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. Hot Dog Stand outside the British Museum 63 Great Russell St WC1B 3BF Hours of operation seem to reflect the museum’s hours Expect to Pay: £2.50 for a jumbo hot dog Map Rating: 6 out of 10 Haut cuisine it’s not, but what’s more indulgent than a hot dog every once in awhile? And, at £2.50 for a “jumbo”......

LAist was comped front row seats by the Dodgers due to Malingering being struck by a foul ball last week, and she came back with some great photos, and earlier made fun of 4th of July on Venice Beach. But the biggest stories of the week was that the Mayor's Hot Tamale was revealed, and that a Kwik-E-Mart was erected in Burbank. Phillyist was busy doing the Fourth of July up right, exercising their......

The well-known darlings of the Young British Artist (YBA) scene are lined up to sell their wares from the back of a car this Sunday. For the 2007 Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair, previous stall holders and YBAs Gavin Turk, Bob and Roberta Smith, Tracey Emin, Fiona Banner, Cedric Christie and Abigail Lane are back again to sell affordable and collectable artworks in this peculiarly English impromptu market style, on the grounds of the......

This week we'd like to congratulate the -ist network's Mother Hen, Gothamist's Jen Chung, who found herself a recipient of Wired Magazine's Wired Rave Award. If that doesn't sound terribly exciting, keep in mind another recipient was J.K. Rowling. Yep, that's right, the -ist network and Harry Potter now have something in common. Go us. Austinist has a chat with the ever-fashionable Golden Girl Rue McClanahan, and managed to catch some local fashionistas making......

Assuming the crews are able to make it past the semi-final, Cambridge and Oxford University's mens' eights will take to the Thames on Saturday at 4:30pm for just under 20 minutes' worth of water borne endeavour that will be watched by between 15 and 100 million television viewers around the world (depending on whose figures you believe) as well as some 250,000 spectators thronging the riverside vantage points. Oxford are the defending champions and......

Transplants from across the pond can occasionally be heard bemoaning two particular things about food in London: 1. The dearth of good Mexican food in London 2. The dearth of good Mexican food after 11 p.m. in London (or, for that matter, the dearth of anything that is not a kebab or a hot dog after 11 p.m. in London, but that is a Londonist round-up for another day) Why the lack of Mexican restaurants......

Austinist gets arty with an interactive guide to SXSW, loved some local art galleries and a new art exhibit and lamented the possible loss of "Friday Night Lights" production to New Mexico. Bostonist was happy they finally found an Anna Nicole Smith connection to their fair city and that an Apple Store was opening up. They were less happy that new rules have been established limiting underage shows and that their Governor spending a......

Given the interest generated here by the news that the NFL is coming to town later this year we feel there'll be lots of you wanting to satisfy your curiosity by catching this year's American Football showpiece, the Superbowl, live from Miami starting very late on Sunday night and continuing well into Monday morning. Now, obviously, you can do this in the quiet comfort of your own home courtesy of the free terrestrial coverage,......

"Some people are in the pie shop... they think it's all over... it is now! It's steak & onions in English ale!!!" Yes, while the rest of the world was distracted by some sporting festival or other Londoners knew that the real way to the world's heart was through its stomach. And so it was that the great, traditional pie making nations of England and Japan took to the counters of quality comestible purveyors......

All the highlights from our sister sites around the globe. Torontoist immediately wins our heart by using the word "Jackass" in a headline. In fact, we love their use of it so much that we're going to use it as much as possible throughout this post. For example, it looks like there are Toronto-area jackasses besides those who misuse the sidewalk: look at the crap on sale on Toronto's craigslist. But it looks like Toronto......

As regular readers of Londonist will know we're big fans of local newspapers and their coverage of the obscure and the exquisitely dull. But today we stumbled across this article from the Epsom Guardian which manages to encapsulate so beautifully every element of bad local journalism (and therefore everything that we love about it) that we initially thought it had to be a wind-up. Kevin Barnes' article is headlined One man and his dog:......