Itchy City guide to London. Food, drink, film, music, stage, events, shopping, offers and competitions within London, Great Britain.

Chinese/Vietnamese restaurant with a bar for late drinking.

Good spot for some Thai food.

Ballet and dance at this famous London theatre.

Jolly good Indian for the whole family.

Sainsbury's near the defunct dome.

The bees knees of Indian restaurants, despite being a chain.

Antique furniture.

Italian/Californian restaurant with two floors.

Bar with a low-key, up-for-it atmosphere

Posh gastro pub.

Impressive upmarket gastro pub.

Unremarkable

Good dinging choice with huge portions to fill you

Popular, friendly Italian

Indulgent bar with tough weekend door policy.

Hip Ian Schrager hotel with flash decor and a fabulous bar.

Upbeat, New Nexico style restaurant/bar.

Buzzing veggie option teeming with young professionals.

The apotheosis of Sardinian cuisine.

Sardinian food is coming of age with this wicked little restaurant.

Balti house with renowned midlands chef

Indian nick knacks for the masses.

An alarming array of sausages, all of them delightful.

Fish, chips and celeb clientele

Hammersmith lap dance club.

Sedate, good value and smoothly stylish Turkish restaurant.

Music shop with an indie focus.

A massive array of funk, soul, roots, dub, reggae and ska.

Art gallery in Hyde Park.

Out comes the sun, and off come the clothes. Also cast off...

Pub quizzes (tue & sun), roasts and the friendliest landlord in town.

Cramped but charming Spanish basement bar.

Big, traditional pub just off Carnaby Street.

Massive emporium of all things footwear.

Good acoustics and plush(ish) surroundings.

Why choose this hotel over all the others around Heathrow? Well apart...

Fantastic tobacco shop.

Excellent bar/venue open 'til 2am Fri/Sat.

Classy kebabs and the best bar in Willesden above.

Mid-range Silk Road fusion kebab restaurant

Kentish Town tandoori restaurant.

Part of the cool, London sports bar chain

Gloriously hip clothes shop.

Fantastic Thai-Malay food

Quality Thai/Malay food - good value.

Delicious and cavernous Thai restaurant.

Check out the specialities.

The sort of place you keep secret from your friends.

Record shop with some unusual experimental tracks.

Faith in British boozing is restored at this friendly boozer

Mind-bogglingly large display of trainers.

a little slice of paradise under our grey skies, complete with heated pool.

Almost certainly closer to Beckham's league than yours.

Chain pub that can't shake off its Club 18-30 holiday feel.

Independent record store.

Meat and lots of it...

Wallet-friendly noodle action.

Hardcore sex shop hidden beneath a normal bookstore.

Hardcore sex shop masqerading as a normal bookstore - handy.

Hidden sex shop - we know it's there though don't we?

Normal bookstore housing a hardcore sex shop underneath.

The most culturally switched-on place to be in Soho.

Late opening chain bar that's actually pretty fine.

A veritable trainerama, soletrader fits the bill.

A veritbale trainer-rama.

At the King's Arms public house.

Small but inviting Italian with room for everyone

An off-the-beaten-track bar, restaurant. Very nice.

Experience North Africa in the heart of London.

Cheaper than a trip to Marrakesh, without the touchy-feely hassle from slipper-sellers. Result!

Rare funk, jazz and soul music.

Funk and soul music store.

Always low prices. Every little helps. Making life taste better. Reason no.1 for shopping here.

Damn good pub serving some fine food.

Elegant and wonderfully OTT women-only club.

Classy boozing.

Part of the sprawling American lap-dancing chain

Make your alcoholism more cost-effective vibe the medium of homebrew.

Riverside drinking.

Life your spirits with this-, sorry, sorry...

The premier bar in Tooting. I imagine that's not their slogan.

Pub that's the Queen Vic for the Range Rover set.

Good for watching footie and with an up-for-it crowd.

A proper old East End boozer, for want of a much better cliché.

A dodgy, muso pub/bar with DJs most nights.

Atmospheric restaurant next to the antiques shop.

Antipodean pub with big screens, and pool tables.

Local boozer with plenty of hiding space to escape locals.

Traditional restuarant where no part of the animal goes to waste.

Brace your wallet and dine with the movers and shakers.

Refurbed flash restaurant.

Classy photo opportunity.

Late-opening bar below a youth hostel.

Cool Camden market. Good for gifts and the like.

An utterly average curry house on a street of a thousand.

The best range of travel books/maps in town.

A godsend for the gentile gay gal.

Booking service for hundreds of concerts and events in London.

Decent enough boozer for low-key drinking

Hotel bar with tons of class.

Fairly shonky massage parlour

Breakfast sorted at this proper caff.

Transsexual, tranvestite and transgendered club night

Classy pizza chain which you don't have to be drunk to enjoy.

Excellent wood-fired pizza chain...a cut above

Restaurant chain doing pizza to perfection.

Do the Strand 7 days a week at this parlour.

OK Indian restaurant with the worst carpet we've ever seen.

West End theatre.

Three storey, purpose built performance venue.

Sauna with massage available

Table dancing with all the glitz, non of yer sleaze.

Tucked away down a very nice little mews, this compact but cosy...

Who'd have thought it? Great view.

Reap the rewards of a classy area at this charity shop.

A haven of potential debauchary, book the next day off.

Pub oozing the proper boozer vibe.

Pub with a clubby vibe, packed with a young crowd.

An all round good-egg of a pub. Sunshine remains context dependent, mind.

Mediterranean-style pub with a cool courtyard.

If you don't leave looking like a supermodel you might as well go live under a rock.

A proper caff

Dean Street strip club.

Undeniably hip boutique.

Music shop with roots, dub and Jamaican imports.

Retail centre.

Japanese that can hold its own with the best of them.

Old fashioned boozer good for watching sport.

In a direct contradiction to the Alexandra pub located opposite, SW4 is...

Brixton's very own rehab clinic.

Pub well known for cask beers and ales.

Swanky boozing 'til 1am.

Rocky, unusual shoes of the type favoured by angst-ridden girl band...

Very Fulham. Leisurewear for ladies who lunch.

Crazy seafood place. You'll see.

A diamond in the rough on the Holloway Road.

24 Hour sauna. Don't get too comfy or you'll completely wrinkle up.