Leonie Cooper

October 2025 update: With the 2025 Emmy Awards winners crowning Adolescence and The Pitt as must-watch series, and a return for Norwich’s finest in How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge), we’ve updated our list of the best new TV Shows and streaming series of 2025 so far.We’ve all heard the phrase ‘TV’s golden age’ enough times over the past couple of decades to get wary of the hyperbole, but this year does seem to be shaping up to be a kind of mini golden age for the TV follow-up. Severance, Andor, Wednesday and Poker Face have all built on incredibly satisfying first seasons with equally masterful second runs. The third season of The White Lotus has proved that, whether you love it or find it a touch too languorous, there’s no escaping Mike White’s transgressive privilege-in-paradise satire. Likewise for season 7 of Charlie Brooker’s dystopian-flavoured sci-fi Black Mirror. More recently, HBO’s Task hit the spot with a blue-collar crime series that wasn’t afraid to get down and dirty. Watercooler viewing is everywhere at the moment, and that’s not going to change anytime soon, with Stranger Things coming to an end and about a zillion other things still come. Here’s everything you need to see... so far.  Best TV and streaming shows at a glance: 📍 The Pitt (Emmy Best Drama winner) – watch on HBO Max in the US📍 Adolescence (Best Limited Series winner) – watch on Netflix worldwide📍 Severance season 2 (multiple acting wins) – watch on Apple TV+ worldwide📍 The Studio (Best Comedy

London, obviously, has a great many cafés, but how to choose? We’ve got normal ones and really posh ones. Massive ones and tiny ones. Ones with loads of cake, and ones with loads of sandwiches. All of them, thankfully, with coffee and tea. This list is our attempt to group together the best ones. Want to know the difference between this list and our ranking of London’s best coffee shops? Well at these spots you can get eggs (fried, poached or scrambled) or a sit-down meal with your flat white. London’s best cafes at a glance:  🌳 Best for al fresco eats: Pavilion Cafe, Victoria Park 🥕 Best for vegans: Rons, Peckham 🍳 Best for brunch: Juliet’s Quality Foods, Tooting 🛵 Best for old school energy: Ace Cafe, Wembley 🥞 Best hidden gem: Bolland & Crust, Wood Green RECOMMENDED: London's best breakfasts. Leonie Cooper is Time Out London’s Food and Drink Editor. For more about how we curate, see our editorial guidelines.

There’s nothing quite like a proper London pub. After many evenings of important, pint-based research, we’ve done the impossible and ranked the 50 best pubs in London, with a brand new list for 2025.  London’s best pubs at a glance:  🐎 Best pub in Soho: Coach & Horses 🪖 Best pub in Hackney: Army & Navy ⛪ Best pub in Peckham and Nunhead: The Old Nun’s Head 🍻 Best pub in Shoreditch: The Pride of Spitalfields 🎭 Best pub in Angel: The Shakespeares Head Old school boozers are the beating heart of this city, and the ones on this list are heavy with the powerful whiff of history – though that just might be the carpets – and throbbing with heart, soul and community charm.  How did we decide what made the final 50? With a worrying amount of the UK’s pubs closing weekly, we wanted to highlight some of this city’s less well-known and independent inns. The pubs included here are places where you’ll not only get perfect pints, but pickled eggs, karaoke nights and darts sessions. There’s no gatekeeping here at Time Out and these spots are where old-school regulars rub shoulders with the new wave of pintspeople, from Holloway to Hackney, via Bexleyheath, Brixton, Nunhead and more. Want cosy and convivial? You’ve come to the right place.  Of course, in a city with well over 3,000 pubs, not everything can make the cut. If you’re looking for posh pubs with fancy food, you’ll find them in our list of the best gastropubs in London. Wondering where London’s most legendary drinking dens ar

From Asian patisseries to sourdough specialists and beigel gurus, when it comes to bakeries London is one big doughy goldmine. This means whittling down the best bakehouses in the city is no mean feat. But, we’ve risen to the challenge and eaten our way through the lot to round up London’s yeasty royalty. Whether you want fluffy naan breads from north London institutions, exquisitely-made pastries, perfectly-proved sourdough, or heritage-grain flaky goodness, there’s an oven in London cooking up something for you. Why not pair your pastry goodies with a hot drink at one of the best cafés and coffee shops in London?  RECOMMENDED: London's 50 best cheap eats. The hottest new openings, the tastiest tips, the spiciest reviews: we’re serving it all on our London restaurants WhatsApp channel. Follow us now.

