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¡Viva Veganuary! Wahaca brings new plant-based dishes and mocktails to its January menu
January always arrives with plenty of good intentions, but sometimes very little joy attached to them – particularly if you’re going plant-based or sober for the first time. Yet an army of us subscribe to it. Veganuary reported a record-breaking 25.8 million participants globally in 2025. In parallel, around 15.5 to 17.5 million UK adults…
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A Cuban coffee-and-rum takeover is coming to London – and everything’s free
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…
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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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Review: Christmas at The Ivy Northcote Road: A new opening that already feels like a classic
Some restaurants are just perfect for winter months, and The Ivy Northcote Road Brasserie is one of them. The new site only opened in late September, yet it’s already functioning like a neighbourhood institution – permanently busy, reliably indulgent, and wrapped in just enough festive glamour to make a dark winter evening feel celebratory. Walking…
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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…
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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…
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Life, death, and bread: The beloved TOAD Bakery has a new Día de Muertos menu, for two days only
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…
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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…
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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 —…
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