The 'Like a Londoner' Edit

London's best restaurant list, condensed into five days in Regent's Park. Over thirty spots Roti King, Sexy Fish, Oblix, Aram by Imad, serving 130 dishes you'd normally need months of reservations to work through. Add Big Zuu on the BBQ stage, cocktails, and a June evening in one of the city's great parks. Come hungry and make sure you grab a tasting ticket to include 2 or 3 dishes of delicious food.

Ava Pickett's five-star debut is the kind of sharp, funny, quietly devastating theatre that Londoners have been talking about since it sold out at the Almeida. It's just about to arrive in the West End, get there before everyone else does.

Cole Escola's gloriously unhinged 80-minute comedy is one of the most talked-about shows to cross the Atlantic in years: anarchic, outrageous, and unlike anything else in the West End right now. Bring a friend. Don't bring anyone easily offended.

Rebecca Lucy Taylor AKA Self Esteem takes the stage in a 50th-anniversary revival of David Hare's raw, electric rock play about the collapse of the 1960s dream. It's the kind of casting that makes London theatre feel like the most exciting city in the world. Loud, messy, and completely alive.

The Old Vic doesn't do things by halves. Clint Dyer's bold new production of Ken Kesey's iconic story brings a predominantly Black cast to a story about power, rebellion, and the cost of dissent, and it feels more urgent than ever. Aaron Pierre and Giles Terera lead. Michelle Gomez plays Nurse Ratched. Get in.

The Royal Court couldn't hold it. Now Kimberly Belflower's razor-sharp, ★★★★★ hit transfers to the West End — five young women, one small town, and a score that hits like a gut punch. Directed by Danya Taymor, the talk of Broadway's The Outsiders. The hype, for once, is real.

Joyous, funny, and genuinely moving, Rob Madge's autobiographical hit is back for the final time. This one-person show about a kid who staged Disney parades at home is the kind of theatre you'll be gutted you missed. Don't be that person.

Most people walk straight past The Actors' Church without a second glance. Londoners know better. Step inside and you'll find thousands of candles, four of the best string players in the country, and an hour of your favourite musical theatre. It's the music, stripped back, in one of the city's oldest and most beautiful spaces. Not a hidden gem. Just well-kept.