We've always been massive fans of Fabric and as a weekend of major partying approaches, we think there's no better place to be tomorrow than Fabric itself. Former Trash resident and all round amazing producer dude Erol Alkan headlines Room 1 ably supported by LCD Soundsystem's Pat Mahoney, and our very own favourites, the Disco Bloodbath DJs. Ed Banger take over room 2 with the heavily tipped Japanese Popstars playing live. Tickets are £12......

42. St John's Path Where? Deeply atmospheric jitty linking Britton Street with St John's Square, Clerkenwell. What? Someone requested this one a few weeks back. Surely some mistake, thought we. St John's Path is the Platonic ideal of backpassagery. We couldn't have missed such an instantiation, could we? Well, by Thackerey's scruttocks we did. So we decided to stop titting about with silly long words that we don't fully understand and go do some probing.......

This Week In London’s History Monday – 21st July 2005: Two weeks after the July 7th bombings, four would-be suicide bombers attempt to detonate explosive devices on London’s public transport system. None of the bombs explode fully, but widespread disruption of the transport system ensues nonetheless. Tuesday – 22nd July 1987: Palestinian political cartoonist Naji Salim al-Ali is shot in the face outside his office in Chelsea. He would die of his injuries several......

We've had a taste of village life on South Bank recently and enjoyed the Alternative Village Fete's knitting, vegetables, simple but mesmerising games and the home-made cakes that were part of the National Theatre's Watch This Space offering. And this weekend, we can expect more... On Saturday and Sunday, you can head to the Lambeth Country Show in Brockwell Park and pretend you're way out in the sticks with the farm animals, funfair, story-telling,......

If you're into anything dancy you'd be hard pushed to find a better night out than at Fabric. Tonight in the floor quivering Room 1 Drop The Lime drops in from Brooklyn to play along side Switch & The Scratch Perverts while over in room 2 Australian drum and bass chart invaders, Pendulum, headline with support from the likes of Goldie. It's room 3 we're most excited about though as it celebrates the release......

Islington may get a bad rap once in a while, but Londonist still loves it. And we’re not alone: A new museum has opened on St John Street celebrating the borough and its history. The Islington Museum details the history of the borough from its humble beginnings as Iseldune village and spans the centuries including accounts from residents during the two World Wars and a bust of Clerkenwell-resident Lenin (formerly in the Russian embassy).......

Those Knights Templar that everyone rabbits on about - what did they ever do for us anyway? Apart from fuel a controversial trash novel and inspire a million visits to Temple Church by Da Vinci Code tourists? Now the Knights of St John - the Hospitallers - there's a useful order. With history reaching back as far as the Knights Templar but with a tangible, helpful and enduring legacy today - those knights of......

Chris at Cheese and Biscuits, lists the top ten things he hates about London restaurants. We heartily agree with point #10. Stonch’s Beer Blog takes its readers on an 1881 pub crawl in Clerkenwell. The ladies at Cupcakes Take the Cake interview the owner of Kensington’s Buttercup Cake Shop. An American in London has a ocakbasi overdose in Dalston. Photography by Chris Osburn © 2008......

Once is a happenstance, twice is a coincidence, but three times is a conspiracy. First the maid of Chalk Farm is painted over (since restored), then we heard the Rosebery Avenue cash machine stencil has also been defaced. And today, it seems the Clerkenwell Road 'Old Skool' pic has been 'collected'. The mural had been surrounded by sheeting for a few weeks, so many suspected it was being removed. But who's doing it? Councils?......

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Daddy Donkey Trailer in front of 100-101 Leather Lane EC1 Nearest Tube: Farringdon 0794 074 7676 11am-3pm for (Monday-Friday) Expect to Pay: £5-6 for a massive burrito (erm, we mean “burro”) Rating: 9.5 out of 10 A few weeks back we went burrito taste-testing for our new VERSUS series and, let down by our findings, felt as if we’d......

Every month, the folks at Fancyapint? get together to vote for their top ten favourite pubs. These are recently visited pubs that for one reason or another (the ambience, the booze, the company) stuck in their collective memory. Kindly, these booze-savvy Fancyapinters have decided to share their latest picks with Londonist and all our readers. Cheers! Here’s the current list from Fancyapint? in no particular order of merit. They assure us that all ten......

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Palmers 40 Old Street, EC1V 9AE Nearest Tube: Barbican 020 7250 0002 11am-2am (all week) Expect to Pay: 3 pounds for a medium kofta or shish and salad, 2 pounds for humus and salad. Rating: 7.5 out of 10 Yes, we know, this is a kebab shop, a high street kebab shop. Or in this case an Old Street......

Let Londonist help you celebrate one of Britain’s most cherished traditions, the Sunday Lunch. The Eagle 159 Farringdon Road EC1R 3AL Nearest Tube: Farringdon 0207 837 1353 12.30pm-3.30pm, 6.30pm-10.30pm (Monday-Saturday) 12.30pm-3.30pm (Sunday) Expect to Pay: We’ve never seen any mains listed for more than £12 on the blackboard Rating: 9.5 out of 10 Having the (dubious?) distinction of being the first pub to call itself a “gastropub,” The Eagle is the sort of place......

Daily Candy tweaks its culinary repertoire at a secret cooking class in Clerkenwell. Slonik at Edible London visits the Malmaison-ized Fox and Anchor twice in one week! An American in London checks out Crazy Homies in Notting Hill (she’d go back but …) Posting for Food and Drink in London, Ben Bush accuses Waterloo Brasserie of perpetrating a fishy felony. Photography courtesy of D I C K S D A I L Y's photostream......

