32 cool things to do in London this weekend (October 26-27)

It’s Black History Month successful the UK, and we’re celebrating hard astatine The Slice, shining a airy connected the Black radical doing astonishing things for civilization successful the capital, arsenic portion of this year’s taxable Reclaiming Narratives.

So if you’re looking for amusive ways to people Black History Month, you’re successful the close place. Expect exhibitions, parties and more.

From Ghetts taking to the signifier with crisp lyrics and clever connection play astatine the London Literature Festival, to a karaoke enactment and twerk aft enactment people astatine iconic instauration Prince of Peckham.

We’ve besides got exclusive interviews with trailblazing Black chefs astir their apical Black-owned recommendations successful London, positive reviews of Michelin-starred edifice Chishuru and Buster Mantis’ fantastic Jamaican instrumentality connected a classical British Sunday roast. Check them retired here.

Halloween is besides creeping person and person to us, with conscionable implicit a week until the large day. We’ve got a fewer things successful store, including Wicked Wines for spooky play astatine La Compagnie des Vins Surnaturel, and a magical Harry Potter day tea.

Read connected for a full scope of recommendations for October 26 and 27, handpicked arsenic ever by The Slice.

Don’t miss

1. Celebrate Diwali with immoderate fantastic South Asian food

Celebrate the Festival of Lights successful style! Diwali falls this twelvemonth connected the aforesaid nighttime arsenic Halloween (31 October) but determination are plentifulness of fabulous events, parties and peculiar menus taking spot successful the adjacent fewer weeks. Dishoom is hosting their yearly bash at Big Penny Social, with live music, DJ sets, and a creation performance, positive a Dishoom-style veggie feast. Tickets from £40, available here.

Indo-Chinese favourite Fatt Pundit has a special Firecracker Diwali menu and cocktails to observe the yearly accomplishment of the festival of lights. Expect caller dishes similar crispy Smoked Wok Cod Fritters with smoked ginger and capsicum and Fatt Pundit’s Szechuan Lollipop. Book here.

Diwali On Trafalgar Square besides returns (27 October), presented by politician of London Sadiq Khan erstwhile again. Running from 1-7pm, guests tin expect taste performances, with music, plentifulness accidental for dancing and tasty vegetarian  nutrient stalls.

2. Do conscionable astir everything (including larn however to twerk) astatine southbound London pub Prince of Peckham

Great things (and people) person travel retired of the southbound broadside of London: The Shard, Stormzy, Ian Wright. And Black owned pub Prince Of Peckham, which describes itself arsenic a pub by southbound London for southbound London. It’s go somewhat of a hub for.. well, conscionable astir everything.

You tin get nutrient and portion present by White Men Can’t Jerk, and you tin besides larn however to twerk present astatine their adjacent twerk aft enactment class (30 Oct). Or, articulation their karaoke party (27 Oct). Expect large hits connected the list, Biggie to Missy and Kendrick Lamar. 

3. Watch phenomenal movie astatine Film Africa

Cape Verdean folklore, spirituality, LGBTQI+ issues and music, are conscionable immoderate of the themes you tin expect from Film Africa the Biennial festival, celebrating astonishing cinema from crossed the continent.

The expansive opening nighttime of the festival volition diagnostic the award-winning documentary Dahomey, directed by award-winning Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop. See what much determination is to look guardant to here.  

4. Learn astir the Black pioneers of British Ballet

The Pioneers of Black British Ballet exhibition spotlights the achievements of Black ballet dancers successful a abstraction wherever they had to combat for their visibility.

Celebrating trailblazers Vincent Hantam, Christian Holder, Brenda Garratt-Glassman and featuring untold stories, archive photography, film, paper articles and posters. 

5. See Ghetts unrecorded astatine London Literature Festival

We’ve got adjacent much civilization successful store for you: the London Literature Festival returns this play with a enactment of emerging and much established performers taking centre stage.

Hear from instrumentalist (and ex-Rizzle Kicks member) Jordan Stephens and writer Aniefiok Ekpoudom. Plus: This year’s co-creator British rapper Ghetts, volition beryllium showcasing his crisp lyrics connected stage, blending spoken connection and rap. Get tickets to Ghetts Live: The Power Of The Tongue (26 Oct) and Ghetts Presents: An Evening of Poetry and Music (27 Oct) here. 

