Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Le Pain Quotidien 18 Great Marlborough Street (Turner Building), W1F 7HS 0207 486 6154 Expect to pay: around £5 for most breads, soups, salads, £10 and up for mains Call for hours Ambling around Oxford Circus with a bit of time to kill, Londonist popped into the rustic-lite and spacious Great Marlborough Street location of “daily bread” global franchise,......

Do you have a beard / moustache / general facial hair? Well get ready to hydrate yourself as the vitaminwater shop on Little Portland Street, W1 opens it's doors to you tonight. To celebrate the launch of their strange coloured water, beatbox champion Beardyman will be performing at the shop's new Thursday night hydration club. With the promise of free vitaminwater cocktails it's open from 6-9 and we're pretty sure you'll get in even......

It's official - London's tap water is apparently the best in the country. Who'd have thought it? We've all absorbed the marketing of bottled water ("ooh, it's filtered through mountains") and assumed that water from Buxton and elsewhere in the countryside would be better than a glass of 'Eau de Londres'. But apparently not. An independent (but Government-funded) regulator has just published its latest annual water report and it ranks a glass of London's......

A tale here of two local councils and their contrasting approaches to the pressing issue of water usage. Following a government campaign announced earlier this year, Westminster council have binned bottled water from their offices in favour of glugging straight from the tap (via a glass or plastic receptacle, of course). They estimate that doing so will save them in the region of £12,000. The council has also vowed to replace pre-bottled water at......

45. Creatures From The Black Lagoon The capital has a dark history of strange beasts emerging from the silted depths and breaking the surface, causing the general public to flee in terror. Terrapins in local ponds, wild pigs in the sewers, a piranha in the Thames, exotic snakes around lakes and giant rats in the pipes. Mere myths? In 1996 something even bigger was lurking in the inky waters of Dollis Brook, in North......

Government departments are being asked to switch from bottled to humble tap water for lubricating the endless meetings involved in running the Civil Service. Hot on the heels of Ken's campaign to get London's diners to insist on tap water in restaurants, this switch could save Whitehall more than £100,000 a year according to a Panorama investigation into council spend on bottled water. DEFRA, which has already made the switch, was draining a jolly......

Ken Livingstone's on a tap water crusade. Him and Thames Water have launched a campaign to encourage Londoners to be proud to ask for tap water, however many grannies it's been through. Not only are they extolling the quality of the water and the clear financial benefits, they're trying to make it sexy by running a competition to design a carafe worthy of holding our precious Eau de Londres. Asking for tap water in......

Talia has already covered the more common places to go dancing tomorrow night, but for a more alternative music New Years Eve, then wander over to Kings Cross’ Monto Water Rats to catch Brighton rockers Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster play a special New Years gig with support from Gingerbread Men, The Foxes and a few others. Alternatively, there are still a few tickets available for Super Fury Animals at Royal Festival Hall. The fun starts......