What To Do This Weekend: 12th-14th May
Believe it or not this Saturday sees not only World Cocktail Day but also National Hummus Day. Not ones to skip a celebration, you’ll find us celebrating with cocktail in one hand, pitta in the other. And once those are consumed we’ll be heading over to Shoreditch for Balance Festival; HIIT, yoga and healthy food all under one roof. There’s also a beer festival, al fresco banquet and chocolate sauce on tap ready to pour onto your ice cream. Read on and find out where…
Sea Containers London
World Cocktail Day
Where better to celebrate World Cocktail Day than at the bar of The World’s Best Bartender? Dandelyan at Mondrian London have created a menu especially for the occasion, available until Sunday. We like the sound of the Silk Road Fizz, made with their own Dandelyan Mix (elderberries, mango and vodka) with lime, pineapple and chickpea water all topped up with Champagne. Chin-chin!
Limited edition cocktails available until Sunday 14th May
Where: 20 Upper Ground, London, UK
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The May Fair Hotel
Think Pink
We love a collaboration. The May Fair Hotel boasts a partnership with the V&A so you can inject your London stay with a dose of culture while you’re at it. Starting this weekend, guests who stay at the hotel can choose their Pink Floyd package which includes 2 tickets to The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains over at the V&A as well as breakfast in the hotel and a bottle of pink Champagne waiting for you in your room on arrival. Go all out and request the pink Schiaparelli Suite. Well, pink is the colour of the moment…
Saturday 13th May – 1st October 2017
Where: Stratton Street, Mayfair, London, W1J 8LT, United Kingdom
Website: www.themayfairhotel.co.uk
Balance Festival
Wellbeing Festival
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: here at The Handbook, we’re all about balance. Whether that means green juice in one hand, red wine in the other or salad for main, brownie for pudding we don’t like to specify but this weekend you can achieve your inner yin yang over in Shoreditch. Balance Festival is returning for another year, offering everything from HIIT, yoga and triathlons to cooking demos, cocktails and spa treatments. Yep, we said cocktails…
Friday 12th – Sunday 14th May
Where: Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, Shoreditch, E1 6QR
Website: www.balance-festival.com
Haymarket Hotel
A Reading of Wind in the Willows
This summer the London Palladium will be home to a new musical, Julian Fellowes, George Stiles and Anthony Drewe’s reimagining of The Wind in the Willows. To celebrate, Julian Fellowes will be at the Haymarket Hotel hosting a rare and exclusive reading – it’s a chance to leave London behind and escape on an adventure with Mole, Ratty and Toad. Afterwards there’ll be a Q & A as well as afternoon tea at the hotel, because to accompany the reading they’ve created a special Wind in the Willows afternoon tea. It has perfect Sunday afternoon written all over it.
Tickets include a welcome drink, afternoon tea and a copy of The Wind in the Willows to take home.
Sunday 14th May (the tea will also be available 16th June – 9th September)
Where: 1 Suffolk Place, London, SW1Y 4BP, United Kingdom
Website: www.firmdalehotels.com
No 11 Pimlico Road
New Spring Cocktails
As the temperatures get warmer, our drinks get cooler. Just as well then that the neighbourhood bar group that includes No 11 Pimlico Road and No 32 The Old Town have spruced up their cocktail menu accordingly. Saturday is also conveniently World Cocktail Day so sip the Sipsmith-infused Summer Tonic, made with fresh kiwi and strawberry or a refreshing new Rhubarb Julep.
Available all weekend
Where: 11 Pimlico Road, London, SW1W 8NA, United Kingdom
Website: www.no11pimlicoroad.co.uk
The Athenaeum Hotel & Residences
World-Class Collaboration
One of the world’s best known liqueurs is teaming up with one of London’s most luxurious hotels. Drambuie are launching a collaboration with The Bar at The Athenaeum and the result? A suitably impressive sounding cocktail: The Navigator. Made from Drambuie 15 Year Old, Rinomato Aperitivo and East Imperial soda water, the cocktail is garnished with a twist of grapefruit and served in a highball glass. It’s aromatic, warming and refined.
Available until the end of 2017
Where: 116 Piccadilly, Mayfair, London W1J 7BJ, United Kingdom
Website: www.athenaeumhotel.com
Brooklyn Brewery’s Beer Mansion
Fully Immersive Beer Festival
Beer lovers will find themselves in Dalston this weekend, where Brooklyn Brewery is hosting the Beer Mansion, a fully immersive world of beer, food, art, games and entertainment. The ‘Mansion’ consists of 5 beer-filled rooms, each showcasing a different flavour profile of the drink, be it fruity and tropical or deep and toasty, to encourage you to really taste what you are drinking. Local names will be there too, including Redchurch Brewery (Bethnal Green) and 40 ft Brewery (literally down the road), with pizza from Voodoo Ray’s.
Friday 12th and Saturday 13th May
Where: MC Motors, 28 Miller’s Avenue, Dalston, E8 2DS
Website: www.brooklynbrewerymash.com
Deliciously Ella Garden & Deli
Sunday Lunch, Deliciously Ella Style
Deliciously Ella is joining forces with eco-chef Tom Hunt to cook up two Sunday banquets. Taking place at the Deliciously Ella Garden & Deli in Broadgate, the lunch will make the most of seasonal British produce. Things get underway with a Bloody Mary, before sharing platters are served, these include creamy wild garlic and butter bean puree; freshly baked spelt sourdough; black rice salad with pistachios, raisins and piquillo peppers and for pudding a glazed rhubarb sponge cake with coconut yoghurt, followed by raw chocolate truffles.
Sunday 14th May
Where: Exchange Square, Broadgate, EC2A 2EH
Website: www.broadgate.co.uk
Yoga on the Square
Al Fresco Yoga
Take your exercise outdoors this weekend. Sunday marks the launch of lululemon’s complimentary yoga sessions, #YogaontheSquare, which take place on the grass by Duke of York Square. Rock up, bring your mat and release your inner zen. The sessions are free to attend, suitable for all levels and you don’t need to book. Win, win.
Every Sunday at 10.30am from 14th May to 27th August
Where: Duke of York Square
Website: www.dukeofyorksquare.com
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