Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Queen Boadicea 292-294 St John St EC1V 4PA Nearest Tube: Angel 0207 354 9993 11.30am-Midnight (Monday-Thursday) Midday-2am (Friday-Saturday) Midday-11pm (Sunday) Map Expect to Pay: Under £10 for lunch Rating: 8 out of 10 Ooh wait. Do we have time for one more pub lunch before 2007 comes to a close? Well then, allow us to mention Queen Boadicea. There’s......

You may have heard of Caliper Boy - we've previously spotted his era-spanning scrawls around London and learned a bit more about the legend of this early 1800s downtrodden child, allegedly locked away in a cellar in 1819 by his prostitute mother until age 12, when he escaped to find his father. dANTE OR dIE is a theatre company that dances, sings and performs a type of musical theatre that is the complete opposite......

A survey of watery wildlife carried out this summer by British Waterways and enthusiastic public twitchers and nature lovers has confirmed that the flamboyant kingfisher is thriving in Regents Canal. Excellently, to make the canal an even better home for our birds, British Waterways are planning habitat improvement projects for Regents Canal including the installation of kingfisher boxes and tunnels (for them to nest in, rather than create their own underground network) and posts......

Mannequins clothed in rubbish to encourage recycling. The ultimate in trashy models. Barnet (who?) claims the suburbs are being ignored. Fergie gets pummeled in the scruttocks. Thames Water launch two new boats to skim off river litter. Watch out for mangled cormorant burgers, on sale soon from the South Bank. Latin est doctus in magis schola Image courtesy of chutney bannister via the Londonist flickr group.......

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Gourmet Burger Kitchen Locations throughout London Contact specific locations for hours Expect to Pay: Around £10 Rating: 8 out of 10 Burgers of Scooby Doo proportions; milkshakes from another era; chips of substance and weight; Gourmet Burger Kitchen is the sort of restaurant chain that makes Londonist happy. Developed by three New Zealanders craving for a taste of home,......

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Latin Square Restaurant & Havana Bar 43-45 Farringdon Road EC1M 3JB Map Expect to Pay: Around £5 for a Daily Lunch Special Rating: 7 out of 10 Londonist needed an escape from all the rain this week and so visited the Latin Square Restaurant & Havana Bar. It's found just around the corner from Farringdon tube and not hard......

The Dean of Southwark, The Very Revd Colin Slee, seems to have gotten a taste for being in hot water. In December he stoutly defended his allegedly drunk bishop who somehow staggered across London from an Irish Embassy Christmas bash to clamber into someone's car, chuck out baby toys and refuse to come out until forcibly removed. In February he used Youtube to call for the legalisation of drugs as a means of stopping......

LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big -- so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart of it lays in the city's San Fernando Valley. A writer grapples with her food porn photography obsession, another gets censored on Flickr, one gets scooped by the LA......

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger added to his recent complaint about cup replays with some further stern words aimed in the direction of London rivals Chelsea and their just announced £80m operating loss for the most recent accounting year: They have a super sponsor. With normal mathematics, minus 80 is minus 80. It is 80 miles below water, and to survive so deep is normally very difficult... I have said many times that all clubs......

What? Eight or nine couples snogging for ages - they were cued to start and finish by a klaxon and were being filmed and photographed throughout. Where? Outside McDonalds, Liverpool Street Station (mmm, nothing like the smell of greasy burgers frying while you're making out with someone). When? Today, just after 3pm. Why? Absolutely no idea - anyone?......

We've been on at Will Luke, cricketing aficionado and all-round good egg, to write something for us for ages, ever since we spoke to him ahead of the last test of THAT Ashes series. Finally, he's relented, and given us a little snippet on where best to catch the sound of willow upon leather this summer. If you like what you read, please push the 'recommend' button and we can thus continue to pester......

We've already featured the rather brilliant London Review of Breakfasts on Londonist, so we were intrigued to see that another foody blog had cropped up recently in the form of World's Best Burger Hunt. As has been noted in the press recently London is currently being overrun with a better class of burger joint, and with the pubs also getting in on the act we do need some kind of patty barometer to sort......

Earlier this week kissy couples were wading through roses and red tissue paper deeper than an east coast snow dump and singles shook a tiny, lonely fist (no ring!) at it all. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 - Valentine's season is in the can, finally. Austinist is already pulsing with SX energy and posting on the People's Choice Award nominees and the short films that will be playing while......

To us Borough Market has always been about food. Ostrich burgers, speciality cheeses, all types of crazy breads, and those amazing chorizo sandwiches from that one stall (mmm, we're making ourselves hungry just typing this). But now the market is home to the latest addition to the Paul Smith mini-empire. Smith's newest little shop is located at 13 Park Street on the fringes of the market area. It will sell all the usual Paul......

Don’t get us wrong, we like Brixton for a trendy night out. We love our Bug Bars and our Plan B’s all jostling to serve up foreign beers as an undernourished deejay spins Nancy Sinatra on the decks. But the nights are getting longer and we want something a little more… comfortable. We’re not as young as we used to be. And it’s cold. Bitter cold. We can’t feel our nose cold. And we’re......

Something's changing in Londonist Towers. Something's in the air. Perhaps it's a subtle shift in the midichlorians, perhaps it's that there's a new Turin Brakes album out but we're beginning to stockpile bottles of Tequila and Rizla papers and trying to find the number of 'that bloke we met down the pub' the other day. Look out the window and, yes, it's raining. Of course. Festival Season is upon us. So whilst some will......

How many times have you heard it? You're stood in the queue in some fast food restaurant and some 'wit' in the line behind you says: "Those pictures on the menu...they look nothin' like that in real life you know." Really? You mean the huge corporate behemoths have been lying to us? Well today could be the beginning of the end for these chip pan charlatans, because KFC has been caught out by the......

Diminutive R'n'B ubermensch Usher rocked London to it's very core last night with a lavish £10,000 party at his hotel to launch the short movie "Rhythm City: Volume 1: Money, Power, Respect" (which is apparently his Citizen Kane). He kicked off at the Rex Bar and Cinema (the websites worth the visit just for the Pearl and Dean opening alone) which the Londonist must admit to having being intrigued with the idea of (the......

Last year Londonist discovered (and devoured) Bodeans on Poland Street. And, lo, our appetite for meat was placated. We loved their ribs, their burgers, the coke refills, their chips, the little blob of pink sauce you got with the chips...we loved everything. We even featured it as a Londonist Loves.... But then, inevitably, the backlash began. Was it just us or were we seeing less chips for our money? Was the succulence of the......

Bush. Kerry. Chads. Ohio. Yes, we admit it, Londonist is as excited as everyone else is about tonight's US elections. We'll be watching it on the good, old BBC (11:50 through to 5:00 with Dimbleby, Snow and Simpson et al) but there are events taking place throughout the capital for ex-pats and Brits alike: The US Embassy in Grovesnor Square is holding its grandly titled Quadrennial Presidential Election Celebration. But don't even think of gatecrashing,......