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Get your reservations in early for London's latest restaurant launch.

We can't get a reservation for toffee at the moment. Really, we suspect even if all we wanted was in fact, toffee, we'd still be stuck on an endless waitlist. Valentine's Day is down to 6pm slots. Blumenthal pilgrims are burning at a pyre that doesn't promise to put out until March.

We haven't seen the inside of Hawksmoor Seven Dials before 10pm. The neighbourhood pizza place laughed at our Friday evening booking request and our office local ran out of soup today. SOUP. Is there serious cash to splash on dining right now or is everyone just denial-eating their poverty and clogging up our calendars in the meantime?

Either way you look at it, good tables are hard to come by. So we're giving you the following information now, in the hope that you can get in before the hoards arrive and you're left at home with a cardboard carton and snap-apart chopstick splinters. The heads up is for Pan-Asian joint Cocochan, promising to open on St James Street (which seems to be experiencing a bit of an Oriental renaissance between this and Inamo) next week with an ominous Open Table 'check back soon' status keeping us on the edge of our seats. We like the 'family style' dig in eating option, modern-sounding interiors (grey resin floor, mirrored metallic latticework, black bamboo tables), snugs in the ex-cellar bar space, and an all-weather terrace which'll come in mighty handy come summer.

Which is probably when we'll get a table.

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Cocochan is opening next week (we'll keep you updated on a definite date)
38-40 James Street, W1U 1EU

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Claim Your Exclusive Discount With Morgans Hotel Group

Cold weather and January blues getting you down and making you dream of a little getaway? We're thinking holing up in a hotel is a pretty good call right now. But if you can't afford flights fear not – Morgans Hotel Group is offering UJ Subscribers a 25% discount at their London properties The The Sanderson and St Martins Lane, with continental breakfast for two and early check–in/late check–out included. Grab a loved one (V–day isn't far off now…), pull in a mate and take advantage of the likes of in–house restaurants Suka and Asia de Cuba, sample the new health–conscious menu at Agua Spa, or hole up at the bar and wonder what's going on at home. Even if is only a few postcodes across town.

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The Opera Tavern Pre-Launch

Last Wednesday Urban Junkies teamed up with WineChap to celebrate the launch of The Opera Tavern in Covent Garden, and give a handful of lucky subscribers the chance to try out the tapas tasters and our upcoming wine–pairing evenings. Unanimous thumbs up went to the super-moist Iberico mini-burgers, creamy honeyed courgette flowers, salt cod croquettas, and a Scotch quail egg that simply blew us away. And with the ever-knowledgeable WineChaps behind the bar helping to make sense of a flight of eight wines, we sipped our way from Albariño to Grenache. It was an absolute pleasure to have the chance to meet and mingle with so many of our readers, and we hope to get to know lots more of you lovely lot at one of our upcoming events. Until next time, check out the pictures from the night, and don't forget: there's 50% off food and a free glass of sherry for anyone mentioning UJ at The Opera Tavern until the end of January. Salut!

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THIS WEEK's Agenda Picks
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SHOP – We're loving Richard Nicoll's colour-blocking womenswear collaboration with Fred Perry, in stores and online this week. From £50

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TALK – Forget 2011's newbies and join this talk with rock'n'roll legend Patti Smith. Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AR. Tonight, 6:15pm. £25.

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BOOK AHEAD – For the fun new Scratch&Sniff events with a new take on life and love. 14th & 22nd Feb, The Book Club, 100 Leonard Street, EC2A 4RH. £12-£17.

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INTERNATIONAL – Anyone NYC–bound should check out George Condo's weird caricatures from 26th Jan. New Museum, 235 Bowery, NY 10002. $12.

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