Housed in the restored Passmore Edwards Old Library on Acton High Street, ActOne is an independent, non-profit community cinema run by a Community Interest Company. The historic building, gifted to the people of Acton and left empty for years, was brought back into use by a group of residents who campaigned to keep developers out and return it to its original role as a community hub. After the lease was signed with the London Borough of Ealing in 2021, a team of more than a hundred volunteers c.....

A brand-new addition to London's theatre landscape, the Capital Theatre is a purpose-built venue set within the Westfield London shopping centre at Shepherd's Bush in the west of the city. Developed by leading West End producers and designed by the team behind acclaimed rooms such as the Bridge Theatre, it occupies a sizeable space on the site of a former department store and was conceived to bring large-scale, high-quality productions to an unusually intimate setting. The auditorium seats arou.....

Indigo at One Aldwych occupies one of Covent Garden's finest luxury hotels. The restaurant, alongside the Lobby Bar and the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory afternoon tea experience, forms part of a comprehensive dining offering within a five-star setting. The kitchen serves modern eclectic cuisine that reflects the hotel's position in one of London's most exciting neighbourhoods. A wellness centre with spa, gym, and swimming pool adds further dimensions to a venue that aims to be more than jus.....

A traditional community pub on Lower Richmond Road in Mortlake, south-west London, the Jolly Gardeners is a friendly local with a long and tangled history. The present building dates from the early twentieth century, but there has been a pub on or near the site for centuries, and its name is thought to reference the market gardens that once surrounded this stretch of the Thames before the area was built up. Today it serves the residential streets between Mortlake and East Sheen. The pub's linea.....

Kew Gardens, officially the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew on the southwestern edge of London, is one of the most important botanical institutions in the world and a UNESCO World Heritage Site renowned for its historic glasshouses, vast living collections and scientific work. The gardens trace their origins to the eighteenth century, when royal estates beside the Thames were developed into pleasure grounds and a botanic garden, and they grew over the following centuries into a centre of plant scie.....

A grand mansion near the royal palaces of central London, Lancaster House is one of the most splendid private houses in the city. Its richly gilded rooms are used today for grand events of state. The house was built in the first half of the 19th century for a royal duke, and later passed to a wealthy noble family. No expense was spared in its making. Its interiors are among the most lavish of their age, with marble, gilding and great staircases in the rich style of the day. They were meant to .....

A gilded Victorian auditorium hidden inside a modern shell, the Lyric Hammersmith is one of the UK's leading producing theatres, on Lyric Square just off King Street in West London. Its ornate main house was originally designed by the celebrated theatre architect Frank Matcham and dates in spirit to 1895, when the venue reopened as the New Lyric Opera House. Threatened with demolition in the 1960s, the theatre was saved by a public campaign, and its historic auditorium was painstakingly dismant.....

Maze, part of Gordon Ramsay's restaurant portfolio, occupied 10-13 Grosvenor Square in Mayfair. The concept brought Ramsay's Michelin-starred standards to a modern eclectic format - small plates designed for sharing, built around seasonal British ingredients with Asian and French influences. The Grosvenor Square address provided a suitably prestigious Mayfair setting for cooking that balanced innovation with the technical excellence that defines the Ramsay brand.

Georgian cuisine is one of Europe's best-kept culinary secrets, and Mimino brings its traditions to Blythe Road in West Kensington. Khachapuri - the iconic cheese-filled bread - is the star attraction, available in Adjarian boat-shaped and Imeretian flat varieties. The restaurant operates on a booking-required basis for the main menu, with walk-in service for khachapuri from 4pm to 8pm. Weekend evenings are reserved for private parties of ten or more. Takeaway khachapuri is available via WhatsA.....

For nearly 140 years Olympia has been where London goes to look at things - from the National Agricultural Hall's livestock shows of 1886 to Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd under the great barrel vault. The Hammersmith Road complex, designed by Henry Edward Coe on a former West Kensington market garden, grew through the National Hall and the art-deco Olympia Central into the country's defining exhibition address, home over the decades to everything from the Ideal Home Show to historic cat and dog sh.....