Holborn

Good for hotel bars, small museums and a weekday lunch scrum.

Holborn empties at the weekend and that is the whole trick: come Saturday and you get the place to yourself. Scarfes Bar is all fireplaces and low light, Sir John Soane's Museum is free and genuinely strange, and 180 Studios puts on the kind of show that sells out in a week. Weekday lunch is a scrum. Sunday is a gift.

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