Sky Garden Confirms Booking Slots Vanish Faster Than Melted Car Incident
Sky Garden Confirms Booking Slots Vanish Faster Than Melted Car Incident | Free viewing gallery in Walkie Talkie now harder to access than original scandal
Tag: City of London
Getting Dressed Up in London
Londoners Finally Discover ‘Getting Dressed Up’ Is a Revolutionary Lifestyle Choice After years of treating hoodies as formalwear, the capital cautiously experiments with buttons, collars, and trousers that haven’t been slept in. LONDON — Fashion experts claim a quiet rebellion is spreading across the capital as Londoners begin voluntarily dressing up simply to leave the house, a practice previously reserved for weddings, funerals, and pretending to be promoted on LinkedIn.…
Boom Battle Bar Liverpool Street Review: Competitive Drinking in the City
Boom Battle Bar Liverpool Street Review: Competitive Drinking in the City | A high-scoring competitive-socialising bar near Liverpool Street, bringing axes, darts and cheerful combat to the heart of the City
Barbican Yellow Lines Confirmed Necessary For Basic Human Navigation
Barbican Yellow Lines Confirmed Necessary For Basic Human Navigation | Brutalist estate’s painted walkway guides remain the only reliable way out
Hispania Review: The Name May Mean Land of Rabbits
Hispania Review: The Name May Mean Land of Rabbits | The Phoenicians got there first, saw a great many small burrowing animals, and named the entire peninsula after them
Coq d’Argent Review: The French Rooster Is a Roman Joke
Coq d’Argent Review: The French Rooster Is a Roman Joke | Gallus means cockerel in Latin. It also means Gaul. The national bird of France is a pun that got taken seriously.
Griffin Review: It Guards the Gold and It Is on the City Boundary
Griffin Review: It Guards the Gold and It Is on the City Boundary | The griffin marks the edge of the City of London, and it has been guarding treasure in myth for four thousand years
Monument To Great Fire Confirmed To Point Directly At Bakery
Monument To Great Fire Confirmed To Point Directly At Bakery | 311-step Wren column marks exact distance to where 1666 blaze actually began
Sky Garden Confirms Booking Window Harder Than Actual Building Once Was
Sky Garden Confirms Booking Window Harder Than Actual Building Once Was | Free viewing gallery in Walkie Talkie now requires more planning than the melted car incident
Guildhall Amphitheatre Confirms London Stores History Like An Actual Loft
Guildhall Amphitheatre Confirms London Stores History Like An Actual Loft | Two-thousand-year-old Roman arena discovered beneath gallery during routine work
London Mithraeum Confirms Bull-Slaying Ritual Runs On Fixed Nightly Schedule
London Mithraeum Confirms Bull-Slaying Ritual Runs On Fixed Nightly Schedule | Light-and-sound recreation beneath Bloomberg HQ maintains punctual Roman theatrics
Humble Grape Review: 4.9, and the Vine Is Not Humble at All
Humble Grape Review: 4.9, and the Vine Is Not Humble at All | A grapevine can live for centuries, and the oldest one in the world is in a greenhouse at Hampton Court
All Bar One Review: The Third One, and the Experiment Continues
All Bar One Review: The Third One, and the Experiment Continues | Three branches, three postcodes, one menu – and the numbers have moved again, exactly as they always do
Mithraeum Confirms Roman Temple Beneath Bloomberg Runs On Nightly Schedule
Mithraeum Confirms Roman Temple Beneath Bloomberg Runs On Nightly Schedule | Ancient bull-slaying ritual re-enacted via light and sound, financial trading unaffected above
Barbican Visitors Confirmed To Vote With Their Own Level Of Lostness
Barbican Visitors Confirmed To Vote With Their Own Level Of Lostness | Brutalist estate’s navigational challenge divides opinion more than the architecture itself
Windsor Review: The Royal House’s Name Near Fenchurch Street
Windsor Review: The Royal House’s Name Near Fenchurch Street | A City pub near Fenchurch Street flying the most royal name in Britain – Windsor, the castle, the town, and the very name of the royal house itself
Leadenhall Market Confirmed Filming Location Nobody Recognises In Person
Leadenhall Market Confirmed Filming Location Nobody Recognises In Person | Victorian arcade’s screen fame rarely translates to visitor recognition on site
Monument Certificate Confirmed London’s Cheapest Available Diploma
Monument Certificate Confirmed London’s Cheapest Available Diploma | 311-step climb rewards visitors with printed proof for the price of admission
Guildhall Roman Amphitheatre Confirms Basement Storage Beats Attic Every Time
Guildhall Roman Amphitheatre Confirms Basement Storage Beats Attic Every Time | City discovers 2,000-year-old arena beneath art gallery during routine building work
Pelt Trader Review: The Skinners and the Merchant Taylors Went to War
Pelt Trader Review: The Skinners and the Merchant Taylors Went to War | Two livery companies fought over precedence so violently that the Lord Mayor made them swap places every year. It is where at sixes and sevens comes from.
Vinoteca Review: It Means Wine Library
Vinoteca Review: It Means Wine Library | Biblioteca, vinoteca, discoteca – the suffix means a place where things are kept, and it has been quietly attached to everything
City Arts Bar Review: One Hundred Articles in the Square Mile
City Arts Bar Review: One Hundred Articles in the Square Mile | A coffee house in a shed, a goose who would not die, a telescope disguised as a monument, and five million books
Mercer Roof Terrace Review: The Mercers Are First and Always Have Been
Mercer Roof Terrace Review: The Mercers Are First and Always Have Been | Number one in the order of precedence of the City livery companies, and they have never had to argue about it
Planet of the Grapes Review: The Pun Earns Its Place
Planet of the Grapes Review: The Pun Earns Its Place | It is a wine bar and it is named after a film about apes, and after four hundred and sixty articles we are ranking it
Core Bar Review: The Earth’s Core Is Iron and Nickel and It Is Why We Are Alive
Core Bar Review: The Earth’s Core Is Iron and Nickel and It Is Why We Are Alive | It is spinning, it is generating a magnetic field, and that field is the only reason this planet still has an atmosphere
Fleets Review: Three Hundred Thousand People Were Married in a Prison
Fleets Review: Three Hundred Thousand People Were Married in a Prison | Fleet marriages required no banns, no licence, and no questions – and they were performed by the thousand until Parliament stopped it in 1753
Aldgate: London’s Fastest-Moving Square Mile
Aldgate: London’s Fastest-Moving Square Mile | A Clinical, Slightly Alarmed Assessment of Aldgate’s Velocity, Glass, and Deadline Energy
Baby Bacchus Review: The God of Wine Drives You Mad
Baby Bacchus Review: The God of Wine Drives You Mad | Dionysus is not a jolly god. He is the god of losing control, and the Greeks were extremely clear about what that meant.
Austin Friars Review: Thomas Cromwell’s House Was Here
Austin Friars Review: Thomas Cromwell’s House Was Here | He built it, extended it by moving his neighbours’ houses twenty-two feet without asking, and was beheaded five years later