The Airstream-based pop-up Street Kitchen leads an Autumnal Americana trend

It’s a little known fact that a certain someone here at UJ was once a card-carrying cheerleader back in the US of A. We’re talking pom-poms, backflips, endlessly white smiles – the whole nine yards. Hard to imagine, yes. But it does go some way to explaining our love affair with most things Transatlantic (oil disasters notwithstanding). And perhaps why, therefore, we’re loving the gentle breeze of Americana that’s blowing in from across the pond this Autumn…

You could squeeze yourself into a little prepitude courtesy of these Varsity Jackets, fast cementing themselves as one of our favourite seasonal loves (take this Mihara Yasuhiro shawl number). Or let it all hang out and head to UJ’s new meatball-touting fave Tiny Robot on Westbourne Grove for a little Brooklyn-esque bare-brick vibe. Like it rough? Head to Aces and Eights, a saloon style 50’s rock’n’roll dive bar complete with pinball machine launched last Thursday.

Flying the visual flag, Olyvia Fine Art has a tasty-looking American Pop-Art show on at the moment exhibiting some refreshingly bright slabs of Haring and Warhol. And speaking of tasty, Street Kitchen is a forthcoming full-on culinary Airstream rolling out for the London Restaurant Festival. Sure it promises predominantly British dishes along the Braised Beef and Celeriac Mash lines. But with those cult Airstream lines and a little Blackberry and Shortbread Cheesecake on the menu, if we could just get our aforementioned staffer back in the old pop-socks and pom-poms we might just die and go to Americana heaven.

Info
Street Kitchen
Oct 4-18
In Covent Garden from Oct 4, then Old Spitalfields Market from Oct 15

Sold Out: American Pop Art from the 1970s and the 1980s
Sept 22 – Nov 20
Olyvia Fine Art, 17 Ryder Street, SW1Y 6PY

Tiny Robot
78 Westbourne Grove, W2 5RT

Aces and Eights
156-158 Fortress Road, NW5 2HP

WineChap kicks off a new wine-tastic Q&A series with Hawksmoor’s Will Beckett

Arguably the City's finest steakhouse, Hawksmoor boasts an enviable winelist and hosts regular (and rather generous) winemaker dinners. For the first of our new WineChap quick-sip Q&As, we sit down for two minutes with Will Beckett, the man at the Hawksmoor helm.

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BARGAIN HUNT – your way to the Georgina Goodman Sample Sale. Up to 75% off. 10am-7pm, Georgina Goodman, 12-14 Shepherd Street, W1J 7UF. Free.

WATCH – the moving story of a friendship falling apart in Burn My Heart. 7:30pm, New Diorama Theatre, 125-16 Triton Street, NW1 3BF £10.50-£12.50.

3 IN 1 – watch a film, see a band and a live DJ set at the Raindance Film Festival Opening Party. Tomorrow, 7pm, Apollo Cinema, 19 Lower Regent Street, SW1 4LR. £25.

SEE – Laine Laing's photography in Budapest in Monumental Misconception. 10am-5pm, The Gallery Soho. 121-125 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0EW . Free.