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Shop a Range of Jewellery at This Indie Maker's Market
N4 Makers’ Market is heading to Coal Drops Yard over the early May Bank Holiday to host another edition of the Indie Jewellers’ Market. Over 80 designer-makers and boutique brands from across the UK will be selling their wares, including House of Law, Behold Relics, Petite Lune Studio, Rare Bear, The Floating Jeweller, and Elin Horgan Jewellery. There’ll be rings, charms, chains, pendants and hoops on sale, with classic pieces and statement designs across a range of price points – and the market is totally free to enter.
Jimmy's BBQ Club Is Back on the South Bank
It’s not summer in London without a BBQ pop-up from Jimmy Garcia, so he’s bringing his BBQ Club back to the South Bank. The club is serving up a six-course menu, including dishes like Wye Valley asparagus with goat’s curd, brown butter pangrattato and garlic three ways; smoked trout with cultured cream, pickled Pink Lady apple, pickled cucumber and dill oil; marinated chicken thigh with Panang sweet potato puree, pak choi, and a charred corn & coriander salsa; and rum-cured pineapple with pineapple biscuit crumb, vanilla ice cream and smoked caramel sauce, with at least one element of each course coming from the Big Green Eggs on each table. If you’re after something a little more casual, the club’s two bars will be offering a street food menu featuring burgers, gochujang wings, halloumi fries and Panang chicken salad boxes, so you can just walk up, grab your goods and find a sunny spot to sit in.
Vinted Is Popping Up IRL for the First Time
If you love scrolling for a bargain on Vinted, you’ll want to keep an eye on your inbox as you may well receive an invite to the selling platform’s first ever IRL pop-up. Landing at the Adria hotel in South Kensington on Sat 22nd March, House of Vinted will be arranged according to different themes, such as ‘Art Deco Déjà Vu’ and ‘Cottagecore Comeback’, and will feature pre-loved luxury pieces (we’re talking labels like Prada, Jacquemus, Gucci and Maison Margiela) and curated wardrobes from the likes of Susie Lau, Simran Randhawa, Victoria Magrath, and Guilia Valentina. There’ll also be various workshops to get involved in and a professional stylist on-hand to give you fashion advice. Though access to the pop-up is invite-only for selected Vinted members, everyone will be able to shop the collection on the app from 25th March.
Neil Rankin and From The Ashes BBQ founders Martin Anderson and Curtis Bell have teamed up to create Little Earthquakes, a new deep pan pizza concept. Taking inspo from the Chicago Town and Pizza Hut pizzas of Neil’s youth, Little Earthquakes is doing super cheesy (seriously, there’s cheese on the bottom, top and sides of these pizzas) gourmet 6″ pies, using Wildfarmed flour and the best local produce. Combos include taleggio & guanciale, salami ragu & rosemary, and nduja & pickled chillies, with dips like honey & garlic butter and chilli crunch marinara sauce on the side. After a short residency at Walthamstow’s Burnt Faith Brandy House, Little Earthquakes is taking over the kitchen at The Railway Tavern in Dalston, serving 6pm – 9pm every Tuesday to Friday and 3pm – 9pm on Saturdays, and booking is recommended as they’re quite complex pies to prepare.
Get High in Stratford at Roof East
Fancy playing a round of crazy golf, catching a movie, hitting some bullseyes or shaking it out with a dance class? Well you can do it all at Roof East. Yes the Stratford rooftop is jam-packed with activities, including Rooftop Film Club, Sluggers batting cages, Birdies crazy golf, Arrows archery, Glitter Bowls lawn games, giant jenga, cornhole and table tennis. You can stay well fed and watered with the roof’s five bars and street food from the likes of Chick ‘n’ Sours, Piddaji and Cheeky Burger, and new for 2025, you’ll also be able to do bottomless brunch on the weekends. And of course, you’ve got those mega views over the Stratford to enjoy too.
