What makes a good restaurant? It isn’t necessarily the food. Here is a toast to eight favourite eateries where a long, well-lubricated lunch might melt into midnight . . .
Savour the festive flavours in these urban wonderlands
A glamorous new hotel is part of a bid to reanimate one of London’s best-known thoroughfares
FT writers and correspondents reveal their food and drink obsessions
Cut smoked pork sausage into chunks with Emmental, pickles and an astringent dressing and call it a salad. It’s fiendish genius
The marvels on display here can transport you to whichever corner of the natural world you long to discover — or rediscover, as was the case for this FT graphic artist
The expressive brushwork of John Constable’s late paintings is explored in this moving London exhibition
Shakespeare at the Almedia; Love and Other Acts of Violence at the Donmar Warehouse; The Cherry Orchard at the Theatre Royal Windsor
One FT writer’s journey from two-wheeled commuter to ‘Lycra-clad obsessive’
Bespoke martinis in Mayfair, oysters in Piccadilly and chocolate soufflé in Chelsea — via stop-offs at gourmet food stores — with the chef-patron of Notting Hill’s three-Michelin-starred Core
The Japanese-American artist’s diverse output spanned the 20th century, with work from sculptures to lanterns to tables
A toast to the UK capital’s finest waterfront watering holes — rich in history and offering good food and splendid views
The streets and parks around one of the UK capital’s most storied hotels have their own fascinating tales to tell — of Georgian starchitects, midcentury modernists, military heritage and . . . pelicans
The opening of an Oscar Wilde-inspired hotel prompted an FT writer to indulge in a (brief) home-city holiday — in the aesthete’s mecca that is the capital’s most elegant district
A steadily expanding network of protected lanes means that cyclists can explore the capital virtually unbothered by drivers — on routes that zip through 1,000 years of history
‘A small but gracefully formed restaurant specialising in Basque cooking. They know exactly what they’re doing so they can do it with élan’
Whether you want to power along or be pampered, here’s where to get in the swim
‘The pâté aux herbes tastes as light, fresh and fragrant as Nigel Slater’s window box’
‘It is lovely to step aside from the noise and confusion of social dining and concentrate on something’
Once Henry VIII’s hunting ground and a Georgian queen’s garden, this vast oasis is today enjoyed by everyone from strollers, swimmers and skaters to soapbox orators
Some of London’s leading mixologists have created drinks inspired by the city’s diversity for the FT. Order them in person or try them at home
An FT technical artist indulges his fascination for science and machinery at one of the UK capital’s most mind-blowing attractions
It’s all in the mix — from markets to motorbikes, cool clothes stores to gourmet picnics — for one of the quartet behind the Experimental Group, the craft-cocktail pioneers who now operate bars and boutique hotels around the world
To explore the capital’s biggest liquid asset on foot is an adventure in architecture, culture and nature
When two FT writers shared their top riverside pubs, we asked you for yours. And your nominees are . . .
As eateries gear up to reopen we asked you to tell us the places that you — and your taste buds — are looking forward to returning to most
Your favourite spaces across the capital for socialising outdoors
We want to know where and how you relax in our FT Globetrotter cities. Share your favourite spa, beauty/wellness centre or luxury hotel hideaway and your top treatments
The veteran journalist talks about his fractious exit from GB News, working for Rupert Murdoch — and his passion for Italian rap
In deepest woodland, the chef teaches Alexander Gilmour how to cook with smoke and fire
The deserted streets of shutdown shocked us, but the 2,000-year-old capital is no stranger to overcoming disaster
With 16 buildings by eight architects, the North Greenwich area hopes to nurture a creative neighbourhood
The once-grand piazza has a reputation as a tacky tourist magnet but an ambitious new hotel hopes to bring a more refined air
The showroom-ification of ‘London’s playground’ is bad news for locals
The venerable London theatre has had an architect’s makeover
The novelist’s library of books about the capital captures the city – chapter and verse
The Jupiter veteran on navigating today’s hot markets, his famous family — and why he thinks British stocks are due for a bounce
The National Theatre reopens with a joyously theatrical piece. Plus: a poetic monologue at the Theatre Royal Stratford East and a revival of a radical 1973 drama in Hampstead
Luxury lounging above others’ grimy commutes is everything that is wrong with the capital’s property boom
Deyan Sudjic traces the transformation of this once derelict wasteland into a commercial and residential powerhouse
Director Iwona Blazwick on the changing outlook for the East End institution as it approaches its 120th anniversary
The River Cafe co-founder on adapting in a crisis, changing food culture — and why collaborating is key in a kitchen
An international competition has been announced today to upgrade the gallery’s Sainsbury Wing
Ferdinand Mount on three books that examine the legacies of empire and the forces unleashed by Brexit
Tech executive turned director Doug Gurr on how a venerable London institution can thrive in a digital world
Hothouse exhibit in London Design Festival showcases plants for capital’s warmer future
‘Nose to tail’ eating pioneer on ‘Gucci food’, Jamie Oliver and his surprising LA outpost
The once unsavoury district has gleaming new homes and infrastructure. But what is it like to live there?
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