Okay, it's winter. But that doesn't mean you have to spend every night cooped up in stuffy, packed out pubs and bars. Some of our favourite London bars and restaurants have created gorgeous (and surprisingly cosy) spots for outdoor socialising, many of them with that seasonal must-have: an igloo. So wrap up warm and check out these delightful outdoor terraces for drinking and dining decked out in wintry decor and adorned with roaring fire pits, patio heaters and enough faux fur to make you think you got stuck in the wardrobe on your way into Narnia. RECOMMENDED: London's most cosy pubs.

October 2025: Our latest update includes tasty neighbourhood joints such as Peckham's Artusi as well as the legendary Ciao Bella, Hackney newcomer Dalla (site of Charli XCX's wedding day meal), and the well-worth-seeking-out Polentina in Bow and Elephant, a new opening which you'll find in a Victorian pub in Clapton. If you've got the cash to spare, then there are also super expensive spots such as Luca and Murano. If you're on budget, then one-stop pasta shop Padella is a good shout, and if you're really, really skint, then a simple coffee and cannoli at Bar Italia is the move. Wherever you end up, London’s Italian dining scene is irreproachable.  London’s best Italian restaurants at a glance:  🇮🇹 Best for an old school experience: Ciao Bella, Bloomsbury 💅 Best for the fashion crowd: Dalla, Hackney 🍕 Best for pub pizza: Elephant, Clapton 🍝 Best for pasta: Artusi, Peckham 🍷 Best for date night: Brutto, Farringdon Pasta and pizza are way more than just fast-food comfort carbs at these exceptional London restaurants and trattorias, which excel in properly good and authentic Italian cuisine. The basics – a creamy carbonara, say, or a simple margherita – are all present and correct, but the capital’s repertoire extends to stylish antipasti, crusty sourdough pizzas, richly sauced pasta and beyond. You can also find finely crafted specialities drawn from the traditional trattorias of the rustic south and fashion-conscious north of the country at London’s best Italian restau

Ever since Padella opened in Borough Market, and queues started to snake outside for its simple, affordable pasta small plates, London has become a city of pasta-fiends, lusting after linguine and Instagramming anelli. More and more hip Italian restaurants have opened across the capital serving up stylish, saucy, cheesy and downright-delicious strands of dough and we're also stocking up on perfect fresh pasta from delis like Lina Stores and diving into plates of trad pasta at Ciao Bella in Bloomsbury, as well as bottomless lasagna at Senza Fondo. Here are the finest pasta places in town.  RECOMMENDED: London's best Italian restaurants. 

There’s honestly nowhere in the world like Soho. The haunt of poets, gangsters, trendsetters and many a louche genius, the seedy, sleazy and impossibly romantic heart of London’s West End is also home to loads of great independent shops, cafés, bars and, most importantly, restaurants. Its culinary diversity has been fuelled by centuries of immigration and cultural cross-pollination. From rustic French fare to Mediterranean small plates and tasty tapas, here is Time Out’s list of our absolute favourite Soho restaurants. Whether you fancy a slap-up meal or are just in the market for a mid-town pitstop, we have you covered.  June 2025: We're constantly keeping an eye on this Top 50 list to make sure it's up to scratch, and with so many new restaurant openings in and around Soho, that means regularly adding new places and removing those that might have failed to deliver on our last visit. Recent additions include seriously good value omakase at Sushi Kyu, Cambodian pop-up Mamapen, revamped classic Kettner’s, breakfast and lunchtime bagel spot It's Bagels and Parisian-inspired wine bar Marjorie’s. RECOMMENDED: Here are London’s best restaurants. Leonie Cooper is Time Out London’s Food and Drink Editor and spends so much time eating in Soho that she basically lives on Greek Street. For more about how we curate, see our editorial guidelines. The hottest new openings, the tastiest tips, the spiciest reviews: we’re serving it all on our London restaurants WhatsApp channel. Follow us

The UK is a glorious place to eat, drink and generally be merry. Sure, there are loads of great restaurants in London, but there are hundreds more across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland; ones where you’ll make napkin-stained memories that you’ll carry with you for the rest of your life. Especially if you head to Cumbria, which is home to the most Michelin stars in the UK outside of the capital. But as well as the diner’s paradise that is the Lake District, here is where else you need to head in order to sample some of the finest food and downright transcendent restaurant experiences the UK has to offer. Eat up.  The best restaurants in the UK at a glance: 💸 The best for a big budget blow-out: Ynyshir, Ceredigion. 🍜 The best for Korean cuisine: Bokman, Bristol. 🐚 The best for a seaside getaway: The Sportsman, Whitstable. 🍴 The best for fancy fine dining: Lyla, Edinburgh. 🥧 The best for experimental foodies: Osip, Somerset. RECOMMENDED: The best things to do in the UK. Leonie Cooper is Time Out London’s Food and Drink Editor. For more about how we curate, see our editorial guidelines.

