We’re heading into the coziest time of year in London, and I couldn’t be more excited. Here’s what’s on.
Eat this week
Trindle Stores. Ex-Teal chef Abbie Hendren cooks in a tipi behind a Kew grocery shop. 18 Station Parade, Thursday to Sunday, Sunday lunch 12 to 4pm.
Bubala Covent Garden. The potato latkes come with toum, and the Bubala Knows Best set menu is £39. 14 Garrick Street, from Monday the 19th, noon to 11.15pm.
Roast Shoreditch. Roast's first new site in over 20 years has a separate halal Sunday roast menu. 45 Curtain Road, opens this week, two courses £35.
Drink this week
Spiritland at the Barbican. A listening bar over the lake that plays a whole album on the soundsystem every day. Opens Tuesday the 20th, Tuesday to Friday 4 to 11pm.
Conviviale. The owner is from Montreal and there's poutine on the menu. 93 Grosvenor Avenue, Wednesday to Saturday evenings, groups of four at most.
Cloth Cornhill. The old Simpson's Tavern has reopened with a walk-in pub downstairs. 38½ Cornhill, Monday to Friday 11am to 11pm, closed at weekends.
See and do
Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography. Early art photography from Shanghai to Cape Town, including Fan Ho's smoky Hong Kong staircase. Tate Modern, daily from 10am, tickets £20.
William Eggleston: All that goes unnoticed. Eggleston's dye-transfer colour prints hang next to the black and white Brownie pictures he took first. The Photographers' Gallery, Ramillies Street, £12 online.
Tim Walker's Fairyland: Love and Legends. Five years of new portraits of queer activists and performers, and the last room isn't for under-18s. National Portrait Gallery, from £23.
Free this week
Horn Fair. Ghanaian textile artist Lorelle Aboagye is bringing her loom, and there's a fancy dress competition. Charlton House, Charlton Road, today from 11am to 4pm.
Goblin Market. Drop off three to ten copies of your zine in the morning and volunteers sell them for you. Stanley Arts, South Norwood, today noon to 5pm.
Apple Day. Bring apples and clean bottles and they'll press them on a hydropress. Hackney Community Tree Nursery, Homerton Road, today from 2 to 5pm, with cake.
Favourite food of the week
Meatballs from Oranj, wow is this a gem near Brick Lane
15 Dray Walk, E1 6QR
This day in London
18 October 1922. The British Broadcasting Company was formed at a meeting of wireless manufacturers in London. Daily broadcasts from its 2LO studio on the Strand started a few weeks later, on 14 November.
Trivia
Tate Modern was Bankside Power Station until it closed in 1981. Its architect, Giles Gilbert Scott, also designed the red telephone box.
Sport
The last NFL game in London this year is Jaguars v Texans at Wembley today, kick-off 2.30pm, on Sky Sports NFL. Spurs host Coventry City on Monday the 19th at 8pm. On Saturday the 24th Chelsea play Spurs at Stamford Bridge, kick-off 5.30pm.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Horn Fair, Goblin Market and Apple Day are today only. The rest will keep until the weekend.
Maddy and Eric