Pop-ups in London - 24th - 31st May

PluSixFive's One Night Pop Up at Yum Bun near Old Street - Friday 31st May

This week's new listings (& Easter Listings) in red

Food & Drink

A Grape Night In Present #WineWednesdays 'Underground' Pop-up Wine Bar near London Bridge - Wednesdays
'Back In 5 Minutes' Restaurant & Private Dining Room on Brick Lane - Weds - Sun
The Botanist's Pop-up Oyster and Champagne Bar for Chelsea Flower Show in Sloane Square - Ends 25th
Búntà's Friday Night Residency at The Shop in Kensal Rise - Fridays
* Check On's Great British Classics at Sanderson in Soho - Friday & Saturday
Dalston Roof Park Rooftop Bar for Summer 2013
El Rey Tacos & Mexican Food in Clapton - Fridays
* Festin de la Fée Verte - A Belle Epoque Dinner Party in Bloomsbury - Saturday 25th
The Foragers at The Dead Dolls Club in Dalston - Weds - Sunday
* Forza Win Rooftop Pizza in East London - Thurs - Sat - Starts 30th
* The Gin Garden's Bombay Sapphire Botanical Experience at The Hoxton Hotel - Starts Friday 24th
Harry Sasson's Club Colombia Pop-up Restaurant at The InterContinental Park Lane - Finishes Saturday 25th
Kimchi Cult at The Black Heart in Camden - Weds - Sat
Jordan Webb's 2 Month Pop-up at House of Wolf in Islington *Kitchen Party Pop-up Dining in Clerkenwell - Thurs - Sat
* Lucky Chip's BBQ at Climpson's Arch in London Fields - Thurs - Sun
Lucky Chip's Residency at The Grafton in Kentish Town - Tues - Sun
* Nikka Whiskey's Pop-up Bar at Smiths of Smithfield *
* PluSixFive's One Night Pop Up at Yum Bun near Old Street - Friday 31st
* Pop-up Sunday Night Supper at Rosendale Allotments in Tulse Hill - Sunday 26th
Propstore Pop-up Cafe at The National Theatre on The South Bank
The Rebel Dining Society Presents Death by Burrito in Shoreditch - Weds - Sat
* Shakers Eventi and Olmeca Altos Tequila's 'Viva Mexico' pop-up tequila bar in Shoreditch - Evenings, not Mondays
Sho Foo Doh's Japanese Street Food Residency at Pacific Social Club in Hackney - Fri - Sat
'Size Matters' by Criterion Restaurant at The Sun & Thirteen Cantons in Soho
Street Feast's Friday Nights in Haggerston - Fridays
Super Tuscan Presents a Weekly Battle of the Bottles in Spitalfields - Wednesdays
Sugarhouse Studios' Supper Club with Film in Stratford - Sundays
Thursday Nights with The Cocktail Gardener at Blush in Stoke Newington - Thursdays
* The Wandering Chef's Two Night 'Soiree a Paris' Pop-up in Southwark - Finishes Friday 24th
Weekends at The Midnight Apothecary Rooftop Cocktail Bar in Rotherhithe - Saturdays & Sundays
Wiggies' Residency at The Rising Sun in The City - Monday - Friday
* Zoe's Ghana Kitchen's One Night Pop-up at Pip's Dish in Islington - Fri 24th

Shopping 

52 Artillery Lane Pop-up Menswear Shop near Liverpool Street
Boxpark Pop-up Retail Mall in Shoreditch
The David Bowie Pop-up Shop in Selfridges
Love Ur Look Pop-up Shop in Forest Hill
Lush Designs' Pop-up Shop in Columbia Road - Fridays - Sundays
* J.Crew's Two Day Pop-up Shop in King's Cross - Opens Friday 24th
Moxham Pop-up Jewellery Shop in Seven Dials
Pop-up Britain's Pop-up Shop for Small Enterprises in Victoria
Pop-up Britain's Pop-up Shop for Small Enterprises on the King's Road
Sweden Calling Pop-up Shop in Spitalfields
StartUp Britain's Pop-up Shop for Small Enterprises in Richmond 
Syd's Vintage Pop-up Shop in Sydenham
Voodoo Girl's One Month Pop-up Shop at Boxpark

Events & Markets

Hush Presents Classics in the Courtyard Film Screenings in Mayfair - Saturdays
May Films at The Breakfast Club in Hoxton - Baby Fever - Tues & Weds
Our Autonomous Nature 3 Day Art Exhibition near Battersea Park - Finishes Fri 24th
* Pop-up Vintage Fairs at Old Spitalfields Market - Saturday
The Rooftop Film Club's Open Air Screenings in Kensington & Hoxton
The Shed Pop-up Theatre on the South Bank
* 'Sunday Papers Live' Daytime Festival near Camden - Sunday 26th

NOTE - PLEASE CHECK WITH THE ORGANISERS OR POP-UPS FOR OPENING TIMES & AVAILABILITY OF TICKETS BEFORE YOU GO!