Fancy a burger? Of course you do. The simple meat-between-buns combo is always a winner, whether for a quick fast-food fix or a decadent, gourmet feast. We’ve selflessly toiled away, trying and tasting a vast range of patties to compile this list of London’s best burgers, including the inescapable smash burger. London’s finest are utter meaty marvels: juice-seeping, oozing with flavour and far more complex in creation than they’re ever given credit for. Roll up your sleeves and tuck in to the best burgers in London right now. October 2025: We've recently given this list a proper reshuffle to make sure we're recommending you the finest burgers in town. Seeing as it's 2025, smash burgers take up quite a lot of real estate and with good reason; they're a little bit more managable then the hefty burgers that were in style a few years ago. But one particularly big boy makes the grade; the burger at Dove in Notting Hill, of which there are only 10 made a day. Smaller, smashier offerings can be found at French import Dumbo in Shoreditch, Jupiter Burger in Hackney, and Chuck's in Fitzrovia. RECOMMENDED: These are London's best pizza restaurants. Leonie Cooper is Time Out London’s Food and Drink Editor. For more about how we curate, see our editorial guidelines.

Peckham locals have always been proud of the area’s brand: a melting pot of cultural vibrancy, eccentric individuals, and an artsy, young DIY crowd thanks to nearby Goldsmiths University and Camberwell College of Arts. It rivals Dalston and all those other East End upstarts as the place to hang out, and it’s the perfect spot for new restaurants to find their feet. Here are some of the best in the area, as well as a host of notable places to eat just down the road in Camberwell, too.  RECOMMENDED: The best 50 restaurants in London. Leonie Cooper is Time Out London’s Food and Drink Editor. For more about how we curate, see our editorial guidelines.

When you think of all the glitzy stars that have strolled along its boulevards, all the legendary actors and musicians who have held parties and all the universally-adored movies that have been churned out over the decades, it doesn’t really get more iconic than Los Angeles, does it? The city is a sprawling metropolis of celebrity lore and attractions to match, and whether you’re paying this place a visit for the first time or you’re beginning to lose count, it’s important to find the right spot to stay. So, go ahead and browse our freshly curated roundup of L.A.’s most spectacular hotels, from historic Art Deco boutiques to elegant, ocean-adjacent properties, with new additions for Fall 2025 including The Hollywood Roosevelt, Hotel Bel-Air and Chateau Marmont. Which area is best to stay in Los Angeles? West Hollywood, Koreatown, and the Downtown Arts District are some of our top picks for first-time visitors to L.A. who are keen to soak up some of this legendary city’s most vibrant and colorful spots, but if you’re after somewhere a littler cozier, try Venice, Los Feliz or, if budget allows, Bel-Air.  Check out our shiny new neighborhood guide for more insight from local editors.  L.A.’s best hotels at a glance: 💎 Most luxurious: Hotel Bel-Air 👛 Best budget: Hotel Per La 🏊‍♀️ Best swimming pool: Casa Del Mar 🌃 Best rooftop: Hotel Erwin 🤩 Most iconic: Chateau Marmont 📍 Discover our ultimate guide to the best budget-friendly hotels in L.A. How we curate our hotel lists

