The award-winning Carpenters Arms is quite clearly a victim of its own success. Being the best-looking, friendliest boozer in the entirety of E2, it is routinely packed to the gunnels with admirers. On a Sunday afternoon, if you intend to be in a position to order a meal any faster than molasses flowing uphill in January, then get here early. We arrived at two-thirty - how laughably naïve of us - and stood giving......

Londonist brings it on home. Santoré 59-61 Exmouth Market EC1R 4QL 0207 7812 1178 Call for delivery times and delivery zone Expect to pay: about £7-8 for a 12” pie, or £6-7 per ¼ metre Santoré. It’s not just for lunch. Their speedy pizza-and-more (fantastic arancini!) delivery service has been wowing Londonist for months. And recently, when we set up camp for a long night in watching buckets of DVDs and doing our best......

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Icco 46 Goodge Street, W1T 4LU 020 7580 9688 Mon-Fri 7am-11pm; Sat-Sun 8.30am-11pm Sun Expect to Pay: around £3.50 and up for a pizza Good, cheap, hot, fresh pizza. Last week’s lunchtime expedition on Goodge Street had us passing one of our favourite Fitzrovia standbys: Icco. We really appreciate knowing that for £3.50 we can swing into Icco for......

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...make sure you chose somewhere that looks as though they take pride in cleanliness. After a campaign against dodgy establishments deemed a risk to public health, Moon Pizza - a Walthamstow restaurant popular with local schoolkids - was just closed down by Environmental Health after people working nearby saw "rats jumping from a window". Inspections revealed poor hygiene with grime and rodent droppings all over the shop, and covering containers intended for takeaway food.......

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Londonist brings it on home. Basilico 26 Penton St N1 9PS Delivery Area: Islington 0800 093 4224 5pm-wee hours (Monday-Thursday) 11am-wee hours (Friday-Sunday) Expect to Pay: Around £10 for a 13” pie or £15 for an 18” Rating: 7 out of 10 On a handful of occasions, Londonist has ordered pizza from the Basilico franchise in Islington, a takeaway and delivery pizzeria with five locations. We were pleased with the Americana (Italian spicy pepperoni,......

Ever controversial, the Stop and Search policy looks set to be reintroduced. Mugged cyclist says yah-boo-sucks to her attackers. Beadle’s not about any more. Say what you will, he made this Londonist smile. Hungry hoodies' Hawaiian heist. (Actually, it may have been a Napoli with extra chillies for all we know – what price alliteration?) Police raids in Edmonton and Peckham round up people smugglers. And people. We-really-shouldn’t-blog-when-we’re-hungry piccie courtesy of mmmmichie’s flickr photo......

It’s cold outside this week, so it seems like the best plan is to cozy up on the couch and watch some telly. Why would you want to risk frostbite? On TV, Londonist likes: Monday, 12 November I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here (ITV1, 21:00-22:30) It’s off to the jungle yet again with Ant & Dec as they guide a new group of “celebs” through as many disgusting tasks as you’d......

Poperoni with extra hat, a stuffed crust Coliseum and spicy deep pan Spanish Steps: we don't see these at our usual pizza place. It seems you have to go to The Museum of London for these special items, as it has some new additions in its collection of Roman artefacts. They look good enough to eat. In fact, they are edible. Sculptures of the Pope, the Coliseum and the Spanish Steps are on exhibition......

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Euro Coffee House 81 Duke Street W1K 5PF Map Expect to Pay: £4-7 Rating: 6.9 out of 10 About a month ago, when we reviewed Sfizio Café, one anonymous reader commented with the following request: Can someone please do a write-up of my favourite lunchtime haunt, Euro Coffee House … near Bond Street tube? It's a proper, old-fashioned greasy......

It's a always sad day when superheroes turn to the dark side. First Spider-Man got all dark and mysterious on the big screen, and now he's taken to vandalism on London's streets. Spider-Man (or a vandal disguised as Spider-Man, which really seems more probable) is accused of causing £1,000 worth of damages to the window of a Chingford Domino's Pizza. Apparently enraged at being unable to buy pizza after the shop was closed, he......

