Gone are the days of just avocado toast. The new food trend in London is ‘smashing’ everything—think smashed cucumbers, smashed potatoes, and even smashed chocolate bars at dessert bars. I tried a “smashed rosti” at a pop-up in Borough Market, and it was like a hash brown had a midlife crisis and decided to be fancy. The owner told me to eat it with my hands, which I did, and I felt like a caveman who just discovered fire. For pud, hit up Miel Bakery for their new molten-lava cookie—it’s so gooey, it’ll make you forget about all the boring muffins you’ve ever eaten.
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Watch ‘silent’ plays in a bubble.
Bored of the usual West End musicals that require you to sell a kidney for a ticket? Try ‘silent theatre’ in a transparent bubble at the Nowhere venue in Shoreditch. You wear headphones, and the actors perform around you in a giant, soundproof dome. I went last month, and the play was about a man who loses his cat. By the end, I was sobbing silently into my headphones while a guy next to me laughed at a pigeon—again, the pigeons are always around. It’s weirdly intimate, like eavesdropping on someone’s therapy session.
If live theatre isn’t your jam, there’s a new immersive art installation at the Old Truman Brewery where you paint with your feet. You dip your sneakers in non-toxic paint and walk on a giant canvas. I did it, and my footprints look like a drunk spider had a seizure. I hung it in my flat, and visitors politely say, “Oh… abstract?”
