New Rose is warm and inviting
It's hard to believe that almost every pub along Essex Road was once a rough local's boozer and the New Rose is no exception, having received a makeover a few years ago.. more | Add your review
An awesome and ridiculous film that leaves you thrilled beyond the point of your natural endurance
2012
Theatre
The show has suddenly become quite wonderful, and the galvanising factor is the terrific stage debut of Melanie C
Blood Brothers
Music
The British pop music industry may be eating itself but if Muse are the pick of what it can offer the world in 2010 then British music is in rude health indeed
Muse
I was smitten by both Gilberts enormous luxuriant moustache and the intelligence and nuance of this highly entertaining play
I totally recommend Babbo to anyone who is looking for really good and traditional Italian food
Always been a fan but never seen them live. I was ecstatic to be part of this epic event. WOW!

Here's our guide to where to warm up before and after this weekend's firework displays... more | Add your view
It's hard to believe that almost every pub along Essex Road was once a rough local's boozer and the New Rose is no exception, having received a makeover a few years ago.. more | Add your review
Splash out on a spooky mask this Saturday as ghosts, vampires and witches descend on some of London’s haunted bars... more | Add your view
The Marksman has always been one of the more friendly and homely Hackney pubs, so it was with a dose of relief that we discovered that the owners have simply built upon this reputation.. more | Add your review
Reopened only a few days after we took this photo (the decorators, carpenters and gardeners were hard at work), the Durrell Arms, has in our opinion, got off to a flying start.. more | Add your review
A small pub with a great selection of beers and a great atmosphere... more | Add your review
A good refurbishment and selection of drinks has means the Britannia should start getting busier... more | Add your review
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The Rising Sun is a reasonably price, old-fashioned feeling pub... more | Add your review
The White Horse is a familiar landmark in Parson's Green with a great Victorian interior and a superb sunny spot out in front that borders the actual Green... more | Add your review
A quick list of the top places to drink in London this month for the Oktoberfest... more | Add your view
The Oakdale is an honest suburban local run by the Milton Brewery, which also draws in real ale fans, but suffers from a fairly poor interior... more | Add your review
A new bar has taken the place of Bar Bed under the name Zeppelin Shelter... more | Add your review
As far as recently refurbished Young's pubs go, this is one is of the best we've visited.. more | Add your review
Inside the Andover Arms you'll find a handsome gantried bar serving up a decent range of Fuller's ales... more | Add your review
No more a mock Horror pub, the test-tube cocktails and Gothic furnishings have been cleared aside as part of a Geronimo pubs refit at the Adam & Eve... more | Add your review
As the autumn closes in, instead of drinking out, drinking up becomes the thing. .. more | Add your view
A sombre looking place on the exterior (that'll go down well with the Ripper trailers), the Bell is a welcoming place once you step inside.. more | Add your review
The Devonshire's now a more sedate, respectable drinking hole, with traces of the old pub wiped away... more | Add your review
In these cash-strapped times, it's nice to see a typical, decent local like the Duchess of Kent doing well... more | Add your review
The once painfully trendy Bricklayers Arms appears to have undergone something of a turnaround and is now much closer to the good old boozer it once was... more | Add your review
The Centre Page is not a classic pub, but it's a decent effort all the same... more | Add your review
A gastropub done by the book, the Junction Tavern has fared better than some other North London casualties... more | Add your review