6. Chill retired astatine Selfridges Ice Chalet pop-up

Ready to get into the wintertime mood? Johnnie Walker is celebrating its caller constricted variation Johnnie Walker Blue Label Ice Chalet astatine Selfridges London (28 October – 3 November).

Created successful collaboration with luxury skiwear and manner brand, Perfect Moment, it features a uncommon caller blend crafted by Master Blender Emma Walker, on with a vessel and container designed by Perfect Moment.

Expect an immersive experience, with curated tastings of the uncommon blend, aboriginal entree to the constricted variation Perfect Moment capsule postulation and a caller interactive SHOWstudio installation, ‘Moment Maker’, which volition make bespoke artworks for guests.

7. Free pasta for 5,000 fortunate radical astatine Emilia’s Crafted Pasta

On 25 October, pasta specialists Emilia’s Crafted Pasta are feeling generous. To observe World Pasta Day 2024 they’re giving distant up to 5,000 packets of their recently launched premium pasta, crafted successful Italy. So however tin you get your hands connected your escaped lunch?

Teams volition beryllium outside selected Tube stations crossed Central London (to beryllium announced connected their societal media) handing retired escaped goodie bags to immoderate pasta-lover who follows

Or, you tin dine astatine immoderate of their 4 restaurants (Baker Street, St. Katharine Dock, Aldgate and Canary Wharf) and get a peculiar goodie container for each idiosyncratic ordering a vessel of pasta astatine the table.

8. See creation and java harvester successful a caller gigantic mural

Calling each java buffs: A caller gigantic mural is present up on East London’s Hanbury street, inspired by the iconic Nighthawks coating by Edward Hopper. Created by London-based thoroughfare creator Itaewon successful collaboration with Alpro, the mural reimagines java civilization done the lens of modern java lovers. Plus, you tin container yourself a escaped afloat size Alpro Barista battalion successful immoderate Asda, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Morrisons oregon Waitrose conscionable by scanning the mural’s QR code.

9. Immerse yourself innovative storytelling

BFI’s yearly London Film Festival For Free programme sees much than sixty antithetic events taking spot betwixt 10-27 October. It’s the cleanable accidental to acquisition caller films, bid and innovative storytelling.

From unrecorded euphony events, to talks, workshops and adjacent a VR acquisition (where you tin ticker transhuman taxon person a dance). Though escaped tickets person sold out, you tin inactive get tickets for arsenic debased arsenic £10 (or £5 with a escaped BFI 25 & Under account).

Plus much tickets are being released astatine 10am each Friday from 20 September to 18 October. Tickets here. 

10. Reclaiming Narratives for Black History Month astatine Theatre Peckham

Theatre Peckham’s Young, Gifted & Black play is backmost – and successful alignment with this year’s Black History Month theme, ‘Reclaiming Narratives’, they person a bid of untold stories for america to look guardant to.

It kicks disconnected this week with Hard to Let, a bequest movie produced by Theatre Peckham successful the aboriginal ’90s. But a full big of antithetic shows volition play aboriginal successful the month, from spoken word, Black Panthers Edition to Cleopatra’s Antony.

Until 2 November, cheque website for listings. Theatre Peckham, 221 Havil St. Tickets here. 

Best places to eat

11. Go for a Michelin-starred West African luncheon astatine Chishuru

By Lola Christina Alao

Chishuru goes large with the archetypal crockery connected their luncheon acceptable paper – Sinasir, a fermented atom cake. It’s a deconstructed mentation of the well-loved jollof rice, topped with deliciously saccharine cherry tomatoes, clementine & chilli dressing, and bronze fennel fronds. I rapidly instrumentality a 2nd wound successful shock, arsenic if the sheet of nutrient would tally distant from me. It’s hard to judge the celebrated crockery (that has go a spot of a West African celebrity) could beryllium topped, but I deliberation Chishuru just might person done it. 

The adjacent standout? Yassa, moreishly tender charcoal-grilled guinea fowl breast, accompanied by a beauteous citrus sauce. Each crockery connected the paper has a antithetic texture, which makes for a consistently breathtaking journey. Pair yours with the Suya & Smoke cocktail, which blends pleasant bitterness from humor orangish syrup with smoky Mezcal, finished with a nutty suya spice rim. 

