Best Of Londonist: Dream Jars, Night Tube And Hangover Food

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10 Jul 2016

Best Of Londonist: Dream Jars, Night Tube And Hangover Food

By Londonist · Jul 10, 2016 at 07:00

Your Sunday morning best of Londonist weekly round-up.

Tate Modern and the Thames. Photo: Ming Cheng

Must-read articles

What is the night tube? This video explains everything you need to know, in two minutes. How to do posh London on a budget. A visit to London's southerly finger. How to do the Museum of London in an hour. Famous Londoners who should have statues but don't. Here's what Google thinks of your bit of London. 11 of London's funniest and most poignant cinema signs. Was the Oxo Tower really an Oxo factory? We went behind those giant letters to find out. Learning the secrets of the Oxo Tower.

Did you know...?

...about the attempted royal assassination in Green Park? ...how London was created? ...about the ticking time bomb in the Thames Estuary? ...that tube stations, BBC buildings, and even St Paul's Cathedral are built out of fossils? ...how London's squares got their names? ...how London has dealt with sewage over the centuries? ...what lines the walls and ceilings of the Dorchester hotel?

Food and drink

The best restaurants in London to take your parents to. These middle and high-end London restaurants all offer upmarket vegetarian and vegan menus — perfect for a special occasion. London's best wine bars... ...and where to get London's best hangover food for the morning after.
In need of hangover food? Here you go. Photo: Helen Graves

London News

The world's largest colobus monkey walk-through enclosure is coming to London Zoo. A famous East End pub has been saved from development. A new set of London emojis will be available soon. Independent shops are being forced out of Covent Garden. You can now see inside Westminster Abbey on Google Street View.

Things to do

There are free film screenings taking place in Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens... ...while London Zoo is having a pop-up outdoor cinema showing animal films. Stick two fingers up at the British weather and get yourself along to one of these beaches in London. Photos from east London raves of the 80s have gone on display. The BFG Dream Jar Trail is now open — find out what it's all about. The BFG Dream Jar Trail is now up and running.

Top reviews

ART: There's more to Georgia O'Keeffe than flower paintings, as this new Tate Modern exhibition shows ★★★★☆ EXHIBITION: Somerset House's Daydreaming With Stanley Kubrick is a wonderfully surreal homage to the filmmaker ★★★★★ FOOD: Brixton's Salon is an exceptional neighbourhood restaurant ★★★★☆

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