Weekend Guide: Rainbow Lattes | Beak-To-Feet Menu | A Traditional Picanteria

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Rainbow lattes, a beak-to-feet menu and a Thomas the Tank-esque cocktail den: London isn’t disappointing us this weekend. But, if you do want to skip the capital, do so for a cannon of an electro party. As for culture, our favourite Icelandic oddball is back with another exhibition and we’re paying a visit to the Calais jungle theatre. Enjoy.

This Weekend’s Picks

• FRI Casita Andina • SAT Eastern Electrics Festival • SUN White Rabbit Red Rabbit

Top 5

colourful lattes

It’s all about colourful lattes, thanks a rainbow explosion overnight! Here are our top 5 colourful lattes:

1. Try the red beetroot lattes at Hackney’s newest pop up café, Palm Vaults

2. If you’re after a golden turmeric latte, head to café one that started it all – Nama in Notting Hill

3. Green matcha lattes may be nothing new, but the best are at Tombo, Poke & Matcha Bar in Soho

4. Blue algae lattes – technically a Melbourne invention (from Matcha Mylkbar), but we predict a London invasion. Watch this space

5. Buck the trends and stick to the classic brown latte – our pick, any of The Grinds


Friday



EAT:		DRINK:
Casita Andina		The London Cocktail Club Bethnal Green

If you’re already fans of restaurants Ceviche and Andina, make room for another Peruvian fix with Casita Andina, serving cuisine inspired by ‘picanterias’, the family-run, traditional restaurants found in the Andes – but with a London twist. Expect an inventive gluten-free take on the hearty classics such as lamb sweetbreads in coriander and beer sauce; morcilla (blood sausage) with black quinoa toast and, of course ceviche – which also has its own takeaway counter.		Joining the fray on Paradise Row in Bethnal Green (Sager + Wilde, Paradise Garage, Mother Kellys…) is The London Cocktail Club Bethnal Green. Known for their immersive drinking dens, their latest one doesn’t disappoint. An homage to their railway roots, the style is a derelict train yard — TFL’s sofas, cocktail tube maps, subway street-art and toy trains—think Thomas the Tank Engine meets the Underground meets NYC Subway.

10am-12am Prices vary 31 Great Windmill Street, W1D 7LP		5pm-12am Prices vary Arch 253, Paradise Row, Bethnal Green, E2 9LE

BOMBAY SAPPHIRE PRESENTS

‘ARTISTRY OF THE ULTIMATE GIN & TONIC’

WHOOPS DAISY AT COCKTAIL TRADING COMPANY BY ANDY MIL

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This week, as part of Bombay Sapphire’s ‘Artistry of The Ultimate Gin & Tonic’ it’s over to Cocktail Trading Company for Whoops Daisy, created by head bartender Andy Mil, who wrought inspiration from the journey that the gin and tonic has taken over the last 200 years. Using the ‘Journey’ as the starting point, the Whoops Daisy comes as a set of 3 drinks using Bombay Sapphire, Boiron morello cherry and cranberry puree, hazelnut, orange blossom and citric syrup. But the real standout? It’s served in a knocked-over wine glass.

Cocktail Trading Company, 68 Bethnal Green Road, E1 6GQ

The ‘Whoops Daisy’ cocktail will be available at Cocktail Trading Company until 11th January 2017. Watch this space for further information on ‘Artistry of the Ultimate Gin and Tonic’ serves available in individual partner mixology artists’ bars across London


Saturday



EAT:		PARTY:
H.en		Eastern Electrics Festival

We’ve had nose-to-tail and stem-to-root, now make way for a beak-to-feet menu at H.en, the restaurant in Islington, helmed by Masterchef finalists Billy Wright and Jack Layer, that makes use of the whole chicken across different dishes such as burgers, wings and… feet. All chooks have a spiced buttermilk marinade, and from there, three additional sauces can be smothered: barbeque, South American-style red eye (light gravy) or chili. Delish.		Now go slightly out of town to Hatfield House for a canon of an electro party. Seth Troxler, Eats Everything, Hot Since 82, Skream… are just a few of the names on the big bill. Sure, it may be a festival for the younger crowd, but if you don’t have Ibiza or Croatia in your travel plans, it’s a good chance to see some great names. As for the house itself, we’re told to expect a playground for big kids: Fairground rides, street food, glitter girls, dress-up tents, hidden forest raves and the lot. The best bit: it’s only 20 minutes by train from King’s Cross. Be quick, tickets are on final release.

10am-11pm Prices vary 154-155 Upper Street, N1 1RA		11am-10pm £59.95 Hatfield House Estate Office House, Hatfield AL9 5NQ

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Sunday



SEE:		WATCH:
Ragnar Kjartansson at The Barbican		White Rabbit Red Rabbit

If you liked Ragnar Kjartansson’s melodic nine-screen video installation (The Visitors) at The Vinyl factory last year, then get yourself to the Barbican for his retrospective. The exhibition centres around his seminal works The Visitors and Take Me Here by the Dishwasher: Memorial for a Marriage (2011), and includes ten male performances playing the guitar live, drinking beer, singing in Icelandic and an on-screen sex scene between his folks. Safe to say, it will divide opinions.		Today is your last chance to visit Good Chance Calais. For those not up to speed: Good Chance Calais was a theatre set up at the jungle camp to offer the joy of arts and culture to the disenfranchised. This week, the theatre’s iconic dome has been ‘pitched’ at the Southbank Centre for a program of performances. Don’t miss today’s show of internationally acclaimed White Rabbit Red Rabbit, written by Iranian author Nassim Soleimanpour and performed by an actor, reading it cold for the first time.

10am-6pm £12 Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS		6.30pm-7.30pm Free Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX

The Threepenny Opera at the National Theatre