Seouls of Mischief Is Doing Korean Burgers at Pretty Decent Beer Co
Mexican-Korean fusion spot Mexican Seoul has teamed up with neighbours Pretty Decent Beer Co. to put its spin-off burger concept inside the Victoria Park taproom. Seouls of Mischief is doing Korean-inspired burgers like the beef, umami seasoning American cheese, ssamjang mayo and oi-muchim pickle Seouls of Mischief and the buttermilk fried chicken, “gochu-gang” sauce, perilla leaf, oi-michum pickle and daikon slaw “Gochu-Gang”. There are sides like pajeon hash browns, tteokbokki bites, loaded fries and crispy chicken skin chick-charrones, and it all goes down a treat with one of PDBC’s Czech side pour beers.
Refresh Your Wardrobe at This Clothes Swap
Tits London, the platform that celebrates female designers, artists and makers, is popping up in London Fields with a clothes swap. You can bring along up to five pre-loved items you no longer wear and swap them for up to five new-to-you pieces, refreshing your wardrobe in an affordable and sustainable way. The event is totally free but Tits will be collecting any donations to Hackney Food Bank on entry. If you can, drop off your clothes between 12pm – 1pm to help the event run smoothly but you can also bring them along during, just as long as it’s before 3.30pm.
Rake, run by Jay Claus and Syrus Pickhaver (who have worked at the likes of Quo Vadis, Brat and Acme Fire Cult), has made the move to the Compton Arms in Islington from The Gun in Hackney. Rake is all about classic British cookery with a focus on whole animal butchery and sustainable Cornish fish. The menu will change seasonally but you can expect dishes like oysters rarebit; beer battered cockles and clams; braised squid, ale and potato pie; ray wing tenders on a crumpet; salsify and Scotch broth; beef ribeye with onion rings; and treacle tart with clotted cream and ice cream. There’ll also be roasts and veggie stargazy pies with all the trimmings on Sundays and on Arsenal match days, Rake will be doing Cumberland sausage hot dogs with French dip gravy.
House of Bandits by Sarabande Foundation Is Popping Up at Selfridges
Sarabande Foundation, the charity established by Lee Alexander McQueen that works to ensure art is accessible to everyone, has popped up at Selfridges with House of Bandits. The concept store and gallery features a curation of products across art, fashion, jewellery, sculpture and home accessories, including artworks from Daisy Collingridge, Karimah Hassan, Darcey Fleming, Kasia Wozniak, Leyman Lahcine and Shirin Fathi; limited-edition designs from Thom Browne, Jake Chapman and Craig Green; and plates by Daniel Roseberry for Schiaparelli, Tim Burton and Francesca Amfitheatrof. Sarabande has also taken over three of the department store’s windows on Orchard Street, and artists and makers from the Foundation will be working live on the shop floor, bringing its creative studio vibe to Selfridges.
Supper club Ling Ling’s, run by Jenny Phung and her partner James Shepherd, has done various pop-ups and residencies across London, including a stint at The Gun on Well Street and at The Bluecoats pub in Tottenham. Now it’s got a new long-term home at Godet in Canonbury. Jenny draws inspo from her Chinese heritage, her family and her travels for her dishes, which serve as her memories on a plate, and she loves to feed people the kind of food that she wants to eat. The menu at Godet will include spicy beef tartare; Sichuan hibiscus octopus; turnip cakes with a soy pomegranate glaze; mala beef ragu with udon noodles; steamed prawn, chicken & Thai basil wontons; and matcha tiramisu, with a traditional Chinese family meal on offer on Sundays.
Ivan Ramen Is Popping Up at The Ned With an Exclusive Ramen Menu
Before he opens a restaurant in the UK, Chef’s Table star and Ivan Ramen founder Ivan Orkin is popping up at Kaia at The Ned with an exclusive ramen menu. After opening a celebrated ramen shop in Japan, Ivan returned to the US to set up shop in NYC, and now he’s bringing his unique take on ramen to London with this two-month residency. His menu includes Tori Shoyu Wonton Men (chicken broth, soy tare, chicken breast ‘chashu’, chicken wontons, yu choy and thin rye noodles), Lobster Mazemen (lobster broth, lobster poached in ginger-scallion butter, fried shallots, katsuobushi salt, thick rye noodles and optional caviar add-on), Iberico Pork Collar Tsukemen (suckling pig pork broth, grilled mushrooms, pickled spring greens, grilled Iberico pork collar, soft egg, and thick rye noodles) and Vegan Truffled Shoyu Ramen (truffled vegetable and mushroom broth, grilled maitake mushroom, roasted tomato, yu choy, and scallions).
