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Inside Get your culture on Noodly jazz, clever plays, This issue of Time Out complicated dance and other in no time at all highbrow stuff: how to dig it, man PAGE 23 ‘Departures’ The best thing in Lewisham Shopping Centre after Pick ’n’ Mix Island, the Museum of Migration, has a great new show PAGE 32 Gets the worm Early-bird menus: not just for coach parties going to ‘Wicked’. We’ve found some really rather good ones PAGE 34 Most haunted ‘His House’ UK trips to places riddled with ghouls, Is this some kind of Golden Age for Brit daemons, succubuses, rakshasas and horror? This council-estate refugee the transparent spectre of Yvette Fielding chiller suggests that maybe it is PAGE 38 PAGE 44 FEATURES AND REGULARS ILLUSTRATION: KIERAN GLENNON; MIGRATION MUSEUM: Y WLADFA, FROM DEPARTURES EXHIBITION - WELSH NATIONAL COSTUME 1911 © NATIONAL ARCHIVES/MATTHEW PLOWRIGHT; FOOD TOP CUVÉE, PHOTO GRAHAM TURNER GRAHAM PHOTO CUVÉE, TOP FOOD PLOWRIGHT; ARCHIVES/MATTHEW NATIONAL © 1911 COSTUME NATIONAL WELSH - EXHIBITION DEPARTURES FROM WLADFA, Y MUSEUM: MIGRATION GLENNON; KIERAN ILLUSTRATION: 7 City life 12 Global briefing 14 Chefs of lockdown 20 How to dine alone like a champ 23 Get highbrow! IMAGES 26 Exclusive offers 27 Things to Do 34 Food & Drink 36 Love Local 38 Escapes 42 Film 3 October 27 – November 2 2020 Time Out London Hello, Advertising 7813 6000, [email protected] Circulation London [email protected] Global Editor-in-Chief Caroline McGinn London Editor Joe Mackertich Deputy Editor/Chief Joe Mackertich Sub Editor Chris Waywell Deputy Chief Sub Editor London Editor Sarah Cohen @j_mackertich Features Kate Lloyd (Editor) News & City Life Isabelle Aron (Editor) Events Katie McCabe (Editor), Alexandra Sims (Deputy Editor) Everyone’s a bit down in the dumps right now. Maybe ‘down in Film Phil de Semlyen (Global Editor) the dumps’ is an understatement. Maybe ‘emotionally paralysed by Culture Eddy Frankel and Andrzej Łukowski a nameless, creeping dread’ is more accurate. The future is an Editorial Assistant ill-defined, capricious shadowbeast at the moment, and nothing Django Zimmatore Global Commercial Editor messes with our collective sanity like uncertainty. Stephen Farmer Global Branded Content Editor Rose Johnstone So, for no other reason than to cheer you up, here’s a list of London Commercial Designer Julia Robinson things that still make me smile: when tube drivers mumble inaudibly Commercial Copywriter George Blew over the tannoy and everyone in the carriage looks at each other and Head of Digital Content rolls their eyes; the continued existence of Garfunkel’s; massive dogs Jordan Waller London Digital Director/ on public transport; anyone who refers to Gordon’s Wine Bar as ‘this Drink Editor Laura Richards Engagement Editor little place I know’; putting poppadoms under curries and crunching Sam Willis International Editor it all up at Mirch Masala; trying to work out if that couple on the next James Manning International Travel Editor table are on their first or second Tinder date; the fact that somehow Ellie Walker-Arnott International Commissioning there’s still a vintage pornography shop on the Holloway Road Editor Huw Oliver Art Director Bryan Mayes Picture Desk Manager Ultimately, London itself still makes me smile. Not constantly. I don’t Ben Rowe Photographer Andy Parsons walk around grinning at car crashes, for example. But at a time like this Head of Production Dave Faulkner I think it’s vital to find a way – any way – to love the city you live in. Production, Admin and Sales I hope Time Out helps. Support Katie Mulhern-Bhudia Commercial MD EMEA Lawrence Horne Advertising Sales Ian Tournes (Director), Natalie Reynolds, Juliet Grant, Banbha O’Hagan, Nesha Fleischer, James Hooper, Robyn Eldridge, Emma Myland Creative Solutions THE EDITOR’S ESSENTIALS Three things you have to do in London Wayne Mensah (Director), Charlie Liddington, Nicola Foxwell Project Management Junior Olokodana (Project Management Lead), Nicki Wymer, Zara Taylor MD Global E-commerce