The decor is elegant and pastel themed. Abstract ornaments formal the shelves and the lighting is soft. It feels noticeably homely – guests are told to ‘come arsenic they are’, arsenic there’s nary formal codification here. Chishuru is intelligibly not acrophobic to marque wide what benignant of edifice it is (its ain website states that contempt its accolade, it’s not fine dining). This made what was my archetypal Michelin-starred repast consciousness peculiar yet inviting, a feeling sometimes missing from high-end restaurants successful Fitzrovia and the surrounding areas.

Adejoké Bakare is the cook down the restaurant, and is the archetypal Black pistillate successful Britain to person a Michelin star. A immense (and well-deserved) accomplishment and hopefully an illustration of galore much to come.  

Lunch acceptable menu, £45pp. 3 Great Titchfield St, Fitzrovia. Book here.

12. Transport yourself to Barcelona astatine The Campaner

By Jeremy Ullmann

The Campaner’s eating hallway is deceptively huge, with elephantine paradise plants that agelong good supra quality height, portion tremendous Basque cheesecakes beryllium patiently connected the solid counter. It’s an awesome abstraction that feels ill-suited to Catalan nutrient – which is known to beryllium wholesome but not precisely chic. The Campaner surely is wholesome, with an astonishingly well-priced £35 luncheon menu, but what caught maine by astonishment was conscionable however tasty they person made adjacent the simplest of accepted dishes. Grilled asparagus is made affluent and luxurious by nutty, tomato-based romesco sauce, portion the papada iberico (translucent slices of pork chopped from the fatty portion of a pig’s neck) adds a smokey magnitude to an already fantastic dish. A generously-sized sheet of Iberian pork atom with bravas condiment is the showstopper, finished disconnected with a char-grilled apical that is arsenic awesome to look astatine arsenic it is tasty. Chelsea seldom does nutrient this bully astatine this price. I’m not adjacent convinced it tastes this bully successful Barcelona.

Fixed luncheon paper from £35. Chelsea Barracks, 1 Garrison Sq. Book here.

13. Feast connected decadent Turkish nutrient astatine Leydi

By Lola Christina Alao

This all-day Turkish edifice successful Hyde London City edifice mightiness beryllium modern, but you won’t find teeny tiny plates here. Instead, expect beauteous dishes with analyzable flavours that volition permission you blessed and satisfied. Even the humble crisp gets a glow up, generously coated successful sumac and baharat spices with an accompanying yoghurt dip. The dolma (vine leaves stuffed with herb rice) are packed with flavour while the seasonal herb crockery is deliciously fresh. And the kunefe dessert, a syrupy food pastry which my person tells maine is simply a meal favourite successful her dad’s location state of Lebanon, is saccharine and decadent in the best way. For delicious Turkish nutrient and an arsenic beauteous atmosphere, it’s worthy paying Leydi a visit.

Meze from £6. Hyde London, 15 Old Bailey, Holborn. Book here.

14. Sample the maeun saeu astatine Miga

By Martina Andretta

When was the past clip you ordered a crockery astatine a restaurant… Twice? And not due to the fact that you and your day wanted the aforesaid starter – but due to the fact that you just had to person more. That’s precisely what happened during my sojourn to Miga, successful Hackney, erstwhile I tried their succulent japchae (glass noodles), and earnestly considered a 3rd serving.

This family-run Korean edifice is understated and earnest (you’ll emotion it if unfastened kitchens are your thing), and lets the nutrient and work bash the talking. The temper is welcoming and casual (‘You were present past period earlier your travel to Korea, weren’t you? How was it?’). I wholeheartedly urge the maeun saeu (king prawns with gochujang sauce), but retrieve to bring your ain booze if you’re going each out. If it’s not astatine the apical of your database of caller places to try, it should be. And bully luck getting a spot.

£35-50pp. 1 Mare St, Hackney. Book here.

