Ended up in London a few times in recent years!
The Photographer's Gallery almost always has something worth checking out if you like photography.
There's new Albert Oehlen paintings up at Gagosian if you like abstract art.
"The Time is Always now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure" at the National Portrait Gallery sounds amazing and features some of my favorites: Kerry James Marshall, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Jennifer Packer, Njideka Akunyili Crosby.
St. John has become a favorite of late, but only for meat eaters! Very weird meat forward (last time had a delicious smoked eel) the staff is lovely, it's elevated, but still casual.
Bar Termini is a cute little cocktail bar I stumbled upon last time.
Mar 25, 2024
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-arancina (notting hill) - casual pizza and arancini etc.
-mayfair mercato - food hall in a former church
-spitafields market - another great food hall! I recommend you combine this activity with some vintage shopping on brick lane!
-regency cafe - can get a great full english
-walk along the South Bank - fun energy lots of bars right along the Thames
-Holland Park - there are peacocks in the Kyoto Garden!
-SoHo to go out if you want really crazy going out vibes in the center of things
-Heaven (night club)
-The Social - go see local bands, London has a good music scene
- Borough Market
-Good neighborhoods for going out: Shoreditch, Camden, Hackney
-Tate Modern
-Victoria and Albert museum (free and in a good area)
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*Breakfast
Bake Street
*Pastries
Pophams (angel / london fields / victoria park)
Jolene
*Lunch
Towpath (outdoor seating on the canal, go early to not queue a long time)
Plaquemine Lock (new orleans style pub, fried oysters, bloody marys - live music on saturdays)
Quarter Kitchen (outdoors, mexican - now called bad manners)
Campania (Columbia Rd)
*Dinner
Kiln (thai, soho, sexy - an absolute gem)
St John (iconic london spot)
*Drinks
Cafe kick (Exmouth Market)
Bar Termini (Soho)
Found Ravey Street (Shoreditch)
*Wine bars
Hector’s
Dan’s
*Pubs
The eagle farringdon
The de beauvoir arms
The marksman (bethnal green)
The royal oak (columbia road)
The plimsoll (finsbury park)
*Ice cream
Romeo & Giulietta (Stoke Newington, always a queue on the weekends but worth the wait esp. for their seasonal sorbets)
Gelupo (Soho, most authentic italian gelato in London IMO - if the Mango Sticky Rice is on the menu order it!!!!!)
*Vintage & Shopping
Somewhere in hackney (London fields)
Serotonin Brick Lane
House of Vintage Broadway Market
Alta store (Soho)
Feb 22, 2024
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Soho is a wonderful place for a lot of things you've mentioned! You could spend weeks i just that area honestly... To start you off, you might want to check out what's on at the Photographer's gallery when you're in town. They have some great exhibitions sometimes!
Hard not to recommend the natural history, science, and V&A museums, which are all in Kensington and easy to get to from Soho. They are all free entry and often have great free exhibitions alongside some paid optional wings. You can take a walk through Hyde Park while you're there, too! Personally, though, nothing beats the Tate Modern which is also super easy to get to from Soho, and again has free entry to almost all of it.
Soho obviously has a big reputation for queer history in London — there's plenty of hotspots and bars worth looking into in the area.
Thrifting, you might have more luck in north and east london. If you just want the highlights, it's hard to go wrong shopping and a bagel in Brick Lane.
Bonus — Flat White in Soho has my favourite coffee in London :)
Dec 30, 2024
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An aggregate search for vintage clothes. Pulls from Ebay, Etsy, Real Real, Poshmark, Grailed, possibly others, but i see those the most frequently. All through one search, one website (there's an app as well). The filters work well and you can set alerts. It's amazing.
Mar 25, 2024
Some music journalists put together a list of 1001 albums to hear before you die, they've revised it a few times in the decades since it came out. Someone made a website that randomly generates a new album from that list every day (you can google the list to get a little taste). You can set up a group and the people in it all get generated the same album. I have a small group of friends who have become very dedicated to the practice. It's nice to have just a little pressure to finally sit down and listen to some of the all time classics. It's really great when it's a day that's an album you already love. And it's an interesting mental exercise to listen to an album that you really don't like (somehow this doesnt seem to have effected my spotify algo too much) Whenever we're together we end up discussing the most recent ones. It's been a nice addition to my life individually, and i was pleasantly surprised to see how often we end up talking about them when we're together.
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