We have Rocketman and A Complete Unknown to blame for the idea that actors playing musicians can actually nail the gig. Gone are the days of dodgy impressions (apologies to Val Kilmer’s Jim Morrison and André 3000’s Jimi Hendrix) and in their place are films that replace the concept of rock stars as infallible Gods with messy human beings.  Whereas A Complete Unknown painted Bob Dylan as a grumpy fuckboy, Deliver Me from Nowhere digs into Bruce Springsteen’s bout with depression and the childhood trauma from which it stemmed, as well as his fastidious dedication to (arguably) his finest album, 1982’s moody Nebraska.   As a living, loving portrait of blue collar Americana, Deliver Me from Nowhere excels. The late-night diners, faded fairgrounds, and classic cars are gloriously, richly rendered while black-and-white flashbacks to Springsteen’s youth and original are shot with all the misery of Dorothea Lange’s Depression-era portraits.  Jeremy Allen White also slips into Springsteen’s Levi’s with ease. From his spot-on incidental grunts to the uncanny singing voice, it’s clear that White has put in the work, even if it’s sometimes hard to unsee Carmy from The Bear (not least because both characters are unrepentant fans of a James Dean-worthy white t-shirt and denim combo). Alas, Springsteen’s misery means that White never really stretches himself, his facial expression is either sad, brooding, or a glum combo of the two. If you want American gothic with a side of pancakes, you

It might be seen as peculiar to open a restaurant review with an in-depth rundown of the loos, but to hell with convention. Hausu lives in the grand, Grade II-listed, one-time ticket office of Peckham Rye train station, meaning its hilariously spacious bathroom dates back all the way to 1865. Bigger than any other room in the restaurant, the lavs are resplendent, covered with intricate Victorian tiling, and bearing wartime-era warnings against venereal disease. Not something you usually want served up alongside dinner, but for these we’ll make an exception. I would, were the correct bleach used in advance, willingly eat off these majestic floors.  Juicy prawn toast resembles a sea anemone on a diet of Huel and 100 pull-ups a day Alas, Hausu head chef Holly Middleton-Joseph insists that diners have their meals in one of the restaurant’s three rooms instead. There’s the walk-ins-only bar up front; a sit-down dining room in the back; and a strangely bear pit-like middle room, which consists of a shiny counter surrounding a sunken kitchen where you gaze upon chefs at work as if you were a Roman emperor.  Named after a cult 1970s Japanese horror film, Hausu launched in the autumn of 2024, taking over from Peckham institution the Coal Rooms, where Holly Middleton-Joseph (Frank’s, Camberwell Arms, Mountain) had previously staged a pop-up. Her first gig as head chef sees her showcasing a wilfully unique brand of cookery, which draws as much upon high-octane Asian cuisine as it does

What’s the vibe? A field-to-table, foragers paradise, it’s no stretch of the imagination to call Osip the best restaurant in the UK right now. Unsurprisingly for a place run by a chef called Merlin, there’s something magical happening here; dishes are surprising without being confusing, and folksy without being arcane. It’s the culinary equivalent of The Wicker Man, but with a fresh-from-his-Third Space-workout Paul Mescal cast in the Edward Woodward role.  The historic inn now resembles a 1970s Scandinavian art school In 2021, two years after opening, Osip was awarded a Michelin star. Then, in 2024, Merlin Labron-Johnson’s uber-acclaimed restaurant upped sticks from its cosy Bruton high street location to a 16th century inn about 10 minutes drive from The West Country’s Most Artsy VillageTM. As Bruton becomes more or less indistinguishable from north-east London’s lah-di-dah De Beauvoir neighbourhood, Osip’s plan to extract itself from the red-trousered rahs of Bruton makes it even more a place of pilgrimage. That’s now even more possible with the recent addition of four bedrooms above the restaurant, meaning you can devour Osip’s immaculate tasting menu then roll into an extremely comfy bed (or a rolltop bath), before waking up to a locally-plucked breakfast of figs, blackberries and pears, alongside sticky cardamom and pear rolls, pungent local cheeses, cured ham and trout, fresh eggs and Chemex coffee, while gazing out onto the misty fields though dreamy picture windows.

With its instantly recognisable white-washed aesthetic (complete with chalkboard menu, and army barracks coat-pegs as far as the eye can see) the newest, and by far the most lowkey, incarnation of St John looks as if it’s been there for decades, despite only launching a week before we slip inside for a swift luncheon. Taking over the London Review Bookshop cafe in the shadow of the British Museum, it’s an ideal place to enjoy one of their joyfully utilitarian doorstop sandwiches with fillings plucked straight out of a Stella Gibbons novel c.1932. There are just 10 small tables (perfect for two, but could seat three at a push), and the menu here offers all of the St John Bakery with all manner of pastries, Eccles cakes, madelines, and doughnuts on offer, as well as warm savoury bakes (ham or courgette tart, pig cheek or potato and wigmore cheese pie) and a short but salutary wine list. A glass of claret might not be the first thing on your mind if you’re here early doors (it opens at 8am), so you’ll be happy to hear that coffee is also on hand. It shuts at 6pm (the same time as the bookshop), but for a place to enjoy an afternoon cinnamon bun next to a performative male reading Ursula Le Guin, we can think of nowhere more charming.  Time Out tip Want a St John feast post-6pm but have simply forgotten to book a table? The original Clerkenwell outpost has a walk-ins only bar which serves pretty much that same menu as the sit-down Michelin star dining room. 