15. Learn astir Burmese nutrient astatine Lahpet Larder

By Sophie Laughton

The country astir Bermondsey Street was erstwhile called the ‘larder of London’, which makes consciousness for humanities reasons (there were a batch of nutrient warehouses here) and for modern ones (it’s location to a coagulated fractional mile of top-notch restaurants). One of the newest arrivals is Lahpet Larder, the 3rd opening of Burmese chain, and it fits close in. Although inactive uncovering its feet, it’s cosy and unfussy, with shelves astatine the beforehand selling authentic house-made and Myanmar imports for you to bask astatine home.

Steaming bowls of braised aubergine and intense, warming King Prawn Curry are brought to your array arsenic they’re ready, but hold for a broadside of fresh, tangy ginger oregon lahpet (tea leaf) crockery earlier you tuck successful – you’ll request it to liven up each the sweet, sticky spice. It’s worthy a sojourn arsenic a coagulated intro to Burmese nutrient – and for the frankly addictive vessel of beverage beverage foam that comes with the sugar-dusted paratha dessert. They should merchantability that astatine the door, seriously.

Large plates from £10. 39-45 Bermondsey St. Book here.

16. Tuck successful astatine celeb-owned Trejo’s Tacos

By Courtney Pochin

Can you representation Danny Trejo? You know, everyone’s favourite movie mercenary… No? Well, don’t worry, you’ll ne'er hide his look aft a sojourn to Trejo’s Tacos successful Notting Hill, due to the fact that a elephantine mural of the histrion is plastered on the partition (and if you’re lucky, you mightiness adjacent drawback a glimpse of the prima successful existent life).

His restaurant, which besides has a tract successful LA, has a tasty menu, immoderate absorbing decor choices, and precise affable staff. Start with chips and cheesy legume dip, past travel up with classical carnitas oregon (the astir popular) brew battered cod tacos. Don’t hide to bid the churros for dessert (the Mexican cocoa dipping condiment is worthy each the calories).

For an authentic drinks pairing, opt for a solid of the location horchata, a saccharine atom beverage made with almond milk. This won’t beryllium the cheapest repast of your life, but it’ll beryllium bully amusive and you mightiness adjacent spot idiosyncratic famous.

£6-7 per taco. 299-301, Portobello Rd, Notting Hill. Book here.

17. David Bowie fan? Hit up The Thin White Duke

By Juliet Walsh

Sprinkling a small (Ziggy) Stardust implicit Soho is The Thin White Duke, a David Bowie-themed barroom known for its originative cocktails and tasty dim sum. If you’re looking for thing saccharine and floral, ‘China Girl’ is the 1 to springiness you that ‘Soul Love’. The Shanghai Pan Fried Chicken Dumpling and prawn toast were the standouts, I was truly impressed by however overmuch filling was packed successful the Pan Fried Dumplings which were bursting with flavour and had the cleanable magnitude of crisp.

The prawn toast is refined, flavorful mentation — not your emblematic chippy offering, but an elevated crockery with perfectly balanced seasonings. And if that doesn’t each dependable chill enough, it besides houses a hidden gem — a speakeasy signaling studio! With its blend of large nutrient and world-class studios, The Thin White Duke’s homage to euphony history, is keeping the bosom of London’s stone country beating.

Dim sum from £3.50. 22b Great Windmill Street, Soho. Book here.

18. Reminisce astir the summertime astatine seasonal bistro July

By Jeremy Ullmann

Situated connected Fitzrovia’s gastronomic portion of world-class restaurants that is Charlotte Street, July is simply a modestly small, quaint French edifice which is inspired by flavours of the culture-blending Alsace portion successful eastbound France connected the borderline to Germany. Don’t expect immoderate gimmicks oregon images of women successful accepted Kutt costumes, each the Alsatian markers are successful the flavours, the work and the wine.

Simplicity is cardinal here: deviled eggs covered by a creaseless tarragon mayo is simply a delicate starter that balances retired the crisp sauerkraut – a staple of Alsatian cuisine – portion the greenish legume crockery with basil and peaches is balanced by a airy vinaigrette. If determination is immoderate critique here, it’s that nary substance however assured July is astir wherever it’s from, it isn’t overly wide what it thinks it is, arsenic it could conscionable arsenic easy beryllium a vino barroom with fantabulous food.

Because of this, it mightiness gaffe retired of caput erstwhile giving idiosyncratic a database of London recommendations, but it deserves visiting and trying the breathtaking cook Holly Hayes’s nutrient – there’s a sanction to ticker retired for.

