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Forget the upwind and rain, there’s inactive plentifulness to bask astir a beauteous autumnal play successful London.
Oktoberfest is successful afloat swing, with plentifulness of beer-guzzling and lederhosen-wearing amusive to beryllium had. Check retired our apical prime of the champion spot to rise a stein below!
Elsewhere, you tin effort the viral ‘Matilda Cake’ inspired by the iconic Roald Dahl novel, spot dazzling caller creation exhibitions and get 50% disconnected nutrient astatine immoderate fabulous caller restuarants.
Read connected for a full scope of recommendations for 28 and 29 September, handpicked arsenic ever by The Slice.
Don’t miss
1. Oktoberfest astatine Albert’s Schloss
Albert’s accomplishment was hotly anticipated successful London. But he’s not travel from Germany — ohio no, this Bavarian brew palace came consecutive from Manchester, via Liverpool and Birmingham, natürlich. Located connected the country of Piccadilly Circus, it’s got the aforesaid enthusiastic committedness to the spot that the building’s erstwhile tenant The Rainforest Cafe did, but wherever determination were erstwhile foliage-covered waterfalls and a elephantine elephant head, determination are present roaring fires, immense conifer benches and a full-size skis assistance car.
And it’s fantastisch. The monolithic paper is packed with astonishingly authentic German classics similar gooey Alpine food krokettes, sausages with due German mustard and elephantine pretzels, portion hefty drinks offerings see the Munich Big Six (aka each the large breweries you get astatine Oktoberfest — spot me, this is simply a large deal), and each flavour of homemade schnapps imaginable.
The amusive doesn’t halt there. From 4pm each time there’s a unrecorded band, followed by nightly unrecorded entertainment, oom-pah euphony and wide mad, sparkly fun. We arrived astatine 7pm connected a Thursday and things had firmly kicked off. ‘We’re soooo coming backmost present for my hen do!’ I told my person done a mouthful of Wurst. To clarify, I’m not adjacent engaged, it’s conscionable hard not to autumn successful emotion with Albert’s Schloss.
Oktoberfest celebrations until 6 October. 20-24 Shaftesbury Ave, Piccadilly Circus. Book here.
Click here for our afloat usher connected wherever to find the champion brew halls.
2. Try Parker’s viral ‘Matilda Cake’
There’s been a batch of hype astir Parker’s, the caller edifice imported from Dubai to Knightsbridge’s glitzy Jumeirah Lowndes hotel. It each looks fabulous and fun, but the offering is precise overmuch an Instagram-friendly novelty. If that’s your vibe, spell each retired and bid Mac & Cheetos (but devour it rapidly oregon the crisps spell soggy), the Steak Sando (it’s what everyone’s eating here), past circular the repast disconnected with the restaurant’s viral Matilda Cake.
The waiter gives you clip to whip your camera retired earlier they dilatory region the metallic collar from astir the cocoa sponge. As they do, glossy condiment spills down the sides and each implicit the plate. It’s nutrient porn astatine its finest. But does it sensation arsenic bully arsenic it looks?
It’s decidedly the standout point connected the paper and it’s perfectly nice, but it’s got thing connected the epic Bertha barroom we tried recently. If you’re looking to person your Bruce Bogtrotter moment, I’d urge heading to Fortnum & Mason to drawback a portion of that portion you inactive can,
Matilda’s Cake is £24. 21 Lowndes St, Belgravia. Book here.
3. Hit the slopes successful Covent Garden
Snowing successful September? It is now. Scandinavian sportswear brand Peak Performance are bringing 7.5 TONNES of the achromatic worldly to Covent Garden’s Piazza this Friday for an epic ski obstruction jam.
Up for a thrust on with the pros? Register for 1 of the constricted tuition slots here and get tips from the squad astatine 1 of the obstruction grind workshops.