This Soho institution may have mellowed somewhat since self-proclaimed ‘London’s rudest landlord’ Norman Balon finally hung up his polishing cloth in 2006, but there’s still plenty to make it stand out from the crowd, including a rotating cast of excellent independent ales and their own line of merch. Decor, meanwhile, is stuck firmly in the past, with carpets worn threadbare by decades of post-work sessions as well as wood-pannelled walls from the 1970s, and vintage logos of Double Diamond and Ind Coop displayed behind the bar. It all adds up to a curious mix of old-timey standards and progressive ideas which, crucially, work together like a charm.  Time Out tip They might not serve food, but they do have an impeccable array of crisps aka ‘London's greatest tuckshop’. Make ours a bag of pickled onion Monster Munch. 

There’s luxury, and then there’s the Hotel Bel-Air. Tucked away in one of Beverly Hills’ most exclusive hillside neighborhoods, this is the kind of hotel you’ll never want to leave, with sprawling verdant grounds, and airy, ultra private-feeling rooms. The main part of the estate was built back in the 1920s as the planning office for the newly-minted Bel-Air locale, and converted into a hotel in the 1940s. It remains a paragon of old Hollywood glamour, and you’ll feel like you’re in your own little world in this secluded retreat halfway up one of L.A.’s many hidden canyons. Grace Kelly loved it so much there’s a suite named after her, and it’s also where Marilyn Monore staged her last ever photoshoot. Warning: don’t book the Hotel Bel-Air if this is your first trip to L.A., as you’ll struggle to see anything else the city has to offer. Why stay at Hotel Bel-Air? If you ‘want to be alone’ you can do your best Greta Garbo here. A proper hideaway, the Bel-Air Hotel was made as a private sanctuary. The dusty pink-painted mission-style property features 60 acres of gorgeously landscaped gardens, with over 1,200 different types of plants, from jasmine to fruit trees as well as the stunning purple lonchocarpus tree that drapes itself wantonly over the hotel restaurant’s al fresco terrace. There’s also a hidden grotto with ducks, a lake with swans and a redwood grove, plus modern art—sculptures by Michael Wilding Jr (aka Elizabeth Taylor’s son) pepper the lobby and on the exterior pa

Welcome to the ‘Hotel California’. Looking just as dreamy half a century later, the legendary pink spires of the Beverly Hills Hotel were immortalised on the cover of the Eagles’ best-selling 1976 album of the same name, peeking out from behind hazy palm tree fronds in a twinkling, twilight-lit photo. Still the first port of call for the biggest names in film and music, The Beverly Hills Hotel is a celebrity in its own right. As well as its starring role on the ‘Hotel California’ album cover, photographer Slim Aarons’ took a number of glamorous shots of the picture-perfect property and its pool in the 1950s, helping to seal the mythology of one of L.A.’s most historic hotels. It remains impressively chic; the old school, country club-styled salmon-pink exterior largely untouched. As such, it remains a go-to for the Hollywood set (we end up having to change our booking date due to an Emmys party taking over the entire hotel). But parties or not, at the Beverly Hills Hotel a celebrity encounter in the lobby is pretty much guaranteed. Why stay at The Beverly Hills Hotel? To walk in the footsteps of icons. To stay at the storied Beverly Hills Hotel is to do as Hollywood royalty has done since the hotel opened in 1912, the first major property to be built in the dusty, largely untouched area of Beverly Hills. At first, it attracted silent movie era stars, from Buster Keaton to Charlie Chaplin, as well as Gloria Swanson, who took up residence in one of the hotel’s stand-alone bung

