional, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be art at the same time. Since ancient times...

We’re proud of our pizza here in London, and why shouldn’t we be? We’ve got some of the finest Neapolitan, ultra-crispy, and deep dish pizzas going. And to prove it, a homegrown slice has just made Time Out’s global list of the 19 best pizzas in the world. Unsurprisingly, the list was topped by a pizza from Naples (the pizza capital of the world), but London put on a pretty good show, landing the number seven spot with Dough Hands’ ‘Jode’, a delightfully oozing tomato, mozzarella, nduja, hot honey, stracciatella, grano padano, and basil offering.  Dough Hands can be found in residence at both London Fields boozer The Spurstowe Arms and The Old Nun’s Head in Nunhead. The pop-up pizza project of chef Hannah Drye, her pizzas offer perfectly crispy crusts and decadent toppings. They’re a little bit like a floppy New York-style slices, but with some creative London character thrown in for good measure. Dough is cold fermented for three days to make the base nice and light. They are very, very good and we compel you to go and eat some now.   To find out what other pizzas in London we rate, check out our list of the best pizza in London which features the likes of the all-conquering Yard Sale, Crisp in Hammersmith, Napoli on the Road in Chiswick and Richmond, Ace Pizza in the Pembury Tavern in Hackney, Japes, 081 Pizza in Peckham and Camden vegan pizza spot Purezza. Find the full list of the best pizzas in the world here. The hottest new openings, the tastiest tips, the...

Prince Durairaj and Glen Leeson are good at this by now. Excellent, in fact. The pair have put together a small chain of top Indian eateries; Islington’s Tamil Prince and Tamil Crown, and the first Tamila in Clapham. Fourth time around with Tamila King’s Cross, the experience is more refined than ever. London’s second Tamila is at the other end of Caledonian Road from the Tamil Prince, and, like the Clapham edition, isn’t a ‘desi pub’ but a curry house for fast, casual dining and with an all-day menu. Without the loveable musk of an ex-pub, the space is much airier and restaurant-y, while the service is sharper and more attentive. Food-over-booze indicators don’t get much more obvious than Tamila’s massive interior window directly into the kitchen.  The dhal flashed all sorts of vegetables across your tongue, while paneer butter masala was creamy and mightily generous Our drinks flew out at an impressive pace. A bold harbinger of the strong, spiced flavours to come, the gunpowder margarita, boasting masala dust for salt and earthy smokiness, was sumptuous. The paloma had grapefruity sweetness but a proper, heaped dash of ginger that lingered powerfully.  Tamila’s dishes verge on the more generous side of ‘small plates’. On platters so spotless and shiny they’re genuinely mirrors, come miraculously un-greasy onion bhajis, each one just more than a mouthful of prickly, salty crackle. Retaining integral crispiness beneath dollops of mint chutney, one gets the impression that...

Getting a seat on a packed tube might feel like a small miracle – but spend too much time thinking about the last time that seat was thoroughly cleaned and the joy might start to wear off. Each seat has seen so much, so many spills and so many bums… it gets you wondering: how often are they actually cleaned? We’ve done some digging and found out how and when the thrones of the Underground get washed, and turns out not all tube lines are equal in the matter. The frequency and methodology of cleaning tube seats varies from line to line, and a Freedom of Information (FOI) request last year revealed the juicy details. RECOMMENDED: What are London’s pink Oyster card readers and when should you use them? How often are tube seats cleaned? According to TfL’s most recent data, here’s how often each train is deep-cleaned on the tube.  Piccadilly line carriages are only thoroughly cleaned every 43 days Bakerloo, Central, Northern and Victoria line trains all get properly scrubbed up once every 25-28 days The Jubilee line receives a deep clean, on average, every 18 days But there are different levels of clean on the tube. While the above refers to ‘deep cleans’, TfL also cleans tube carriages on a daily basis, as well as embarks on mini cleans and external cleans. Here’s when those cleans are scheduled to take place, and what they entail.  Daily pre service checks take place where obvious messes need to be cleared up Mini cleans are every three days, mostly involving touch point...

March 2025: Last year we revealed our new list of London’s 50 best restaurants, with Mambow in Clapton taking the Number One spot. There’ll be a new list-topper in a few months time, but until then, we’re always tweaking the Top 50 to reflect the ever-changing food scene in London. The latest new entries include Shoreditch’s exceedingly chic Bistro Freddie and modern Korean spot Miga in Hackney, as well as French bistro Camille by Borough Market. We’ve also removed the famous Singburi from the list for the time being, as the popular Thai canteen in Leytonstone is closed ahead of relocating to Shoreditch this spring. If you’d like to check out our recent reviews, here are our critics’ thoughts on Rake, the latest – and greatest? – kitchen residency at Islington’s Compton Arms pub, as well as Dosa in Mayfair, and the UK’s first ever vegan Michelin star restaurant, Plates in Shoreditch. This is your guide to eating out in the capital. Don't forget to sign up to our free newsletter for unbeatable London restaurant news and tips. Tuck in.  Leonie Cooper is Time Out London’s Food and Drink Editor and eats out almost every night in the city. It's terrible for her cholesterol, but incredible for getting you the best recommendations. For more about how we curate, see our editorial guidelines. RECOMMENDED: All the best new restaurant openings in London this March. The hottest new openings, the tastiest tips, the spiciest reviews: we’re serving it all on our London restaurants...

