Sushi is big business in Brazil and to prove it, launching in March on Lexington Street, is Yoobi, London’s first Brazilian inspired temakeria serving freshly made temaki rolls using high quality natural ingredients from its own rice blend to sustainably-sourced fish and fresh wasabi to locally sourced vegetables. Leading up to the opening, Yoobi is inviting the good people of Soho to play a little game with the chance to win free temaki. The Yoobi site is currently concealed behind a brightly coloured hoarding that hosts a school of black fish, each bearing its own QR code. Just scan them with your smartphone to see if you’ve landed a whopper. The QR technology means that the messages behind the codes can change so the same fish might be unlucky one day but a winner the next! Vouchers can be redeemed at Yoobi within the first two weeks of opening. Happy fishing!

38 Lexington Street, Soho, London. W1F 0LL

www.loveyoobi.com

The pioneering The People’s Supermarket, the shop run by the people and for the people, is becoming the hub of events for Fairtrade Fortnight including the opening of its own pop-up Fairtrade restaurant. For one night only, the shelves will be pushed aside and a three-course Fairtrade feast served in style – created of course using ingredients that have been produced under decent conditions and traded for a fair price. The events, each themed to raise awareness of producers in the developing world,  include Fairtrade chocolate-making workshops, wine-tasting with guest sommelier Christophe Charbonnet and cinema screenings, showing some of the world’s best documentaries on Fairtrade including the award-winning Black Gold. The pop-up restaurant takes place on 9 March and the fortnight’s finale is a Lamb’s Conduit Street farmers’ market featuring producers from Palestine, Ghana, Malawi and beyond. Go to www.thepeoplessupermarket.org for tickets.

Fairtrade Fortnight through Sunday 11 March

Since last Friday designers, models, bloggers, fashionistas and rock stars have swept the streets in one svelt sweep. One could certainly be forgiven for forgetting that a world outside Burberry, Victoria Beckham’s eye bags and 'the' Mary Katrantzou Topshop dress exists. 

Nevertheless, with February's fashion frenzy and the big freeze finally over, sunnier skies and Spring offer a great chance to get reenergised with new ideas. So if you want some fresh inspiration, then put The 'WIE' Symposium (‘Women Inspiration and Enterprise') in your diary. WIE Symposium is the brainchild of June Sarpong (former T4 presenter) and Dee Poku, created to motivate and educate women by hosting key women speakers from the worlds of business, politics, fashion and entertainment to lead a series of panels and workshops.

WIE Symposium launched in New York last year and talks from Donna Karen, Nancy Pelosi, Queen Rania of Jordan and Christy Turlington were a huge hit. This year, WIE Symposium will take place in London on International Women’s Day, Thursday 8th March with some equally compelling talks from Jo Malone, Jo Elvin, Kathy Lette, Lynn de Rothschild, Lynne Franks and Julie Meyer amongst others. The talks will include; Tools for the Entrepreneur, Women and Leadership, Women in Media, The Luxury Industry and Financial Tools for Success. The day will also launch the WIE Mentorship Scheme – a program designed to provide long term support and advice from leading businesswomen to young women about to embark on their careers.

The event will take place at The Hospital Club in London and tickets are available at www.wienetwork.org at £150.00 per person.

If you want to get inspired, WIE is your chance.

We've all heard of Volupté: London's number one burlesque bar, where cocktails don't come with a side order of nuts, but rather, of cabaret.

But change is afoot at this subterranean marvel, for it has launched The Bon Bon Bar, a sweet-shop-cum-speakeasy.

Behind a velvet curtain, The Bon Bon Bar will await guests with a pretty array of jam jars filled to their brim of tantalising retro sweets.

But if you that doesn't quite tickle your fancy enough, why not try some of their cocktails? Among the selection are, ‘Miss Marshmallow’, a raspberry and vanilla vodka concoction, topped with a marshmallow...... or the ‘Candy Cane’, created with Koko Kanu, Blue Curaçao, Lichi Li Liqueur and gin.. and of course, accompanied by a candy cane. 

There are shots and Champagne-based cocktails, too.

What's not to like? London's new underground secret. Just don't tell the dentist about it ...

http://www.volupte-lounge.com/