Nearby highlights If you're not in Shepherd's Bush for the vast Westfield shopping mall (uk.westfield.com/london), why not party in a public convenience? Ginglik (1 Shepherd's Bush Green, ginglik.co.uk) is an "independent beat bunker" in the Edwardian public toilets built to service the 1908 Olympic Games at nearby White City. If you don't feel like busting a move, they also host beginners' martial arts classes on Mondays. Beyond the Green is Shepherd's Bush Market (shepherdsbushmarket.co.uk), a buzzing railside strip of diverse world food, travel luggage and fabric: the perfect antidote to Westfield. Grab some lunch there or drop into A Cooke's (48 Goldhawk Road, cookespieandmash.com) for jellied eels and pie and mash, but hurry because both are under threat from developers.
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Did you know? Shepherd's Bush formed one end of the original Central London Railway, which would go on to become the modern Central line. American satirist Mark Twain was one of the passengers on the day of the line's inaugural journey, between Bank and Shepherd's Bush on 27 June, 1900.
