Our tears have only just dried over G-A-Y’s closure, but luckily something has already come along to plug the G-A-Y-shaped hole in our hearts. Taking over the space of the former iconic LGBTQ+ venue, Matthew Jacobs Morgan’s cult club night started life in a Hackney Wick warehouse. It’s now graduated to Old Compton Street and has brought some serious names with it: already, queer icons including King Princess, Jeffrey Hinton and Princess Julia have stopped by. 
The venue isn’t leaning into the o...

Tucked into the grand, slightly hushed bulk of the Templeton Garden Hotel, a stone’s throw from the busier end of Earl’s Court, Sprout is quainter than its posh address implies. It’s just the one bar table and a single row of seating and tables opposite. Cosy? Yes. Cramped? A little. But the real trick up its sleeve is the gorgeous garden. The interior feels like a beautifully curated potting shed, complete with hand-painted branches and buds creeping along the wall by mural artist Tess Newall....

The London Pavilion has always dealt in the improbable. For decades this Grade II-listed pile on the corner of Piccadilly Circus housed Ripley's Believe It or Not, an odditorium of shrunken heads and two-headed calves. Its latest exhibit might be the strangest yet, as more than 1,000 people are sleeping in oak boxes, stacked five floors high above the most chaotic junction in the capital. All from £30 a night – a bargain. 
The UK's biggest capsule hotel is a bet that what Londoners and tourists...