TODAY
Carnaby 20% Shopping Party

With over 100 stores from throughout Carnaby and the Newburgh Quarter participating, register online pronto for a free ticket to tonight’s 20% shopping night, including savings in Diesel, Barbour, Johnny Cupcakes and more. In addition to the knock-down prices, various stores will be hosting DJs, live music, complimentary drinks and giveaways, plus there’s a free drink at The White Horse pop-up bar in Kingly Court for ticket-holders and 20% off meals at various local restaurants including Dehesa and Canela. Well, shopping can be such hard, hard work you know.

Thurs May 19, 5-9pm,
Free, but register here for your free ticket.

TONIGHT
SPONSORED LISTING
Beck’s Fusion Summer Guestlist - Stag & Dagger

If think you’re a bit too, ahem, mature for the Dalston brigade’s unending carnival of audio-cool, think again –this microfest remains a cracking opportunity to catch the very best in up-and-coming musical talent. Pick up your access-all-entry wristbands and dot-to-dot your way around a whole host of venues on this East End jolly including sets from Toro Y Moi at XOYO, Cocknbull Kid at CAMP, New Young Pony Club at The Macbeth and Ghostpoet at 93 Feet East. And to get yourself in the mood, warm-up with the Stag & Dagger Soundcloud mixtape.

May 19, 7-11pm.£13.50.

BOOK NOW
International Music Summit - Agenda Announced

There’s less than a week left until the IMS, but that’s still enough time to get flights booked, find a scarce hotel room and join in on the festivities in Ibiza next week. And with the final schedule launched with gems like a keynote interview with Pepe Rosello (owner of Space), a chat with the Global Music Director of W Hotels and a presentation by Resident Advisor re: the new house sound- it’s looking like it’s definitely going to be worth the trip. Add that to the festivities surrounding the summit (IMS events, Ushuaia Beach Hotel opening, Borrell at Ibiza Rocks Bar and first glimpses of Pacha’s new bar Lio) and we’d say it’s a no brainer. For the complete IMS agenda of events, Click here.

The first dedicated
UK outpost for Burberry Brit launches in London
Sponsored Listing

With stores already in Paris, New York and Milan, Burberry have finally brought their ready-to-wear Burberry Brit line home to Blighty – and it’s hot. The first UK store has set up its discretely iPadalicious, dark oak and polished chrome home in the heart of Covent Garden. And after the all-star launch last Thursday, hosted by the brand’s ever-charming Christopher Bailey and populated by an aptly beautiful crowd including the likes of Ellie Goulding and star model progeny, Tara Ferry and Tali Lennox, the store is now open for all. Celebrating the best bits of Brit-ness, it’s perfect for topping up on your more casual designer essentials (including a certain trench that we’re absolutely lusting after) – and be sure to keep an eye out for the series of in-store live gigs they’re planning for this summer.

Burberry Brit, 41-42 King Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 8JS

COMPETITION
Sailor Jerry

Celebrating the 100th birthday of the legendary godfather of modern tattooing, Norman ‘Sailor Jerry’ Collins, Homeward Bound: The Life and Times of Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry is a massive, sexy beast of book that’s an absolute must-have for any lover of the old-school tattoo scene. Despite being an extremely limited edition release, the nice people at Sailor Jerry www.sailorjerry.co.uk have given us two books to give away, each partnered with a bottle of Sailor Jerry spiced rum naturally, to two lucky UJ subscribers.

Send in your name and details to competition@urbanjunkies.com (subject: Sailor Jerry Competition) for a chance to win.

SECRET SALE
Social Suicide

The Social Suicide Summer Holidaze collection is built for pure vacation bliss – no matter the weather. The light denim and cotton jackets feature prints reminiscent of childhood Kodachrome holidays, deckchairs and never-ending summers, lined with gingham and polkadot, or in-built chess and backgammon boards. They pack into their own arms for travel, and in typical Social Suicide style feature microfibre-lined sunglass pockets, a stash for your holiday novel, and a metal lined mobile phone pocket that cuts your reception to give you that “out of the office” feeling wherever you are.

Sat May 21, 11am-1pm. Shoreditch House, Ebor Street, E1 6AW.

