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What a week. (What a year!) We’re eating up a storm this weekend, starting with a Japanese brasserie on Friday, followed by a lil’ party at a new and exciting live music venue. On Saturday, you’ll find us with a set of beef ribs, then cocktailing it up. Sunday, we’ll be swotting up on the best. hair. ever. before digging into yet more barbecued meat. Enjoy. This Weekend’s Picks • FRI Omeara • SAT Smokestak • SUN Temper Top 5 things do in November 1. If you’ve spent the last two years wondering if it’ll ever open, StreetXO is finally here – and you can even book 2. Show off your triple salchow (or just go for a little twirl) at Somerset Club Nights 3. Get your DIY on at LFW darling Molly Goddard’s interactive, solo exhibition 4. Still missing Rita’s? Us, too. Thankfully, the founding duo is back – with Quilombero 5. Eschew tradition for a more modern take on The Nutcracker Friday EAT: PARTY: Anzu Omeara We like ramen, we like brasseries, so it’s no surprise that we like Anzu, the new Japanese brasserie in St. James, courtesy of the guys behind Tonkotsu (which we also like – a lot). Kick off the weekend with a pear and lavender bellini (yum) before moving on to the king crab and pork gyoza, Wagyu fillet tataki carpaccio, and their speciality teikoshu sets, which include your choice of a range of katsus or teriyakis served with rice, salad, miso soup, and pickles. With all the closures (no, we’re clearly still not over Fabric), it’s nice to see a new opening for a change. Omeara is the intimate new London Bridge venue from Mumford and Sons’ band member Ben Lovett, playing host to club nights, comedy, burlesque, and magic shows and more – including Amir Alexander’s return to the decks tonight with his signature gritty take on classic New York, Chicago and Detroit sounds. From 12pm Prices vary 1 Norris Street, SW1Y 4RJ 11pm £10 6 O’Meara Street, SE1 1TE BOOK NOW EIFMAN BALLET ST PETERSBURG PRESENTS PREMIERE OF UP & DOWN Sponsored Listing The UK premiere of Boris Eifman’s awe-inspiring Jazz Age ballet Up & Down is coming to the ENO London Coliseum from Tuesday 6th – Saturday 10th December. Combining theatrical dance, the music of Gershwin, Schubert and Berg, and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s celebrated final novel ‘Tender Is The Night’, Up & Down provides the opportunity to experience this beautiful and tragic story in a new, innovative and multi-dimensional way. Book now! Eifman Ballet, 6-10 December, tickets from £10, London Coliseum, St. Martin’s Lane, WC2N 4ES Chivas Regal Make your own signature blend Sponsored Listing If you still don’t know your malts from your grains, head to the Chivas Regal pop up whisky bar, ‘The Blend’ at the Truman Brewery. The nine week pop up has turned us into experts (Highlands vs Lowlands to the tasting notes of the different regions… we can hold our own). Or, if you already know your stuff, go one step further and blend your own. But, really, when all is said and done, it’s simply a good spot for a winter warmer dram or two. The Blend By Chivas Regal opens in the Truman Brewery on 3rd October until 4th December. Experiences start at £15. Book your tickets here. Saturday EAT: Drink: Smokestak BYOC East Even street food vendors eventually grow up and settle down. Case in point: Smokestak, the Street Feast fave, has opened a permaspot in Shoreditch. And the food’s grown up a bit, too. Sure, there may no longer be the popular pulled pork (owner David Carter says you can find it everywhere in London these days, which is true), but there are still ribs, brisket, plus new dishes like crispy beef shin with anchovy mayo and smoked girolles on beef dripping toast. If you find yourself pouring a cocktail at home, thinking, if only I knew how to make something different… well, stop pouring and bring that bottle to the new BYOC East. Here, it’s all about cocktail expertise thanks to real bartenders with actual talent (no offense) in a speakeasy atmosphere: think dim lighting, homemade purees and mixers, and a basement venue (but of course). From 12pm Prices vary 35 Sclater Street, E1 6LB Times vary £25 19 Bevis Marks, EC3A 7JA GO THE PRINCIPAL MANCHESTER What happens when a new hotel group, Principal, teams up with The Sunday Times Style to bring a train load of (fun) Londoners up to the newly refurbed Principal Manchester for a sleepover, complete with a sparkling dinner and tunes by Mark Ronson, Sink the Pink and Horse Meat Disco? It’s a party! And a party it was. UJ loved a lot of things about the hotel, too. The 270 loft-style rooms and suites by Michaelis Boyd Architects were extremely spacious by city standards and came complete with tuck shop boxes (gratis), thick robes, and leather reading chairs. Other highlights included the Refuge restaurant with Middle Eastern-inspired sharing bites, the festoon-lit XXL smoking terrace, the chic flower shop, and proximity to the train station. Manchester, we’ll be baaaaaack! The Principal Manchester Follow Us! Facebook | Twitter | Instagram See what we’ve been snapping this week on Instagram! LISTEN SPACE IBIZA: 1989-2016 You thought we were finally done with Space Ibiza closing, right? Sorry! Just launched, the Space Ibiza compilation – mixed by Erick Morillo, Giorgio Moroder and Mark Brown – has some serious bangers. We’re just happy Erick chose to remix Pasilda by Afro Medusa – a song we’ve been trying to remember the name of for aaaaaaages! Get ready for a kitchen disco. Space Terrace to you – enjoy! Space Ibiza: 1989- 2016, available now. Sunday SEE: EAT: Hair by Sam McKnight Temper Kate, Linda, Christy, Naomi, Cindy: he’s coiffed them all, and then some. The latest exhibition at Somerset House explores the four-decade career of Sam McKnight, the man behind the hair – and by hair, we mean the hair on more Vogue covers than any other artist, the catwalk hair at Chanel, Vivienne Westwood and more, and the hair on the late, great Princess Di. Now for more barbecue. The long-awaited solo joint from chef Neil Rankin (Smokehouse and the original Pitt Cue) has now opened, and the dual-concept space celebrates all things meat. Downstairs, cuts of beef, pork, and lamb are sold and barbecued by the 100g, with plenty of starters and sides to go with, while the tiny, seven-seat taco bar upstairs is where the bones, drippings and fat go for tortillas, butters and broths. Times vary £13 Somerset House, Embankment Galleries, WC2R 1LA Prices vary 25 Broadwick Street, W1F 0DF BOOK NOW COME WITH ME: MIAMI SESSIONS ON NOVEMBER 19 Sponsored Listing Music from DJ Seamus Haji and an exclusive photography Miami-inspired exhibition by up-and-coming global fashion photographer and filmmaker, Alberto Van Stokkum: it’s all part of ‘Come with ME: Miami Sessions’ at ME London’s Radio Rooftop Bar. There will also be bubbles and brunch – think ricotta pancakes with banana and honeycomb butter and buttermilk chicken with waffles and maple syrup. And there are heat lamps outside, too. See you there! ‘Come With ME: Miami Sessions’. Saturday, 19 November, 12pm – late. Tickets can be purchased here. SAVE THE DATE #1Orange1Tree X LIBERTY LONDON ON NOVEMBER 14 For one week, from 14 November, post a photo or video of yourself on Twitter or Instagram with an orange, add the hashtag #1Orange1Tree, then nominate a family or friend to do the same. For every image posted using the hashtag, Liberty London will plant one tree in Senegal in partnership with the charity Oceanium Dakar. www.oceaniumdakar.org WEEKEND GUIDE BY TEAM UJ 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.

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