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Bombay Sapphire Imagination Bar at the V&A: Friday Late with MasterCard

V&A Friday Late with MasterCard visitors are truly in for a treat. As the third and final Friday Late evening of the Summer Camp series celebrating innovation and design, this month’s theme is ‘Make’, to celebrate the V&A and Craft Council’s current ‘Power of Making’ exhibition. The event includes inspiring master classes, workshops, games and talks held by The Institute of Ideas and V&A design residents Postler Fergusson, all for free. And that’s not all. A beautifully styled Bombay Sapphire Imagination Bar in the John Madejski garden will reveal expert mixologists creating delicious imaginative cocktails. A Blue Sky Thinking cocktail made with Bombay Sapphire, blueberries, lemon juice and myrtle? Yes, please.

Or how about VIP access to the MasterCard Bar at 6.30pm for cocktails, canapés and a private talk from one of the V&A’s Friday Late: Make collaborators? MasterCard has 10 double invitations to give away to UJ readers. To enter the prizedraw email competition@urbanjunkies.com with why you need these tickets.

V&A Friday Late with MasterCard
30 Sept, 6.30-10pm, free
V&A, Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL
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Gintelligentsia Masterclass
Bombay Sapphire Blue Room, Vinopolis

Want to know why James Bond had it so wrong with his shaken not stirred martini choice? Then book yourself a place on the interactive Gintelligentsia Masterclass. Led by Bombay Sapphire Ambassador Sam Carter, you will be introduced to the 10 exotic botanicals found in Bombay Sapphire gin, the ins and outs of the 1000 years of gin history and the different methods and styles of gin production. Sam will also share his expert knowledge on vapour infusion – the 1761 process which makes Bombay Sapphire so unique – and you’ll get to try your hand at making three of your own Bombay Sapphire cocktails. All while snacking on a mouth-watering meze food platter within the arches of Vinopolis. Don’t miss your chance to become a gin expert!

Booking available now -
7pm on 4 Oct, 1 Nov, 30 Nov,
Bombay Sapphire Blue Room,
Vinopolis, 1 Bank End, SE1 9BU

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Zoe’s Restaurant Recommendation
Le Querce / Lewisham

A family-owned Sardinian restaurant that I go to constantly. Antonello and Roseanna make their own pasta, bread, cakes, sorbets and gelatos. Roberto who runs the place treats everyone like a member of his extended family. The melon & cinnamon gelato was made for my birthday three years ago – I highly recommend it (and everything else they serve!). Don’t be fooled by the simple menu, they always have a vast selection of black board specials too. There’s no place I’d rather eat!

Le Querce, 68 Brockley Rise, SE23 1LN
020 8690 3761

Zoe’s International Recommendation
Target

It’s hardly local or a well-kept secret, but I’m the biggest fan of the chain store Target in the United States. Their collaboration with Missoni launched this month and I’ve already supplied my family in Washington D.C. with my lengthy wish list.

Zoe’s Weekend Recommendations
West Norwood Feast / Brockley Market

I’m a fan of the West Norwood Feast, on the first Sunday of every month. And I’m thrilled that a weekly Brockley Market will open on Saturdays from the 24 Sept.

Podcast
Zoe Whitley’s Playlist

Once I like a song, I play it constantly and forever more – as the non-newness of my playlist will attest. From Bon Iver and James Blake to A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul, oh, and Weezer’s Rainbow Connection for the Muppets’ The Green Album!

Play.

Competition
Score tickets to Jodie Harsh’s This Is… Circus exhibition

When club queen Jodie Harsh curates an art exhibition, you know it’s going to be more than your average paint splashes on walls — and sure enough, her upcoming show promises to be "multi-sensory" and stuffed with celebs. Email us to win one of five pairs of tickets to the VIP private view of This Is… Circus next Wednesday, an event combining live performance art, film, music and graphics, with cameos by the likes of Sadie Frost, Jonny Woo and Immodesty Blaze. Expect serious sass.

This Is… Circus,
29 Sept-1 Oct (private view 28 Sept).
Bond, 24 Kingly Street, W1B 5QP, free

Shop
Liberty Loves Hello Kitty

Prints, prints, prints! A/W means, time for a little home re-deco. We’ve got our eye on Liberty’s new line of vintage fabrics, which has been invaded by our favourite Japanese cartoon cat. The results are fun, bold, and still stylish. Just because we’re having a home makeover doesn’t mean we have to get all serious.

Available from Mon 26 Sept, £21 per metre

Music
Fabriclive 59

There’s more than one way to celebrate the release of Four Tet’s addition to the Fabriclive series of mixes. You could get in the queue for the launch party at the superclub (advance tickets have already sold out) and get sweaty to the sounds of DJ sets by Trevor Jackson, Caribou and Kieran Hebden himself. Or you could skip the headache, buy the record and crank it up at home. This isn’t any old club mix, it’s a painstakingly chosen selection of old, rare two-step tracks, new dubstep and field recordings captured at Fabric – either way, you’re in for a good time.

Fabriclive 59, £10, out now
Four Tet Album Launch, Fri, 10pm-6am, £16
Fabric, 77a Charterhouse Street, EC1M 3HN

Health Offer
Free taster classes and physiotherapy at TenPilates

September’s a good time to get back on the fitness wagon, so if you’re at a loose end you should drop in to TenPilates during its open week and try a free class (we swear, it’s not just for yummy mummies – this one’s a full-body workout.) There are four locations in west London, but if you go for the Mayfair one you can get a free 20 minute physio, osteopathy or sports massage taster too. Schedule some quality "me" time.

Competition
Phaedra’s Love - sponsored listing

Phaedra’s Love – Sarah Kane’s much acclaimed and deliciously black comic reworking of Seneca’s classical tragedy of monarchy, incest and fatal obsession which premiered back in 1996 – is getting a major revival at the Arcola this Autumn (and let’s face it: tales of monarchy, incest and obsession never stop being fascinating, do they?). We have three pairs of tickets up for grabs for UJ subscribers. So to be in with the chance of winning a pair, simply email your details to us. The three winners will be picked and notified by next Monday. Tickets are valid until Oct 9th, subject to availability.

Phaedra’s Love, Sept 28 - Oct 22
Arcola Theatre, 24 Ashwin St, London E8 3DL

Recipe
Bombay Sapphire Imagine Cocktail

Ingredients:
50ml Bombay Sapphire
15ml freshly squeezed lemon juice
15ml Maraschino (dry cherry liqueur)
5ml Crème de Violette (violet liqueur)
15ml pasteurised egg white (to produce a foam and bind all the differing flavours together as one)

Method: Place all ingredients into a cocktail shaker with cubed ice and shake really well for 30 seconds. Spritz the lemon peel into the inside of the chilled martini cocktail glass then fine strain the cocktail through a tea strainer into the glass. A foam will appear on top of the cocktail. Sprinkle the blue powder through your chosen homemade stencil. This is optional but quite fun, try it and enjoy!