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Date Night: TKTS Leicester Square Works When the Plan Happens Late
A London timing trick for turning same-day indecision into a theater night with a built-in walk.
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Sweetings on Queen Victoria Street — The 137-Year-Old City of London Lunch That Closes at 3, Takes No Reservations, and Has Never Served Dinner
Sweetings has been at 39 Queen Victoria Street, a five-minute walk from St Paul's Cathedral, since 1889. It opens Monday to Friday at noon and closes at three. It serves no dinner, takes no reservations, has barely changed its menu since the inter-war years, and is — by a comfortable margin — the most stubbornly preserved Victorian fish house in the City of London. Pull up a stool at the counter.
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Photo London 2026 at Olympia — Four Days When AI Photography Has to Make Its Argument
Photo London moves to Olympia for the first time in 2026 and runs Wednesday May 13 (VIP preview) through Sunday May 17. The fair lands the same week ai climbed back into Google's U.S. top-ten search bracket, and that timing matters: the medium that historically had to argue against the camera-phone now has to argue against the prompt. Steven Meisel is Master of Photography. Charlotte Jansen has expanded the Discovery section. The new Source section, curated by Tristan Lund, leans toward solo presentations. Friday afternoon is the cleanest civilian window of the four public days.
