All events on Friday February 01
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- Andrew McAttee
- Friday 1 Feb (noon–6pm) @ Forster Gallery More times »
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- Andrew McAttee's paintings glow with Technicolor positivity. After stints as a builder and street artist, McAttee sought out classical training, but hints of his street-art... View details »
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- Carnival 2008
- Friday 1 Feb @ Guanabara More times »
- Drury Lane's Guanabara club brings the thrill of Brazilian carnival to London, and the celebrations get more extravagant every year. For 2008, six nights of... View details »
- Music: Classical
- Emma Vallender
- Friday 1 Feb (7pm) @ Newington Green Unitarian Church
- Few instruments are as versatile and expressive as the oboe, capable of moving from melancholy to ecstacy in a few notes. Budding oboist Emma Vallender,... View details »
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- Dido, Queen of Carthage
- Friday 1 Feb @ Kensington Palace State Apartments More times »
- Although he may not be as much of a household name, Shakespeare's contemporary Christopher Marlowe remains one of England's most exciting and unappreciated dramatists. First... View details »
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- Speed-the-Plow
- Friday 1 Feb (7:30pm) @ Old Vic Theatre More times »
- Who better to play David Mamet's two slick, fast-talking Hollywood film producers than two slick, fast-talking Hollywood actors? The Old Vic delivers the dream team... View details »
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- Crystal Vision
- Friday 1 Feb (11–1am) @ Dream Bags / Jaguar Shoes More times »
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- Mystic south London septet Crystal Vision have adorned a trendsetting former clothing emporium with their fantastical and wonderful creations. Although classed as a collective, the... View details »
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- Home and Garden: 1960 to the Present
- Friday 1 Feb (10am–5pm) @ Gaffrye Museum More times »
- Free
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- The Evil Twins
- Friday 1 Feb @ Various locations More times »
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- True evil won't wait for Halloween. The Evil Twins — the alter egos of Nicola Carter and Luise Vormittag — entice you to explore a... View details »
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- Amora
- Friday 1 Feb (11am–midnight) @ Amora More times »
- Amora — the Academy of Sex and Relationships — offers an educational exploration of all aspects of intimacy. Seven distinct zones take you through everything... View details »
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- Moore at Kew
- Friday 1 Feb (9:30am–6:30pm) @ Royal Botanic Gardens More times »
- Twenty-eight of Henry Moore's pieces have been installed in a scattered fashion around Kew Gardens, giving fans the opportunity to view each work from various... View details »
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- La Cage aux Folles
- Friday 1 Feb (8pm) @ Menier Chocolate Factory More times »
- The Menier Chocolate Factory presents a new staging of notorious, uproarious gender bender La Cage aux Folles. The Broadway reincarnation of the French-play-turned-film-turned-Hollywood-remake (The Birdcage,... View details »
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- Skate at Somerset House
- Friday 1 Feb (10am–10:15pm) @ Somerset House More times »
- Test your balance and revel in wintry charm as you careen around the glassy surface at Somerset House. Sip on a cup of mulled wine,... View details »
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- Sleeping & Dreaming
- Friday 1 Feb @ Wellcome Collection More times »
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- Insomniacs and dreamers alike are welcome at this creative exploration on the subject of sleep. In contrast to most art spaces, the central gallery is... View details »
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- Hibiscus
- Friday 1 Feb (noon–2:30 & 6:30–10pm) @ Hibiscus More times »
- In just a month, chef-proprietor Claude Bosi has taken London's restaurant world by storm. With the relocation of his two Michelin stars from Ludlow to... View details »
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- Patrick Keiller
- Friday 1 Feb (11am–8pm) @ BFI Southbank More times »
- Free
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- Dealer's Choice
- Friday 1 Feb (7:30pm) @ Trafalgar Studios More times »
- Patrick Marber's hilarious Dealer's Choice returns to the West End for the first time since the play's premiere in 1995, when it was voted Evening... View details »
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- Laura Ford
- Friday 1 Feb (10am–6pm) @ The Economist Plaza More times »
- Free
- Fans of Beatrix Potter look away now – Laura Ford's incarnations of the author's beloved characters are enough to give fully grown adults nightmares. In... View details »
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- Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring
- Friday 1 Feb (10am–6pm) @ Camden Arts Centre More times »
- Free
- Artist Steven Claydon curates this incredibly long-monikered exhibition exploring the relationship between artworks and art spaces. Though Claydon's own art is preoccupied with the past... View details »
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- Andy Warhol 1948 - 1960