Large plates from £22. 10 Charlotte St, Fitzrovia. Book here.

19. Leo’s

By Jeremy Ullmann

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.

20. Get your 5 a time successful benignant astatine Holy Carrot

By Sama Ansari Pour

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.

21. 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.

22. 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

23. Wicked Wines for spooky play astatine La Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels

By Rob Buckhaven

How did I not cognize Neal’s Yard was an existent spot and not conscionable a marque of cheese? No 1 reply that, please. Particularly erstwhile it’s a courtyard lodging La Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels, a vino barroom that’s precocious blown my mind, which I lovingly shorten to ‘CVS’ present I’m successful the know. It’s owned by the Experimental Group, who besides bash Experimental Cocktail Club and STEREO. CVS whitethorn person been going for 10 years, but it’s got itself a caller Head Chef. For 1 nighttime only, it volition beryllium celebrating Halloween with ‘Wicked Wines’, turning retired 4 orangish wines paired to seasonal tiny plates by the Head Chef himself, Ranieri Raimondi. Think achromatic ink squid Taglioni, spider crab with breadcrumbs oregon pork cervix steak, squash and clam emulsion matched to an orangish Pinot Gris from the Loire. Even if you’re not doing the Halloween promotion, they person an awesome tome of a vino list, but it’s mode easier to spell by the solid and inquire the unit to choose. We did and they nailed it. There’s besides a enigma solid of vino you tin order, which if you conjecture correctly, you’re talented a bottle. Spoiler alert, it’s fundamentally intolerable (aka I didn’t get it right)…

Wine from £11, plates from £15. 31 October, 8-10 Neal’s Yard, Covent Garden. Book here.

24. Try the Hippodrome’s newest barroom Archive & Myth

By Jeremy Ullmann

Like truthful overmuch astatine the Hippodrome, Archive and Myth – the Casino’s newest barroom – is rather theatrical. A password (in the signifier of a bid of images you press) opens the door, revealing a staircase starring down beneath the casino. There is small subtly to the plan of the bar, with an exposed ceramic partition connected 1 side, ceiling-to-floor reddish drapes connected another, with cloth sofas dotted astir connected apical of a patterned carpet. The cocktail paper is creative, utilizing an absorbing assortment of ingredients you’ll find yourself needing to Google. ‘Daisy’ was our prime – a refreshing melange of tequila, guava, and achromatic cardamom topped with a saccharine coconut foam. 

Cocktails from £11 (half size). The Hippodrome Casino, Leicester Square. Book here.

25. 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.

26. 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.

What’s on

27. Try your manus astatine Jury Duty and interrogate a defendant

By Martina Andretta

If you are the benignant of idiosyncratic who loves a bully mystery, Jury Duty is for you. Part immersive play, portion puzzle, during this interactive acquisition you volition go a juror connected a transgression case. As portion of a group, you volition person 90 minutes to analyse each disposable grounds and interrogate the defendant, Harry Briggs, played by a terrific unrecorded histrion who volition beryllium disposable via video link. Fast-paced and afloat of twists, the lawsuit won’t beryllium arsenic elemental arsenic it archetypal seemed. Jury Duty overdelivers – it’s brilliantly moderated by a typical of the ‘Ministry of Justice’ (who we drove to exhaustion to the constituent she had to ‘text her mum’. Sorry Imogen). It’s a large prime for a team-building event, an alternate nighttime retired with friends oregon a amusive date. After breaking the ice, you’ll find yourself grilling Mr Briggs arsenic if you did it for a living, and you’ll beryllium bittersweet you won’t beryllium capable to acquisition Jury Duty for the archetypal clip again. Unmissable.

Tickets commencement astatine £42.50. Theatre Deli, 107 Leadenhall St. Book here.

28. Enter the Bat Cave astatine Batman Unmasked

By Sophie Laughton

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.

29. Watch a theatre amusement each astir being azygous with Why Am I So Single? astatine the Garrick Theatre

By Lola Christina Alao

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. 

30. 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 has launched its Dark Arts diagnostic to observe the tally up to Halloween. Find retired much here.

31. 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.

32. 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.

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