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 .....

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.....

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.....

Cutty Sark, preserved in a dry dock at Greenwich on the bank of the River Thames, is the last surviving tea clipper of the great age of sail and one of the most celebrated ships in British maritime history. Built on the Clyde in Scotland and launched in 1869, she was designed for speed, racing to bring the first and most valuable cargoes of tea from China to Britain in an era when the swiftest ships commanded the highest prices. The opening of the Suez Canal in the same year soon allowed steamsh.....

Opened in 2017 inside a converted warehouse on Pennington Street in Wapping, E1 quickly established itself as one of east London's leading destinations for electronic music. Built within the cavernous shell of a former goods depot near the historic docks, it pairs raw industrial architecture with a sound and lighting rig designed for serious clubbing. The main room is built around a Funktion-One sound system, the standard for dance-music purists, and the layout of exposed brick, steel and concr.....

Carved out of the same Pennington Street complex that houses E1, Onyx is a club space launched by the E1 team in 2025 to sit alongside the venue's established main rooms. Conceived as a more intimate counterpart, it offers a self-contained environment with its own bar, sound and lighting, while sharing the warehouse character of the wider Wapping site. The room is built around a Funktion-One sound system and arranged across multiple areas, giving promoters flexibility to stage focused club nigh.....

Pouring an ever-changing range of craft and European beers, the Endeavour is an independent, dog-friendly bar on Deptford Broadway in south-east London. A relatively recent arrival to the area, it pairs a stylish ground-floor bar with a basement events space and has quickly built a reputation for well-priced drinks, a relaxed atmosphere and a strong line in grassroots entertainment. Its position on the Broadway places it at one of Deptford's busiest junctions, close to bus routes and a short wal.....

On Lewisham High Street in the heart of Ladywell, the Fox and Firkin is a much-loved south-east London pub and live music venue. Rooted in community and creativity, it combines a traditional pub with a large, festival-style beer garden, an on-site brewery and an eclectic, near-nightly programme of live music. More than a decade of gradual revamping has transformed it from a run-down boozer into one of the borough's best-known cultural spots. Its sprawling outdoor garden is the venue's signature.....

Reborn in a former Argos store on Catford's busy Rushey Green, the Grand Empire reopened in December 2025 as a modern bar, restaurant and events venue in south-east London. The site has a short but eventful recent history, having traded as the Antic-run Catford Constitutional pub from late 2022 until its closure at the start of 2025 before being reinvented under its current name. The reimagined venue brings together several distinct offers under one roof, combining a modern bar and a restaurant.....

Rising from the banks of the Thames to a hilltop observatory, Greenwich Park is the oldest of London's royal parks. From its high ground, a famous view opens over the river, the old naval buildings and the towers of the city beyond. The park was enclosed in the 15th century, on land that had long been a royal estate. It is the oldest of the parks once attached to royal palaces in the capital. On the hilltop stands the old Royal Observatory, founded in the 17th century to help sailors find thei.....