It's finally been announced that Clerkenwell club Turnmills will be closing down in March after the landlord confirmed plans to redevlop the site. The club's lease on the venue is nearly up and a mutual agreement has led to the venue wanting to end on a high. This deals a bit of a blow to London's danceland who also recently suffered the closure of The Key, The Cross and Canvas as part of the......

Meet the fish-eating Surrey dinosaur. Nothing to do with Michael Winner. He lives in Holland Park. As a clampdown on knife carrying is announced, Londonist exposes a possible loophole. 'Potential for some chaos' as a sliding scale of parking fines is mooted. London rugby clubs doing well. Wanted: Gordon Brown lookalike. Another Banksy piece set to fetch thousands. File in the same draw as Pete does drugs and Amy does everything. Meanwhile, what's going......

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......

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......

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Jerusalem Tavern 55 Britton Street EC1M 5UQ Nearest Tube: Farringdon 0207 490 4281 11:00am - 11:00pm (Monday – Friday) Map Expect to Pay: around £7 for food, around £3 for most pints Rating: 9.5 out of 10 As one beerintheevening reviewer put it, “The only downside to this pub is that it is closed at weekends.” Londonist would like......

While the newspapers and press agencies get their knickers in a twist over coverage conditions for the Rugby World Cup which kicks off in the Stade de France tonight, we're turning our attention to a more pressing issue. Which are the best London pubs to watch the tournament in? Several of the big chains are promising full coverage: It's a Scream, O'Neills, Pitcher & Piano and Walkabout. However, what's the more discerning and individual......

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Meson Los Barriles Clerkenwell Location 55-63 Goswell Road EC1V 7EN Nearest Tube: Barbican 0871 3327054 10.30am-Midnight Daily Map Spitalfields Location 8 Lamb Street, Spitalfields Market E1 6EA Nearest Tube: Liverpool Street 0871 3327646 10.30am-Midnight Daily Map Expect to Pay: Tapas start around £4 Rating: 7 out of 10 Reviews at London-eating.co.uk for Meson Los Barriles, a tapas bar with......

An occasional column on the forces behind the capital’s economy. Potemkin, a Russian-themed vodka bar on Clerkenwell Road, has unveiled an intriguing set of five cocktails whose recipes will be tied to stock prices. It’s not an entirely new idea. We (barely) remember a night at the Dax bar in Hannover, and there’s the near-famous Dow Jones in Barcelona. The twist this time around is that Potemkin will adjust the alcohol content of its drinks......

We've never made it down but the tales we've been told of Saturday night party Together at Turnmills make us curse everytime we realise it clashes with something we've already done. So while some of the Londonist music team are djing a clubnight on a boat down Temple way with a request list that includes Dane Bowers & Victoria Beckham's "Out of Your Mind", the slightly better DJ David Guetta will be pumping the......

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Benugo Throughout London Average Lunch Price: £5 Rating: 7.5 out of 10 Snoop around the Internet and you’ll find several references to sandwich shop Benugo’s free WiFi. For example, this post by Gavin Bell suggests that other cafés ‘should take the lead from Benugo and offer free WiFi like they offer free sugar’ because the ‘cost per month of......

Londonist ask that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Santoré 59-61 Exmouth Market EC1R 4QL Map Average Lunch Price: £9 Rating: 9.5 out of 10 Some months back the entertainment section of Crumbs for Men magazine featured a rave review about Santoré, a phenomenally yummy pizzeria at Exmouth Market in Clerkenwell. Then, when Santoré began home-delivery, ontoLondon duly made a jubilant note. Now that Londonist is pondering what’s......

Craving Vietnamese food in the city? Well now you can satiate your noodle soup desires at the restaurant Pho found in Clerkenwell. Unlike its brethren congregated along Kingsland Road, Pho stands out as the only Vietnamese restaurant amongst the more upmarket dining options on St Johns Street. Pho has a decent number of tables though always appears full anytime past seven during the week when its open. After that you'll have to queue and......

Dos Hermanos visit The Larder in Clerkenwell, London's largest independent opening, and find enthusiastic service but average food. Howard from Food & Drink in London visits TeaSmith and becomes a tea convert. Londonist visited this little shop when it first opened, and we can understand why. Jamfaced contemplates travel sweets and service stations, and he wonders whether French lorry drivers will ever sing the praises of UK roadside stops. The folks over at The......

The weather forecast for the weekend spells rain so if you are looking for something worthwhile to do, you could pop down to Made in Clerkenwell for a bit of retail therapy. Clerkenwell Green Association is a charity that supports arts and crafts by offering training to practitioners as well as supplying them with studio spaces. This weekend the Association opens its studios to the general public, giving everyone a chance to buy jewellery,......

A tribute to the capital’s alleys, ginnels and snickleways. 35. Saffron Hill Where? Narrow street running parallel to Farringdon Road between Charterhouse Street and Clerkenwell Road. The quiet southern end is not used by vehicles, hence its inclusion in this series. What? The street is named, you will not be surprised to hear, after saffron, which was grown in this area from the 14th century. The world's most expensive spice was in high-demand in the......

It's all too easy to miss the tasting rooms of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society in London. After all, it is a private members' club that happens to be tucked away off a main street in Farringdon. Don't worry if you're not a member though, as knowing someone who can get you inside is part of the challenge and fun of it all. Unlike the rather grandiose entrance in Edinburgh, the London branch of......