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The team behind Sune – a Broadway Market bistro we once branded ‘practically perfect’ – is opening a pub and restaurant in Smithfield Market. The historic meat market, which is currently in the middle of a huge redevelopment programme, will see The Poet opening this November.   The Poet will be in the Victorian-era curved corner space once partially occupied by Bubb’s Le Restaurant Français, which closed in the early 2000s. The team, made up of Charlie Sims, Honey Spencer and Spencer Large, will launch The Poet with exec chef Charlie Tayler, who was most recently cooking at the Michelin-starred Aulis in Soho, reports the Standard.  There will be separate pub and restaurant areas, with food available in both. Expect elevated pub grub like prawn Scotch eggs coated with scampi fries, smoked eel caesar salad and a fallow deer and juniper suet pudding.  The large space will see more rooms opening up next year, with an onsite cocktail bar called Shambles and a chef’s table dining area on a mezzanine.  The Poet will open around the same time as the new London Museum, which launches in Smithfield Market on November 28, after closing down its Museum of London site at the nearby Barbican. The £437m revamp project, a partnership between the City of London Corporation and London Mayor Sadiq Khan, marks the culmination of a decade-long transformation of Smithfield’s historic General Market, which is returning to public use for the first time in over 30 years.  The Poet opens this...

2026 has been a spectacular year for exhibitions in London. We’ve had major shows of Tracey Emin, Frida Kahlo, Georges Seurat and Schiaparelli, and the Bayeux Tapestry is now at the British Museum after more than 900 years in France. The art agenda for 2027 is looking just as stacked, with exhibitions of huge names like Paula Rego and Georgia O’Keeffe at the Courtauld, Claude Monet and David Hockney at Tate, and Frank Auerbach and Mary Cassatt at the National Portrait Gallery. Now, even more have been added to the slate. The Barbican’s art programme encompasses the Barbican Art Gallery, The Curve gallery, the Sculpture Court and the Barbican Lakeside Gallery. The current programme runs until February 2027 and concludes with Robert Ryman: The Real Thing. This week, the brutalist icon’s exciting exhibitions for 2027/28 have been revealed. Photograph: National Centre of Performing Arts, MumbaiDayanita Singh, Ustad Museum, Installation view, National Centre of Performing Arts, Mumbai, 2026. © Dayanita Singh First, the Curve will host a solo exhibition of Dayanita Singh’s work (March 10-May 23). The show will feature several of the New Delhi-born artist’s ‘portable museums’ alongside new pieces that reflect the impact of Indian classical music on her practice. Photograph: Courtesy of Adventure PicturesTilda Swinton in Orlando, Sally Potter, 1992 © Adventure Pictures The Barbican Art Gallery’s 2027 programme kicks off with Characters of Fashion (April 15-August 29), which...

Oasis have finally confirmed details of another reunion tour – but, in sad news for Londoners, there are no shows at Wembley this time around (in summer 2025 the Gallaghers played seven shows in northwest London). But all hope is not lost! Or at least, Londoners won’t have to trek all the way up to Glasgow or Manchester to see Oasis next summer. That’s because the ‘Wonderwall’ legends are making a grand return to Knebworth, which is a very short distance from London. Knebworth has a special place in Oasis lore. In August 1996 the band headlined two days of music in the grounds of the Hertfordshire country estate. A whopping 125,000 people attended each night, with support from Charlatans, the Prodigy, Manic Street Preachers, the Chemical Brothers, Ocean Colour Scene and more. In other words, while London isn’t getting Oasis tour dates next summer, Knebworth is a more than valid alternative. The band are in Hertfordshire for four dates, double the number of their iconic 1996 run, and Richard Ashcroft has been confirmed on support. Oasis’ 2027 Knebworth gigs won’t just be special because of the location. The gigs will also mark the first time that Knebworth has had a ‘camping village’, while Great British Railways will provide late-night trains to London King’s Cross until 1.30am each night. Another first will see the introduction of grandstand hospitality seating and the venue’s biggest accessible viewing platform ever.  Keen to get tickets to see Oasis at Knebworth in...