POP-UP: Hungry Donkey Summer Residency
No, not a gathering of asses with an appetite (it's not often you get to use that phrase), this – far more happily – is the news that E1-based Greek restaurant Hungry Donkey will be popping up at Maltby Street Market for the next three weekends. Not only are they bringing along favourite dishes like Greek sausage pita wraps with graviera cheese and caramelised onion, but they're teaming up with Maltby&Greek, the UK's biggest Greek food and drink supplier, to come up with some truly special dishes. Don't miss the galaktoboureko, a traditional custard pastry. It's much easier to eat than it is to say, promise.
23 Jul-7 Aug
Hungry Donkey, Maltby Street Market, Ropewalk, London SE1 3PA
FOOD: Just Eat Food Fest
We love Just Eat – it brings us delicious food through our computer. But there are drawbacks, namely: 1. It stops us from having to, y'know, get dressed and leave the house in order to get dinner. Not great for the social life. And 2. It means we have to commit to one delivery of one style of food. Not great for the indecisive. But this weekend such concerns are solved: presenting the Just Eat Food Fest, taking over Shoreditch's Red Market for three days of world cuisine and cocktails. Here you'll be able to sample three dishes from top London restaurants for just £8 – including dim sum from Ping Pong, pizza from Sapore Vero and noodles from Whaam Bahn Mi. Indecision, sorted. And if you're still bothered by the whole having to get dressed/go out thing, take comfort. This is east London: you can get away with PJs as a style statement.
22-24 July; free
Just Eat Food Fest, Red Market, London, EC1V 9LA
DRINK: The Gin Bus
You may, from its cryptic name, have an inkling of what awaits you aboard The Gin Bus. In which case public transport is suddenly looking all kinds of good. It's all thanks to Hendrick's, who have transformed a double decker into HERBERT, aka Hendrick's Extraordinary Roving Bus for Exceptionally Refined Travel. Happily, 'exceptionally refined travel' involves cruising around central London sipping cheeky G&Ts and nibbling cucumber macaroons. On a bus painted to look like a cucumber. AND… drumroll please… for a price of £2.50. Really. Oyster cards: officially over.
21-29 July; £2.50, booking essential
The Gin Bus, Stops at Victoria Street, SW1; Southbank SE1; Theobald's Road WC1 and Euston Road NW1
EVENT: Alexandra Palace Summer Festival
Now, if there's one thing that guarantees our attendance at an event, it's a giant waterslide. (Either that, or champagne. Give us both, however, and it may not end well.) And at Ally Pally's big summer shindig this weekend, what a waterslide it is: 100m of downhill, dingy-whizzing fun. So that's us there, then – so what else is on? Well, there's three stages of live music and DJs, with a headline set from DJ Yoda; street food galore from the likes of Bodean's, Smokestak and Yum Jungle; a Pimm's pop-up, silent disco, outdoor cinema, fun fair and dedicated busking grove… Almost enough to make you forget about that slide. Almost.
23 July; free
Summer Festival, Alexandra Palace Way, N22 7AY
FOOD: Bronte
Restaurants are often referred to as 'stylish'. But we reviewers are going to have to think up a different adjective, because Bronte has come along to show us what stylish REALLY means. Decked out by interiors maestro Tom Dixon, we're talking jade-green leather booths, a pink concrete bar, burnished zinc hanging lights and even a green granite feature kitchen. Which reminds us: this place does food too! And it's good! Like, really good. Antipodean dishes (the name Bronte refers to Bronte Beach in Australia, btw) include hot smoked salmon with scrambled duck eggs on brioche, rare breed beef burgers with chilli miso and quinoa onion rings. Clean, healthy and… er… stylish. Excuse us while we go find our thesaurus.
Now open
Bronte, Grand Buildings, 1-3 Strand, WC2N 5EJ
FASHION: What Soho Wore
Yes, what DID Soho wear? Well, celebrated blogger Nina Manandhar (what-we-wore.com) is setting out to show us at her new exhibition and residency at The Photographers' Gallery. She's gathering up archive pictures and stories capturing the subcultures that have called Soho their home, which she'll bring together to present a sartorial history of London's most decadent district. Mods, punks, glam-rockers, drag queens, fetishists… Expect to see 'em all. Possibly at once.
Until 25 Sept; free
The Photographers' Gallery, 16 - 18 Ramillies St, W1F 7LW
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