Smith opened a confectionary shop in Goswell Road sometime around 1840. During a sugary reconnaissance trip to Paris, he got ...

The Pan Pacific London hotel on Bishopsgate claims to have London's tallest Christmas tree right outside. We haven't measured ...

The great strength and innovation of Harry Beck's original Tube map was its schematic approach. Stations were not plotted ...

You could easily walk past the AITF without ever realising that you just missed one of the area's most beautiful pubs. The outside is plain in the extreme — almost studiously uninteresting.

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For those too young to remember, the pub is named after the small boat in which Sir Francis Chichester sailed single-handedly around the world. She used to be moored on the riverside here, near ...

At first glance, the Angel is a fairly typical pub, doing fairly typically pubbish things, with fairly typical pubbish people. And yet, when we put it to a reader poll, it got voted in as one of ...

Part of our Best Pubs in London microsite. See if we've included your local. Yet more impressive Victoriana, in an area dripping with great 19th century pubs, greets the visitor to The Lamb.

Any food and drink place that opens on somewhere called Seething Lane has some work to do. Fortunately, this place seethes neither in the sense of oozing nor fuming. It is a schizophrenic place ...

Part of our Best Pubs in London microsite. Is your local listed? London's first decent station pub (opened 1999) sits proudly on top of Paddington's food and drink mall. It's a Fuller's house, but ...

This pub was editorially chosen for inclusion by Londonist. The area around Liverpool Street Station is festooned with average pubs. The Bull is not among their number. It dates back to the 17th ...

This pub was editorially selected for inclusion by Londonist. A big old famous riverside pub, the London Apprentice is close enough to Syon House that it attracts people from all over as well as ...