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FOOD: Ahi Poke
No longer just a reaction to a man jabbing you with his finger (say it aloud), Ahi Poke is now also Fitzrovia's most buzzed-about lunch spot. Serving up Hawaiian poke (marinated raw fish with salads/grains), it manages to cram a LOT of foodie trends into one colourful bowl. It's sustainable, raw, full of nutrients, comes in compostable packaging, and can involve avocado. Because you have to have avocado. Choose a base (quinoa, kale, sushi rice), a protein (tuna, sea bream, salmon), then add toppings and sauces. And ta da! 'Look at my lunch' Instagrams coming right up.
Now open
Ahi Poke, 3 Percy Street, London W1T 1DE
POP-UP: Keeping Up With The Joneses
Edible vodka toothpaste, detergent-bottle cocktails, macaron dishwasher tablets... Sounds like good clean fun to us. And it's all on offer at new Clerkenwell pop-up Keeping Up With The Joneses. Part promenade piece, part boozy-foodie party, expect to be guided around the weird and wacky (and sparkly clean) world of The Joneses, covering eight rooms that include a washing powder snowstorm, a Bang & Olufsen sound lounge and a feather-filled pillow-fight space. Oh, and we should probably mention that there's a 'dirty laundry disco bar' with washing-machine cocktail makers. It's the kind of information that one really should know.
7-10 July; from £17.50
Keeping Up With The Joneses,, 10 Clerkenwell Green, EC1R 0DU
POP-UP: Prawnography
Holding true to the theory that puns make stuff taste better, it's time to indulge in a bit of hardcore Prawnography. Ready to assist is Fish Market restaurant, which is handing its kitchen to the street-food stars and letting them run wild to create the ultimate seafood brunch. Scallop and bacon rolls, crabmeat soldiers with boiled duck eggs, prawn Bloody Marys made with prawn-infused vodka… They sure don't shrimp on the tasty ingredients. (Sorry.)
9 July-7 August
Fish Market, 16B New Street, London, EC2M 4TR
ART: Georgia O'Keeffe
Can you imagine how annoying it must be to have your whole pioneering body of art reduced to a single question: flowers or vaginas? And that is what, for many years, (male) critics did to the works of Georgia O'Keeffe – despite her denying that her paintings were in any way sexual. 'Um, guys? You know those things that look like flowers? Well they are FLOWERS. Not labias.' But what O'Keeffe's paintings ARE are vivid modernist masterpieces, full of rugged landscapes, sun-bleached animal bones, high desert terrains and huge magnified flowers. Got that, guys? F-L-O-W-E-R-S. Check for yourself at the major new Tate Modern exhibition.
Until 30 October; £19
Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG
FOOD: Trade Union
You know how it's the done thing to have slashes nowadays? Like: model/actress, model/DJ, blogger/dental hygienist (maybe)… Well, consider cool Tower Hill opening Trade Union the Cara Delevingne of the café world. Because not only does it serve up speciality coffees courtesy of Vagabond, but it also has: an NYC-style pizza counter, Bushwick & Co; a super-chic florist, Maua London; a grooming stop, Drakes of London; and – crucially – a cocktail bar, mixing up classic and signature concoctions. Making it a café/bar/restaurant/florist/salon/must-visit. Slash-tastic.
Trade Union, 1 Thomas More Square, St Katharine Docks, E1W 1YZ
FESTIVAL: Sunfall
This new electronic shindig is very much a festival of two halves. By day, Brixton's Brockwell Park becomes a big ol' underground dance love-in with the likes of Jamie xx, Goldie, Joy Orbison and Ben Klock bringing the beats. Then by night the festival invades London's edgiest venues, leaving you to choose where to party till dawn. Jamie xx at The Coronet, Derrick Carter at Brixton Electric or Moodymann at Corsica Studios? Decisions, decisions…
9 July; from £55
Sunfall, Norwood Rd, London SE24 9BJ
EXHIBITION: Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick
You wouldn't have thought the director of 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and Dr Strangelove could be made to seem any cooler. But artists and musicians including Doug Aitken, Gavin Turk, Haroon Mirza and Anish Kapoor, Jarvis Cocker and Beth Orton have only gone and managed it. They've produced original works inspired by Kubrick, covering sculpture, video, paintings, music and waxwork, which are brought together for a major Somerset House exhibition curated by UNKLE's James Lavelle. Best viewed with Eyes Wide, er, Open.
6 July-24 August; £12.50
West Wing, Somerset House, Strand, WC2R 1LA
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