TODAY
Exposure/EDIT Sample Sale

Follow our lead and jump into summer by bagging up to 80% off selected designer garments from the likes of Duchamp, Hannah Marshall, Katie Eary, Mackintosh and Tim Soar. We’ll be joining the queue to get our mitts on anything Globe-Trotter as this sunshine has us in a holiday kinda mood (ironic, yes, that the appearance of good weather here makes us want to jet off elsewhere). Payment is by cash only so remember to stop off at an ATM en route.

7th & 8th April, 9am-7pm. Exposure, 20 Little Portland Street, W1W 8BU.

TONIGHT
R.S.V.P.H.R.H

We haven’t (surprisingly) received one ourselves but we’re guessing the Royal wedding invite is a plush gold embossed affair. For those of you also in the dark, the R.S.V.P.H.R.H. exhibition’s aim is to re-imagine the invite in ways which would trouble the royal family on a whole host of levels. Artists, designers, photographers and cake-makers all contribute to cast the Royal pair in characters ranging from foxes, superheroes and corgis. One must attend.

From 6:30pm. The Rag Factory, 16 Heneage Street, E1 5LJ.

SHOP
Karl Lagerfeld x Diet Coke

It’s no secret that we have a slight addiction to DC in the UJ office, and like nothing more than a little bottle collectible. Our Selfridges anniversary edition is still in its fully-wrapped pantone yellow glory next to Uncle Karl’s first foray with the brand. This year Lagerfeld is back with his second collaboration launching this week featuring three new and exclusive designs in fashion-friendly vibrant pinks brushed metal grey and glossy white and of course, the man’s own distinctive silhouette. If you can’t afford a slice of Chanel take a sip of the next best thing and keep an eye out for this threesome to hit shelves come summer.

COMPETITION
Join UJ at the launch of Bombay Sapphire’s Imagination Installation

It’s your last chance to enter our competition to win a chance to attend an evening of imagination with UJ! Bombay Sapphire are gearing up for a Summer of imagination with The Imagination Installation. The 3D Swarovski sculpture depicts the ten hand-selected botanical ingredients gathered from some of the world’s most exotic locations that make up the gin in Bombay Sapphire’s signature blue bottle. We have 25 pairs of tickets for UJ subscribers to attend the launch event with us, where you can enjoy a free Bombay Sapphire cocktail and be amongst the first to see the Imagination Installation before it’s revealed to the world. Fancy joining us there? Simply TELL US one of the ten exotic botanicals which make up Bombay Sapphire.

12th April, from 7:30pm. 16-18 Berners Street,
W1T 3LN.

BOOK AHEAD
Rosie’s Deli Cafe Supperclub

The thing about tapas is that you never want it to stop coming– until you tot up the bill in your head and panic. This is where the lovely Rosie Lovell steps in and offers us the supper club of our dreams– never ending tapas. With yummy dishes such as nettle gnocchi and blood orange and Campari jelly this is a ticket to snap up quickly– just don’t forget to bring your own bottle. However, if you can’t wait until then there’s also a vintage china sale outside the shop this Sunday, where there’ll be beautiful tea-sets, tablecloths and glassware. Belated Mother’s day present, anyone?

7pm, 14 Market Row, SW9 8LD, £25.

SOHO HOUSE GROUP NEWS
Meatball Tuesdays at Pizza East

With news that the SpagWednesday Spuntino meatball pop-up is ALREADY a sold-out goner, we have an even better spaghetti slurping solution – Meatball Tuesdays at Pizza East. Jump on the three-course, £15 menu which includes a weekly changing bruschetta, meatballs in either lamb, beef or ricotta and spinach with a classic tomato sauce served in antique bowls, and dessert of traditional gelato or fruit sorbet. We’re feeling a pear or grappa flavour is the perfect refresher for this yummy weather. 