An Immersive Louis Vuitton x Murakami Pop-Up Has Landed in Soho
Remember the white handbags with the multicoloured LV logos? That collection, designed in collaboration with Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, came out in 2003 (!) and because we’re now obsessed with all things Y2K, Louis Vuitton is bringing it back with a re-edition collection called ‘Monogram Multicolore’ and an immersive pop-up in Soho. The Louis Vuitton x Murakami store features products from that new collection alongside original archival pieces, plus a vending machine filled with everything from games to limited-edition stickers and a ‘care and repair’ station where you can bring your old LV pieces back to life. Of course, the place is made for IG with its bubblegum pink interiors, Murakami flower cushions and a cafe serving unique monogrammed baked goods and drinks in specially printed cups.
Dough Hands Has Gone South of the River for its Next Residency
Dough Hands founder Hannah Drye has been slinging her London-style pizzas – regenerative flour dough and light, crispy bases – at The Spurstowe Arms in London Fields and now she’s giving south Londoners a chance to get in on the action by taking a second residency at the Old’s Nun’s Head in SE15. The menu features her signature 12″ pizzas topped with the likes of pepperoni, jalapeno and parmesan; nduja, hot honey and stracciatella; and soy-roast mushrooms, taleggio, tarragon and garlic, with her house-made hot sauce available for dipping, plus some exclusive specials in the works too. Dough Hands is cooking at the pub every day except Sundays as that’s being reserved for roasts.
Viral Jacket Potato Sensations Spud Bros Have Popped Up in London
With their videos going viral on TikTok and people from all over the world visiting their jacket potato truck in Preston, the Spud Bros (aka Jacob and Harley Nelson) have come down to London to bring their social media-famous spuds to the capital. Popping up on Archer Street in Soho, Spud Bros Express is serving the same giant baked potatoes topped with the likes of cheese, beans, chilli and tuna mayo. The Spud Bros seem just as popular down south, with lengthy queues forming at the pop-up, so if you don’t mind waiting in a line for a potato, head on down.
Allday Goods Is Hosting a Pop-Up Shop in Hackney
Sustainable knife company Allday Goods is opening its first ever pop-up shop in Netil Market this December, giving you the chance to shop for gifts and bring your old knives in for repair. The full Allday Goods range, including the Everyday Range, the Forged Range, Butter Knives and other merch, will be available for the duration of the pop-up. From 11am on the opening day, a number of limited-edition knives created in collaboration with BAO will be on offer before they go on sale online. Given that Allday uses recycled plastic to make the handles, there’ll be a plastic-waste initiative running at the pop-up too – for every Marmite, Bisto, Heinz or Hellmann’s plastic lids you bring in, you get 1% off your purchase, so a 100 lids will get you a 100% discount.
IKEA Has Opened a Pop-Up Shop Dedicated to Its Famous Blue Bags
Before IKEA opens on Oxford Street where the big Topshop used to be, the Swedish retailer has turned the space into Haus of FRAKTA, a pop-up shop dedicated to its iconic blue FRAKTA bags. And forget the crumpled ones you’ve got stuffed into the cupboard under the stairs (apparently 45% of UK households own one), the FRAKTAs in this store are pristine and can even be personalised at the atelier (costing only £3 to add lettering). There’s also a curated selection of other IKEA products to shop from, including a blue edit paying homage to the signature FRAKTA colour, and an immersive experience that makes you feel like you’re going inside a FRAKTA bag, with a ‘press for candyfloss’ wall, where you can get some free (blue, obvs) candyfloss.
Sustainable beauty boutique big. beauty is going from Hackney to Carnaby Street for a pop-up at the flagship PANGAIA store. The pop-up will be stocked with a curated selection of zero-waste beauty and wellness products, including brands like AKT, LESSE, Subtle Bodies and ACTIVIST. There’ll also be skin consultations offered in store to help you shop – whether for yourself or someone else – with ease.
