What to do This Weekend: 7th – 9th July
The weekend is fast approaching, two days to make the most of this fair city of ours. Join in the Pride parade, have brunch on the lawn at the Tate, do yoga by the Thames and watch home made go carts whizz around Alexandra Palace…welcome to the weekend.
Hyatt Regency London - The Churchill
A Chocolate Afternoon Tea with Free Champagne
This Friday is World Chocolate Day, it’s pretty much the law to eat chocolate. We recommend the Green & Black’s ChocolaTEA at The Montagu. There’s so much chocolate it’s even the sandwiches, yep you’ll find a smoking salmon sushi sandwich garnished with chocolate flakes and a Churchill burger with a dark 70% chocolate infused BBQ sauce. Not that you need another reason to book it, but if you do, then the ChocolaTEA this weekend (7th -9th July) and quote World Chocolate Day to receive a free glass of Champagne. Cheers to that.
Free Champagne Friday 7th – Sunday 9th July
Where: 30 Portman Square, London, W1H 7BH, United Kingdom
Website: www.londonchurchill.regency.hyatt.com
Tate Britain
Jazz Brunch
Tate Britain probably doesn’t spring to mind when you think about places for brunch, but everywhere in London is actually a place for brunch. This weekend sees the launch of their Saturday Jazz brunches which will take place on the terrace lawn. The Rex Whistler restaurant will be serving up shucked oysters, eggs benedict, Bloody Mary cocktails, steak tartare and British seafood which you can feast on whilst listening to different jazz bands – they’re kicking off with Booth Street West. There are different options too, you can just buy tickets for the jazz or for jazz and cocktails – you don’t have to have brunch, but we wouldn’t suggest that.
Saturday 8th July and then 15th and 22nd July
Where: Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1P 4RG
Website: www.tate.org.uk
The Bussey Beer Garden
Beers on the Roof
Put your hands in the air like you just don’t care…not really this isn’t some cheesy club, put your hands up if you like craft beer. Excellent that’s pretty much everyone. Well from this Friday you’ll find 15 different beers on tap from The London Brewery as they host The Bussey Beer Garden – a rooftop craft beer popup opening on the roof of the Bussey Building. Obviously, beer’s pal, the kebab will be there, brought to you by the BABEK Brothers – the best kebabs this side of Istanbul. Kebab, beer and rooftop views – what more could you want?
Friday 7th July and then every Friday and Saturday throughout July and August
Where: Bussey Building,133 Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
Website: www.busseybeergarden.com
Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair
Classic Car Boot
This Sunday sees the return of the annual Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair, because if car boot sale doesn’t say weekend plans nothing does. As well as over hundred artists selling exclusive pieces from the boots of new and vintage Vauxhall cars, there’ll be: live music, The Black Cow vodka bar, workshops, marching bands, games and an artists’ picnic. The weather is set to be good to this weekend just to top it all off.
Sunday 9th July
Where: The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, Vauxhall, SE1 7AG
Website: www.artcarbootfair.com
Red Bull Soap Box Race
The Wackiest of Races
If the Wacky Races was your thing when you were younger, then we have as close to the real thing as you’re probably going to get – it’s the return of the Red Bull Soapbox Race. Over 70 teams will be tearing down the 450m courses all in homemade soapbox vehicles, this year’s entries include a British red telephone box, a replica castle on wheels and a Game of Gnomes machine!
Sunday 9th July
Images © Olaf Pignataro/Red Bull Content Pool
Where: Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, N22 7AY
Website: www.redbullsoapboxrace.com
Community Spirit for Grenfell
Community Spirit and Cocktails
This Sunday some of London’s best bars such as Callooh Callay, City Social, Trailer Happiness and Barrion Bars are coming together to shake up cocktails and raise funds for those affected by the Grenfell Tower tragedy. There’ll also be music from Portobello locals Jazz Re:freshed, DJs, food and a charity auction. It’s community spirits through alcoholic spirits – nice.
Sunday 9th July
Where: Westbank Arts and Music, 3-5 Thorpe Close, W10 5XL
Website: www.communityspirit.fund
MeatUp
Brunch and Prosecco
What’s better news than a new brunch? A new brunch where you get half price prosecco – that’s what. That’s the deal over in Wandsworth Town at MeatUp. Their new brunch menu includes whipped cream cheese and smoked salmon croissants; pittas with beetroot hummus, toasted seeds and crumbled feta; waffles with bacon, pork belly and chilli maple BBQ; smoothies and that all important half price prosecco…
Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th July and then every weekend
Where: 350 Old York Road, London, London Borough of Wandsworth SW18 1SS, United Kingdom
Website: www.meatupgrill.com
Boisdale of Canary Wharf
Jamaican Garden Terrace
The Boisdale Jamaican Garden Terrace is bringing a sunny slice of the Caribbean to Canary Wharf. Whilst they don’t have the blue waters of the Caribbean sea, they do have cocktails, jerk spice barbecue and the sounds of Saxon Sound System who’ll be playing sets filled with reggae, hip-hop, R&B, drum & bass and dance.
Saturday 8th July and then every Saturday throughout July and August
Where: Cabot Place, Canary Wharf, London, E14 4QT, United Kingdom
Website: www.boisdale.co.uk
Neverland
Yoga by the Thames
Whilst we’d all love to start our weekends with some yoga overlooking a crystal blue sea in some tropical paradise, it’s unlikely to happen. We can however offer you yoga by the Thames with sand, then you just have to imagine the paradise part. Happening every Saturday and Sunday the tickets include a 60 minute Hatha flow yoga session, Green Lady Sparkling tea, Ape Snacks and entry into Neverland London – you just need to bring your yoga mats.
Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th July and then every Saturday and Sunday
Where: Neverland London, Wandsworth Bridge Road, SW6 2TY
Website: Tickets Here
Ernest Lunch Party
Bringing Locals Together
Ernest is a food solidarity network – it connects restaurants, diners and food charities together and this Sunday it is bringing together some of East London’s best local restaurants and Hackney’s food charities together for an afternoon party. Taking part will be Kitchen Rituals Spitalfields Crypy Trust, The Hackney Migrant Centre, Plan Zheroes and Pete from Tuck Inn Canteen. It’s a chance to meet the locals, listen to some live music and eat a whole lot of food!
Sunday 9th July 2017
Where: Gillett Square Unit B7, 3 Bradbury Street,Dalston, N16 8JN
Website: www.gillettsquare.org.uk
We Don’t Just Live For the Weekend…
On Wednesday 12th July, Mint Leaf City are hosting a unique five course menu paired with beers with special guest Cobra Founder RH Lord Bilimoria. Dishes include roast duck spiced in pickling spice with date tamrind and apricot chutney paired with Wolf Rock Red IPA and pistachio and saffron rasmalai paired with Doombar Amber Ale.
Book Tickets Here
