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Jan 18, 2024 | 
londonxlondon.com | Alastair Reid Schanche
Love This? Save and Share!Ready to explore the best things to do in Holborn? We’ve got you covered with this guide to fascinating museums, ornate Victorian pubs, and the best places for shopping. Holborn is one of the oldest parts of London and slap bang in the city centre. No wonder then that it’s a melting pot of cultural influences and is dripping with history. Did you know that Magna Carta was negotiated in a church in Holborn?
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
londonxlondon.com | Alastair Reid Schanche
Love This? Save and Share!This year is barely over and you’re already wondering what you can do in the next. Luckily we’ve got you covered with a guide of things to do in London on New Year’s Day 2024. New Year in London. It can be a nightmare or a daydream (depending on how hungover you are). Transportation is all over the place, or to be more precise – not. Your favourite restaurants are shut but you’ve got to show your out-of-towners a good time in the big smoke. So what do you do? Well fear not.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
londonxlondon.com | Alastair Reid Schanche
Love This? Save and Share!Allow us to introduce you to your new favourite (and totally free) dinner club. Here at London x London we love a good supper club. You can’t beat getting together with a bunch of fellow foodies and tucking into a menu that may never be put together again. It’s truly special. If you’re of the same mind, you’ll be interested to hear about this new community dinner happening in Hammersmith.
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Dec 16, 2023 | 
londonxlondon.com | Alastair Reid Schanche
Love This? Save and Share!A much-loved theatre is coming back to North London. Here’s what you need to know about the return of The King’s Head. Good news theatre lovers. It’s curtains up for the return of a much-loved north London venue. Yep, the famous King’s Head Theatre is making its grand return in January 2024 with a new 200-capacity venue. It’s a move that’s been rumoured for some time now, but was confirmed with the venue’s closure in August.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
londonxlondon.com | Alastair Reid Schanche
Love This? Save and Share!One man’s radical plan champions turning underused green space into new social housing. You’re probably painfully aware that London is in the midst of a housing crisis. Your rent is too expensive, if you want to move it’s a Sisyphean struggle. At the same time, homelessness is on the rise and there’s not much being done about it.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
londonxlondon.com | Alastair Reid Schanche
Love This? Save and Share!A very important Christmas tradition is returning to Smithfield Market this year. Here’s what it’s all about. Good news meat lovers and bargain hunters, Smithfield Market’s famed Christmas auction is making a triumphant return for 2023. Visiting the market is one of our favourite activities around the Christmas period and something of a tradition among the families of some of the folk on our team.
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Dec 9, 2023 | 
londonxlondon.com | Alastair Reid Schanche
Love This? Save and Share!An old Shakespearean theatre is set to be turned into a museum of his work with some pretty cool exhibitions to boot. Here’s what we know so far. When you think of Shakespeare in London your mind probably jumps straight to The Globe. Fair enough, it is a pretty iconic site (even if the site has moved since The Bard’s day). But did you know that before Old Bill took to the stage there, he cut his teeth in the theatres of Shoreditch?
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Dec 8, 2023 | 
londonxlondon.com | Alastair Reid Schanche
Love This? Save and Share!London’s winter terraces are lovely places to pass an evening in the colder months. Here are ten of our favourites. The city is coming alive with winter fun, but that doesn’t mean you have to give up going al fresco. In fact, so long as you’ve got a blanket, maybe a nice sheepskin over your seat and a heat lamp pointed at you, being outside on a winter’s evening can be a lovely experience.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
londonxlondon.com | Alastair Reid Schanche
Love This? Save and Share!Need a Christmas tree? Here’s where you should head for the ultimate PYO Christmas tree day out (and a few spots in the city to grab one last minute). Christmas is coming and it’s time to think about getting the tree that’s going to be the centre of your decorations over the festive period. In London, you’ve got heaps of options, but for us, the choice almost invariably falls on picking your tree at a local farm.
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Dec 2, 2023 | 
londonxlondon.com | Alastair Reid Schanche
Love This? Save and Share!London is losing one of its finest fine-dining establishments. Here’s why. It’s been announced that what might be one of the most influential and well-regarded restaurants in London, Le Gavroche, will be closing its doors for good after 56 years of service. The news comes as a blow to anyone who loves the dining scene in this city, a group we very much count ourselves as a part of.
