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Alastair Reid Schanche

Alastair is a features writer at London X London. He joined the team in late 2022 hot off the back of a five-year stint in Shanghai where he wrote for Time Out and ran a very niche blog about Chinese food.

He’s unable to shake his addiction for Sichuan noodles, but will be found devouring London’s other glorious cuisines when he’s not warming seats at the Prince Charles.

There’s a full-on immersive David Attenborough documentary experience coming to London. Here’s what you need to know.  The word “immersive” gets thrown around a lot these days. Companies will pretty much chuck it in front of anything to get people’s attention (and it usually works).  But when we heard about this upcoming exhibition, our hearts …

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St Kathrine’s Dock is bringing back its festive floating film festival. Here’s everything you need to know.  The floating film festival at St. Kathrine’s Dock is coming back next week – just in time to generate a bit of Christmas cheer.  If you missed it last time round, this is an outdoor (yes, at this …

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It’s always good to have a few exciting suggestions up your sleeve when the planning falls in your lap. Here’s our guide to some great days out you can have with your friends in London.  A wise person once said “It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that …

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London’s most iconic restaurant gets a new branch. Here’s what you need to know. In big news for London’s already bustling restaurant scene, one of its biggest dining institutions, St. JOHN, has opened a new set of doors in Marylebone.  The new opening marks the third actual restaurant (St. JOHN has a few bakeries and …

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Heard the news? The Museum of London is closing and relocating, but not without a party.  On December 4th, the Museum of London will close the doors on its current location in favour of relocating to a more central London location. To complete the move, the museum will be out of action until 2026.  When …

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Screw the sleigh, Santa’s most magical form of transport is the Epping Forest Christmas train.  For some, Christmas is hailed by the advent of carol singing and the inclusion of mulled wine in their diet. For others, us included, it’s the return of the Epping Forest Christmas train that sets the festive period in full …

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In literally massive news, London’s much-loved Natural History Museum is getting a model of the world’s largest dinosaur.  Move over Dippy, a model skeleton of the largest creature known to walk the earth, a Patagotitan, is coming to the Natural History Museum from the 31st of March 2023. Here’s what you need to know. Breaking …

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Boo! One of London’s longest running shows is to close it’s curtains for the final time in March.  Much-loved show, The Woman in Black, is to close after 33 years of running. That’s with a whopping record of more than 13,000 shows, and a journey that began on a stage in Scarborough in 1987.  Here’s …

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