Thank Goodness It’s The Weekend! Here’s What To Do With It…
For anyone brave enough to venture away from a fully souped up central heating system this weekend, London holds some delights. Throw on five layers, root out the mittens and those fluffy socks, we’re leaving the house!
Malice Presents: The Lion, The Glitch & The Wardrobe
Like immersive experiences? Fancy something totally crazy this weekend? You’re after The Lion, The Glitch & The Wardrobe. Billed as a cross between The Matrix and Narnia, the event is put on by Malice, connoisseurs of the immersive. The pop-up theatrical dance night will blend Narnia meet the Matrix in a culture-twisting parallel universe. Walk through the wooden doors to a hedonistic world where Aslan the Drag Lion roams with Morpheus Tumnus, where you’ll experience existential therapy and where visual effects, holograms and light shows create alternative landscapes. It sounds bonkers.
Where: Simulacra Studio, 302-304 Barrington Road, SW9 7JJ
Website: www.designmynight.com
Winter Wonderland
One for the brave: Winter Wonderland is open for their first weekend of the year this weekend. The Hyde Park Christmas ‘wonderland’ will bring all manner of Christmassy fun to central London, with the obligatory funfair offering rides at eye-watering prices, stalls with tat or £7 sandwiches, skating, you know the drill.
Where: Hyde Park, West End, W2
Website: www.hydeparkwinterwonderland.com
Harry’s Dolce Vita
Gin fans stand by (so that’s basically everyone standing by), O’ndina Gin have teamed up with Harry’s Dolce Vita to celebrate Italian Cuisine Week by creating the Italia ‘60. Available only until Sunday, the bespoke cocktail is a taste of Italy with notes of fresh basil and designed to embody ‘the freedom of La Dolce Vita’.Expect to be transported back to the Italian Riviera in 1950s and 1960s, best enjoyed alongside the menu from Chef Director Diego Cardoso. How perfect that Harry’s Dolce Vita is located on actual Basil Street, too, right?
Until Sunday 25th November
Where: 27-31, Basil Street, Knightsbridge, SW3 1BB
Website: www.harrysdolcevita.com
Daylesford Organic
How do you like to spend your Mondays? If the answer is elbow deep in the guts of a cow, you’ve come to the right place. Daylesford Organic are hosting a “Nose To Tail” butchery masterclass at their Notting Hill farmshop. The evening promises to be a chance to learn all about beef, and experience the butchery itself followed by a hearty organic supper with wine. All sounds great: we’ve got no beef with that…
Monday 26th November
Where: 208-212 Westbourne Grove, Notting Hill, W11 2RH
Website: Get tickets here...
Salt Yard
Did you know that it’s truffle season? Well it is. Which means that all manner of truffley menus and events are hitting London, not least among them Salt Yard’s truffle and Champagne lunch this Sunday. Head Chef Joe Howley has created a menu with five truffle-based courses (that’s a lorra lorra truffle, peeps) served with matching Champagnes. Courses include include white truffle risotto, egg yolk, cracked black pepper paired with Veuve Clicquot Vintage 2008 and aged Galician beef sirloin, truffled parmesan polenta, Jerusalem artichoke and truffle jus. Even the pudding has gotten the truffle touch with white chocolate mousse, truffle ice cream, black pepper panna cotta and caramelised white chocolate.
Sunday 25th November
Where: 54 Goodge Street, Fitzrovia, W1T 4NA
Website: www.saltyardgroup.co.uk
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