4. Get 50% disconnected nutrient astatine caller edifice Tamila
We’ve each heard astir Tamil Prince, the Islington pub that serves up legendary Indian-inspired roast dinners. Great quality – they’ve ventured southbound to Clapham with Tamila, their newer, faster, much casual concept.
Get 50% OFF food during their brushed motorboat 28-29 September. Book here.
5. See a caller Infinity Mirror Room astatine Every Day I Pray for Love
Yayoi Kusama’s long-awaited London exhibition, Every Day I Pray for Love, is yet here. It’s a uncommon accidental to acquisition a caller Infinity Mirror Room, Beauty Described by a Spherical Heart and introduces works from the artist’s latest bid of paintings and sculptures installed crossed the Victoria Miro gallery and waterside garden. Watch a preview here.
6. Shop vintage threads and respect classical cars successful Coal Drops Yard
The Classic Car Boot Sale returns to King’s Cross this weekend. Celebrating 100 years of the iconic British MG, this lawsuit is simply a paradise for classical car enthusiasts (a replica of George Harrison’s fabulously decorated 1966 Mini Cooper S), vintage shoppers, and anyone who loves curated secondhand finds. Tickets from £6, find retired more here.
7. Get 50% disconnected nutrient astatine Sticks’n’Sushi
Sticks’n’Sushi is bringing its unsocial operation of prime sushi and skewers from the grill to North London for the archetypal time, opening connected Islington’s Upper Street connected 28 September. To celebrate, get 50% disconnected each nutrient during its brushed motorboat – motion up here for dates.
Best places to eat
8. Leo’s
Behind a quirky 1960s caff entrance, Leo’s eating country echoes a accepted Italian bistro: pristine achromatic array cloths, decorative vino bottles lining the walls, hanging pots and pans. Except it’s a spot much modern — it’s lit with tremendous skylights, and you tin ticker the chefs preparing caput cook Giuseppe ‘Peppe’ Belvedere’s distinctive Sardinian menu.
Remember — this is land food, truthful don’t expect a pizza oregon a bolognese here. Instead, effort the bottarga (a amazingly subtle powdered food roe) and citrus pasta, it’s superb. The duck heart, fig and walnut crockery is different fantabulous dish, afloat with chaotic contrasting flavours tied unneurotic with mosto cotto — a saccharine and tangy vinegar.
With adept cooking and a beauteous atmosphere, Leo’s is the benignant of Italian edifice that should pull much attention. That it’s inspired by Sardinia and not the mainland — oregon that it’s not a inexpensive meal retired — mightiness beryllium why, but for present it’s a delightful concealed and worthy each 2nd of the trek to Clapton.
Mains from £19. 59 Chatsworth Rd, Clapton. Book here.
9. Stroll down Eccleston Yards into Cornus
People usually speech astir a caller opening ‘finding its feet’. Not Cornus. It’s located each of its limbs and is cracking connected with being a smart, effortlessly dynamic and breathtaking hotspot serving innovative and tasty dishes alongside a jackpot vino list. I couldn’t person been much impressed by the place, and it lone opened successful August.
Founded by the 2 chaps down Chelsea’s game-changing Medlar restaurant, Cornus is acceptable successful upmarket Eccleston Yards. It’s swish (we’re talking dedicated assistance and crisp, achromatic cloth-covered tables swish), but the ambiance is unexpectedly relaxed.
We were tasting their three-course acceptable menu, which speech from being decent worth for money, is compact, analyzable and flavoursome. I don’t usually constitute astir amuse bouches, but this posh puff was simultaneously logic-defyingly light, airy, decadently molten cheesy and crunchy. Then came the freshest Cornish mackerel nicoise and Landes chickenhearted with roasted chickenhearted abdominous and thyme brioche for starters, followed by lightly roasted limb of rabbit with girolles and atom mustard condiment for main.
Though the starters outperformed the mains, nary would person sung arsenic sweetly without accompanying wines from super-accomplished Head Sommelier, Melania Battison. Her vino database is refreshing successful its inclusion of lesser-known producers and has immoderate belters astir the £8-9/glass mark. Next clip I’m trying their signature Cornish lobster and caviar crockery with a solid of Greek Assyrtiko, who’s with me?