- Friday 1 Feb (10am–6pm) @ Timothy Taylor Gallery More times »
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- Andy Warhol 1948 - 1960 is a rare opportunity to view early works from the celebrated American pop artist, made before his graduation from the... View details »
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- Jean Prouvé
- Friday 1 Feb (10am–5:45pm) @ Design Museum More times »
- French architect, engineer and manufacturer Jean Prouvé was such a huge influence on the world of design that it's quite astonishing to think it's taken... View details »
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- Horse Riding at Wimbledon Village Stables
- Friday 1 Feb (9am–2pm) @ Wimbledon Village Stables More times »
- For city-bound equestrians missing their early-morning ride and novice ponyphiles alike, Wimbledon has more to offer than Wombles. Even if you have a penchant for... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Resolution! 2008
- Friday 1 Feb @ The Place More times »
- Resolution! is an annual showcase that highlights contemporary dancers and choreographers with a programme of rotating talent. Every night features a triple bill of new... View details »
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- I Am Falling
- Friday 1 Feb (3 & 7:30pm) @ Gate Theatre More times »
- I Am Falling is a searing and complex exploration of age. The dance/theatre collaboration tells the story of Tom (Ben Duke), whose parents committed joint... View details »
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- The Clearing
- Friday 1 Feb (noon–6pm) @ Nettie Horn More times »
- Free
- The Clearing explores notions of internal and external space, with images ranging from the serene to the strangely disturbing. Joe Biel draws unnervingly detailed drawings,... View details »
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- John Copnall
- Friday 1 Feb (11am–6pm) @ Mark Barrow Fine Art More times »
- Free
- In memory of John Copnall's passing in June of last year, Mark Barrow Fine Art displays a chronology of the noted painter's finest works on... View details »
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- Afrika! Afrika!
- Friday 1 Feb @ O2 Arena More times »
- If the stylized theatrics of the Cirque du Soleil productions left you a bit unsatisfied, best head over to the London debut of Afrika! Afrika!.... View details »
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- Café on the Hill
- Friday 1 Feb (8am–10pm) @ Cafe on the Hill More times »
- With most of central London out-of-bounds (either closed or crammed with shoppers), get perspective on the city from Muswell Hill. Like a less pretentious Hampstead,... View details »
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- Furnace
- Friday 1 Feb (10am–3pm & 6–11pm) @ Furnace More times »
- Tucked down a side street off Hoxton Square is the perfect remedy to the seasonal poultry overload. Shoreditch's best-kept secret, Furnace has been in the... View details »
- Film
- The Directorspective: Luis Buñuel
- Friday 1 Feb @ Barbican Centre More times »
- Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí's former schoolmate and collaborator, is heralded as the father of surrealist film. Though his early years were spent breaking the boundaries... View details »
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- Tim Simmons
- Friday 1 Feb (10am–6pm) @ The Fine Art Society More times »
- Free
- Tim Simmons takes mundane landscapes — a field, a snowdrift, a backyard — and turns them into ethereal, haunting locales. He uses elaborate lighting techniques,... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Art Spaces of the Future
- Friday 1 Feb @ National Theatre More times »
- Free
- Responding to the emergence of new media and interactive art installations, the RIBA London and Arts Council England recruited young architects to imagine dynamic new... View details »
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- Laughing in a Foreign Language
- Friday 1 Feb @ Hayward Gallery More times »
- Many otherwise serious-minded people use comedy to escape their troubles and forget themselves for a short while; so when humour seeps into the notoriously stiff-backed... View details »
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- Write Side of the Brain
- Friday 1 Feb @ The Miller More times »
- Write Side of the Brain is an opportunity for an artistic binge. The event includes six readings from new talent fresh from the Royal Court's... View details »
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- White Boy
- Friday 1 Feb @ Soho Theatre More times »
- This production by award-winning playwright Tanika Gupta brings to life the tensions that breed within a modern inner-city state school by deftly exploring the subject... View details »
- Film: Shorts
- Apoohcalypse Now
- Friday 1 Feb (10am–6pm) @ Hayward Gallery More times »
- Free
- Francis Ford Coppola meets AA Milne; Marlon Brando meets Winnie the Pooh; Vietnam meets the Hundred Acre Wood. Mexican artist Artemio's new film offers a... View details »
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- Let There Be Love
- Friday 1 Feb @ Tricycle Theatre More times »
- Kwame Kwei-Armah is a rare creature. A hospital-drama actor turned playwright, he was nominated for an Olivier Award and was also a finalist on Celebrity... View details »
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- Rachel Howard
- Friday 1 Feb (10am–6pm) @ Haunch of Venison More times »
- Free
- An exhibition depicting suicide may not be an obvious stop-off if you're in a positive New Year state of mind. However, Rachel Howard's paintings manage... View details »
