Crowning a hill in north London with sweeping views across the capital, Alexandra Palace has served for a century and a half as a grand venue for entertainment, recreation and public gatherings, earning the affectionate nickname Ally Pally. First opened in 1873 as a People's Palace intended to bring culture and leisure to ordinary Londoners, it was destroyed by fire within days and rebuilt and reopened in 1875, a pattern of disaster and revival that has recurred through its history, most serious.....

Spread across some eighty hectares of slopes and woodland in north London, Alexandra Park surrounds the great hilltop palace of the same name and provides one of the city's most expansive areas of green space combined with far-reaching views. Laid out in the Victorian era alongside the palace it was designed to complement, the park rises steadily to a ridge from which the skyline of central London, more than ten kilometres away, unfolds across the horizon, taking in landmarks from the financial .....

Housed in a transformed 1960s industrial warehouse in the heart of Tottenham Hale, Club 360 is a multi-purpose events venue and nightclub that doubles as a blank-canvas hire space for filming, brand launches and private parties. Also operating under the name Archives, the near eight-and-a-half-thousand-square-foot ground-floor space pairs a raw industrial aesthetic with a highly flexible layout in one of north London's fast-changing regeneration districts. The space is defined by striking struc.....

Creativity In Our Hands is a small creative arts and crafts space in the United Kingdom, used for hands-on workshops, classes, and group sessions. Venues of this kind typically host activities such as pottery, painting, candle-making, or other craft experiences in a studio-style setting suited to small groups. Such spaces are commonly booked for casual drop-in sessions, private parties, team-building events, and children's activities, and are run as indoor multipurpose event units. Detailed pub.....

A pioneering queer bar and club that helped reshape east London nightlife, Dalston Superstore has been a cornerstone of the city's LGBTQ+ scene since opening on Kingsland High Street in 2009. Part café-bar, part basement club, it set out to be an inclusive, around-the-clock space rather than a conventional gay venue, and quickly became a community hub. The ground floor operates as a relaxed bar and eatery by day, with art, food and drinks drawing a mixed crowd. Downstairs, the basement transf.....

Rising above the rooftops of the Holloway district in north London, the Emirates Stadium has been the home of Arsenal Football Club since 2006, when the club left its historic Highbury ground a short distance away in search of a larger capacity. Holding around sixty thousand spectators, the bowl-shaped arena was among the most ambitious stadium projects in English football at the time of its construction, designed with steeply raked, continuous tiers that keep the crowd close to the pitch and ge.....

The home of one of London's great football clubs, the Emirates Stadium is a vast modern arena in the north of the city. Opened in 2006, it holds some sixty thousand spectators and is among the largest stadiums in the country. The stadium lies in the Holloway area of north London, a short way from the club's former ground, which it replaced. The move gave the club a far larger home. It opened in 2006 after several years of building, a great bowl of steel and glass rising above the surrounding s.....

The Light House opened in 1999 to great critical acclaim and has gone from strength to strength ever since. Now well established as a friendly, neighborhood restaurant with a modern, international menu and an inspiring selection of wines. The friendly, professional service contributes to its well deserved reputation as one on of the best places to eat in South West London.

Housed in a former Victorian railway station beside Hackney Central, Oslo is a double-decker bar, restaurant and live-music venue that opened in 2014 inside the roughly 140-year-old building. Drawing on a Nordic aesthetic in its name and styling, it serves food and drink by day and turns into a gig venue and late-night club after dark. The ground floor combines a bar and a restaurant with a Scandinavian theme, offering burgers, small plates and smorgasbords alongside a well-regarded range of dr.....

Rollernation is a dedicated roller-disco venue at 117 Bruce Grove in Tottenham, north London, run by the team behind the long-running London roller-disco nights that began at Vauxhall before the venue relocated north. A roller rink is the centrepiece, surrounded by a retro diner, a bar, a garden area and seating booths that can be booked for parties and events. The programme splits between 18-plus evening club nights -- among them Soul Skate Thursdays, Roller Boogie Fridays and the big Rollerdi.....