Hotels don’t come much more iconic than the Chateau Marmont. As much of a celebrity as the movie stars and rock gods that have resided in this stunning West Hollywood building over the decades, the fact that mere mortals can also set up shop in the Chateau (dropping the ‘Marmont’ is proof that you’re in-the-know), is, quite frankly, wild. Built in 1927, for its first few years the Chateau was a residential building for transient members of the moving picture industry. Thanks to its niche look—there were many English Tudor mansions and Spanish casitas in Hollywood, but very few French castles—the Chateau attracted a steady stream of business. In the 1960s the rock stars discovered it—if you had a record deal, a fondness for psychedelics and a dislike of haircuts, it’s likely you had a good time at the Chateau—and today, it remains a favorite of the movie and music industry. Why stay at Chateau Marmont? Courtney Love summed up the hotel’s eternal appeal best, calling the Chateau: ‘The setting of the most wonderful thrashings, trashings, wreckings, best-kept secrets, true lies, velvet mornings, bougainvillea purple hazes, honestly lovely purely lazy sexiest days that Los Angeles has ever had.’ Hidden away behind that blooming bougainvillea and a dense thicket of evergreen trees, the hotel’s entrance is more of a test than a front door. But if you work out how to get inside—the trick is to keep on walking past the garage and turn left at the end of the gray paving slabs—your kin

Along with the Chinese Theatre just across the road, The Roosevelt is surely one of the most imposing buildings on Hollywood Boulevard. The 12-story, Spanish Colonial and Art Deco-styled hotel opened in 1927 and was named after the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. A super starry proposition in name as well as in construction, it was partially funded by two of the biggest silent movie stars in the world; Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, and was home to the very first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929. That event took place in the Blossom Ballroom, which remains used for industry events to this day. Restored to its original glory after a multi-million dollar revamp in the 1980s, the Roosevelt remains one of the chicest places in the often hectic Hollywood. Why stay at The Hollywood Roosevelt? To be in the thick of it. If you’re in LA to soak up the Walk of Fame, Chinese Theatre and be seconds away from a branch of In-N-Out Burger, then you couldn’t be better situated. It’s by far the classiest joint in this increasingly rough-and-ready neighborhood, but retains an air of old school glamour. Though the rooms on the cheaper end of the scale can be a little basic, the communal areas are what this place is really all about; there’s the fabulous pool, of course, but the grand lobby, with its Spanish tiles, wrought iron chandeliers and fountains, is simply glorious. Rather than gutting the hotel and doing away with its original features, they’ve simply spruc

For a reasonably priced room in the middle of the action, the Whisky Hotel really does the job. Situated just off Hollywood Boulevard, some of the town’s major sites are within walking distance from this glossy new-build hotel. It’s right around the corner from the Hollywood Bowl, the Walk of Fame (in fact, you’re basically right on it), the Fonda Theatre, Hollywood Museum, Chinese Theatre, Egyptian Theatre, and the home of the Academy Awards; the Dolby Theatre.  The Whisky Hotel opened at the start of 2025, and despite the fact that the paint has only just dried when we visit, they’ve attempted to conjure up an old world gentleman’s club feel to the place, adding a hint of Hollywood rock heritage to the mix. There are dark wood veneers, patterned Persian-style rugs, gilt-mirrors and deep green walls. This isn’t breezy classic California style, but something far moodier. The first US hotel from restaurateur Adolfo Suaya—who runs local Los Angeles-based Argentinian steakhouse chain Gaucho Grill—it’s the kind of place the guys from Motley Crue might have hit up for a cocktail c.1987. Why stay at the Whisky Hotel? The biggest draws are most definitely the price and location—it’s an excellent base for exploring Hollywood, or as a place to stay if you’re in town for a show at the nearby Hollywood Bowl, Fonda Theatre, or Hollywood Palladium. Expect to see smaller touring bands knocking about the corridors as well, crashing for the night after playing various local venues. Bear in m

One of Florence’s most renowned luxury hotels, the Hotel Savoy wears its high-end status lightly. Sure, it's got genial doormen who’ll trip over themselves to make sure you don’t have to open a single door yourself, as well as plush, elegant suites and an acclaimed restaurant, but it’s the understated glamour of the place that makes it truly appealing. And that’s before you even consider the superlative location – it’s find it right in the middle of the stunning and almost hilariously historic old city, as well as a short stroll from every fabulous Florentine attraction you’ll likely be checking out, from the Uffizi Gallery to the Duomo and Ponto Vecchio.  Why stay at Hotel Savoy? For convenience with a touch of class. The Hotel Savoy is only a 20 minute drive from Florence airport, and not much longer if you take the tram into town. Located on the ornate Piazza della Repubblica (but to be honest, there’s not much about Florence that isn’t ornate), you’re basically staying in a mini Mayfair; Gucci, Mui Mui and Pucci are all within stumbling distance, and speaking of Pucci, the storied Florentine fashion house have actually collaborated with the hotel. Emilio Pucci’s daughter Laudomia designed the lobby and a colourful Pucci print of Piazza della Repubblica can be found on the cushions in the small foyer as well as on the chic scarves of the helpful check-in assistants. The hotel dates back to 1893, but was relaunched in 1998 as a Rocce Forte hotel, the luxury Anglo-Italian ho