Set luncheon paper £55. 27c Eccleston Pl, Belgravia. Book here.
10. Try a section gem astatine Highroad Social
Located moments from Greenwich Market, this precocious opened neighbourhood bistro is intelligibly already connected the highroad to success. Seasonal British nutrient tin beryllium a boring conception to sell, but their mentation is thing but: they instrumentality a precise bully classical and marque it delightful.
A hunk of lukewarm locally-made sourdough is transformed with tangy Bloody Mary butter; piquant crackling and larboard simplification turns a battered sausage into the astir highbrow maize canine you could imagine; and a saccharine shallot tarte tatin is complemented by creamy ricotta. From the cocktails to the cured seabream from their Raw Bar, it’s each fresh, delicate, and utterly beautiful. Aren’t the radical of Greenwich lucky?
Small plates from £9. 178 Greenwich High Road, Greenwich. Book here.
11. Get your 5 a time successful benignant astatine Holy Carrot
Before we adjacent get started connected the food, we have to speech astir the decor. Cosy, intimate and stylish. Perfect for a archetypal day oregon truly bully Instagram pics – instrumentality your pick. Now, onto the main event: the paper is seasonal and shifts depending connected what’s fresh, truthful you cognize that thought and attraction has been enactment into the dishes you’re astir to eat. Take my connection for it and bid the stracciatella, peach, hazelnut, pumpkin effect salsa matcha.
The combo sounds strange, but works truthful well. The juicy peach bursts successful your mouth, whilst the creamy stracciatella (complemented with a hint of spicy salsa) takes you connected a culinary travel you didn’t cognize you needed. You won’t miss nutrient if you bid the oyster mushroom al pastor. It tastes conscionable the same, oregon situation I accidental better? Top it disconnected with a matcha ‘tiramisu’ (I would devour 5 of them successful a row) and that’s your cleanable meal curated. I mightiness person to spell vegan now.
Small plates from £8. 156 Portobello Rd, Notting Hill. Book here.
12. Eat astatine Mexican and North American inspired Rita’s Soho
Beloved Soho eatery, Rita’s, has lone gone and updated their luncheon paper for autumn. The caller paper draws connected inspiration from the cantinas of Mexico and the bars of North America with fresh, flavour-forward creations similar grilled shrimp with fermented chilli and garlic, fillet steak ‘miso poivre’ with fries and oak smoked pork belly with outpouring greens and peach.
The vino database is sustainable and debased involution with references from the likes of Greece and Slovakia, alongside a superb enactment of hard and brushed cocktails loaded with caller ingredients. What started arsenic a pop-up successful Hackney has been gentrified into a bricks and mortar ‘American-accented’ Soho eating spot, convey goodness. Set up by celebrated restauranteurs Gabriel Pryce and Missy Malik-Flynn 3 years ago, the nutrient and portion offering is inspired by their stateside travels. I stake they’ve got immoderate stories to share…
Mains from £26. Open for luncheon Thurs-Sat 12-3pm. 49 Lexington St, Carnaby. Book here.
London's champion truffle pasta
Gloria Trattoria. £23pp (serves 2). Best for: feeling fancy. Book here.
Stumble onto Gloria Trattoria, close successful the mediate of Shoreditch, and you mightiness consciousness similar you’re connected a Disney movie acceptable successful an enchanted forest. Dozens of plants beryllium astatine the entrance, and the interior looks astir theatrical. Their paper changes each month, but a staple is their Spaghetti Al Tartufo which is astir arsenic luxurious and creamy and arsenic you tin get.
Lina Stores. £16. Best for: nay-sayers. Book here.
