If you're not a member of The Brompton Club but are keen to go, this may well be your chance.

For Piers Adam and Nick House - its irrepressible owners - are opening it up to the public for the very first time. John DeLucie, the renowned New York City-based founding chef of the popular Waverly Inn (still marked out to be the city's top restaurants) and owner now, too, of the Crown on Upper East Side and The Lion in the West Village is coming to London. Well, South Kensington to be precise.

Featuring on this much-anticipated pop-up menu? Yellowfin Tuna Tartare with Dijon Emulsion and Avocado, Chicken Pot Pie served with Baby Vegetables, Mac and Cheese with Truffles and The Lion Burger Special Blend, a burger stuffed with Pork Belly, Provolone, Smoked Cheddar, Caramelized Onion and Tomato.

So, have you ever been tempted by the Brompton Club's oak-panelled dining room and colonial-style club room? Now's your chance. Come to the Lion, John De Lucie's expecting you until the end of July.

www.thebromptonclub.com

French born chef Ollie Couillaud’s Lawn Bistro which opened last year in Wimbledon Village is launching a new café, bakery and deli. The Lawn Bistro is all about well sourced, excellent, seasonal ingredients and the new bakery menu will include Croissants, Porridge with sultanas, brown sugar and cinnamon, Homemade yogurt with granola, Scrambled eggs on sour dough  with smoked salmon, Smoked salmon and asparagus quiche, Mozzarella and Provençal vegetable panini and tartines of Goat’s cheese, broad beans, basil and Spanish olive oil. Ollie’s background spans The Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane, Tom’s Kitchen in Chelsea, Bord’eaux in the Grosvenor House and  Giant Robot, the group behind private membership clubs such as Milk & Honey and the East Rooms.

www.thelawnbistro.co.uk

Soho House Group is launching a new series of happenings at The Electric Cinema in Notting Hill wth an integrated tasting experience on Sunday 13 May. Edible Cinema is a collaboration with event organiser Polly Betton and experimental food designer Andrew Stellitano. Following a Bombay Sapphire Pan’s Labyrinth cocktail on arrival, the audience will be provided with a series of numbered ‘packages’ before the start of the film, Pan’s Labyrinth, which contain various foods. Then at specific points during the movie, large placards with corresponding numbers will be shown instructing them to consume the contents to heighten their sensory experience. Edible experiences will include smoked pine popcorn while sniffing a pine-scented handkerchief as Ofelia and Carmen travel through the Spanish woodland onscreen. And then at the moment when Ofelia eats an enchanted grape, they’ll enjoy a specially created carbonated red grape to concentrate and intensify the fruit’s sweet flavour. Mmmm.

www.electriccinema.co.uk

Now that we are all, to some degree, food and wine connoisseurs, is there anything better than a perfectly cooked dinner with expertly chosen wine pairings?
 
Even better if said wine pairings are Rioja. On Monday, 21st May, the Spanish favourite is taking pride of place at the Capital Hotel restaurant, located in the heart of Knightsbridge. The four course meal will be accompanied by some of the finest bottles from the Bodegas Roda vineyard, introduced by winemaker and oenologue Gonzalo Lainez. Gonzalo will be hosting the club table, to share the experience with fellow food and wine fans, and to discuss tasting notes!
 
The Capital's sister food hotspot, Le Metro Wine Bar and Bistro, will also be getting into the party spirit with a Spanish theme taking over the kitchens for the week commencing 21 May. Think tapas-style servings of chorizo, gazpacho and tortilla, accompanied by a Rioja available at only £22 a bottle. The climate may be a little off this May, but it's time to sit back, relax and soak up a more Spanish way of living in SW1.
 

For more information on the Capital Hotel and its restaurants, see www.capitalhotel.co.uk or contact Caroline Warwick on 020 7722 5466