What To Do This Weekend 24.07.24

This Friday (26th July) chef Graeme Cheevers of Michelin-starred Unalome in Glasgow will join Miller Prada and the kitchen team at Humo for a one-night-only exclusive culinary experience. This is the inaugural event in Humo’s new guest chef series ‘Invitados’, which invites kitchen heroes from some of the world’s best restaurants to collaborate with their team. The menu will feature a pairing with Wildmoor whisky. Across tasting and à la carte menus, dishes are inspired by Scotland’s natural landscape. Highlights from the £155 tasting menu include roasted hand-dived Orkney scallop with dashi custard and smoked Shetland mussel sauce; and scarlet prawn tartare and toast with prawn jelly and N25 Oscietra caviar.

12 St George Street, Mayfair, W1S 2FB

Visit HumoLondon.com 

Billed as a ‘wine rave’, Close Ties is the brainchild of Carousel’s Joshua Brat and Trullo’s Jake Norman. The collab rejects the status quo of traditional supper clubs and offers guests a new experience of ‘beats and bites’. Attendees are encouraged to get on the dancefloor while enjoying dishes from guest chefs and pours of low-intervention wines. This Saturday, Anna Søgaard – the original chef at Bistro Freddie – will take over the BBQ with music from Sonder Record Label and Don’t F**k with Disco on the Salt Space terrace in Dalston. Entry costs £10.

Salt Space, 3 Gillett Street, Dalston, N16 8JH; 27th July

Follow @Close_Ties_

The Dally is a members club set across three floors of a period townhouse that’s been restored with ‘quiet luxury’ interiors. Founders Caroline Baldwin and Claire Ilardi-Crow want the place to have a luxe neighbourhood feel. Memberships cost £66 a month and cover exclusive events, space to work, bars for all occasions, and access to lounges and private dining rooms.

181 Upper Street, Islington, N1 1RQ

Visit TheDally.com

In the subterranean vaults beneath Waterloo, you can now find speakeasy venue Rhythm & Ruse, which promises immersive evenings of magic, live jazz and cabaret. Alongside the entertainment, there’s an open bar of unlimited prohibition-style cocktails from Tom Savano included in the ticket price. There are multiple performances every Thursday and throughout the weekend. At Saturday and Sunday lates, there will be a special line-up of 60-minute sets by emerging and established artists – from circus and burlesque to comedians and musicians. The venue is opening at the end of August, but tickets are on sale now and start from £60pp. 

Launcelot Street, Waterloo, SE1 7AD

Visit RhythmAndRuse.com

After a five-year hiatus, Tutto Wine’s summer party returns on Sunday 28th July. Hosted at London Fields fine-dining spot Brat Climpson’s Arch, there will be a menu from chef collective Loose Joints, with William Gleave heading up the grill. Also on the roster is Meedu Saad, head chef and co-founder of Soho’s Kiln, as well as Songsoo Kim and Ben Chapman from Super8 Restaurants (that’s Brat, Smoking Goat, Mountain and Kiln). Zen Ong, founder of Los Angeles ice-cream parlour Awan, is taking care of the dessert and, of course, Tutto will be pouring their favourite summer bottles. Seiji Ono of reissue label Melodies International will be spinning records throughout.

374 Helmsley Place, London Fields, E8 3SB 

Visit TuttoWines.com

The world’s greatest sporting event is touching down on French soil for the first time in 100 years. Instead of a stadium, Friday night’s opening ceremony will take place along the Seine, where 10,500 athletes will make their way past Paris’s major landmarks in boats. We’ll be watching the whole thing unfold on BBC1 from 6.30pm.

Visit BBC.co.uk

Indian tapas-style restaurants Gunpowder, found in Soho and Tower Bridge, run a monthly India Club on the last Sunday of every month, exploring the rich cuisine of different regions of the country. Next up is the region of Punjab. Diners can expect highlights such as pindi chole chaat with crispy bhature; fish amritsari with wild sea bream; malai murgh makhanwala, which is similar to butter chicken; plus a panjiri treacle tart with burnt butter cream for dessert. Can’t make this one? The next event will be on 25th August, and will explore the flavours of Gujarat.

Various locations; 28th July

Visit GunpowderRestaurants.com