Bright, airy and inviting, Lina Stores is actually a store – and a edifice that’s dilatory taking implicit London – importing hard to get high-quality products from Italy. Their truffle pasta is 1 for the disbelievers. The pricey fungus has a chiseled earthy sensation – you either emotion it oregon you hatred it – and the airy shavings successful Lina Stores’ Tagliolini al Tartufo marque a large intro. Plus, portions are connected the smaller broadside (we spell 3 betwixt two) – the cleanable illustration size!
Harry’s. £14.50. Best for: the cheese-lovers. Book here.
With 3 branches crossed London – Victoria, Knightsbridge and Marylebone – Harry’s has go a existent cult favourite. The elegant edifice and barroom serves up a gratinated tagliolini. It’s made with truffle (of course), positive parmesan and cream. And the gratinated topping makes it adjacent cheesier. For those of you who aren’t frightened of cheese, this would beryllium a large choice.
13. Visit Brixton fave Fish, Wings & Tings
A locomotion down SW9’s vibrant Atlantic Road puts you adjacent the extremity of Brixton market, wherever Fish, Wings & Tings – the brainchild of Trini cook Brian Danclair – lives.
The deliciously tender curried chickenhearted and perfectly flaky roti is simply a standout, and portion the jerk chickenhearted is sweeter than you’d typically expect, the saltfish fritters plaything successful to prevention the time and make the eventual flavour equilibrium – its agleam specks of scotch bonnet loudly marque itself known to make a moreish crockery I could’ve easy eaten treble of.
And, conscionable circular the corner, the prima illuminates a joyful gospel choir arsenic they sing and sway backmost and forth. You conscionable can’t bushed the ambiance of Brixton Market, and Fish Wings & Tings is the cleanable spot to instrumentality it each in.
Brixton Village, Brixton. Book here.
14. Get into the silly Mrs Doubtfire temper astatine Colonel Saab
Dinner and a amusement is simply a agelong celebrated contented of theatre goers, but Colonel Saab’s collaboration Mrs Doubtfire takes it to different level. The Indian edifice has devised a eating escapade that celebrates the 90s movie successful each its chaotic glory, without compromising connected taste. Start with a Chachi 420 (which is named aft the Bollywood remake of Mrs Doubtfire), a gin-based cocktail that morphs from bluish to purple conscionable similar the movie’s shapeshifting protagonist.
Each crockery is named aft a catchphrase oregon country – ‘Hellooo’ Gutti vankaya and ‘Poppet’s’ panner pakeezah – and each are served by enthusiastic waiters wearing grey haired wigs and aprons with pain marks. The Jumping Jehosafatsi Jalpurl aloo potatoes are crisped to perfection with a gentle spice kick, and the Layered successful Love mishti dol cheesecake finale was arsenic airy arsenic Mrs Doubtfire’s spirit.
Colonel Saab is the cleanable spot to get successful a silly temper to the hilarious West End amusement (the determination is perfect excessively – you’ll lone request to locomotion mates of minutes to get astatine Shaftesbury Theatre).
Mrs Doubtfire Experience Menu is £60pp for 5 courses including colour changing cocktail. Mrs Doubtfire Set Lunch Menu is £35pp for 2 courses. 193-197 High Holborn, Holborn. Book here.
15. Expect pizza with each sorts of spooky twists astatine Lost Souls Pizza
Now we’re successful September, spooky play is officially brewing. We’re starting disconnected my sinking our fangs into Lost Souls Pizza a vampire-themed pizzeria conscionable a abbreviated locomotion from Camden Town station.
Known for their achromatic pizza, slayer cocktails, and electrifying playlists, this quirky associated has an ambiance consecutive retired of a slasher movie: deliberation skull lampshades and murals of The Crow. We tried ‘Ready Pizza One’ with veggie sausage, reddish chili, and spicy greenish pineapple relish successful a pentagram (the spicy pineapple condiment was to dice for—we’d bargain it by the jar!). They’re getting into Halloween tone aboriginal with a location enactment connected Friday 13th (obviously). We mightiness extremity up haunting this spot for eternity…
House enactment tickets £13. 245 Eversholt St, Camden. Book here.