It takes me a minute to work out what’s so unique about Nina; a post-Fellini glamourpuss that can be found curled up and purring contentedly in a sparkly Marylebone basement. It’s not the menu, which is full of the kind of Italian-ish dishes London seems awash with these days (crudo, cacio e pepe, truffle fries and etc), nor the drinks list, which features cocktails named after cigarette brands (make ours a Silk Cut).  An extremely ample chicken Milanese is accessorised with a lump of intoxicating parmesan butter It is, we suddenly realise, the fact that there don’t seem to be any men dining here. Like, at all. Sure, there are a couple of blokes taking orders and working behind the bar, but almost every table is taken over by women, either in mid-sized groups or conspiring couples like some kind of unholy union between Handmaid’s Tale and Sex and the City. It’s clear that  what we’re witnessing is the natural evolution of Brat, in which the trope trots off to university, gets a 2:1 in social anthropology and still longs for a grubby sesh, but has to make do with bottarga linguine and a Golden Virginia spritz with kumquat.  Nina, which opened in spring 2025, quickly became a social media smash, due in part to its clubby energy and scrunchie girlie-friendly aesthetic. The music is loud, the walls are leopard print and all the surfaces are mirrored; think Big Mamma Group if their preferred movie reference was Scarface over Barbarella. Your average nonna would probably cross her

Supa Ya Ramen left a big, noodle-shaped hole in the London culinary landscape when its Peckham and Dalston restaurants closed, but this month the brand has made a Lazarus-like return. Chef Luke Findlay’s Supa Ya relaunches this week at Arcade in Tottenham Court Road, with the central London foodhall serving up their signature roast chicken and corn ramen, as well as a maple-glazed pumpkin and chilli crunch bowl, and small plates including heritage tomatoes with ponzu vinaigrette and fennel seed furikake, and fried chicken with apricot glaze and white sesame. Findlay has said of the Supa Ya residency: ‘After the difficult decision to close our doors in 2024, being able to return with a fresh start in such a vibrant setting feels incredibly special. Arcade brings together some of the most exciting food talent in London, and we can’t wait to share our dishes with both familiar faces and new guests in this buzzing space.’ Other residents at Arcade include acclaimed Thai restaurant Plaza Khao Gaeng, Middle Eastern eatery Shatta & Toum, which comes from the same team behind Soho’s Berenjak, smashburger stand Manna, and tacos from Mexa - by Michelle Salazar de la Rocha and Sam Napier of Sonora Taqueria. Supa Ya Ramen is open now at Arcade at 103-105 New Oxford Street, WC1A 1DB. The best Japanese restaurants in London, according to Time Out. Get the latest and greatest from the Big Smoke – from news and reviews to events and trends. Just follow our Time Out London WhatsApp channel.

The arrival of autumn means that not only is cosy pub season finally here: it’s also time to announce Time Out’s annual 50 best London pubs list. There’s a new number one for the 2025 list, with south London’s excellent The Old Nun’s Head named the best pub in London. Congratulations to the pub, which Time Out writer Rosie Hewitson praised as ‘southeast London’s favourite unofficial queer venue, thanks to an array of campy entertainment including speed-dating, drag king cabaret, and nights like Pop-Up Dyke Bar and the messy, cream-splattered and highly NSFW Cake Sit.’ The Old Nun’s Head – which has its very own Britney Spears shrine – can be found just around the corner from 2023’s Time Out Pub of the Year, Irish boozer Skehan’s. The Old Nun’s Head is also home to the best pizza in London, Dough Hands, a pop-up kitchen from chef Hannah Drye which you can also find at The Spurstowe in Hackney.  The Old Nun’s Head takes the number one slot from the Army & Navy in Dalston. Other pubs new to the list include the Prince Edward in Holloway, The Britannia in Shoreditch, The Old Coffee House in Soho and The Warrington Hotel in Maida Vale. The list was curated by Time Out Food & Drink editor Leonie Cooper with help from Jimmy McIntosh of London Dead Pubs.  ‘Old school boozers are the beating heart of this city, and the ones on this list are heavy with the powerful whiff of history – though that just might be the carpets – and throbbing with heart, soul and community charm,’ wrote Leo

