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Food & Drink
Looking for romantic restaurants with a view? London has a feast of picturesque vistas, from skyline panoramas to leafy tree houses
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Choosing where to dine on a date can be tricky, so here's a shortlist of London’s most romantic restaurants with good mood food, flattering lighting and an intimate buzz
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Snuggle up with our guide to the most romantic dates London has to offer for the new year
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Cinema
David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike attack thinly-written parts with gusto in new Amma Assante film A United Kingdom, yet another middling real-life story.
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Celebrations of Shakespeare 400 climax with a star-studded gala concert directed by Simon Callow featuring Dominic West and Anna Chancellor
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Verdi's Biblical breakthrough returns for the Royal Opera House's Summer season
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Our guide to the final season of the Royal Opera's 2015-16 lineup
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The bright young thing from Russia regales Wigmore Hall with a fiendishly complex programme
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Lisa Batiashvili, Antoine Tamestit and Jonathan Biss join the cellist for an evening of Schumann
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The leading pianist performs the final three piano sonatas by four of the genre's greatest exponents
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The two trailblazing musicians join forces to play Beethoven's complete Violin Sonatas
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The international violin competition returns to London, with live semi-finals and a series of concerts featuring past winners
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Opera
German director David Bösch makes his Covent Garden debut with Verdi's sensational mid-career masterpiece
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The LSO revive Elgar's golden-hued choral masterpiece to commemerate the First World War
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Christian Gerhaher joins Daniel Harding and the LSO for a performance of Schumann's colossal orotorio
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The world acclaimed Peruvian tenor - widely regarded as the master of bel canto - performs in London
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Opera
The English Touring Opera present one of Donizetti's little-known gems, based on an episode from Dante
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The supreme string quartet return to London for a pair of diverse, intriguing concerts
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The award-winning Czech quartet return to London for an unprecedented second Radio 3 Lunchtime residency
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Theatre
Get comfortable and enjoy some winter short-story telling in the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Globe playhouse
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The mixologists at trendy Soho Haunt Oskar's Bar at Dabbous are serving up classic cocktails alongside some of their own concoctions
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The dazzlingly talented young pianist showcases his full versatility at St John's Smith Square
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The Chinese star visits the Southbank Centre for an evening of Chopin's romantic masterpieces
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The young winner of the International Chopin Competition 2015 visits London for a night of the Polish virtuoso
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The operatic stars of tomorrow perform Puccini's great tragedy
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The astonishing Norwegian pianist visits the Barbican for 2016's LSO Artist Spotlight
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The firebrand conductor and his trailblazing ensemble return to the Barbican for a three-day residency
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Edward Gardner conducts a new production of Wagner's masterpiece, with set designs by Anish Kapoor
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The rising German-Japanese pianist performs Liszt, Chopin and Bartok in her BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital
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Two of the music world's foremost figures are joined by six musicians for a ranging, diverse recital
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The national treasure returns to Wigmore Hall with two of the great violin sonatas, by Beethoven and Brahms
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The feted tenor returns to Wigmore Hall for an evening of twenty-three Schubert lieder