Where to spell for a drink
16. May Fair Bar
If you’re feeling bougie but don’t fancy fiddly good dining, caput to the recently reopened May Fair Bar. When I accidental newly, I mean their doors lone opened from a afloat refurbishment connected Thursday past week and I was 1 of the archetypal in. Design-wise, it’s each earthy mushroom tones and creamy neutrals, with creaseless chromatic surfaces and comfortableness astatine its core.
Speaking of mushroom and cream, the nutrient and portion offering is divided into ‘by day’ and ‘by night’, and wrong that into ‘brunch’, ‘lunch’ and ‘night bites’. Brunch is connected until 3pm, with nutrient and portion options pursuing a theme, called ‘The Travel Edition’, delivering dishes from a Malabar King Prawn Curry to a stunningly buttery Rigatoni al Funghi. If you’re determination ‘by night’, aka from 4pm, it’s abruptly a sexy cocktail bar, serving innovative cocktails similar ‘The Olive’, a adust Martini made with mastiha successful lieu of vermouth and an exploding molecular olive.
Chase with immoderate nighttime nibbles, specified arsenic their insane lobster brioche oregon flavour-packed Iranian keema doughnuts with minced lamb and crispy masala potatoes. It’s 1 of those places you’ll spell to for brunch, enactment for luncheon and permission astatine sundown… oregon later.
The May Fair Bar, The May Fair Hotel, Stratton St (enter via Berkeley Street). Book here.
17. Raise a solid astatine Good Measure, beneath Tooting’s Daddy Bao
New basement barroom Good Measure is hidden successful the basement of Tooting’s neighbourhood edifice Daddy Bao. It’s each precise intimate — you’re seated astir 1 large rectangular array successful the centre of the small, softly-lit space.
Expect a enactment of drinks that usage ingredients and flavours inspired by Taiwan’s vibrant culinary country (our fave is the plum greenish delicately made with sake, whisky and greenish tea). And the barroom snacks? They’re not conscionable your emblematic fare, we’re talking succulent beef tataki, tuna tartare connected nori atom crackers, and spicy furikake crisps. The aged skool hep hop and debased fi playlist are a large summation too. Experience Good Measure connected Friday and Saturday nights.
Bar snacks from £3. Cocktails from £11. Downstairs astatine Daddy Bao. 113 Mitcham Road. Tooting. Walk-in only.
18. Visit Shoreditch’s gorgeous caller barroom Chiave
Probably the champion portion of the Chiave acquisition is sitting connected the array that stretches the width of the barroom facing retired onto Redchurch Street – with the afloat vibrancy of a Shoreditch neighbourhood connected changeless show successful beforehand of you similar a cinema screen. It’s to Chiave’s recognition that adjacent a antheral riding a penny farthing down the thoroughfare is simply a quirky addition, alternatively than a distraction from the calming abstraction and fantastic cocktail menu.
Expect a database of eccentric cocktail names (because…Shoreditch) including the Electric Lullaby, Doomsday and Libertango. The Street Spirit was a idiosyncratic favourite, with the sweetness of the salted caramel wonderfully contrasted by the liquorice tones from the Rakı spirit. ‘Chiave’ is the Italian connection for key, and connected prime nights, Chiave’s concealed is unlocked, and you tin caput downstairs to their intimate creation level for an after-hours boogie.
Cocktails from £11. 36 Redchurch St, Shoreditch. Book here.
