October

What a great start to autumn with beautiful blue skies and long cosy evenings by the fire or perhaps you’re just like me wrapped up like a sausage under your duvet. As mother nature waves her magic wand we look at what London is serving up this month. Here are our top picks.

London Restaurant Week - 1st-31st October

London Restaurant Festival aims to deliver the most memorable and creative events, taking place in the restaurants themselves. These range from chef-hosted lunches to tasting menus and restaurant-hopping tours. Curated by the London Restaurant Festival team, these events will show you the highlights and diversity of London’s thriving restaurant scene.

Momo Restaurant - Heddon Street

London Cocktail Week - 1st-7th October

Get ready to tap that tipple this month with London Cocktail Week returning for another week-long celebration of the capital's best mixology.

If you’re looking for something a little different why not come and discover what it’s like to have Drinks at Home - Perfected by Patrón. In the hustle and bustle of Hoxton, East London, Patrón Tequila will be taking over a secret location and transforming it into a Simply Perfect home and tequila haven where you can learn from some of the most talented bartenders how to mix Patrón cocktails at home.

Frieze London - 4th-7th October

Frieze London features more than 160 of the world’s leading galleries. View and buy art from over 1,000 of today’s leading artists, and experience the fair’s critically acclaimed curated sections and Talks programme.

Frieze London - Regents Park

Halloween in London

Too old for trick or treating these days? Trust us, there’s still a lot of fun to be had on and around Halloween in London.

One for the little kids - Pumpkin Patch at Crockford Bridge Farm

As Autumn approaches, the cheery sight of glowing orange pumpkins means that Halloween and Crockford Bridges Farm’s famous Pumpkin Patch is just around the corner. There is lot’s of fun, friendly Pumpkin activities to be had over the October Half Term.

One for the big kids - Ghost hunts and ghost tours in London

London is steeped in history, and therefore home to countless ghost stories and gruesome, grisly tales: myths and urban legends as well as terrible, true facts. There‘s no denying it, our city has a dark side. Feeling brave? Grab your ghost detector and gear up for these genuinely terrifying ghost tours in London. From tales of the plague, tours around Hampton Court Palace and the Tower of London there will something to scare you witless!

September

Can you feel the change in the air? September has swept in, there is a little chill in the air and we're back to school in every possible sense! What a great Summer we've had (almost too good to be true) but now it's time to get back to business. A new season brings brilliant new energy and there is SO much to be excited about this month. We've rounded up our hottest picks for you in September leaving the Great British heatwave a distant but fond memory.

This weekend...

London Brunch Festival - 1st and 2nd September

Make brunch an all day affair this weekend. London Brunch Festival is throwing the biggest celebration of brunch London has ever seen. There will be coffee, there will be booze, also workshops, talks, music and most importantly … more awesome brunch food than you can shake a sausage at. Things are about to get seriously brunched up!

London Brunch Festival

Date night..

Midnight Apothecary - Until the end of September

Sip botanical cocktails, pile around campfires, toast marshmallows, tuck into Greek street food and venture into the Brunel tunnel - a giant subterranean concert hall - at this quirky cocktail takeover at the Brunel Museum's rooftop garden.

Midnight Apothacary

Stay Curious...

Open House London - 22nd and 23rd September

Open House London is the world’s largest architecture festival, giving free public access to 800+ buildings, walks, talks and tours over one weekend in September each year. This year it celebrates is 25th Anniversary, so why not take a peak behind the doors of some of London hidden architectural gems.

Open House London

Check out...

London Design Festival - 15th-23rd September

London Design Festival celebrate and promotes London as the design capital of the world. The Festival returns to venues and institutions across the city. There is so much happening for Design Festival, here are a couple of our suggestions to check out.

Kellenberger-White: Alphabet

Move, muddle and clamber over this 26 strong collection of chairs created by design studio Kellenberger-White for the London Design Festival. Each letter of the alphabet has been constructed using folded metal and licked with a different colour of paint to form a typographic rainbow. Sit back and wait for your Instagram feed to fill up with filthy words made with them.

Kellenberger-White: Alphabet

ES Devlin: Please feed the lions

A fifth fluorescent lion will join the other four beasts that call Trafalgar Square home during LDF. As well as being decidedly different in colour to the rest, this king of the jungle will also be a lot louder thanks to the poetry it’ll roar out across the day. The words it speaks will be chosen by the public and shown on LEDs embedded within its mouth during the day, while at night the poems will be projection mapped over the lion and onto Nelson’s column. 

ES Devlin: Please feed the lions

August

Running out of ideas of what to get up to this summer? Well I have pulled together a few suggestions of what you can do with or without the kids!

Brockwell Lido

Swim…

Forget forest-bathing, feed your soul (and your social life) at Brockwell Lido’s newly announced Lido Lates events this summer. Open-air moonlit swimming, Floats, Boats and Fountains.

If you don’t fancy a swim, you can stick to glamorously lounging on striped sun-beds, sipping cocktails or snacking on the eclectic street food menu devised by acclaimed in-house chef, Lily Ferguson-Mahan, accompanied by a carefully curated soundtrack. Those feeling the chill will find a cosy nook to warm up and chill out in the wood-fired aromatherapy sauna, surrounded by custom made blends of fragrances designed to enhance and stimulate the senses.

Yolkin

Eat…

Beat the heat this summer and instead of a bar crawl - Go on an Ice Cream Crawl – sample some of the kooky, crazy ice creams out there. From ice cream sandwiches using Bao buns to Macaroons and some of the quirkiest flavour including rhubarb/ fig and black sesame. There is sure to be something for everyone!

Keep the kids entertained…

Why do the Summer holidays seem sooo long?! We’ve been getting out and about with the kids exploring parks, going on bike rides, checking out food markets.

There are also some awesome creative workshops for the kids to get involved in. And if your kids are totally obessed with The Greatest Showman then why not let them have a go on a trapeze themselves.

Fistral Beach

Festivals…

We love music, arts , tasty food and delicious drinks. Plus with this amazing weather we're having there is nothing better than being outside. So last but not least here are, our top picks for Summer Festivals in the coming weeks.

8-12th August – Boardmasters

17-18th August – Rize Festival

6th,7th,8th & 9th September - Festival No.6