Spaces are limited so please RSVP, And to receive an additional 10% off the sales price just quote the UJ Connection Fund when RSVPing!

INTERNATIONAL
Nobu at Cannes

With the Cannes Film Festival drawing to a typically magnificent close this weekend, there’ll no doubt be more than a few Hollywood suits inking big-dollar deals at the Nobu Berkeley’s pop-up. High on the rooftop of the 3.14 Hotel Cannes boutique hotel, the menu is a riviera-licious take on the traditional Nobu genius: classic sushi dishes, yakimono and salads all served with sides of idyllic poolside views of the croisette as standard – no doubt with a few tipsy aspiring starlets, as a garnish.

Until May 22, 12pm-3pm, 7pm-1am.
3.14 Hotel Cannes, 5, Rue François Einesy.

COMPETITION
SPONSORED LISTING
One Man, Two Guvnors

James Corden returns to the National Theatre to play Francis Henshall in Richard Bean’s version of Goldoni’s classic Italian comedy about sex, food and money. Fired from his skiffle band, Francis becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, now in Brighton to collect £6,000 from his fiancee’s dad. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who’s been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers. Confused? We have five pairs of tickets to help you find your way through this hilarious performance at the National.

To enter just email your details to competition@urbanjunkies.com (subject: One Man Two Guvnors Competition).

Competition end Wed May 25.
Prize tickets are for Mon-Thurs performances only until June 23.

One Man, Two Guvnors, From May 17, National Theatre, Southbank, SE1 8XX.

BOOK AHEAD
Betrayal

Taking a break from being one of world cinema’s most fascinating actresses, Kristin Scott Thomas is back on the boards this summer, two years after winning an Olivier for her amazing role in The Seagull. This time round, she’s the adulterous wife in Harold Pinter’s 1978 Betrayal, which unfolds in reverse chronological order tracking a seven year affair between her character and her husband’s best friend. Scott Thomas can do glacial deception in her sleep – and her proven rapport with The Seagull’s Ian Rickson spells only wondrous things for this revival of the Pinter classic.

May 27 - Aug 20, £20-£49.50,
Comedy Theatre, 6 Panton Street, SW1Y 4DN.

RESERVED
This week’s hottest foodie destination

The Riding House Café
Rule Britannia with the juiciest burger on the touristy block.

43-51 Great Titchfield Street, W1W 7PQ.
020 7927 0840

www.ridinghousecafe.co.uk

Location
While we were scratching our heads wondering how Chutney & Lager, the ‘Indian tapas’ (ahem) restaurant that previously occupied this light-filled Noho site, failed to take hold (despite having the greatest name, like, evah!), The Riding House Café has quickly established itself as the place for post-Top Shop martinis. This all-day brasserie’s arrival marks a first move across the river for the guys behind style-savvy SE1 venues, The Garrison and Village East.

Vibe
It’s like the Wolseley’s had a wobble and got itself a Soho House makeover. Bromance is in the air over breakfast and lunch as young media types establish the RHC as their new canteen. A more flamboyant cocktail crowd arrives as the shops shut. Reservations are only available for the Dining Room, so a lively ‘walk-in’ vibe permeates the bar, lounge and ‘Dining Hall’ with its communal table.

Flavours
The ‘full and proper breakfast’ and eggs hussard (a Schiller’s Liquor Bar brunch standard – basically eggs benny with bordelaise sauce) suggest you can breakfast like a king at RHC – though there are juices and mueslis for those that start their day more gingerly. An alluring menu of colourful ‘small plates’ such as our asparagus and parmesan, chermoula poussin and veal and pork meatball go down very nicely the rest of the day though there are bigger plates – fish and chips, burgers and steaks – too. So good are the chorizo hash browns, they’re on all day.

Décor
The distressed brickwork, the white metro tiles, the tasselled ‘granny’ lampshades are very familiar design details but it wouldn’t be fair to say there’s nothing here we haven’t seen elsewhere before. The display copies of ‘Horse and Hound’ and the pre-scuffed retro-futurist customised Dyson Airblade, in particular, are new ones on us.

Upshot
At last, an off-Oxford Street venue that’s in-tune with what we want and when we want it. Pre-shopping, post-shopping and, above all, on Sundays, we will be there.