SHOP
BAPE x REGAL Deck Shoe

We’re having a preppy moment here at UJ, having spent the morning pondering the new ensembles sported by a certain club’s staff (blue and white Aubin & Wills stripes - nice) We were kind of left on the fence by the Converse high-tops rounding out the new look, however - we’d rather see our chic poolside servers in these new A Bathing Ape suede deck shoes, a collaboration with Japanese footwear brand Regal and available in olive, navy and beige.

£175, ww.bape.com

VOTE FOR UJ
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It’s your last chance to throw a vote into the ring and declare Urban Junkies The Hospital Club and The Independent’s THC100 creative industries winner; check us out in two categories under Established Digital (Taryn Ross) and Emerging Publishing and Writing (Addie Chinn). If you like what we do, make it count in a quick minute’s work and be the recipient of our most heartfelt thanks!

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TOMORROW
Elephant Parade

Haven’t spotted the elephant in the room yet? Then you must be a hermit, because the little fellows have been populating all kinds of nooks and crannies around the city for the past few weeks, each decorated by a different artist or creative. But hunting down all 258 of them is hard work - so this weekend you’ll be able to catch the whole herd in the same room together before they go up for auction.

25th, 26th and 28th June, 10am-7pm,
Royal Hospital Chelsea, West Road Kensington, SW3 4SR www.elephantparadelondon.org

VEUVE CLICQUOT
This Season’s Must–Have App–cessory

Whilst we at UJ do our damndest to keep you lot entertained with fun events listings, we restrict ourselves to the odd email inbox drop (don’t we just light up your day?). But if you want to keep on top of the Summer’s best events from your pocket, why not download Veuve Clicquot’s new app, ‘The Season’? Not just a list of happenings, it also lets you manage and share your burgeoning social calendar, and even locates the nearest bar so a chilled glass of bubbly is never far away, whilst guests at the Veuve Clicquot Gold Cup Final can use it as a champagne delivery Concierge Service. Cheers to that.

Check it out here.

RESERVED
This week’s hottest foodie destination

Studio East Dining
Temporary cultural canteen takes to the skies

Westfield Stratford City
www.studioeastdining.com

Location
The Carmody Groarke designed temporary pavilion on the rooftop of the still-to-be-completed Stratford City branch of Westfield’s, of course! If you haven’t heard of Studio East, whose committee, chaired by Mary Portas, includes Roland Mouret and Tracy Emin who bring together creative establishment figures with the up and coming, here's your wake up call.

Vibe
Bistrotheque boys Pablo Flack and David Waddington, London’s first true purveyors of the pop-up, are responsible for this deeply urban temporary space that overlooks London’s Olympic park and Zaha Hadid’s Aquatics Centre. Waiting staff wear Acne, vertiginous hostess Gwendoline Christie, Giles Deacon, and head chef Tom Collins has relocated from Bistrotheque’s HQ in Tower Hamlets to this sky-high makeshift kitchen.

Flavours
The menu is, unsurprisingly, fairly British with tinges of modern European, meaning you can chow down on things like Dorset crab, endive and grapefruit, grilled polenta and asparagus and honey and thyme roast peaches with marscapone. At £75 a throw, even including well-chosen wines and Patron tequila cocktails, the three course menu doesn’t come cheap, however, so soak up the views and, like, the whole one-offness.

Décor
Architects Carmody Groarke, responsible for that most sainted of pop-ups The Double Club, used scaffolding pillaged from the surrounding building sites to create this extraordinary, many-pronged, star burst-like structure that juts out into the sky. There’s also a private dining space for a maximum of 30 people that has countryside views as well as city ones, with Canary Wharf and the Gherkin in the distance; a snip at £2,500 and upwards for you and your guests.

Upshot
The good news? This is the Rolls Royce of pop-ups, or so says Bistrotheque’s Pablo Flack. The bad news? You’ve only got ten days to blag yourself a table (it’s open Weds to Sat in the evening and Friday and Sunday lunchtimes) so be prepared to sell your granny. Due to an overwhelming response, however, you’ll be pleased to hear it from us that extra covers have just been added for lunch this Friday and next, so you might just be in luck.