Minesh Shah Time Out Group CEO Julio Bruno Cover Food styling Lucy-Ruth Hathaway. DRINK this EAT here VISIT this Photography Andy Parsons Deya is another craft brewery Big Jo, the chic new eatery from I went along to Peckham Salvage I wholeheartedly endorse. Treat the geniuses behind Jolene and Yard and spent too much money on yourself to one of its big fancy cans. Westerns Laundry, is excellent. a Sonny Rollins album. A great time. Time Out Digital Ltd 77 Wicklow Street, London, WC1X 9JY. PEET NICCI DEYA: @timeoutlondon facebook.com/timeoutlondon @timeoutlondon timeout.com/news www.timeout.com 020 7813 3000 NOT FOR RESALE IMAGES Time Out London October 27 – November 2 2020 4 Advertisement feature Welcome to Page 5G! Tasty technology How 5G is transforming food Each week, Samsung’s f you thought Willy Wonka’s three- 3D-printed birthday cakes ‘Whatever Next?’ podcast Icourse meal in a stick of chewing Here’s one that we think Mr Wonka gum was amazing, then we’ve got would approve of. Thanks to 5G, delves into all the just the podcast for you. ‘Whatever we’ll see a surge in companies unexpected ways that Next?’, hosted by Dr Hannah Fry like Culinary Printworks, who can 5G is already shaping and comedian Suzi Ruffell, gets to designyour ideal dessert, store it the heart of game-changing tech in the cloud, then print it as food. A TASTE OF our world. Turns out that innovations facilitated by 5G. All over There are helpful implications of the future could be very the world (including London), 5G is this: German company Biozoon WHAT’S TO appetising indeed… being used to make food production is helping elderly people who are more sustainable, humane and otherwise unable to eat solids by COME efficient. Oh, and more delicious… 3D-printing smooth, nutritious food into the shape of vegetables and Farms that can think pasta and chicken. One of the biggest challenges Thanks to 5G, your facing our world is the need to Drones delivering interconnected smart home produce more food on less land. takeaways of the near future will be able The answer is – you guessed it – 5G! Say goodbye to lukewarm kormas: to start heating your oven Super-fast data transmission will 5G is going to make tracking and before you get home, or even enable sensors to be placed around controlling fleets of drones an prompt your coffee machine farms and analyse everything from absolute breeze. Delivery drones to make a latte as soon as you quality of soil to river levels. In fact, are already a thing: Manna, an Irish jump out of bed. Also, earlier soil monitoring with 5G is already company, are hoping to roll out this year, Samsung developed being used in France and California robots which could deliver within the Bot Chef, which can slice, to improve the yield and quality of a 2km radius in less than three dice and stir at your every wine. Cheers! 5G has also started minutes. Now that’s fast food. command. You’ll be able to to be used to improve cow welfare make restaurant-quality meals in Somerset, with smart collars Listen to Episode 4: ‘5G connected in no time. Bon appetit! that can monitor their health and let cows’ on Spotify, Google Podcasts them choose when to be milked. and Apple Podcasts. Tune into the ‘Whatever Next?’ podcast today! City life Edited by Isabelle Aron @timeoutlondon Reflecting on the plight of pools The impact of pubs and restaurants closing this year has been well documented, but what about leisure centres? We ask a pool-obsessed photographer what makes them special WHEN MARSHALL STREET Baths (above) For many people, their local leisure centres are ‘There are definitely people that appreciate the opened in the middle of Soho in the s, its places of sanctuaries in the city – somewhere to buildings, but a lot of people don’t go there to aim was to provide facilities for Londoners who escape for a bit, to switch off. Someone who values look at the architecture. They’re so well used by needed somewhere to wash (both themselves the sanctity of swimming pools, possibly more the communities. That’s another lovely thing and their clothes).