| Your Sunday morning best of Londonist weekly round-up. RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2016. Photo: YazzyHMust-read articles These London buses aren't your standard Routemaster. Pre-theatre dining solved: where to eat and drink in the West End. Everything you need to know about Pokemon Go in London. Londonist readers share their coolest and weirdest celebrity sightings in London. The best London family apps to help you enjoy the city with little ones. It can be hard to find reasonably priced places to eat near London's tourist attraction, but don't worry, we've got that covered. Here's what the Monopoly board looks like when laid out geographically. Forget Pokemon. This is what you should be looking out for around London. Meet the people who sell souvenirs on Oxford Street. Did you know...? ...that Freezywater, Little Britain and Charlie Brown's Roundabout are all real places? ...why those ramps at St Mary's Hospital are there? ...why Theresa May hasn't got the keys to 10 Downing Street? ...about this mile of tunnels underneath Clapham (which you can now visit)? ...why Trafalgar Square is so popular with pigeons? ...how London's castles and palaces got their names? ...about the London restaurant where you eat in the dark? You can now take tours of these tunnels beneath Clapham.London news Sadiq Khan has halted work on the Garden Bridge over concerns that the project could require even more public money. ...but London is getting a floating garden anyway. The sphinx statues in Crystal Palace have had a lick of paint. Even Sadiq Khan wants Southern Rail to be stripped of its franchise. If those patronising poems can't get people to behave on public transport, maybe the Mr Men can. The world's first 3D printing restaurant is coming to London. Dirty Lane is returning to Bankside. There are plans to pedestrianise Oxford Street by 2020. Things to do A museum dedicated to the Mr Men and Little Miss characters is coming to London. A new virtual reality experience will let you stroll through the lost Palace of Whitehall. Ride a steam train on the tube line this summer. Tall shops and underground concerts are on the Totally Thames Festival 2016 programme. London's first halal food festival is coming this summer. Apparently it's summer, so you might as well do these pub crawls of rooftop bars and beer gardens. Visit London's most glorious sewage pumping station. Sun or no sun, get your hand on free Ben & Jerry's ice cream. You can now visit Crossness Pumping Station.Top reviews ART: These creepy baby sculptures will give you nightmares ★★★★☆ ART: Macabre and surreal paintings by Raqib Shaw at White Cube ★★★★★ EXHIBITION: See what the world looks like through a dragonfly's eyes at Natural History Museum's family-friendly Colour and Vision exhibition ★★★★★ Want to get this as an email? Sign up for Sunday Best here. |
