About Side Quests

A small, independent guide to things you can actually go and do in London — and an easy way to get your friends along.

Why it exists

London has more to do than anywhere, and most weekends still end up at the same pub. Side Quests is a hand-picked list of over a thousand things worth leaving the house for — glass-blowing, candlelit baths, life-sized board games, late-night bookshops, Ethiopian feasts — with the basics you need to decide and a link to the people who run them.

Then it helps with the hard part, which is getting everyone there. Swipe through ideas to shortlist, send a date idea in a tap, or plan a group outing: one link in the group chat, and you can see who's in and who's paid without chasing.

How quests are chosen

Every quest is picked by hand, not scraped. It has to be something you can actually do now, in or near London, with a working link to whoever runs it. Events come off the site once they've happened, and closed or broken ones are withheld until they're fixed — the Report a broken link button on every quest is how we find out.

How Side Quests pays for itself

Side Quests is free to use, and we never sell tickets or take bookings — you book directly with the venue. We make money in two ways, and both are labelled where they appear:

• Affiliate links. Some "Book now" buttons go through booking sites that pay us a small commission if you book, at no extra cost to you.
• Featured venues. A venue that's already on Side Quests can pay to be shown higher up for a while. It's marked Featured, and paying buys a better position — never a place on the site.

Neither changes which quests we include or what we say about them.

Get in touch

Spotted something great we're missing, or run a venue? Email hello@mysidequests.uk, or see working with Side Quests.