What To Do This Weekend: 9th-11th December
With only two weekends to go until Christmas, our weekend guide is actually not that festive. Of course if you want to check out all the Christmas things going on you’ll want to head to our Christmas page, if however you want a break before we go all-out in the next couple of weeks then we have Mexican brunches, Malaysian breakfasts and classic pub grub. Of course there is the 17th annual SantaCon taking place on Saturday – well, we had to throw in a few hundred Santas somewhere…
Skip Garden
Fire Feast
The Skip Garden (also known as the garden of 1000 hands) will be hosting a fire feast which will bring their garden alive with light. Fires and rum chai will keep you toasty, whilst you watch live music and eat the likes of pizzas from the wood burning oven, stews, horse chestnuts and s’mores.
Friday 9th December
Where: Skip Garden, Tapper Walk, Kings Cross, N1C 4AQ
Website: Get Tickets Here
SantaCon
Santa Flash Mob
What’s more festive than hundreds of Santas in full red and white gear, marching through the city? Good job then that SantaCon is back this year – it’s basically one big Santa-themed pub crawl, completely ‘non-profit, non-political, non-religious and non-sensical’. The routes will be announced on Facebook so dig out your finery, don your beard and prepare to hug, sing and drink your way through London en masse. It’s basically one big Where’s Wally.
Saturday 10th December
Where: Across London
Website: www.santacon.info
East Village Market
Hygge Inspired Christmas Market
Hygge, hygge, hygge. This year has been the year of hygge, so it’s only fitting that the annual East Village Christmas Makers Market is focusing on all things warm and cosy this time around. Free to enter and open all weekend, visitors can browse fashion, interiors, gifts and comfort food from artisanal sellers. Visit on Sunday and anyone with a beard can get the hipster treatment and pimp their beards for free. Fuzz free? Book a spot at the Q&A with Danish actress and Hygge expert Marie Tourell Søderberg and learn how to hygge at home.
Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th December
Where: 20 Victory Parade, Stratford, E15 2ER
Website: www.eastvillagelondon.co.uk
Chi Kitchen
Ping Coombes' Breakfast Club
On the second Sunday of every month, Masterchef Champion Ping Coombes hosts a breakfast club at Chi Kitchen on Oxford Street. And what is it on Sunday? Oh, it’s the second Sunday of the month. Hurrah! The breakfast club will be serving up a four course Malaysian feast with a festive twist. Dishes include Ping’s chicken char siu wonton noodles, Malaysian Karipap with mint and cucumber raita and for pudding a banana and condense milk shake. There’s also unlimited tea and coffee, to get you fuelled up to face the Christmas shoppers on Oxford Street.
Sunday 11th December
Where: Chi Kitchen, Oxford Street, Ground Floor Debenhams, 334-348 Oxford Street, W1C 1JG
Website: www.eventbrite.co.uk
Adam Rawson at The George & Dragon
Pub Grub Sunday Feast
When a restaurant puts on an eight course menu it tends to be fine dining, well not at Adam Rawson’s pop-up at The George & Dragon in Fitzrovia. Yes, the food sure is fine and yes it’s dining, but fine dining it is not, it’s eight courses of pub grub classics. We’re talking fish and chips, gammon with egg and onion rings, cider braised pork cheeks and banoffee truffle. Get it for Sunday lunch or Sunday supper. Sorted.
Sunday 11th December
Where: 151 Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia, W1T 6QF
Website: Get Tickets Here
Bean Bag Cinema
Your Night In, Out
Finish your weekend with a night out. Probably not the words you really want to hear. Except this isn’t your ordinary night out. This is the Bean Bag Cinema at Metro in Clapham. Leave the comfort of your sofa for the comfort of massive bean bag and snuggle down to watch Miracle on 34 Street, with mulled wine and canapes. The perfect end to the weekend.
Sunday 11th December
Where: Metro Garden Restaurant and Bar, Clapham Common SW4 7AA
Website: www.beanbagcinema.co.uk
For more weekend plans check out our Christmas page for all things festive in London