With all that went down this week, we thought we thought we'd cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs. It was a rollercoaster ride of emotions this week at DCist. Like the rest of country, we were floored by the news of so many dead coming out of Virginia Tech, and with so many of the victims and their relatives from the D.C. area, we felt it important to pay......

We’re always on the lookout for a good Indian restaurant for pesky out-of-town visitors who seem to think curry’s all that’s worth exploring in the foodie fleshpots of London. So we were cooking with gas when we scored an interview with the Bombay Bicycle Club — their motto: “a stop for “a curry a cut above the rest and ‘adventurous’ alternatives”. As you may know, being open-minded is a pre-requisite for those interested in......

Naming babies after where they were conceived or where they born is slightly embarrassing. If the former, then it's rather too much information to present strangers with your child Pizza Hut Fire Escape. If it's the latter then there is the risk of bringing up a child called Minicab or Somewhere Between Car Park and Maternity Ward. Risky though it is, sometimes it can just about work in the child's favour. 32 year old......

Down in the midst of the Londonist music dungeon we've got our fair share of ideas as to which bands are going to be high up in our last.fm chart at the end of 2007. That said, we've not afraid to see what other people are saying and steal their ideas. So when Poptones boss and all round legend Alan McGee told The Guardian that he thought uplifting pop group The Revelations were going......

Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic Airways has announced a new London-U.S. route to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport to begin on 23 April, 2007. This will help open up Virgin to the midwest and heartland of the U.S. It will also be a convenient hub for travel to and from Canada and the north and northwest of the USA. Currently the only direct flights to Canada Virgin provides stop at Ottawa and Quebec, leaving the western......

The -ists this week had politics on the brain. And what goes better with politics? Partying-- that's two great tastes in one. Oh, and Kevin Federline...can't forget about Kevin Federline. That's three great tastes in one. -Chicagoist celebrated the election news but cried in their Beer of the Week as Da Bears lost for the very first time. And in continuing with our theme, previewed an actual K-Fed show! -DCist caught the President stumped on......

We read today that New Zealand pizza chain Hell Pizza is due to open its first UK outlet in the capital next month. Now at the moment we kind of rely on Basilico for our 'gourmet' pizza needs but looking at the menu on Hell's NZ website we might have to give this lot a try. For example, the Damned pizza is topped with avocado, Camembert and cashew; while the Mayhem comes with chicken, capsicum......

Viewlondon ("unbiased, insightful and compelling information on what’s hot and what’s not in the capital") have published the results of their readers survey on the Best and Worst Places in London, and the results are, well, a bit weird actually. Take the list of the capital's five worst restaurants: 1. McDonald's 2. Ask 3. Pizza Express 4. Angus Steak House 5. Nando's McDonald's we can accept, even though comparing it to places like Hakkasan......

I'm finding it rather hard to imagine a perfect Sunday right now. This is because today has been a rather imperfect Sunday, with the majority of it being spent on a stuffy National Express coach travelling from Leeds back down to London. I arrived home, only to find that the bunker in which the computer resides is experiencing below-zero temperatures, because someone who shall go unnamed forgot to leave the heating on. Honestly, you......

A quick TV tip for this evenings viewing is the BBCs Drugland showing on BBC2 at 9pm. Apparently it's "an inside look at an industry that employs 20,000 people in London", no, not the Sale Sign holding industry (though that is long overdue an expose), it's the drugs industry. The BBC write up is at pains to point out that drug dealers are now catching up to legitimate retail industries in their method of ordering......

Well that's according to 'property tycoon' Jonathan Lane, who's interviewed in the Telegraph today. "Commercial property has built-in obsolescence, and the more intelligent buildings are, the more sensitive they are to technical change," Lane is quoted as saying. "We'll be around long after Canary Wharf." Lane is the chief executive of Shaftesbury plc who own most of Carnaby Street (including Kingly Court), some of Chinatown, and a large chunk of Covent Garden. It all......