Culture:
Bookshop browsing- I can't get enough
For architecture- the Triangle at the AA, Magma, And the one one in the whitechapel art gallery or tate modern. Also love browsing in the second and first hand ones in Bloomsbury, and all along Charring X road. Foyles has got a lot better recently.
Sir John Soan Museum and the Geffrye Museum.

I think we lack modern museums for visual culture....

BARS:
Endless pubs.
Covent Garden- La Perla/ The Porterhouse
Soho - Lots of Pubs - Thirst/The French House
Hoxton/Shoreditch - Jaguar/Lux/The Legion/Catch 22/T-Bar/Redchurch
more to follow....

i go to my locals....just went to 5 tonight[tour d'locals, halves at all]....one straight across from highpoint[think it was called the wrestlers, highpoint is the lebetkin icon, aka pegiun pond gurru]....very nice. one down the road from that packed with locals doing a sing along at 10:00 sunday night[think it was read lion and something]. anyone can go club'n -- very media, fake, dont like techno any how -- can be anywhere in the world.....i much prefer this side of london.

my face has been in a number of snaps already on the 'nect since v.2 up and running[i think 5 if i recall]. so i am certian i have a very familar mug. [a bit like scratch and sniff or highlights; 'whats wrong with this picture']

i'm with ya all the way with the books. BUT - sooooo much cheaper on line sad to say. i graze at the shops and let my fingers do the walking at home ----

WOW. you admit to ordering halves......i can safely say your local landlord makes fun of you when you leave.

well actually i didnt want to say - but i had full pints at the first 4 and decided i could only do a half at the last.....

you must be gay or a lady to be drinking halves at any time!

Hope & Anchor - Upper street, highbury & islington...

or from spain or france - it's all half pints there. something about lack of commitment I suspect

it's not half pints there - it's all metric so it don't count. Now, steins of beer in Bavaria, that's drinking.

The new Bavarian Beer Keller on City Road (on the left going from Old St. roundabout towards Angel). Has honeys in Heidi outfits, and those huge steins (they call them 'mas'). Authentic bench seating, german food, guaranteed to get ugly early.

Annex3 (Little Portland Street), new from the people who do Lounge Lover (Whitby Street).

For local drinking it's still 25 Canonbury Lane, or the Elk in the Woods, or in the centre any pub that sells Ayingerbrau (less than £2/pint)

Cultural, and not alcohol fuelled:

The Museum of London (getting a lot of new funding lately)
The Crafts Council Gallery (on Pentonville Road, closing this summer)
Any of the commercial galleries on Cork Street

With Spring just around the corner, the river terrace at the back of Somerset House is calm in the west end.

The herb garden at the Geffrye Museum, probably doesn't open again until March/April.

Members room at the Tate Modern. Worth having.

Can anybody think of something both cultural and alcohol related????

or slavish devotion to the SI (thanks BOTS - don't ask me to convert stone)

relaxed space:
floor 24 millbank tower after a certain crap bureau vacated*
pool bar on shoreditch sunday, drinking from noon**
table football at kick, with the bartenders monday night**
guanabara on drury lane only when you're ready for it***

*ali **puc ***mar


doberman - sneak booze into the whispering chamber, st paul's