‘You are what you eat’, runs the proverb. This exhibition used ‘eating out’ as an axiom to look at cultural, social and economic changes affecting Londoners over 500 years of the city’s history. Five ‘pavilions’, representing the five centuries, were strung along a time-line of information, objects and themes. Each pavilion was clad in a different material alluding to historical building techniques: C16^th in rough timber, C17^th in coarse linen, C18^th in cream render, C19^th in industrial metal and  C20^th in polycarbonate sheeting. Although the structure and layout of the exhibition was chronological, the visitor was encouraged to discover the connections between the different periods, and question the belief that social histories are purely linear.