Built in 1901 as a schoolmaster's residence beside a former Victorian school, the 1901 Arts Club is an intimate salon-style recital venue on Exton Street in Waterloo, a short walk from the station and the South Bank. The restored period house has been turned into a candle-lit chamber music room that seats only a few dozen guests, offering a deliberately small and personal alternative to London's larger concert halls. The performance space is built around its acoustics and atmosphere. A Steinway.....

Set within Shakespeare's Globe on Bankside, the venue at 21 New Globe Walk is home to Swan, a bar, restaurant and events space on the south bank of the Thames. Standing beside the reconstructed Globe Theatre, it looks across the river towards St Paul's Cathedral and the City, with a riverside terrace and large windows making the most of the view. The restaurant serves modern British food built around seasonal produce, alongside afternoon tea, weekend brunch and Sunday roasts, with a bar offeri.....

Occupying the former home of the long-running Club 414 at 414-416 Coldharbour Lane in Brixton, south London, the venue that launched as The Ton of Brix in December 2022 brought a new club operation to a site steeped in the area's underground dance history. A collaboration linked to the promoters behind Brixton Jamm, it took over a two-floor building only a few steps from Brixton station and held an unusual 24-hour drinking licence. The basement and ground floor were fitted with a Funktion-One s.....

A music bar and events space a few steps from Waterloo station, Alaska Waterloo occupies a unit on Alaska Street in the railway-arch district behind the South Bank. The room is built for hire and performance, with a compact stage, professional sound system, projector and colour-changing LED lighting, plus a fully stocked bar. The venue holds up to around 150 people standing, 90 seated theatre-style or 50 in a cabaret layout, making it suited to small and mid-sized events. It is used for parties.....

Inside a Grade II listed former church near London Bridge, Amazing Grace is a live-music bar and restaurant set within St Thomas Church, originally established on the St Thomas Street site as far back as the twelfth century. The venue sits between The Shard, Borough Market and London Bridge station, in one of the busiest parts of the South Bank. The downstairs space combines a main bar, a stage, a dance floor and 3D projection-mapped visuals, with a mezzanine level above offering a private bar .....

On Queen's Walk on the South Bank of the Thames, between Westminster and Waterloo bridges and beside the London Eye, Between the Bridges is an open-air riverside venue that combines a beer garden, street food, and a busy events programme. Sitting next to Jubilee Gardens and within sight of the Southbank Centre, the BFI, and the London Eye, it trades heavily on one of the best skyline outlooks in central London. The site is laid out as a flexible mix of open-air and covered, heated areas, with s.....

Opened in 2017 beside Tower Bridge, the Bridge Theatre was the first major commercial theatre built in London for decades, set in the Potters Fields Park development on the south bank of the Thames. It was founded by Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr, the pair who had previously led the National Theatre, under their new London Theatre Company. The auditorium seats around 900 and was designed to be highly adaptable, able to switch between traditional end-on staging and full in-the-round configurat.....

A fiercely independent club and live-music space, Brixton Jamm has spent years championing grassroots culture on Brixton Road. Part bar, part club, part venue, it built its reputation on an open-minded booking policy and a welcoming, community-minded atmosphere far from the corporate end of London nightlife. Its rooms and outdoor terrace host a broad sweep of programming, from house and techno to reggae, drum and bass and live bands. The terrace in particular has become a favourite for sun-soa.....

Concealed beneath the government buildings of Whitehall in central London, the Churchill War Rooms preserve the underground bunker from which Winston Churchill and his war cabinet directed the British effort during the Second World War. Created in the late 1930s as the threat of war loomed, the cramped, fortified basement provided a secure command centre safe from the bombing that devastated the city above, and it remained in continuous use through the conflict. When the war ended the rooms were.....

Tucked beneath the railway arches at Elephant & Castle, Corsica Studios is one of London's most cherished independent clubs, a not-for-profit arts space that has punched far above its weight since the early 2000s. Run as a creative hub rather than a commercial nightspot, it has become a vital home for the city's underground. Its two adjoining rooms are deliberately raw and intimate, prized for a powerful sound system and a closeness between DJ and crowd that bigger venues cannot match. The boo.....