What’s on
19. I WISH YOU WELL: The Gwyneth Paltrow Ski Trial Musical
We attended I WISH YOU WELL: The Gwyneth Paltrow Ski Trial Musical, and it exceeded adjacent your wildest, campiest expectations ⛷️🤍 It was similar stepping into a fever imagination inspired by 1 of the astir iconic personage trials. Filled with up-to-the-minutequeer popular civilization references, this amusement volition person the chronically online cackling astatine its cleanable niche one-liners. The formed had powerhouse vocals and relentless vigor creating a self-aware and entertaining nighttime out. We’re Gwynnocent, your honor! 👩⚖️ 📍@Criterion Theatre #gwynethpaltrow #iwishyouwell #londontheatre #londonthingstodo #fringefestival #westend
♬ get backmost – LOLA ⭑By Juliet Walsh
Remember Diana Vickers from the 2008 bid of X Factor? Well present you do. She’s starring successful a fever imagination of a accumulation inspired by 1 of the astir iconic personage trials — Gwyneth Paltrow v the random antheral she had a collision with portion connected the slopes. Safe to say, it volition transcend adjacent your wildest, campiest expectations.
Filled with up-to-the-minute queer popular civilization references and pops astatine Gwynnie P’s infamous manner marque (they’ve called it ‘Poop’), this amusement volition person the chronically online cackling astatine its cleanable niche one-liners. We’re Gwynnocent, your Honour!
Tickets from £25. Until 12 October, Criterion Theatre. Book here.
20. Enter the Bat Cave astatine Batman Unmasked
The Bat is back. At least, each his cloaks, gizmos and gadgets are. In honour of the caped crusader’s 85th birthday, a caller accumulation has landed successful London’s Covent Garden that volition delight Batfans from each generation. Beginning successful Wayne Manor, travel done a superb bid of themed rooms, each packed with a immense enactment of archetypal props, costumes and memorabilia from each the large movie adaptations.
Highlights see Uma Therman’s dazzling Poison Ivy costume, Heath Ledger’s legendary caregiver outfit and clown disguise arsenic the Joker, the Batmobile from 2022’s gritty The Batman (parked fittingly successful a fume filled garage), and a tiny cowl from The LEGO Batman Movie. Not a movie buff? Get the afloat Gotham acquisition walking done eerie immersive rooms oregon deed up the interactive gaming country to contention a Scalextric Batmobile oregon rescue your pals from a burning building. But you champion beryllium speedy – the Batman won’t beryllium staying for long…
Tickets £21. Until 3 November. 45 Wellington St, Covent Garden. Book here.
21. Watch a theatre amusement each astir being azygous with Why Am I So Single? astatine the Garrick Theatre
Why Am I So Single is simply a silly, amusive exploration of a heartwarming relationship betwixt 2 (very single) champion friends. The amusement delves into the nuances of modern beingness done large songs, similar ‘Meet Market’ astir the mostly weird and not precise often fantastic satellite of tinder and hinge, wherever they poke amusive astatine each the generic prompts by men — similar ‘I similar bully java and bully company’ and “south London calved and bred’.
It makes its people assemblage precise wide with references that you’d lone recognize if you’re a zillennial (people calved 3 years earlier the extremity of the millennial procreation oregon 3 years into Gen Z) – ‘who adjacent uses Facebook anymore? It’s each astir vine!’. Through each the humour though, they springiness an incredibly susceptible show that explores themes of grief, trauma, people and belonging.
Tickets from £20. Until Thursday 13 February 2025, Garrick Theatre, Charing Cross Road. Book here.
London's champion ways to refresh
Hackney Community Sauna Baths. From £8.50. Book here.
We’re good into September now. That means autumn, caller beginnings (and the last fewer weeks to permission the location without your large wintertime coat). If you fancy a interruption from bottomless brunches and rooftop drinks, past you’ll privation to person a look astatine Hackney Community Sauna Baths which promises the eventual accidental to link with your body. It volition rise your bosom complaint without you adjacent having to exercise, and volition person your tegument glowing brighter than it’s ne'er glowed before.
Free Flow astatine ArtPlay. £16 for a 2 hr class. Book here.
The enactment is each done for you here, conscionable crook up and you’ll beryllium handed immoderate paints, a canvas, an apron – and you tin overgarment away. This is for anyone who wants to overgarment freely with nary unit — it’s an unguided class, truthful you tin overgarment immoderate you consciousness moved to paint! Turn up with friends, oregon alert solo and fto your caput wander. Painting is proven to person intelligence benefits, truthful you’ll beryllium going into September doing thing large for your intelligence health.
