Sarnies, drag brunches and Disney – oh my! (Picture: Matt Crockett/ Morty & Bob’s/ Savage Garden)
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Things are getting curiouser and curiouser this week, as London turns into a Disney themed Wonderland.
Journey through the looking glass, meet Mickey, and chill with Simba’s mates, before checking out our selection of the capital’s best sarnies…
Disney’s Wonder of Friendship: The Experience
Take your bestie (Picture: Disney)
Timon and Pumba, Lilo and Stitch, Mickey and his pals…. Disney’s 100-year history is chock-full of dynamic duos and squad goals.
For their centenary, they’ve sprinkled some of that magic Disney dust on a 1,000sqm warehouse space on London’s Strand and transformed it into an enormous immersive experience celebrating all the beautiful friendships they’ve made over the years.
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Assemble a group of your best mates and go down the rabbit hole with Alice, take in the sights and smells of Ohana Bay with Lilo, and embrace the hakuna matata mentality as you swing through the jungle with Simba.
Enhancing your adventure even further, AR technology takes you through the looking glass with unique Snapchat filters and interactive animations as you frolic with your childhood besties. Talk about friends reunited…
Tickets from £17.50, 12-21 May, 180 The Strand, West End.
Bitchin’ Eurovision Brunch
A classy spot for a wild afternoon (Picture: Savage Garden)
When it comes to emulating the levels of glitz, glamour, and pure unadulterated camp of Eurovision, London’s wildest rooftop bar hasn’t disappointed with a special edition of their monthly drag bunch.
There’ll be no basic bitchin’ when it comes to the menu; choose from elevated mains like spiced tapioca potato hash with fried duck egg, ‘Savage’ Eggs Benedict with pulled pork, focaccia and nduja hollandaise, and for vegans, Zhoug roasted celeriac with molten cashew cheese.
Throw in a two-hour performance from comedy queen Sue Gives a F*ck, free-flowing prosecco, a soundtrack of Eurovision bangers and 360-degree views over Tower Bridge and it seems like the UK might finally have a winning act!
Saturday, Savage Garden, Floor 12, 7 Pepys St, London.
Laithwaites Wine Festival
Bottoms up! (Picture: Laithwaites)
What better way to while away a weekend than a winefest? At Laithwaites Wine Festival you can try over 350 wines, take a cheese and wine masterclass, dance the day away in a rock ‘n roll wine bar and swot up on grapes that will take you all the way from the Greek Agiorgitiko to the Austrian Zweigelt.
100 producers, 17 countries and artisan food stands to fuel the fun. Cheers.
Tickets from £37.50 – £50 depending on session.
12-13 May, Olympia London, Hammersmith Road, Kensington.
Tokyo Brunch
How atmospheric (Picture: M)
Saturdays in the capital-C City can be slightly drab affairs, with the pubs emptied of office workers and only the odd tourist making it past St Paul’s.
The stunning Japanese brunches on Threadneedle Street are changing all that, armed with fluffy wagyu beef bao buns and perfect pork belly yakitori.
Plus there’s plenty of champagne, a live DJ and, if you can cope with it at midday, a Karaoke Room!
M Threadneedle St, 60 Threadneedle Street, City of London.
London’s best… sandwiches
Over 120 years of history (Picture: Instagram/ @paulrotheandson)
BEST TRADITIONAL: Paul Rothe & Son
A venerable Marylebone institution since way back in 1900, this old-fashioned deli is for people who like their sandwiches done proper. Deliciously salty egg mayo and anchovy on pillowy white is the pick.
Now that’s a full sarnie (Picture: Borough Market/ Black Pig)
BEST INDULGENT: Black Pig
This iconic Borough Market stand is famous not just for its superb and generous fillings – honey truffle and parmesan pork, we’re looking at you – but also sourcing its ingredients from neighbouring stalls.
Who doesn’t love a beigel? (Picture: Beigel Bake)
BEST BAGEL: Beigel Bake
Yes a bagel does count as a sandwich. And what a bagel this is: tangy gherkins and tender salt beef on a chewy, mustard smothered beigel. These guys sure know what they’re doing – they’ve been churning out thousands a day since 1974.
So cheesy (Picture: Morty & Bob’s)
READER’S PICK: Morty & Bob’s, King’s Cross
Morty & Bob’s grilled cheese with pastrami 😍 KARA
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Hunterian Museum
What are you looking at? (Picture: Hunterian Museum)
We have to warn you: this museum is not for the faint-hearted. There are spines and eyeballs; frog organs and baby crocodiles; a lizard and its projectile tongue, suspended mid extension.
It may seem a bit macabre, but all the weirdness illustrates how the study of anatomy has changed over the centuries, reaching our modern peak of robot-assisted sophistication.
The museum has been shut for a few years while it underwent a £4.6 million redevelopment, but now its back in full gory, fascinating splendour.
Re-opens 16 May, 43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Holborn.
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Operation Mincemeat ★★★★★
A lot more fun that the 2022 movie (Picture: Matt Crockett)
This delightful wartime farce from young theatre company SpitLip tells the true story – also the subject of a Colin Firth film last year – of an ingenious World War II ruse by British intelligence that tricked Hitler via a dead body set adrift in the Mediterranean with fake documents.
It’s both a gloriously silly pastiche of tally-ho wartime dramas, full of delightful wordplay and artful physical japery, and a sincere tribute to the efforts of those involved.
Pure theatrical serotonin.
Until August 19 at the Fortune Theatre.
Eurovision at Vauxhall Food and Beer Garden
Get your facepaint and flags out – it’s Eurovis! (Picture: Vauxhall Food and Beer Garden)
Couldn’t make it to Liverpool for Eurovision? London’s got your back, as they’re repurposing all those big screens they got for last weekend’s Coronation and are now showing an even more historic occasion: the Grand Final of the 67th Song Contest.
Our pick is in Vauxhall, where they’ll be putting on a dragtastic screening party filled with live performances, street food and outdoor arcade games. And it’s free!
Free or £6 with drink included, Saturday from 5pm, 6A S Lambeth Pl, Vauxhall.
See you next week!
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