Reservations: 0207 729 1888

INTERNATIONAL
Four Seasons Marrakech

As if we needed another excuse to scour the souks of Marrakech, now the Four Seasons are setting up shop at the foot of the snow-capped Atlas Mountains just across from the Menara Gardens. Jump into this 40 acre walled Moorish sanctuary, take in the view from your private balcony, enjoy a spa treatment in the garden pavilions or traditional hammam, take a guided excursion through the carnival atmosphere of Jemaa el-Fna or embark on a caravan tour of the Sahara Desert. You’ll find us in a private, wi-fi equipped cabana by the Adult Pool. Join us!

Accepting reservations beginning June 15th 2011. Welcome Packages from 330 EUR.

HEADS UP
Lucozade Sport Ad

What happens when you put Team UJ in a tunnel underneath Waterloo and turn off the lights? Like rats we ran to the bar, obviously, but not before we caught Tinie Tempah introducing the new Lucozade Sport TV advertisement from a giant boxing ring in cavernous surroundings that mirrored the pretty explosive commercial on screen. Everyone’s favourite urban artist (and how we love his bow-tied, coloured trouser ways) stars alongside Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and Amateur World Boxing Champion Katie Taylor in the ad, which features a remix of Tinie’s ‘Simply Unstoppable’, and will be released online tomorrow.

PODCAST OF THE WEEK
F*ck Spring

We’ll be honest – when this mix was conceived by Audiosushi for UJ, it was with black daffodils and dark, atmospheric days in mind (because the title doesn’t quite say it all). But with the amazing sunshine on our faces and a skip in our flippity-floppity steps, we’re re-appropriating the chilled-out likes of Burial and Radiohead, Gold Panda, Friendly Fires and Soup Clap for perfect laying in the grass and staring up at the blue sky tunes. Chill the f*ck out – with this weather, nothing’s that bad.

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RESERVED
This week’s hottest foodie destination

The Brunswick House Café
The hidden gem in a house of brick-a-brack

30 Wandsworth Road, SW8 2LG.
020 7720 2926

www.brunswickhousecafe.co.uk

Location
Leave Vauxhall tube via the wrong exit at your peril. (You want exit 6). Brunswick House, the grand Georgian riverside mansion, within whose walls reside the wonderfully barmy LASSCO architectural salvage store and the Brunswick House Café, feels like the last house standing in the middle of the Vauxhall Cross gyratory system. Half a dozen pelican crossings later, you’ll need a cocktail. Make it a Corpse Reviver.

Vibe
Feels like a pop-up but isn’t; the best of both worlds. The old house and ballroom full of curios is home to good food and £6.50 cocktails. This dynamite proposition is catnip to South London’s skinniest, greediest jolies laides and on-their-uppers aristos.

Flavours
Whip-smart and easy on the eye, young chef Jackson Boxer has done the pop-up scene (having cooked at his brother Frank’s Café and Campari Bar, the sensation of Summer ’09 if you recall) though his ‘establishment’ foodie credentials are rock solid too. His is ‘school of St John cooking’. Rare roast topside of beef atop dripping-anointed toast is always on at lunch and I’ve been back more than once for the confit Old Spot with broken eggs. Afterwards, there are Portuguese custard tarts and coffee by Jack Coleman (London’s roaster du jour). It all comes cheap. Even at dinner (Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights only), dishes don’t top a tenner. You might find cockles, mussels and fino for £7.20 or, for £4.40, white beans, garlic and ‘house lardo.’

Décor
Beneath the bunting, dusty chandeliers and old restaurant signs, seating is at any chair or table you can find and it’s all for sale. The vintage placky stacking thing I sat on had an £8 tag dangling off it but I could have chosen better. Next time, I’ll try the faux Alvar Aalto at £30. The ramshackle terrace out front with its wrought iron love seats and birdbaths is fun too.

Upshot
Cheapness and nowness are very, very strong attributes. This place’s moment may be just that but we’ll be talking about it – and Jackson Boxer – in years to come.