Boujis Ibiza, Monday August 26
Bouji's is one of our secret pleasures here at UJ. Everytime we want a little Euro-chic, complete with popped collars and pastel jumpers tied nonchalantly around the neck, we head down to the Kensington nightclub for a bit of a boogie.

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Soul i-D
Grab a copy of Soul i-D, the iconic magazine's 600-page visual anthology of ideas and images featuring contributions from big names in fashion, music, art, and design, including David LaChapelle, John Galliano, Sam Taylor-Wood, Juergen Teller, and Terry Richardson.

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London Design Festival: INVERTED
It's time to embrace your inner creative as the London Design Festival rolls into town and the city gears up for Fashion Week this month. A good place to start is INVERTED, a collection of flipped environments opening throughout Carnaby. Send us your details to win one of 5 pairs of tickets to the exclusive launch event on the 11th.

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The Bolingbroke Pub & Dining Room
Formerly the Inebriated Newt, then Nikson's, this Northcote Road landmark has now been taken over by boutique company Renaissance Pubs and, although it's only been quietly open for a couple of weeks, locals are already referring to it as The Boli.

Whether this is a good or a bad sign is unclear as yet but the place makes a refreshing change to the cafes that are overrun with yummy mummies and Bugaboos during the day and the bars called things like The Abyss and Inferno that become slightly scary in the evening.

At the Bolingbroke you can get a proper pint or a decent glass of wine in civilised surroundings - light, airy and decked out with the familiar sage green paintwork and shiny dark wood that has become almost compulsory for gastropubs.

For lunch go for classics like the club sandwich, and order extra chips which should arrive crisp, golden and piping hot. For dinner try seared scallops with pea puree and Cumbrian air-dried ham followed by salt marsh lamb with anchovy and caper butter, roast cherry tomatoes and purple broccoli.

It's not ground-breaking but a good bet for a lazy weekend and, for now, a much- needed respite from the Northcote hordes.

Hawksmoor
There are those venues that, despite minimal atmosphere, awful service and lousy fare, remain consistently and inexplicably rammed with punters, baying cattle-like at the bar with little regard for either style or worth.

Easily overlooked on Commerical Street, the cosy, bare-bricked, but often quiet Hawksmoor is quite the opposite. Serving huge, choice slabs of meat from the famed Ginger Pig, it also offers an inspirational menu of contemporary and über-classic cocktails from the award-winning alco-maestro, Nick Strangeway. And yet, whilst the bar's been around for a fair while now, I am repeatedly amazed to find an inexplicable lack of a nightly queue outside its wooden-slatted windows.

Judge not the usual clump of post-work, high-rolling City chaps within, and step past some of the finest steaks in the city. Instead, pull up a stool at the bar, pick a section in the cocktail menu, or a spirit from the gorgeous back bar, and work your way through. From futuristic floating globes of 'Cointreau caviar' to authentic 19th century punches, it's hard to be disappointed. And if the legendary Mister Strangeway should be present in all his goateed glory, do, with all respect, get him to mix you up 'something special'. Secret, home cask-rested gins, curious infusions lurking on shelves, molecular alchemy of the highest order...

Of course, if I find myself queuing for my monthly Manhattan next time, I'm going to regret this. In fact, forget everything I've said. Terrible bar, that Hawksmoor. Wouldn't go there if you paid me.