A brand new Italian-style bakery is opening this week in central London.  Nonna Bakery – which was founded in Shanghai in 2022 and now has 15 branches across China – will open on High Holborn on October 16. Founded by Matteo Cicero, the bakery is inspired by his Sicilian heritage, and will offer recipes inspired by his grandmother aka the titular ‘Nonna’.   Expect all kinds of freshly-baked regional breads, from focaccia and ciabatta to pane di casa, as well as posh pastries such as cornetti and cannoli, as well as Sicilian specialty, brioche col tuppo with gelato and cassata Siciliana sponge cake with ricotta, candied fruit and marzipan. You’ll be able to takeaway bakes as well as eat-in at Nonna Bakery, with coffee (including a special pistachio latte) also available. ‘Nonna is a love letter to the kitchen I grew up in,’ says Matteo Cicero. ‘Every pastry and loaf is inspired by the recipes my grandmother passed down, and it means so much to bring that heritage to London, a city that celebrates food and culture from around the world.’  Photograph: Peter Lowbridge This is the second Italian-adjacent bakery to open in central London over the past few weeks, with Florentine sandwich shop All’Antico Vinaio launching last month on Old Compton Street, where much-loved Italian deli I Camisa & Son used to be.  Nonna Bakery is at 75 High Holborn, WC1V 6LS. The best bakeries in London, according to Time Out. Get the latest and greatest from the Big Smoke – from news and reviews to

One of Time Out’s favourite London pubs, McGlynn’s, is set to reopen. Which is fantastic news, but equally fascinating is the story of who’s behind it. The backstreet King’s Cross boozer – which has been closed since the 2023 death of its long-term landlord – has apparently been bought by artist Peter Doig and his gallerist partner  Parinaz Mogadassi, reports the Camden New Journal. McGlynn’s was much-loved for its status as one of London’s best kept secrets, a neighbourhood pub off the tourist track and on the fringes of Bloomsbury with carpets, cask ale and a cat. The Whidborne Street pub was put on the market for over £3 million at the start of 2025 (the above image was from the Zoopla listing). Listed as a ‘substantial three-storey public house’, the property included the pub’s open plan bar, nine former letting bedrooms, a two-bedroom manager’s flat, and ‘a large cellar with potential for commercial kitchen’. It sold for £3.15 million in April, and Doig and  Mogadassi have started work on renovations to ‘secure the continued use’ of the pub. A new licensing application has also been made, and the renovation application said: ‘By reinstating original elements where possible and carefully managing modern interventions, the works will preserve the building’s special architectural and historic interest while ensuring it can continue to function as a viable public house.’ An opening date for McGlynn’s has not yet been revealed, but Peter Doig’s latest exhibition, ‘House of Mu

This country is absolutely heaving with incredible places to eat. Yet one restaurant stands head and shoulders above the rest. Time Out’s noble critics have just named the best restaurant in the UK for 2025… and it’s Osip in Somerset.  The field-to-table tasting menu spot opened in 2019 and two years later was awarded a Michelin star. Last year, head chef and founder Merlin Labron-Johnson moved the restaurant from its cosy corner location on Bruton high street to a 16th century inn about 10 minutes drive away from the artsy village.  Our recent visit to the new location blew us away, with an incredible and super seasonal tasting menu that dished up the best of British autumnal produce. Our review praised the ‘harvest festival-adjacent offering’, which was ‘heavy on mushrooms, game and murky, earthy textures and flavours’.  Dave Watts The menu at Osip plays with conventions of the traditional tasting menu. In our review, we wrote: ‘Sure, some of the dishes are dainty, good-looking offerings dotted with sunset-shaded nasturtium, but others are simply weird; there’s a shimmering gateau made with layers of celeriac and scallop which is unlike anything I’ve ever seen or tasted before’. Other dishes included a medieval-feeling venison and quail pithivier, as well as a beetroot taco, grilled maitake mushroom with cep marmalade and crunchy roasted yeast, and a fried parsnip slice topped with black garlic and togarashi. The cheese course consisted of a giant wedge of Bath soft chees