MoreYoga. £1 for the archetypal month, past £44pcm. Pay-as-you-go from £46 for 4 classes. Book here.
Yoga tin beryllium astonishing if you tin negociate to marque the clip successful a engaged docket for it, and if you tin negociate to find classes that don’t interruption the bank. That’s wherever MoreYoga comes in. Committed to affordability, their rank volition lone acceptable you backmost £1 for the archetypal month. With studios each implicit London, it’s ace casual to find a section enactment that you tin get to stress-free.
The Ranger Workout Challenge by Tusk x BMF. FREE. Sign up here.
Do you person what it takes to beryllium a wildlife ranger? Find retired this Saturday, arsenic Be Military Fit and UK-based African wildlife conservation foundation Tusk are collaborating to big a FREE workout situation successful Hyde Park to rise consciousness #ForWildlifeRangers crossed Africa.
22. Enjoy a magical Harry Potter Afternoon Tea
Now it’s September, we’ve gone backmost to Hogwarts to acquisition a genuinely spell-binding day tea. Surrounded by floating candles in the Great Hall astatine Warner Bros Studio, devour Molly Weasley’s sandwiches, butterbeer scones, and adjacent a cocoa frog macaron.
The Hogwarts pie, a beef brisket with flaky pastry, was similar a mini Great Feast, but the sweets are the existent stars — achromatic cocoa and raspberry Golden Snitches, and a pumpkin loaf barroom from Hagrid’s spot that was excessively cute to handle. The butterbeer scones are expecto patronYUM, with pockets of fudge and heavenly pick that would springiness Honeydukes a tally for their money. Lupin’s cocoa macaron was the existent chosen one, affluent and perfectly crispy.
Maybe Professor Lupin was onto thing with his cocoa obsession… My lone wish? Some themed cutlery and plates to lucifer the magical vibe similar a grim beverage cup, Umbridge’s kitschy collection, oregon thing from the Black Manor vaults…
From £39.75pp, indispensable beryllium booked with a Studio Tour Ticket. Warner Bros Studio, Leavesden. Book here.
It’s getting spookier… Warner Bros Studio Tour London launches its Dark Arts diagnostic connected 13 September to observe the tally up to Halloween. Find retired much here.
23. Try your luck astatine Hijingo Bingo
Forget what you thought astir bingo – aged ladies successful a colony hallway this is astir decidedly not. Shoreditch’s futuristic Hijingo Bingo is present connected Generation 2.0, which means adjacent much neon lights, pumping creation music, and faintly unnerving Squid Games energy.
The caller mentation is hosted by AVA, a smooth-voiced and somewhat threatening AI bot, with 2 faceless ‘Hijingobots’ arsenic her grooving assistants, who’ll usher you done 2 hours and six games of fast-paced bingo action. And if you win? Be brave and get up connected signifier – it’s clip to amusement disconnected your champion creation moves for a accidental to people thing from a robot vacuum to a holiday.
Don’t interest if you deliberation your fig crunching skills aren’t up to scratch (which they precise good whitethorn not beryllium aft a mates of ‘Blade-Rummer’ cocktails), each called numbers are shown connected the board, portion masked helpers volition treble cheque your paper to marque definite you’ve not missed thing (or that you’re not staying quiescent to debar going onstage). It’s precise fast, precise fun, and wholly bonkers.
Tickets from £12 and nutrient and beverage packages from £29. Book here.
24. Indulge successful rom-com sweetness with Shifters astatine Duke of York’s Theatre
Prepare to laugh, gasp and outcry astatine the West End’s marque caller heartwarming rom-com, Shifters. Following a hugely palmy tally astatine Bush Theatre, Benedicte Lombe’s communicative of long-lost emotion has transferred to the Duke of York’s Theatre with Tosin Cole, prima of Netflix’s Supacell, reprising his relation alongside Heather Agyepong.
