The Easter bumper special has arrived… and if you're staying here this weekend then relish the empty streets! It begins and ends with eating – brunch, rooftop, Italian feast, Taiwanese street food and a Chinese classic – with full pelt partying (block, hotel and warehouse options), shopping and drinking in between. And of course, Easter eggs sweet and savoury. The weekend starts now, kids. This Weekend’s Picks • FRI Boundary Rooftop • SAT Concrete Block Party • SUN Fat Cheeks TONIGHT: SHOP McQ SS13 Nothing like a lock in with McQ. Tonight they're hosting a shopping event in their Dover Street store to celebrate the arrival of the SS13 collections (think prints, strong lines and sports luxe looks for both men and women). There'll be a complimentary cocktail bar, DJ set from Spector, a competition to win a £1000 shopping spree and 30% off all purchases made on the night. Spring wardrobe, we're coming for you. McQ, 5pm-8pm, 14 Dover Street, W1S 4LW TONIGHT: MUSIC Japanese Record Shop at LN-CC Alternatively, head to another store tonight. LN-CC is hosting forward-thinking DJ Chee Shimizu's Tokyo-based online record shop Organic Music. Rare Japanese records will be on sale followed by an intimate listening sesh in the club (and plenty of Asahi). This is Chee's third and largest curation of Japanese records that date back to the 70s through to the 90s. Next week the records will be live for sale on LN-CC's website, but we'd rather hear before we buy. Chee Shimizu at LN-CC, from 7pm, 18 Shacklewell Lane, E8 2EZ To attend please email rsvp@ln-cc.com TONIGHT: EAT Bao If you've missed their first few pop ups, get your names down for Bao's event tonight at The Shop NW10. Serving up Xiao Chi (Taiwanese small eats) expect the signature dish of Gua Bao (pork buns) plus soya milk fried chicken, daikon croquettes and pomelo crunch. Bao at The Shop NW10, , 6pm-11pm, 75 Chamberlayne Road, NW10 3ND to book email info@baolondon.com PARTY PICK Apogee v Potty Mouth Easter Special If shopping, record shopping and eating aren't on your agenda tonight, a blowout warehouse party might be. An eclectic mix of the best old and new names in house and disco will be getting the dance floor pumped. It's an internationally eclectic mix too. Germany's groove master DJ T headlines, followed by Italian hyper-disco faves Tiger & Woods and homegrown talent, the widely acclaimed Duke Dumont and 90s lovers Waze & Odyssey. And breathe. Apogee v Potty Mouth Easter Special Studio Spaces, Unit 2, 110 Pennington Street, E1W 2BB FRIDAY BRUNCH: BISTROTHQUE ROOFTOP: Boundary Rooftop To celebrate Good Friday, Hackney hotspot Bistrotheque is serving weekend brunch a day earlier. Start your day with a Cucumber Flip or traditional Bloody Mary, move on to some oysters, followed by duck hash, avocado on toast or eggs any way. Or, keep in theme with Good Friday and try the haddock cockles. Good Friday just got hip(ster). Or, go for lobster with a view. The Boundary Rooftop is open again with a new addition – a weatherproof pergola! (Fitting for winter in March.) Open daily, come here for breakfast smoothies or your Good Friday late lunch of seafood cooked on the open grill – salmon, whole lobster, yellowfin tuna and shrimp – and fast-flowing wine. Plus, it's staying open all year round rain, hail or shine. 11am-4pm Mains from £13.50 23-27 Wadeson Street E2 9DR 10am-11pm Mains from £15 2-4 Boundary Street, E2 7DD ART GEOFFREY FARMER: The Surgeon and the Photographer Sponsored listing Only a month ago, The Curve was filled with continuously falling rain in the critically acclaimed Rain Room; now the space has been transformed to house 365 puppet-like figures for the UK premiere of Geoffrey Farmer's The Surgeon and the Photographer. Composed of images cut from old books and magazines, then mounted onto fabric forms, the piece is accompanied by a new film commission. Farmer's work blends the collage and assemblage traditions of Hannah Höch and Robert Rauschenberg; the element of chance employed by John Cage and "Merce" Cunningham; and an animist perspective from Pacific Northwest coast cultures. Geoffrey Farmer: The Surgeon and the Photographer, until July 28 Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS, free entry Image credit: Geoffrey Farmer, The Surgeon and the Photographer, 2009 (detail). Paper, textile, wood, metal; dimensions variable, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Purchased with funds from the Jean MacMillan Southam Major Art Purchase Fund, Phil Lind, Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund, Canada Council for the Arts Acquisitions Assistance Program and the Michael O'Brian Family Foundation. Photo: Rachel Topham, Vancouver Art Gallery FESTIVAL Secret Garden Party Sponsored listing Yet to book your festival fix for summer? Head to Cambridgeshire this July for the magical, colourful Secret Garden Party. The line up has just been announced – Soulwax, Django Django, Bastille, Rodigan, Regina Spektor and the Shout Out Louds are just a few names on the bill. On top of that there'll