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- Kathrin Kur
- Friday 1 Feb (10am–6pm) @ Photofusion Photography Centre More times »
- Free
- German photographer Kathrin Kur documents the real-life backdrops used to make television and movie magic. A shot of the deserted Tomb Raider set juxtaposes trees... View details »
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- Darren Almond
- Friday 1 Feb (10am–6pm) @ White Cube More times »
- Free
- 2005 Turner Prize nominee Darren Almond graces the stark Hoxton White Cube with his projects from Tibet and the British Isles. Following in the vein... View details »
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- Metamorphosis
- Friday 1 Feb @ Lyric Theatre Hammersmith More times »
- This stage adaptation of Franz Kafka's story of a businessman who turns into an insect returns to Hammersmith ahead of a world tour. A collaboration... View details »
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- The British Ambassador's Belly Dancer
- Friday 1 Feb (8:15pm) @ Arcola Theatre More times »
- When Nadira and Craig Murray met in 2004, he was the British Ambassador to Uzbekistan and she was a belly dancer and occasional drug runner.... View details »
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- Elizabethan Flagons
- Friday 1 Feb (10am–5:30pm) @ Victoria and Albert Museum More times »
- Free
- The Victoria & Albert's latest mini-exhibition features a set of Elizabethan flagons that return to the museum after 70 years abroad. Stroll down memory lane... View details »
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- Loose Booty
- Friday 1 Feb (noon–6pm) @ Vegas Gallery More times »
- Free
- Beg, borrow and/or steal appears to be the premise for Vegas Gallery's forthcoming exhibition, Loose Booty, which sees artists from Geneva and London join forces.... View details »
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- Pavel Büchler
- Friday 1 Feb (10am–6pm) @ Max Wigram Gallery More times »
- Sold Out!Free
- Czech-born Pavel Büchler has spent many years investigating the theories and concepts behind art. As Research Professor of Art & Design at Manchester Metropolitan University,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Helter Skelter and Land of the Dead
- Friday 1 Feb @ The Bush Theatre More times »
- For this production, still less than a year into Josie Rourke's tenure as Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre, she turns to US playwright, screenwriter... View details »
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- The Vertical Hour
- Friday 1 Feb @ Royal Court Theatre More times »
- Set against the backdrop of the Iraq war, David Hare's The Vertical Hour tells the story of Nadia Blye, an American ex-war reporter who has... View details »
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- Happy Now?
- Friday 1 Feb @ National Theatre More times »
- Lucinda Coxon's new play for the National Theatre explores that subject of eternal relevance and importance: self-fulfilment. Directed by Thea Sharrock, this raw yet comic... View details »
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- Brendan at the Chelsea
- Friday 1 Feb @ Riverside Studios More times »
- Before he became famous, hard-drinking literary icon Brendan Behan once scraped a living together by writing pornography. He was also a member of the IRA... View details »
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- Gillray's Legacy: A Contemporary Perspective
- Friday 1 Feb (9am–5:30pm) @ The Political Cartoon Gallery More times »
- Free
- Georgian caricaturist James Gillray, considered the pre-eminent early political cartoonist, was a thorn in the side of power brokers like Napoleon, George III, Prime Minister... View details »
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- Amjad
- Friday 1 Feb (7:30pm) @ Sadler's Wells More times »
- La La La Human Steps are best known for their high-profile collaborations with David Bowie and Frank Zappa. Following their Emmy-nominated Amelia, their latest piece,... View details »
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- Breaking the Rules
- Friday 1 Feb @ Renoir Cinema More times »
- In tandem with the British Library's exhibition, Curzon tracks the rise of Europe's avant-garde film movements. F.W. Murnau's masterpiece, Nosferatu (1922), a staple of German... View details »
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- The BIG Gameshow Winaway
- Friday 1 Feb @ Hackney Empire More times »
- London's weirdest and most entertaining variety show, the 291 Show, returns to the Hackney Empire for a special winter mini-season. The "best-of" collection, BIG Gameshow... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Our Daily Bread
- Friday 1 Feb @ ICA More times »
- Nikolaus Geyrhalter's latest documentary provides a relentless, exposé of the industrialized meat industry. Our Daily Bread offers brutal vignettes of the numerous processes that reduce... View details »
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- The Little Theatre of Disease and Desire
- Friday 1 Feb (10:30am–5pm) @ Old Operating Theatre More times »
- Artist Daniel Baker creates scenarios from a play about a disease, The Simbysial Case, taking inspiration from the paper theatres popular during Victorian times. The... View details »
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- Aspects of Noël Coward
- Friday 1 Feb @ National Theatre More times »