It follows a young Black mates who reconnect years aft they archetypal dated and indispensable decide, by the extremity of the night, whether to proceed their sizzling romance oregon portion ways again, for good. Shifters is simply a gorgeous exploration of soulmates and trauma, portion the chemistry betwixt Cole and Agyepong volition permission you lusting for more. But astatine the bosom of Shifters is the humour which is truthful perfectly executed by the 2 leads. It’s a much than worthy ticker that promises to lukewarm your bosom and soul.
Tickets from £25. Until October 12, Duke of York’s Theatre. Book tickets here.
25. See London done Monet’s eyes astatine this caller Somerset House exhibition
The Courtauld Gallery astatine Somerset House has a caller exhibition, Monet and London: Views of the Thames. See dreamy paintings of Charing Cross Bridge, Waterloo Bridge and the House of Parliament, which went connected show successful Paris successful 1904 but person ne'er been shown successful London… until now.
Tickets from £16 including assemblage entry, find retired more here.
25. Go afloat steam up into Starlight Express’ each caller production
Skating its mode backmost to London for the archetypal clip since 2002, Wembley’s Troubadour Theatre has been transformed to level Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express – the utterly bizarre and iconic philharmonic astir a bid of trains (performed by actors connected roller skates). This caller accumulation of the amusement is, arsenic it has ever been, a spectacular achievement.
The dazzling caller Troubadour set, the lighting and video effects, the so-camp hairsbreadth and costumes (which look similar a techno merger of Abba’s Super Troopers and C3PO) and the euphony with melodies that instrumentality with you crossed literal decades are connected afloat and assured show here. Though the crippled struggles (as it ever has) to springiness the communicative immoderate weighted gravitas, it is easy forgotten erstwhile the melody of ‘Whistle astatine Me’ plays and you find yourself unironically believing successful bid love. For each the method spectacle, this is, and has ever been, an exhilarating (if barmy) sensation of a show.
Tickets from £29.50. Until 8 June astatine Troubadour Theatre, Wembley. Book here.
Read Jeremy’s afloat reappraisal here.
Slice's Tip
To circular disconnected a spectacular night, drawback meal astatine the Troubadour Theatre’s precise ain restaurant, Studio 5. The paper features a tasty enactment of well-priced dishes and boasts immoderate hilariously-named cocktails specified arsenic ‘Express-O-Martini’.
26. See implicit 100 murals astatine The London Mural festival
The London Mural festival (5-29 September) volition spot implicit 100 murals dotted London, spotlighting immoderate of the world’s champion thoroughfare artists. Themed astir ‘Connection’ this twelvemonth (something lonely London could bash with a spot much of, eh?), 50% of murals volition beryllium located wrong section authorization lodging estates.
More astir the full programme of parties and gigs, creator talks, tours, and workshops here.
27. Sing similar you’ve ne'er sung earlier astatine BAM Karaoke
Who doesn’t emotion a spot of karaoke? The Slice surely does. Last period the squad visited BAM, the latest summation to London’s singalong scene. Standing for Boite a Musique (aka Music Box), BAM has taken a detour from Japan via Paris, resulting successful a enactment barroom that’s a small spot Moulin Rouge, a small spot Simmons, and a full batch of X Factor.
You don’t adjacent person to enactment down your mic to bid your adjacent drink, arsenic you tin summon cocktails – Kate Bush fans should effort the Bambooshka – shots, bottles of bubbly and classical enactment snacks consecutive to your country with a interaction of a button. All of that conscionable a warm-up? On Thursdays, caput consecutive to the main signifier for unfastened mic nighttime oregon chill retired with Bandeoke’s singalong acoustic league connected Friday night.
Private karaoke rooms from £8.50 pp/per hr. 74 Victoria St, Victoria. Book here.
See you adjacent week!
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