The craic is coming. It’s London’s St Patrick’s Day parade this weekend, which means London will be emerald-hued and full of Guinness to celebrate Ireland’s patron saint. Join the crowds in Trafalgar Square or check out one of the smaller dancing and music events taking place across town all this weekend.  If you’re an art lover hit up The Affordable Art Fair giving Londoners the chance to pick up original pieces for cheap(er) prices alongside a whole host of shows, exhibitions and DJ nights. Cinephiles have plenty of film festivals to pick from including Cinema Made in Italy at the BFI Southbank and Donne di Mafia mini which aims to illuminate the lives of women in mafia cinema.  Still got some gaps in your diary? Try your luck bagging tickets to the new production of Chekhov’s The Seagull starring Cate Blanchett, chow down roti at our restaurant of the week Tamila in King’s Cross or step into a pint-sized homage to 70s punk in Soho.  Head to one of London’s best bars or restaurants and take in one of these lesser-known London attractions. This is also a great time of year to explore London on a budget and without the crowds. Plus, lots of the city’s best theatre, musicals, restaurants and bars offer discounted tickets and offers. What are you waiting for? Put your coat on. Start planning a great month now with our round-up of the best things to do in March.  Stay in the loop: sign up to our free Time Out London newsletter for the best of the city, straight to your inbox. 

The days are getting gradually lighter, daffodils and crocuses are blooming in London’s parks, and the city’s cultural scene has burst into life after a mid-winter lull. March is here! This means it’s time to finally come out of winter hibernation and set about exploring the city’s fantastic parks and gardens, world-class museums and galleries, and unbeatable restaurant and bar offerings. From St Paddy’s to Mothering Sunday, Pancake Day to International Women’s Day, the third month of the year packs in a whole host of big celebrations.  And it’s also an especially great month for culture vultures. There are a host of film festivals happening around the city, from BFI Flare and the inaugural London Soundtrack Festival to Kinoteka, Cinema Made in Italy and the Banff Mountain Film Festival. And there’s also Deptford Literature Festival, the Young Barbican Takeover Festival, music conference series AVA London and the Other Art Fair.  Find out about all of these, and much more, in our roundup of the best things to do in London over the month. RECOMMENDED:🎨 The best art exhibitions opening in London this March🎭 The best theatre shows opening in London this March🍽️ The best new London restaurants opening this March🎤 The best gigs happening in London in March

From Chaucer, Shakespeare and Dickens to Zadie Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro and Bernardine Evaristo, London has long been home to some of the greatest writers on the planet. Often considered one of the literary capitals of the world, it’s no surprise that the city’s bookworms are brilliantly served by its excellent variety of bookshops.  Whether you’re after novels, comics, magazines, chic coffee table books or antiquarian tomes, you’ll find them in one of the city’s many brilliant shops dedicated to the printed word. We’ve collated 45 favourites in our newly updated list of London’s best bookshops.  And the number one pick probably won’t come as a huge surprise to the city’s bookworms. Said to be the first custom-built bookshop in the world, the original branch of Daunt Books in Marylebone is known for its hugely Instagrammable Edwardian interiors, featuring oak balconies, conservatory ceilings, viridian-green walls and stained-glass windows. But it also stocks a great collection of books, too. The shop’s specialism is travel writing, so you’ll find a brilliant curation of guidebooks, maps, language references, history books, travelogues and related fiction, handily arranged by country. Travel aside, Daunt is also a first-rate stop for literary fiction, biography and gardening.  In second place is Bookmongers on Brixton’s Coldharbour Lane – where visitors can browse an overflowing collection of second-hand titles under the watchful eye of resident cat Popeye – with Foyles’s...

This city is absolutely rammed full of amazing art galleries and museums. We’ve got everything from major contemporary art museums to high end commercial galleries, stunning local institutions to incredible independent spaces. That means that there are a lot of exhibitions to see, especially in 2025.  But how do you sort the good from the bad? How do you decide which shows are worth spending your meagre free time on? Well, we’re here to help. We go to every major exhibition in London, and a lot of the smaller ones, and we figure out what's a masterpiece and what's a disasterpiece. Our art editor spends his week trudging the streets of London, going from gallery to gallery, to help you figure out what's worth heading into town for. Our critera is simple: we want the best. It doesn’t matter if it’s painting or conceptual installation, if it’s old or new, it just has to be good. Really good. And this list right here is the best art we've seen recently, and it's updated throughout the week. Eddy Frankel is Time Out’s art editor, he literally forces himself to get out of bed every day just to go look at paintings and sculptures. It’s a tough job, but apparently someone's got to do it.  Stay in the loop: sign up to our free Time Out London newsletter for the best of the city, straight to your inbox.