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  • Inside Yuletide Yard: Flat Iron Square’s huge new Christmas takeover

    Flat Iron Square is going all in on Christmas this year. Running now through December, the London Bridge hotspot has transformed its outdoor terrace into Yuletide Yard – a full-blown winter playground created with Camden Town Brewery. Expect the world’s smallest pub, neon fairground glow, limited-edition street food, festive cocktails, live entertainment and enough twinkling…

  • A Cuban coffee-and-rum takeover is coming to London – and everything’s free

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    It might be cold outside, but you can now get a morning cortadito and evening rum cocktail to transport you to sunny and soulful Cuba. Next week, from Tuesday to Friday (25–28 November), the independent coffee shop Kaffeine teams up with Ron Santiago de Cuba Rum, one of the island’s most celebrated rum producers, for…

  • Members’ club Christabel’s is back: Soho’s late-night mischief finds a new home on Winsley Street

    Next Friday, the 28th of November, Christabel’s is reopening with a new home on Winsley Street, just off Oxford Street, bringing its late-night members’ club back to the centre of London. Known for live music, intimate shows and a high-profile, creatively minded crowd, the club has moved through a few different locations over the years,…

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  • A new stage for Amazing Grace: the live music bar is opening soon in Canary Wharf

    Canary Wharf has spent years trying to shake off its corporate skin. Once shorthand for glass towers and burnout, it’s turning into one of London’s more interesting places to eat, drink and stay. And there’s a new arrival that’ll be adding to the atmosphere soon. This Wednesday (12 November), Amazing Grace opens a purpose-built live…

  • Ain’t no place like a Mexican home: Meet La Familia, Soho’s new two-storey taqueria and tequila den

    When Barrio closed its doors on Poland Street earlier this year, Soho lost one of its loudest Latin fixtures. Now, it has been reborn as La Familia: a two-storey space that splits between street-level tacos and a basement built for all your late nights and tequila dreams. This time, the Barrio team left the bar’s…

  • Life, death, and bread: The beloved TOAD Bakery has a new Día de Muertos menu, for two days only

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    London’s most inventive bakery is about to get a Mexican makeover. For two days only, Espolòn Tequila is transforming TOAD Bakery in Peckham into a full-blown Día de Muertos fiesta – complete with tequila treats, traditional pastries, and a riot of colour inspired by Mexico’s most beloved celebration. Running Friday 31 October and Saturday 1…

  • Disrepute launches Counterculture, its most provocative cocktail menu yet

    Cocktail connoisseurs, rejoice. Disrepute, the underground cocktail bar housed in the former Pinstripe Club, has unveiled Counterculture: A Brief History of a Scandal, a new (and delicious)cocktail menu inspired by the icons, outcasts, and provocateurs who shaped the 1960s. The Pinstripe Club was once the scene of the infamous Profumo affair – a scandal that…

  • Dead good baking: Don Julio and Panadería Rosetta are celebrating Día de Muertos with an exclusive pop-up

    This weekend, London gets a taste of Mexico City’s most celebrated bakery – and a splash of tequila, too. From 31 October to 2 November, Don Julio Tequila takes over Toklas Bakery for Panadería Don Julio, a three-day Día de Muertos pop-up blending Mexican baking, culture, and cocktail craft in collaboration with Panadería Rosetta. For…

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  • It’s getting hot in Frith Street, and that’s thanks to Tangra, Soho’s new Indo-Chinese spot

    A hybrid born in Kolkata in the early 20th century, Indo-Chinese cuisine blends Chinese Hakka cooking techniques with Indian spices and ingredients — garlic-heavy sauces, soy, chilli, vinegar and masala, all hitting the pan at fierce heat. In London, the style has long thrived on the city’s outskirts — in Southall, Wembley and Harrow —…

  • Shots fired: Clays’ flagship playground is now open in Soho

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    If you’re a fan of competitive socialising – from darts and ping-pong to shuffleboard and crazy golf – Soho’s newest opening might be right up your street. Clays, the brand that turned clay pigeon shooting into an indoor, tech-driven game, landed in the West End on the 24th of September with its biggest site yet.…

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