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    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
      Jamie Oliver’s favourite London haunts

      On the eve of the launch of his new London restaurant, the TV chef reveals his top eateries and bars in the capital — and where you might spot him having a picnic

    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      Christmas Food & Drink 
      The UK’s 19 cosiest winter restaurants — according to FT writers

      The regional restaurants, pubs and drinking dens we can’t wait to return to during the holidays

      The Gunton Arms
    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
      Seven of chef Paul Ainsworth’s top London restaurants

      The man behind Cornwall’s Michelin-starred Paul Ainsworth at No 6 shares his favourite places to dine when he’s back in the capital

      Paul Ainsworth at his Cornish restaurant, Paul Ainsworth at No 6
    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      HTSI
      My spice roads

      On the eve of Diwali, the HTSI food writer celebrates the legendary local restaurants of his forefathers

      Veeraswamy on Regent Street in 1973
    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      Travel
      Fields of dreams: a detectorists’ holiday in Suffolk

      Rings, Roman coins and medieval bronze brooches — all in a day’s haul on a new break inspired by the BBC show

      Triptych of sheep in a field, a hand displaying a gold coin and a detectorist sweeping tilled ground
    • Monday, 9 October, 2023
      FT Globetrotter
      Holy roast: the best of the City of London’s church cafés

      From crypt to cathedral, eight coffee stops in beautiful and historic places of worship

      The Wren Coffee at St Nicholas Cole Abbey, with large arched and stained-glass windows surrounding a space dotted with tables and chairs
    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      Travel
      Horizon 22 trumps the Shard to become London’s highest viewpoint

      The 58th-floor viewing gallery opens today, the latest in a swath of new lookouts high above the City

    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      FT Globetrotter
      The best pubs (and a wine bar) in London’s West End

      From hundreds of contenders, our tireless correspondents select their top 10 watering holes in the UK capital’s playground

      The Audley Public House in Mayfair, London: a Victorian-style pub with an orange, pink and blue ceiling painted by the late Phyllida Barlow
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      HTSI
      Cult Shop: Bloomsbury’s connoisseurs of colour

      L Cornelissen & Son has been supplying artists and printmakers hues since 1855

      The Bloomsbury shopfront of L Cornelissen & Son
    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      FT SeriesMen’s fashion special AW23
      Enter the ring – the quest for the perfect bagel

      When photographer Dan Martensen failed to find his favourite New York-style in London, he founded a bakery to make the things himself

      A poppy-seed bagel with The Works (schmear, lox, red onions and capers)
    • Saturday, 9 September, 2023
      FT SeriesFT Magazine’s London design special 2023
      What to see at the London Design Festival

      Thrones, pianos and enormous cork sculptures on the Strand: six highlights for your festival calendar

    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      In the footsteps of . . .
      Across the Yorkshire Dales in the footsteps of JB Priestley

      The past chimes with the present on a walk through the landscape that, the author wrote in 1934, offers ‘everything a man can possibly want’

    • Friday, 18 August, 2023
      FT Globetrotter
      FT Globetrotter’s guide to the FTWeekend Festival

      Everything you need to make the most of September 2 — the hottest ticket in town — and where to head afterwards

    • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
      FT GlobetrotterCharting London’s museums
      A conflicted walk through London’s Imperial War Museum

      Challenging exhibits interwoven with personal stories make this museum a must-visit for an FT graphic artist

    • Sunday, 6 August, 2023
      Travelista
      Four fantasy escapes in the UK

      Cabins and cottages, from Suffolk to the Scottish Highlands

      A Kabn Company cabin on the shores of Loch Fyne
    • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
      FT Globetrotter
      Visual feasts: five of London’s best gallery restaurants

      Move over dry scones. A fine-dining revolution has taken the capital’s major art institutions by storm

      From left: ‘Young Man Holding a Skull (Vanitas)’, (1626-28) by Frans Hals. A selection of dishes on a table at Spring
    • Saturday, 22 July, 2023
      FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
      House museums #26: Down House, Home of Charles Darwin

      The naturalist’s ‘very ugly’ south London abode offers an insight into his genial family life and continuing experiments

    • Friday, 14 July, 2023
      Travel & leisure industry
      Britons look to southern Europe for cheaper summer holidays

      Tourism groups say choice of destinations and growth of package deals reflect people’s keenness to maximise budgets

      Tourists waiting for the sunset in Santorini, Greece
    • Tuesday, 11 July, 2023
      FT Globetrotter
      Splashing out: FT Globetrotter’s summer swimming guide

      The best places for a dip in and around our destination cities, from lake swimming in Zürich to Rome’s closest beaches — via London’s best hotel pools

      A woman diving into a swimming pool wearing a red swimsuit.
    • Sunday, 9 July, 2023
      FT GlobetrotterThe wonder of Wimbledon
      Grass roots: a slice of history at the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum

      Step through a portal to the tournament’s past that puts the action on the courts in fascinating context

      A black and white photo of French player Suzanne Lenglen competing at Wimbledon in 1926
    • Saturday, 8 July, 2023
      FT Magazine
      My love letter to one of London’s last ‘pint pubs’

      Amid the cost-of-drinking crisis, only a few wet-led pubs have kept their doors open. What’s their secret? 

    • Saturday, 8 July, 2023
      FT GlobetrotterThe wonder of Wimbledon
      The FT Globetrotter tennis quiz: how well do you know your Wimbledon?

      Love all, or game, set and match to you? Put your SW19 Grand Slam knowledge to the test

      A general view of Centre Court shows  Nick Kyrgios returning the ball to Novak Djokovic during their men’s singles final tennis match on the fourteenth day of the 2022 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Tennis Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on July 10, 2022
    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      FT GlobetrotterThe wonder of Wimbledon
      Waiting for Wimbledon: the 100-year-old queue that defines Britishness, for better or worse

      Never have so many behaved so politely, braving torrential rain, sleep deprivation and a 10pm curfew on takeaway deliveries. Tales from a Very British Queue . . .  

      People in the queue for Wimbledon in Wimbledon Park, with a man lying asleep on the grass beside them
    • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
      FT MagazineTim Hayward
      The Pelican, London: utterly lovely gastropubbery — review

      Some food pubs get away with doing the bare minimum. Notting Hill’s The Pelican does the opposite

    • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
      FT GlobetrotterThe wonder of Wimbledon
      Cream of the crop: where to enjoy strawberry season in London

      Nothing says Wimbledon and British summertime like this glorious berry. As well as the classic cream combo, here’s where to find the capital’s most creative concoctions

      A bowl of strawberries with almonds and green marzipan stalks at Claridge’s
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