I hope you're enjoying the seasons changing as much as we are. We launched a referral program, check out the details at the bottom (theres a discount for some local fun). Off we go:
Eat this week
Clementine. Anna Higham from Quince has opened a 20-seat café across the road. Tattie scones, Staffordshire oatcakes with bacon and a Westcombe cheddar toastie. 190 New North Road, Wednesday to Sunday, 8am to 4pm. Expect a weekend queue.
Firangi at Top Cuvée. The residency does corn kees, grated sweetcorn with curry leaves, and there's no rice on the menu at all. 177b Blackstock Road. Sunday lunch is 1 to 4pm, until 20 December.
Bunso. Omar Shah from Belly runs a Filipino bakery here by day, then switches to pizza at night with kinilaw and crudo on the side. 1a Hawley Road, from Tuesday the 13th. Pizza Tuesday to Sunday, 5 to 10pm.
Drink this week
Spring St. Pizza bar. Tom Kemble's martini bar, one arch along from the pizzeria, has garnishes from blue cheese olives to Oscietra caviar. No pizza, but there are mortadella sliders. Southwark Street, from Tuesday the 13th, 4pm to midnight.
Beaufort Wine Bar. More than 120 wines by the glass at The Savoy, from £9 up to £1,000 a glass, and records cut for the bar. Strand, from Tuesday the 13th, Tuesday to Saturday from 5pm. No sports shirts.
Tilly's. A coffee shop in an old pottery studio that becomes a wine bar at 5pm. The list is mostly Portuguese, bottles start at £32 and Negronis are £9 on Wednesdays. 2B MacFarlane Road, Tuesday to Saturday until 10pm.
See and do
Suzanne Ciani. The Buchla synth pioneer plays a rare London set, with Ruthlss and Robot Koch also on. Rent a cushion for £2 at the back. EartH, 11-17 Stoke Newington Road, Monday the 12th from 7pm. 16+.
The 90s: Art and Fashion. Edward Enninful's show hangs Juergen Teller and Corinne Day photographs next to Westwood and McQueen looks. Tate Britain, Millbank, daily 10am to 6pm. Tickets £22, or £5 for 16 to 25s with Tate Collective.
Robert Ryman: The Real Thing. About 60 paintings, nearly all white on white, in the first big Ryman show here for over 30 years. Barbican Art Gallery, Silk Street. Tickets £20.50, or pay what you can Thursday the 15th, 5 to 8pm.
Free this week
LFF for Free. The London Film Festival's free DJ nights take over the BFI Bar at BFI Southbank on Friday the 16th and Saturday the 17th. You need to book, and it's worth getting there early.
Singing Brazil. The choir Nossa Voz sings songs from every region of Brazil in Holy Cross Church, part of Bloomsbury Festival. Half the money raised goes to Hutukara Yanomami. 98 Cromer Street, this afternoon, 3 to 4pm. Free.
Justin Caguiat: Change Ringing. The paintings are done in heat-sensitive pigment and change as the room warms up, and bronze bells shaped like seeds and flowers ring in sequence. Serpentine South, Kensington Gardens, Tuesday to Sunday 10am to 6pm. Free.
Favourite food of the week
Mateer Paneer from Tamil Prince. I think it's my favorite curry in London.
115 Hemingford Road, N1 1BZ
This day in London
11 October 1597. The Rose playhouse on Bankside reopened after the summer ban on plays, and Philip Henslowe noted in his diary that Hieronimo took £2 on the night.
Trivia
Britain's smallest police station is a hollowed-out lamp post in the south-east corner of Trafalgar Square. It held one officer and a direct phone line to Scotland Yard.
Sport
The NFL is back at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium today: Eagles v Jaguars at 2.30pm, free on Channel 5 and on Sky Sports NFL. Crystal Palace host Nottingham Forest at Selhurst Park at 2pm, on Sky. Brentford v Liverpool is on Saturday the 17th at 3pm.
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
Singing Brazil starts at three, so there's time for Sunday lunch at Firangi first.
Maddy and Eric