Historical version 24 of Websites About London (view current version)
Blogs (in alphabetical order)
- Going Underground
- Londonist
- Notting Hill Nonsense
- See also the London Weblog Directory (previously known as the London Bloggers Tube Map).
Food and Drink
- Londonist articles on food and drink
- Scores on the Doors — hygiene inspection results for restaurants in certain boroughs (Hackney and Southwark at the time of writing)
- Time Out Cheap Eats — The Thrifty Fifty (focusing on high quality at lowish prices, rather than on rock-bottom cheapness)
- Roger Burton West's reviews — pubs and restaurants
- The London Review of Breakfasts — Overly analytical and pretentious but normally fun and useful reviews of breakfasting locations in and around London, with occasional guest entries from further afield.
- Dos Hermanos — well-written and well-informed reviews of London restaurants
- Food and Drink in London — more reviews of London restaurants
- Culinary Hags in London — yet more reviews of London restaurants and cafes, with a focus on Asian food
- Chowhound UK/Ireland board — contains lots of London stuff
- eGullet UK/Ireland board — a slightly lower proportion of London stuff than Chowhound, but it's there
- London Korean Links food section
- Tamarind and Thyme — food in London
- Sausage and Bread — reviews of sausage sandwiches (with a fairly broad definition of such) from various London establishments
- Eating and Drinking in Bethnal Green and Hackney, Greater London: Pubs, Cafes, Coffee Shops and Restaurants —
It may well be worth looking for other areas in the Knowhere Guide
Travel information:
- Journey Planner — plan your journey on London's public transport system
- Walk It — journey planner for pedestrians!
- Cyclemaps — journey planner for cyclists
- Last Rounds — pub and bar review site which lists opening times, nearby public toilets, and last departure times for relevant public transport
General
- DisabledGo — Very, very detailed accessibility information.
- Weird and Wonderful London — Yahoo group concerned with performance opportunities (poetry, live/performance art, music etc), money work for performers, cabarets, interesting events, squat parties etc etc
- Robert Elms - Your Manor _ Hackney: the best boozers, shops, restaurants and best things to do and see in your neck of the woods. — Suggestions by listeners to Robert Elms's BBC London 94.9 radio programme. It may well be worth looking for other areas.
Art projects
- London Street Signs Project Artistic interpretation of London Street signs by crazy people. I blame beth -- bob
- Streats of London — documenting all the street signs in London that have an item of food or drink in their names (see also the related Flickr photoset).
- Project Adorno — 26 Tube stations from A to Z in a weekend.
- The Greenwich Emotion Map