be theatre, a spa and salon, and some of London's best food carts offering inbetween party snacks. With only four months to go, and tickets in tiers 1 – 3 now sold out (there's limited availability in tiers 4 and 5), get booking pronto. And the theme this year? Superstition (bagsie Stevie Wonder). Secret Garden Party, July 25 – 28, Abbots Ripton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE28 2PH Book tickets here COMPETITION Skreamizm: Hotel & After Party Hotel, motel, Holiday Inn… well, the South Place actually. This Saturday, XOYO host the first in a series of hotel terrace parties borrowed from the New York party scene. Start at the South Place Hotel with dance darling Skream and friends before heading over to XOYO for an after party. And then there's always the after, after party back in the rooms… Tickets have sold out for this event but we're giving away a pair for the full event. To enter simply email competition@urbanjunkies.com by the end of today. Skreamism at the South Place Hotel and XOYO, 2pm-9pm and 9pm-3am, 3 South Place EC2M 2AF and 32-37 Cowper Street EC2A 4AP SATURDAY EAT: BOCCA DI LUPO EASTER MENU PARTY: CONCRETE BLOCK PARTY Round up the friends and family at Bocca di Lupo for a blow out Easter feast. The special, à la carte menu is inspired by the different regions of Italy and includes the aptly named Baby Chick (grilled poussain), Easter Bunny (poached rabbit), March Hare (with egg pasta) and Baby Kid (sheep's milk ricotta dumplings). If you're not full after dessert (sweet ricotta, wholegrain wheat and candied orange tart) then head across the road to Gelupo for their modern take on the Easter egg. Shake up the neighbourhood and kick it old-school with Concrete's party on the block. Vogue to beats from the 80s, hip-hop into the 90s and grind your way through the noughties, courtesy of DJs Jason Taylor, Jack Swallow and Tayo3000, who'll be delivering beats from everyone from Cutty Ranks to Kanye. Strap up those Reeboks and look sharp. Lunch 12.30pm-3pm, dinner 5.30pm-11pm Large plates from £16 12 Archer Street, W1D 7BB 9pm -2am £5 56 Shoreditch High Street, E1 6JJ PRODUCT Easter Egg We've searched high and low for the best Easter egg… and we've found it in Paris by chocolatiers À la Mère de Famille (though Liberty's "quail" eggs are a close runner up). Poule Mouillée Label Bleu Chocolate Chicken, available in store at Colette, €39 PRODUCT Book Alternatively, you could take Easter eggs quite literally and cook up a yolky feast with help from Rose Carrarini of Paris and London's Rose Bakery. Her book, How to Boil an Egg, is a collection of simple recipes for boiled, poached, scrambled, fried and Benedict eggs (with some pancakes for good measure). How to Boil An Egg, available from Dover Street Market, £22.95 SUNDAY EAT: FAT CHEEKS SUNDAY ROAST DESIGN: DESIGNS OF THE YEAR 2013 Easter Sunday… eating again. Hop to the Fat Cheeks pop up and enjoy not only a Sunday Roast with all the trimmings but some added extras: think serenade performances from bossa nova jazz and opera singers, while Chef Rolan Dack (previous stints include Restaurant Gordon Ramsay and Zuma) carves the meat. And in between meals: a palette-cleansing mango egg. If you missed the designs of 2012, now's your chance to view them ALL in one fell swoop at the Design Museum. Take a cultural vacay around the world as you stroll through the design map from the last 12 months, spanning seven categories, from architecture to fashion. Expect to spot the Louis Vuitton collection by Yayoi Kusama, Zaha Hadid's Galaxy Soho building in Beijing and, of course, some nouveau designs such as a non-stick ketchup bottle. Finally. Tables from 1.30pm £30 75 Chamberlayne Road, NW10 3ND 10am-5.45pm £11.85 28 Shad Thames, SE1 2YD MONDAY PICK Beagle Bar You love Krankbrother for their parties on rooftops, yachts, in warehouses and even forgotten basements. Now, they've opened Beagle in Shoreditch. Expect not only a unique location under renovated railway arches but also a shiny restaurant, bar and coffee shop. The bar opens its doors this weekend, and with mixologist Myles Davies (formerly of Viajante and Hix) behind the cocktail menu, you can expect a twist on classics. Those nursing post-Sunday party heads should try the Snapper, a gin variation of the Bloody Mary. Beagle, 397-399 Geffrye Street, E2 8HZ RE-OPENING Mr Chow Ciao again, Chow. The Cantonese restaurant for the glitterati (perhaps in part a legacy of his ex-wife, Grace Coddington) is back open for business – think suited waiters, Versace-clad diners, prized artwork – and, as before, not a chopstick in sight. Though the décor might be a trip to Milan, the food (again, much like before) takes your buds straight to Beijing, from the black cod fillets in Szechuan sauce to the famed green prawns dish, an invention based on the equally famous portrait "Mr Chow as Green Prawns" hanging in the Beverly Hills outpost. Ask for the Mr Chow noodle demonstration, though there may be sprays of flour. 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