Covent Garden

Four Cabaret performers posed across the bar at Balthazar, one lying along the stools and one mid-leap in front of the backlit bottle shelves

Cabaret’s dancers are getting up on the bar at Balthazar for six Friday nights only

The hand-painted green Phoenix Garden sign reading a haven for wildlife and people, beside a wooden noticeboard on a sunlit brick path

Phoenix Garden: the last of Covent Garden’s seven community gardens is a bomb site with the West End’s only frogs

Renoir’s most famous painting has never been shown in the UK. That changes this October, when Renoir and Love opens at the National Gallery

Covent Trafalgar

AIRE Ancient Baths, a Freemasons’ temple and 33 more things to do in Covent Garden beyond the Piazza

Pablo Picasso's Still Life with Basket of Fruit and Flowers, 1942

Cezanne, Picasso and Magritte join the Courtauld Gallery’s collection in a major new partnership with the Reuben Foundation

Lady in Blue, Tschabalala Self's new bronze sculpture for Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth

A striding woman in lapis lazuli blue: Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth gets a new resident this September

Monet and Renoir painted the same scene, side by side, in 1869. For a few weeks only, you can see the results together again, free.

Blue Note London exterior render, credit: Legeard Studio

Robert Glasper, Erykah Badu, Jamie Cullum and Nubya Garcia: Blue Note London’s opening season lineup revealed

Neal's Yard

Seven Dials: the West End’s quirkier corner, just steps from Covent Garden

Skate Somerset House

Skate at Somerset House returns in November, and they’ve even got the après-ski covered

View down Whitehall from Trafalgar Square

The hidden secrets of the Trafalgar Square lions

Fatt Pundit Covent Garden

Fatt Pundit: a celebration of Indo-Chinese food in the heart of Covent Garden

Woman with headdress staring at the viewer

Every surviving Van Eyck portrait is coming together for the first time ever, and it’s happening at the National Gallery this November

Burlesque performers on the stage

Pavarotti, the Blitz and Charles de Gaulle: the hidden history behind London’s most fun new burlesque night

Ravi Coltrane at Blue Note

The New York jazz club that shaped 45 years of music history is finally coming to London

Barbie Dreamhouse with Big Ben in the background

Barbie’s selling her Dreamhouse and has opened a pop-up in Covent Garden to prove it

The Winter Gardens cocktail bar above Rules

Upstairs at Rules: the cocktail bar above London’s oldest restaurant is one of the city’s best kept secrets

Somerset House Summer Series

The Somerset House Summer Series lineup is here, and it’s one of the strongest in years

NBA 3x3 Finals

DJ AG is bringing his street-set energy to Trafalgar Square for a day of NBA basketball in July

Born with Teeth

Born With Teeth: Shakespeare, Marlowe and a Dangerous Game of Genius Coming to the West End