We noticed a few things this week.
A few theaters, some roasteries, that cute florist you didn’t know existed, and more cozy spots from the cities we live in.
- The Odd Edit
A Coffee Shop Inside a Victorian Public Toilet
An 1890s Victorian loo, reborn as one of Fitzrovia's best specialty cafés. How Pete Tomlinson and Ben Russel turned 'weird' into 'cozy.'
- The Odd Edit
A Bar with No Menu, Since 2013
Attaboy on Eldridge Street prints no drinks list. Describe your night, and the bartenders build it into a glass. How the no-menu ritual actually works.
- Pull Up a Chair
Brooklyn Bridge Park, Before the Lights Come On
The single best hour in a New York day is the one when Lower Manhattan's lights click on. Three specific benches in Brooklyn Bridge Park for watching it happen.
- Pull Up a Chair
Saturday at OOO Koffee, with Nothing to Do
A Tokyo-born coffee bar on Newman Street with eleven seats, an iced cappuccino, and the cleanest stage in Fitzrovia for doing nothing in public.
- The Long Way Home
Borough Market → Monmouth → Thames at Dusk
Get off at London Bridge instead of your usual station. Fifty unhurried minutes between Borough Market and Tower Bridge buys you the blue-hour switchover — a free piece of London most Londoners walk past.
- The Long Way Home
Saturday Morning Quiz: Stay in Bed or Hackney Market?
Allpress in Dalston at 9am, Broadway Market by 11, London Fields at 6pm. The Saturday arc that accumulates into a day the 11am-risers never get to have.
- Nice but Free
The New Museum Reopens — And Thursdays Are Free
A doubled SANAA + OMA campus on the Bowery, pay-what-you-wish Thursdays 7–9pm, and a 40-minute LES dinner map for the walk out.
- Nice but Free
BFI Southbank: The Best Thing in London That Costs Nothing to Walk Into
A 180,000-title film archive you can walk into without a ticket, a Thames-side walk west, and a cheap dinner at Blackfriars. Three hours of London for under £15.
