We’re back! And we’re hitting the ground running with posh kebabs, Chinese hot pots and traditional tapas. And come Sunday, we’ve got ‘activities’ planned from an art gallery hop to crazy golf. Oh, and if, like the rest of London, you’ve been away for the first half of January (or hibernating), we’ve rounded up the must dos to catch up on before the month’s over. You’re welcome! This Weekend’s Picks • FRI Boca Hackney • SAT Le Bab • SUN Condo Top 5: Things To Do This January 1.Visit the hedonistic hideaway Ruby’s Bar & Lounge for cocktails, Vietnamese food and live entertainment 2. DJ/producer Guy Gerber is bringing Rumors to London via an all night warehouse party 3. Follow the light as London’s monuments get the neon treatment, thanks to Lumiere London 4. See Champagne Life, the Saatchi Gallery’s first ever all-female show 5. Try a Kevin Bacon at Lucky Chip’s first permanent site, Lucky Chip Burgers and Wine Dalston Friday EAT: EAT BOCA HACKNEY Shuang Shuang If traditional Spanish tapas are your thing, head over to newly opened Boca Hackney. By the guys behind Seven and Three Eight Four in Brixton, they’ve got all the favourites covered such as oven baked lemon sole, bacalao fishcakes and pimientos de padron. As for drinks, we’ll be starting with the ale-smoked old fashioned before moving on to the barrel-aged gunpowder negroni. Or, opt for Chinese instead. Aside from being London’s first hot pot restaurant, their pièce de resistance is a conveyor belt with all manner of ingredients to dunk into the broths (of which there are five). Expect everything from beef and chicken balls, pork and crab wontons, turnip leaves and lotus roots to fish heads, pork offal, oysters and scallops… And the list goes on. 411 Mare Street Prices vary E8 1HY 12pm-11pm Prices vary 64 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 6LU Tattoo London: Art Macabre life drawing salon Sponsored Listing Kate Berry Fans of life drawing, listen up: Museum of London is hosting a salon session led by Art Macabre, exploring the tattooed body. Sketch inked ladies and gents of London, and learn about their designs and experiment with what it’s like to draw your designs directly onto the models themselves. Plus, there’ll be talks courtesy of the curator of the Tattoo London exhibition, Jen Kavanagh, along with the chance to see the exhibition after-hours with an evening bar. Tattoo London: Art Macabre life drawing salon Museum of London, 150 London Wall, EC2Y 5HN. Thursday 25 February, Wednesday 4 May, 7-9.30pm. £28. Book now. Follow Us! Facebook | Twitter | Instagram See what we’ve been snapping this week on Instagram! Saturday EAT: PARTY: LE BAB Kitsuné Showcase Posh kebabs are in the spotlight (Camden’s Daughter, Black Axe Mangal) and now, Le Bab. Headed by a kitchen team previously at Le Gavroche, the menu is comprised of appetisers like maftoul risotto and lokma doughnuts. For kebabs – think roe deer shish, chicken shawarma cooked with chicken crackling and winter pickles and a veggie BBQ paneer kebab – as well as sides like their version of cheesy chips. Go with a group and share the lot. Parisian label are sending some love our way and taking over the Ace Hotel’s Miranda club for a one-night showcase of new and established artists from the Kitsuné family. The Showcase series will start with a live performance from newcomers Australia’s Parcels and Daunt from London. The second half of the party sees UK bass producer Danglo takeover, alongside nu disco producers Du Tonc. 12pm-12am Prices vary 2nd Floor, Kingly Court W1B 5PW 9.30pm-3am £12.50 100 Shoreditch High Street, E1 6JQ Calendar Pick: King’s Cross Sauna The mercury has dipped, so we’re doing it Scandi style with a sauna and plunge. Find out more here Sunday SEE: DO: CONDO PLONK BRIXTON Peruse the international art world in one fell swoop, thanks to Condo Complex, the event aiming to collaborate with worldwide artists sans an ‘art fair’ budget. For the next four weeks, eight London spaces will be playing host to 24 international, like-minded, young galleries from Asia and Latin America to Europe, Asia and North America. Around the world you go! End the weekend with some good ol’ fashioned crazy golf. Plonk Brixton has set up their course in Brixton’s Duke of Edinburgh’s pub. As with its Dalston and Hoxton set ups, stave off the winter blues with its Tiki-styled course of loops and half-pipes and Polynesian libations. Forget winter and break out the Hawaiian shirts. Times vary Free Various venues 4pm-11pm £7.50 The Duke of Edinburgh, 204 Ferndale Road, SW9 8AG WEEKEND GUIDE BY CS LIKE SHARE FORWARD PREVIOUS EDITION (c) 2016 Urban Junkies. All rights reserved. Reproductions of any portion of this website only with our express permission. Urban Junkies is a free weekly mailer. All listings and features are editorial: We do not receive any payment from venues, artists or promoters. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy of information listed but we cannot accept responsibility for errors or omissions.