We’ve just recently come across Unchained, a super cool and incredibly handy lil London-based website 'designed to help people find the very best Unchained shops’ in the London. By 'unchained' they mean businesses owned and run 'by real people with a passion for what they sell,' and let’s face it: those types of businesses are sadly becoming fewer and farther between at too rapid a rate. Here’s our interview with Dave Birss and Lea......

Spring is in the air: The warm weather’s finally here, it’s light well into the evening, and the tube workers may or may not be striking. If you’ve ever flirted with the idea of adopting the bicycle as your means for getting around town, then the current climate is bound to make cycling seem a bit more attractive. But for many people who’ve dabbled with the idea of peddling around London, the question remains......

Chocolatier-on-wheels Petra Barran loves a good chocolate pudding and wants to bring it over to yours for dinner. She talks to Londonist as she gets ready to embark upon her Chocstar Tour of Britain. Tell us about your business selling chocolate on wheels, Chocstar. Where did the idea come from? I wish I could tell you when it popped into my head! I spent five years out of the country travelling all over the......

We fell in love with Black Cab Sessions the moment we first heard of them. How could we not? Taking a drive around the best city in the world (okay, we're biased, yes) in a design classic with some of our favourite bands rockin' out in the back seat: it's exactly how we'd like to spend a lazy afternoon. Since we generally are unable to scrape together enough coins to even steal sideways glances......

Call for new writers. Londonist is a collaborative blog, which means we're always seeking out new additions to our team. Unfortunately we can't pay our contributors because any money we do make from advertising etc generally gets ploughed right back into the site. However, there are a number of benefits to writing for Londonist, so here are a few of the obvious ones: It's good experience and good exposure. After all, thousands of people will......

Londonist is looking for more writers. Over the past six months we feel that we've really strengthened the editorial output of the site (thanks to our fabulous editorial team), however we do realise that there are some areas in which we are still lacking. Also - the Londonist staff have got it into their heads that they have the right to take some kind of holiday during the summer months so we have to......