The Hickory Shack & Charlie's Garage Craft Brewery sits at 98 St George's Street in Simon's Town, right on the main drag near the penguin colony and harbour. It's a casual Texas-style smokehouse BBQ spot with an on-site craft brewery run by Charlie Murray (of Charlie's Garage). The vibe is rustic, welcoming and low-key Southern—think slow-smoked meats over hickory and pecan wood, house sauces, and fresh craft beers poured straight from the taps. No fancy fine-dining here: it's hearty, meat-focus.....

Famous for its rolling three-month residencies, XOYO turned a simple programming idea into one of London's most influential club formats after opening in Shoreditch in 2010. By handing a single artist a curated season of dates, it let DJs build immersive runs of nights and gave clubbers a reason to return week after week. The two-floor venue pairs a pulsing basement dancefloor with an upper level, creating distinct spaces under one roof. Its residency series has hosted a roll-call of leading n.....

A collectively run club with politics woven into its DNA, about blank stands apart from Berlin's commercial nightlife. Opened in 2010 on Markgrafendamm near Ostkreuz, it is operated as a non-hierarchical project that channels proceeds into leftist, anti-fascist and queer causes. Spread across two indoor floors and a much-loved garden, it offers one of the city's most charming open-air dancing experiences in summer. Its programming runs the gamut of house and techno, with a strong commitment to.....

With a main hall holding around 3,000 standing and two smaller rooms beneath it, the O2 Academy Birmingham is one of the largest dedicated live-music venues in the city centre. The complex on Horsefair, at the lower end of Bristol Street, brings three interconnected spaces under one roof: the principal Academy, the mid-sized Academy 2 and the club-scale Academy 3, giving a combined capacity approaching 3,900 across simultaneous shows. The venue moved to its present building in September 2009, r.....

On the Soho site of the legendary Marquee Club, where artists including David Bowie and the Rolling Stones once performed, 100 Wardour Street operated as a restaurant, bar and live music venue at the heart of London's entertainment district. The address also previously housed Terence Conran's Mezzo and the Cuban venue Floridita, giving it a deep pedigree in Soho's nightlife and dining scene. The venue was arranged over two levels. A ground-floor bar and lounge centred on a striking feature bar .....

1000 Trades is an independent neighbourhood bar and kitchen at 16 Frederick Street in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter, a 15-minute walk from the city centre. It occupies a nineteenth-century building that began as a jewellery workshop and later became a badge factory, and the venue celebrates that craft heritage across three floors, including a pin-badge wall honouring the building's history. The bar champions independent and small-batch producers, pouring several real ales, craft beers, and nat.....

With the successful move of Tocqueville, owners Marco Moreira and Jo-Ann Makovitzky set about re-inventing the restaurant's original space with the help of acclaimed architect Rechard Bloch. Reborn as 15 East, the restaurant serves contemporary Japanese cuisine and traditional sushi in an elegant, comfortable setting.

Opened in 1973 as the first bridge to span the Bosphorus, the 15 July Martyrs Bridge connects the European and Asian shores of Istanbul and stands as a symbol of the city that famously straddles two continents. Stretching more than a kilometre between Ortakoy on the European side and Beylerbeyi on the Asian, the elegant suspension bridge was designed by British engineers and built in just over three years, its completion timed to the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Turkish Republic. .....

Housed in a graceful eighteenth-century mansion at 8 Rue d'Anjou in the 8th arrondissement, Restaurant 1728 takes its name from the year the building was raised and weaves that heritage through every detail. The period architecture sets a tone of genuine refinement, with high ceilings, ornate mouldings and the accumulated patina of three centuries of Parisian history. The house once belonged to the Marquis de La Fayette, lending the address a romance that few dining rooms in the city can claim.....

Set in a converted unit in Glasgow's Merchant City, 18 Candleriggs is a cabaret restaurant and lounge bar that combines dining and drinks with a programme of live entertainment. The room operates as a dinner-and-show venue, pairing food and cocktails with cabaret, burlesque, drag, comedy and live music across its weekly listings rather than functioning as a straightforward pub. The premises previously traded as Wild Cabaret, and the current operation continues in much the same vein, using a sta.....