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Festin de la Fée Verte - A Belle Epoque Dinner Party in Bloomsbury

Festin de la Fée Verte - which translates as Feast of the Green Fairy - is a lavish dinner created by London Vintage Kitchen and Pernod Absinthe.  It's an evening of Continental opulence, art, and intrigue, including cocktails, canapes, a four course dinner, and dancing.

"London Vintage Kitchen is back, and more glamorous than ever before. Working in collaboration with Pernod Absinthe, this time you’ll be whisked away by the Green Fairy to Paris one hundred years ago, to a time where the Belle-Epoque and the Avant Garde flirted with a passion, and where struggling artistés and well-heeled socialites dined, drank and danced together without a care in the world.
For one night only, free your inner Bohemian or unleash your inner aristocrat, and lose yourself in the dizzying and daring world of Paris in 1913, without even leaving London. In a beautiful secret location, only a stones throw away from the British Museum, you’ll dine in the twinkling light of a hundred candles on an array of delicious period dishes, and be waited on hand and foot by our band of dashing butlers. Sup on delectable cocktails, inspired by the favourite drink of the bohemians’, Pernod Absinthe, dress the part and catch the eye of our wandering photographer, and dance your stockings off to that latest of music crazes from across the pond, rag-time jazz."

When - Saturday 25th May, 7pm - 11pm

Where - A secret location in Bloomsbury, near to the British Museum.

Tickets - £37.50 + charges from here

Map (Approximate)

Link 1 - London Vintage Kitchen
Link 2 - Facebook Event


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June Pop-up Ping Pong Party with Drinks & Streetfood in Kensington

After a very successful couple of events Pop-up Ping Pong are back on 1st June at the disused The Kensington pub (near Olympia), with ping pong, a bar, a film screening, and burgers from #BRGR.  See the pics on their Facebook page - it looked like lots of fun last time!

"Pop Up Ping Pong 3 is our final pop-up in the disused Kensington pub trilogy - and we plan to go out with a BANG!
Entry is only £5, which entitles you to unlimited gaming subject to our house fair usage policy (hugging, not hogging). Due to popular demand, we've doubled the action in the beer pong corner to provide two regulation-sized tables complete with cup markings. The crowds that have gathered around this original venerated piece of PUPP paraphernalia have been truly legendary; we expect nothing less for round three.
The soundtrack to the night is in your hands - add your own song choices to our already stupendous PUPP Playlist: http://open.spotify.com/user/u_oi/playlist/4ysj6D9JRZ5SZHh8TxZknh
We'll also be projecting cult ping-pong movie Balls of Fury onto our walls for an extra dose of our favourite game with a sprinkling of Hollywood (think FBI secret mission and a whole lot of slapstick humour).
Drinks start from £2 at the bar, with all beers at only £2.50 and vodka, rum or gin mixers from £4. We take plastic (cards accepted).
#BRGR will be back with us to serve up their juicy ping-pong-sized mini burgers. Their buns are from the famed Miller's of Wimbledon and sit like toasted golden domes atop 3 oz grass-fed beef patties sourced from The Ginger Pig butchers. A dollop of ketchup and mustard with a layer of melty American cheese seals the deal."

When - Saturday 1st June, 18:30 - 01:00

Where - The Kensington, 54 Russell Gardens, W14 8EZ

Tickets - £5 + fees from at the door or online here

Map

Link 1 - PUPP
Link 2 - Facebook
Link 3 - Twitter

Link 4 - Tickets

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Check On's Great British Classics at Sanderson in Soho

Check On have announced their latest venture after the success of Northern Invasion and Hen Party and Stag Party.  They will be cooking a Great British Classics 8 course tasting menu at The Sanderson, for three Friday & Saturday nights in May and June.

"This May and June will see George Craig and Terry Edwards, founders of the phenomenally successful London supper club concept, Check On, take residency in the Billiard Room at Sanderson in Soho, across three weekends. 
The unlikely duo is made up of George Craig: lead singer of popular British band One Night Only and the former face of Burberry, and Terry Edwards: a highly respected young chef, and a Mark Hix protégé formerly from Le Gavroche. The pair joined forces after bonding over a love and obsession with quality food, and exploring humorous ways to enjoy it. 
They have created an exciting eight course tasting menu entitled Great British Classics to celebrate the culinary dishes England is famous for, whilst putting their own unique and sophisticated stamp on each offering. 
The menu will consist of gourmet takes on traditional favourites such as “Ploughman’s Lunch”: A pressed terrine of ham hock and Lancashire cheese with pickled onions and soft boiled quails egg, “Fish and Chips”: A deep fried scallop served with mushy peas and potato crisps, or “A cup of Tea”: Earl Grey mousse with a rich tea chocolate biscuit."

