https://www.londonxlondon.com/birthday-in-london/ London x London en 2026-09-08T21:50:30+00:00 What do you actually do for a birthday in London once you have done the bottomless brunch? https://www.londonxlondon.com/street-art-in-shoreditch-free-tour/ London x London en 2026-09-08T20:23:40+00:00 A free self-guided Shoreditch street art tour: 18 walls, three hours and a world of colour https://www.londonxlondon.com/beautiful-restaurants-in-london/ London x London en 2026-09-08T19:42:38+00:00 Damien Hirst’s angels, a Lutyens banking hall and a courtroom nobody repainted: 31 beautiful restaurants in London https://www.londonxlondon.com/stanley-arts-open-house/ London x London en 2026-09-08T05:00:00+00:00 Electric windows in 1903 and a building Pevsner called eccentric: Stanley Arts is opening free for Open House https://www.londonxlondon.com/alba-omakase-counter/ London x London en 2026-09-08T05:00:00+00:00 Ten seats, one sitting a night and a window facing Harrods: Alba’s omakase counter opens this month https://www.londonxlondon.com/soft-play-for-adults-london/ London x London en 2026-09-07T23:16:53+00:00 London has exactly three ball pits adults are allowed to drink in, and the best one is in Palmers Green https://www.londonxlondon.com/instagrammable-places-in-london/ London x London en 2026-09-07T23:15:16+00:00 Go early, go south and skip Tower Bridge: 43 Instagrammable places in London https://www.londonxlondon.com/late-night-restaurants-london/ London x London en 2026-09-07T23:13:33+00:00 At 2am most London kitchens have been shut for three hours. These 26 late night restaurants have not https://www.londonxlondon.com/things-to-do-in-kensington/ London x London en 2026-09-07T23:10:23+00:00 Why queue for the dinosaurs when the best thing in Kensington is a painter’s house? https://www.londonxlondon.com/day-trips-from-london/ London x London en 2026-09-07T23:06:09+00:00 Nobody needs seven hours on a train for a day out. Forty day trips from London, sorted by how long they actually take https://www.londonxlondon.com/hidden-gems-in-london/ London x London en 2026-09-07T23:00:27+00:00 31 hidden gems in London that are mostly free, almost always empty and closer to a tube than you would think https://www.londonxlondon.com/brick-lane/ London x London en 2026-09-07T22:09:32+00:00 The insider’s guide to Brick Lane: 24-hour beigels, Huguenot silk lofts and a curry strip about to throw itself a party https://www.londonxlondon.com/things-to-do-in-soho/ London x London en 2026-09-07T08:06:24+00:00 Skip Carnaby Street: The Best Things to do in Soho https://www.londonxlondon.com/waterworks-extended-the-cause/ London x London en 2026-09-07T05:00:00+00:00 Waterworks has moved to The Cause and become a non-stop 36-hour festival on 12 and 13 September https://www.londonxlondon.com/negroni-month-london/ London x London en 2026-09-07T05:00:00+00:00 Six bars, one passport and a free sixth Negroni: Negroni Week has quietly become Negroni Month in London https://www.londonxlondon.com/thorpe-park-fright-nights/ London x London en 2026-09-07T05:00:00+00:00 One shared torch and a retirement home where everyone has vanished: Thorpe Park Fright Nights opens its first pitch-black maze