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Julianna Barnaby

Julianna Barnaby is the Founder of London x London. A born and bred Londoner and award-winning blogger she loves to delve into the cool, interesting and quirky spots that make London such a dynamic city.

Soho is home to plenty of brilliant restaurants and bars, but Heritage Restaurant & Cocktail Bar offers a unique alpine experience that really stands out from the others. Not just because the food is delicious (though it is), but because the classy ski-resort theme is executed to perfection. Step inside and you’re transported to a …

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Bandra Bhai is the newest bar in Fitzrovia and about to become one of your favourite cocktail bars in London. Here’s why.  Like all the best secret bars in London, drinks at Bandra Bhai start with an adventure. Upstairs looks innocent enough – I cut through the respectable Pali Hill restaurant, its tables buzzing and …

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Love street art? Make a beeline for Penge, home to one of London’s most exciting street art scenes.  London’s no stranger to incredible street art: a quick stroll around areas such as Shoreditch and Camden will prove it – as will ducking underneath Waterloo Station to Leake Street Tunnel. That’s before I even mention the …

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The London Mithraeum is one of London’s hidden treasures. A Roman temple tucked underneath the Bloomberg buildings, let’s discover one of the city’s most important archaeological sites. Do you ever come across one of those unusual places in London that you never knew existed? The London Mithraeum was that place for me. Never in a …

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Skylight – the day-to-night adult playground has been one of London’s go-to spots since it opened in 2017. Now they’re opening a new location – Skylight Peckham on the 19th August and it looks hella good.  Run by the same team as the Tobacco Dock original – this promises to be one of the season’s …

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Are you ready to discover the Brixton Windmill?  I’ll let you in on a little secret – not even many locals living outside of its immediate vicinity know about this unusual landmark that serves as a reminder of the area’s former agricultural past.  Venture away from Brixton station, past a small row of shops at …

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Opening amidst the maelstrom that was 2020, Fallow Restaurant is Mayfair’s new-ish sustainable dining eatery. Here’s why you need to go.  There have been a glut of London restaurants upping their sustainability game recently, yet of them, Fallow Restaurant stands out.  Maybe it’s the fact that two of the three head honchos Will Murray and …

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Imagine you’re all comfy on your sofa, when you realise we’ve run out of milk… and bread… and cheese. We’ve all been there, right? When popping out to the shops just feels like the ultimate chore, cue Weezy to swoop in and save the day. If you haven’t heard of Weezy by now, where have …

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It’s a truth universally acknowledged that you can’t spend any time in London without catching a phrase or two of roadman slang.  What’s a roadman you ask? I’ll hand it over to Urban Dictionary on this one…  Roadman: Roadman comes from the 21st century slang word, describing a boy (normally at a teenage age) as …

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