Chocolate and wine in a Hawksmoor church—a chocoholy trinity, if you will—await anyone venturing to St George's Bloomsbury tonight, from 7pm. Master chocolatiers Frank Macey and Bill McCarrick will discuss Sir Hans Sloane, a founding father of both the British Museum and the Natural History Museum. Why are two confectioners holding a lecture on the great uber-curator? Because Soane is also credited with inventing milk chocolate. The talk will also focus on his local connections......

Monopoly pub crawl? Boring. Circle Line pub crawl? Banned. It's high time someone developed a few new drinking tours around the capital. We started off with a sojourn around the variable boozers of London's train stations. Our conclusion? Nice, grim, grim, oooo, not so grim, grim, grim, ug. Now, to mark the opening of the Royal Institution's plush new bar and restaurant (more on that later this month), we decided to raise a glass......