Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Here's our look back at the good, the bad and the hungry of 2007. Since starting What’s for Lunch? in May, we have reviewed forty lunch venues throughout London. We tried the arty, the hearty and the terribly farty. We stirred up a bit of controversy with a mildly approving review of an evil hot dog vendor. And, we......

Straight out of Steptoe and Son - bogus bin men bag bonuses. Straight out of a Whitehall farce - illegal immigrant home office worker to be deported. Straight out of a Bond movie - driverless people shuttles at Heathrow. Straight out of real life - the bit-too-much-booze bus. Straight out of a Dickensian novel - immigrant detention at Heathrow is getting worse. Reminds-us-of-the-end-of-the-world piccie courtesy of paniek’s flickr photo stream.......

If you happened to stroll into Room 420 of the Trafalgar Hotel during the recent Bridge Art Fair, then your eyes were treated to some excellent art exhibited by the ‘low brow to high brow’ cool kids from Strychnin Gallery. With locations in New York and Berlin, it was probably only a matter of time before Strychnin set up more a permanent camp here. Luckily for us, that time is now. Strychnin is opening......

Fresh this Week: Amr Gharbeia and Hari Kunzru consider the internet as a space for free expression and censorship at this event tonight. Amr Gharbeia is a leading Egyptian blogger, currently facing a legal campaign to block his website along with other blogs and human rights sites in Egypt. Hari Kunzru's novels and non-fiction engage with the theme of new technology and his recent writing highlights the complexities of internet censorship as a source......

Londonist ask that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Canela Café 33 Earlham Street WC2H 9LS Map Average Lunch Price: Ranges from less than £2 to more than £10 Rating: 7.5 out of 10 Just up from Covent Garden, Canela offers a range of lunch options with Portuguese/Brazilian sensibility. Londonist had the feijoada, the national dish of Brazil featuring black beans and rice with smoked meats, accompanied by......

... or both, for many of the unlucky crews who attempted to take part in last Saturday's Men's Head of the River Race, as high winds and tricky swells led to mass carnage on the water, with only 29 crews completing the 4.25 mile course. A grand total of 45 crews managed to cross the starting line in difficult but rowable conditions around 4pm; however, the anticipated calmer weather never materialised, and increasingly strong winds......

London Underground is a great place for art - impromptu performance art, educational text-based displays, satirical artistic responses to political situations... there are Poems on the Underground, musicians, performers... If you've ever wanted to contribute your artwork to this sprawling world of underground artistic expression and fancy having a go in a medium a little more sophisticated than sticking chewing gum over the eyes of models in adverts running alongside escalators, then get clicking......

This looks like a fun (and illegal) read: Glorifying Terrorism is a science fiction anthology. With an introduction by Andrew McKie of the Daily Telegraph, it features contributions by top UK SF writers Ian Watson, Gwyneth Jones, Ken MacLeod, and Charles Stross. The anthology highlights the flaws in recent UK government legislation that criminalizes ‘encouragement of terrorism’. The 2006 Terrorism Act makes it a criminal offence to incite or encourage others to commit acts......

York Way, that dusty street alongside King's Cross, is abuzz with construction and redevelopment. Nowhere more so than Kings Place (they're not big on apostrophes in these parts), next to the Regent's Canal. Come 2008, and a new arts and music venue will be open for business. And the fortunate staff of The Guardian and Observer will have a new base. It has already hit the headlines, when part of the site caught fire......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you'd like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Those of us with an addiction to lists may have looked on folornly at this recent compilation of no less than 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die - but it did make us think of a drinking game to play. It includes a shot glass, a bottle of cheap vodka, three pairs......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you'd like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Tonight Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award way back in 2003, discusses his writing and latest book A Spot of Bother. £8.50 at the Royal Festival Hall, 7:45 pm in the Purcell Room, find out more. Kevin McCloud......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you'd like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Wednesday Based on his columns for McSweeny's, Nick Hornby's The Complete Polysyllabic Spree seems rather a lazy excuse for a "meta" book. Hornby (pictured) explores books - what he buys, what he reads and what he doesn't. Oh well, the man's gotta eat - join the polysyllabic discussion tonight as he continues to wax......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you'd like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. You’ll have to forgive this week’s list for being so slight, all the cool literati types are on holiday, it’s only the hacks like us that have to keep plugging away... Thursday One of Africa's greatest writers, exiled from Kenya for 22 years because of his highly political and acclaimed work including the bestselling......

Nelson's Column came out of its enforced hibernation today after the four month, £420,000 restoration work on old Horatio was finally completed. The occassion was marked by "four dancers going through their paces atop the granite column 151 feet (46 metres) above London's Trafalgar Square," which isn't as weird as it sounds when you realise that today is also the beginning of the Big Dance festival. As part of his makeover Nelson got his......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. The Beckett Centenary Celebration continues this week with a season of his shorter works at the Bookshop Theatre, A Piece of Monologue on Tuesday ("the summing up of the last two and a half billion seconds of a man's life") and The End on Wednesday (One man’s testament to the lack of care in......

With all the depressing Wembely news going round at the moment, maybe it's time to concentrate on a more uplifting development story. The Independent reports today that, after a year of delays, the BFI is to resume work on turning the redundant Museum of the Moving Image into a revamped home for the National Film Theatre which will include "a 'mediatheque' where visitors can view archive material, a digital cinema for up to 36......

This week's big tech story surrounds a wearer of turtlenecks, stone washed jeans and white trainers. Not a member Status Quo luckily, but someone with a little less hair, yet with a lot more up there - at least when compared to the UKs most successful chart act. Apple computers' CEO Steve Jobs has invited a select number of the tech industry stalwarts to a special event entitled 'One More Thing' this coming Tuesday......

The Guardian reports today: A year after the untimely death of John Peel, the legendary DJ is to be commemorated in true rock 'n' roll style with a day of gigs across the UK. John Peel Day will be held on October 13 and is the brainchild of Peel's colleagues at BBC Radio 1, in consultation with his wife Sheila Ravenscroft, who wanted to find an appropriate way of celebrating his life and 40-year......

It's strange, we never really shopped at Dickins & Jones that much, but when we read today that the store was to close it brought a little tear to our eye. Ok, so we didn't literally well up, but it is a little sad that something that has stood on Regent Street since 1790 should now be put up for "redevelopment" thanks to a "downturn in consumer spending" and rent rises. Apparently the building......

Just a reminder that you still have a few weeks left to take advantage of our special 'buy one get one free offer' at Flaming Nora, the new, classy fast food joint on Upper Street. You can read our review of the restaurant here, and if it takes your fancy then just click here and print out the voucher which entitles you to some free, grilled, juicy loveliness.......

It's time for Londoners to take some time out of their busy hectic lives to give themselves a little pat on the back, as a recent survey has found they rank as the most economically productive members of the United Kingdom. The survey is based around an individuals GVA, their Gross Value Added, like a Gross Domestic Product but for people, was at £66,700 with some Welsh slackers in Anglesey at the lowest end......

Any attempt to bring the noble sport of darts to the Olympics was probably set back eight years this morning through the publication of this Bloomberg report. BSkyB plans to charge viewers £9.95 to watch the two darts world champions — Andy Fordham of the BDO and Phil Taylor of the PDC — meet in a showdown. Barry Hearn's ubiquitous Matchroom Sport put the deal together, with the fact that the Circus Tavern in......