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Somewhere between the £8 bowl of broth in Soho and the £80 chef's counter in Marylebone, London quietly solved solo dining. Here's why a single stool is now the best seat in the room, where to find one at every budget, and the unwritten rules nobody tells you.
The best Sunday walk has a proper pub at the finish, not a laminated menu and a queue for the till. Five London routes where the stroll does the work and the pint does the rewarding.
Every new opening wants a rooftop and a skyline view. But London's real nightlife is underneath your feet, in cellar bars where the drinks are better and the city feels further away. Here's a neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood defence of going downstairs.
Somewhere around 2.30am, London offers you a £17 cocktail or a night bus home. The space in between — the sober, warm, cheap, unglamorous one — is shrinking fast. A love letter to the all-night café, and to the three London survivors still keeping the kettle on when everything else has shut.