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- Prolific playwright Noël Coward was once described by fellow dramatist Terence Rattigan as "a phenomenon... unlikely to occur ever again in theatre history". Coward may... View details »
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- Mea Culpa
- Friday 1 Feb (noon–6pm) @ Man&Eve More times »
- Free
- Ken Livingstone's long-term feud with the Evening Standard reached a new nadir almost two years ago. The mayor was allegedly recorded comparing (Jewish) reporter Oliver... View details »
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- Jazz in London
- Friday 1 Feb (10am–9pm) @ National Portrait Gallery More times »
- Free
- Take a trip back to the dark, smoky jazz clubs of the '50s with Walter Hanlon's atmospheric exhibition. While working in the music business during... View details »
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- The Homecoming
- Friday 1 Feb @ Almeida Theatre More times »
- The Homecoming, a '60s classic by Harold Pinter, tells the story of an ex-pat and his wife who return to working-class north London from a... View details »
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- Weapons of Happiness
- Friday 1 Feb (7:30pm) @ Finborough Theatre More times »
- Howard Brenton's Weapons of Happiness was the first play to be performed at the Lyttleton in the politically turbulent '70s, causing a storm and winning... View details »
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- A Prayer for My Daughter
- Friday 1 Feb @ Young Vic More times »
- Stemming from Thomas Babe's gritty narrative of social unrest, A Prayer for My Daughter takes place in the turmoil of post-Vietnam America. Pitting authority against... View details »
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- Parkour
- Friday 1 Feb @ Westminster Academy More times »
- Release your urban primate with parkour, the sport that catapults folks around London using vaults, leaps and climbs. The beginner's class breaks you in gently... View details »
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- The Regent
- Friday 1 Feb (12:30–11pm) @ The Regent More times »
- If you awake to find yourself north of Notting Hill on a Sunday morning, get rejuvenated at Kensal Rise's best grub 'n boozer. Since its... View details »
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- Wrapping Japan
- Friday 1 Feb (10:30am–5:30pm) @ The Horniman Museum More times »
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- Japan has traditionally prized modesty and reserve, so it's little surprise to find out that the Japanese have also made an art of wrapping everything,... View details »
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- Haozhan
- Friday 1 Feb (noon–midnight) @ Haozhan More times »
- Thanks to its bustling location in London's tourist hub, Chinatown is less a mecca for cuisine lovers than a torturous odyssey to find decent food,... View details »
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- Fox & Anchor
- Friday 1 Feb (7am–11pm) @ Fox & Anchor More times »
- Dating from the late Victorian era, this pub — an old favourite of blood-spattered meat traders from Smithfields Market down the street — has just... View details »
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- Salt Yard
- Friday 1 Feb (noon–11pm) @ Salt Yard More times »
- It's not easy to garner favourable comparisons to London tapas giants Fino and Barrafina, but the diminutive Salt Yard pulls off this Goliath-sized task. The... View details »
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- Aaya
- Friday 1 Feb (noon–midnight) @ Aaya More times »
- Though Aaya has been open for a few months, it's still biding its time; rather than go for a press blitz, the restaurant wants to... View details »
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- Brunello Picnic in Kensington Gardens
- Friday 1 Feb @ Brunello More times »
- If carrying equipment and provisions on public transport seems like too much perspiration for a weekend's picnic, then the Brunello restaurant's new selection of hampers... View details »
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- Whitecross Street Market
- Friday 1 Feb (11am–5pm) @ Whitecross Street More times »
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- For those lusting after a little more than the usual lunchtime selection of sandwiches and salads, best head to Whitecross Street Market. One of London's... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- The NewsRevue
- Friday 1 Feb (9:30pm) @ Canal Café Theatre More times »
- The NewsRevue has followed the same format since 1979 — low-tech, topical comedy performed by two men and two women. Written by a team of... View details »
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- London Fencing Club
- Friday 1 Feb @ Finsbury Leisure Centre More times »
- If you've ever watched the dueling scene in The Mask of Zorro and thought, "Hey, I could do better than that," now you can prove... View details »
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- Cha Cha Moon
- Friday 1 Feb (noon–11:30pm) @ Cha Cha Moon More times »
- Influential restaurateur Alan Yau is back with Cha Cha Moon, returning to cuisine with widespread appeal (he devised Wagamama and Busaba Eathai) at this Malay-Chinese... View details »
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- Quo Vadis
- Friday 1 Feb (noon–2:45 & 5–10:45pm) @ Quo Vadis More times »
- Sam and Eddie Hart cemented their restaurant reputation by reinventing tapas for a sophisticated London clientele at Fino, then tailoring them for a drop-by crowd... View details »