When - Fridays & Saturdays from 6pm - 24th & 25th May, 31st May & 1st June, 7th & 8th June

Where - Sanderson, 50 Berners Street, W1T 3NG

Tickets - £55 per head from Billetto here

Map

Link 1 - Check On
Link 2 - Booking page
Link 3 - Sanderson


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PluSixFive's One Night Pop Up at Yum Bun near Old Street

PluSixFive Supper Club - +65 is the international dialing code for Singapore - are stepping out of their flat and into Yum Bun near Old Street for one night only of buns.  Booking is for one hour slots, 5pm - 10pm.  Book it!

"YEP. For one night only, we're going to be invading yum bun's kitchen and serving up ox cheek rendang and popiah filling in their soft pillowy buns. 
£12 for a set of two plusixfive buns, the classic yumbun pork belly bun AND a beer off the awesome kids at rotary bar. Walk-in orders are sans beer and subject to availability, so BOOK NOW NOW NOW."

When - Friday 31st May, 5pm - 10pm

Where - Yum Bun, 31 Featherstone Street, EC1Y 2BJ

Tickets - £12 from here - Tickets are timed, for 5pm., 6pm, 7pm, 8pm & 9pm

Map

Link 1 - PluSixFive 

Link 2 - Event on Edible Experiences

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The Gin Garden at Arlington Square, Islington, for Open Garden Squares Weekend

The Gin Garden are taking part in Open Garden Squares Weekend on 8th & 9th June, hosting a cocktail bar in Arlington Square, Islington.  There are also lots of other events happening over the weekend - see the full programme here

"Open Garden Squares Weekend is a magical two-day event, where community gardens and private squares throughout London welcome visitors from around the world. Gardens range from historical private squares to contemporary roof gardens, and barges. One ticket gives access to numerous gardens on both Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 June 2013.  (Gardens open at various times, see www.opensquares.org for details).
Arlington Square
The Victorian terraces that surround Arlington Square, in a quiet conservation area of Islington, were completed around 1850. But the large, open rectangle in the middle only became a garden square in the early 1950s, when it was laid out by Islington council. Before that, it had simply been an unkempt open space, used during WW2 for trench shelters and barrage balloon moorings. 
The square today has large mature trees, shrubs, lawns, roses and other flowerbeds. A newly revitalised residents' association holds regular gardening sessions. Over the last two years volunteers have transformed the beds by digging in thousands of litres of compost and manure and planting more than 25,000 bulbs, plants and shrubs, as well as magnolias, acers, palms and a handkerchief tree. 
In 2012, with help from a Big Lottery Groundworks grant, locals transformed a neglected dump in the corner of the square into a popular small community garden with raised vegetable, herb, fruit and flowerbeds.
Arlington Square’s large and peaceful space is now much loved and appreciated by Islington residents. The ongoing restoration of the square by residents from the surrounding streets is a stirring example of how communal gardening can bring neighbours together and forge friendships."

When - Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th June

Saturday 10:00–17:00 + Sunday 14:00–17:00

Where - Arlington Square, Eagle Wharf Road, N1 7EB

Tickets - £10 for all gardens & squares for the whole weekend from here

Map

Link 1 - Arlington Square

Link 2 - Full list of gardens & events

Link 3 - The Gin Garden

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Nikka Whiskey's Pop-up Bar at Smiths of Smithfield

This Tuesday, 21st May, the newly-refurbished Smiths of Smithfield First Floor Cocktail Bar will open as Nikka’s pop up bar for eleven days, to showcase the Japanese whiskey.

"Award-winning Nikka Japanese whisky opens a pop up bar at Smiths of Smithfield* in May - with a promise and a secret.
The promise is that Nikka will display 17 of its premium single malt and blended whiskies for sampling. This is the biggest line-up of quality Japanese whiskies ever assembled in a bar in London. 
Among the 17 whiskies from the Yoichi and Miyagikyo distilleries is the award-winning Taketsuru 17 year old pure malt. It is named in honour of Masataka Taketsuru, Father of Japanese whisky, who established Nikka whisky following studies into Scotch whisky
The secret is the culture of Omakase –  to be revealed to visitors by Tiziano Tasso, Smiths’ bartender and cocktail mixologist and Nikka Ambassador Sayumi Oyama."

When - 21st - 31st May, 5pm - late.

Where - Smiths of Smithfield, Smiths of Smithfield, First Floor Cocktail Bar, 67-77 Charterhouse Street, EC1M 6HJ

Map

Link - Nikka Whiskey

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