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
With a single dessert and just two glasses of wine our bill was kept in check - but the effort of doing so was not much fun
Babbo
Film
This is a film with beautiful performances and a visual style that urges you towards reflection
Bright Star
Theatre
Although the first half of Kwei-Armah’s production is pacy, funny and intelligent, the energy level then drops off
Seize The Day
I loved this film from start to finish. Take the girlfriend, tell your mum - I'd see it again tomorrow and will buy the dvd.
I saw this last night and can't remember the last time I was so moved in the theatre.
I have been to many of London's so-called best Japanese restaurants and none have been as good as the food that I've had at Aqua Kyoto

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