Kitchen Library 2017: Jose Pizzaro

 

 

Chef Mark Hix presents a series of intimate suppers to be held throughout the year at his Kitchen Library, Shoreditch. With only 12 seats around the kitchen bar, places are limited, resulting in an atmosphere reflective more of a dinner party than a formal sit down restaurant. The series welcomes critically acclaimed Spanish Chef Jose Pizzaro. Mark and Jose will serve four courses, using seasonal ingredient-led menus, paired with wine and cocktails to compliment.

www.hixrestaurants.co.uk



Piccadilly Gets a Brand New Musical

London is filled to the brim with West End productions, but if you’re like us, you can never say no to a sparkly new one hitting town…especially when it’s in The Crazy Coqs’ unique intimate venue. The Crazy Coqs over the years has become home to the West End’s most up-and-coming performers alongside established stars all taking to the stage beneath Piccadilly Circus.

Childhood friends and creative collaborators, Katie Lam and Alex Parker (the people behind amateur dramatics: A Musical Comedy, The Railway Children: A Musical and All Aboard), were given the task of creating a modern story for The Crazy Coqs. The result? Three classic romances (Brief Encounter, falling in Love and The Way We Were) all mixed together to create a brand new heart fluttering story, After You.

After You is all about falling in love and learning that sometimes we need to keep things to ourselves, despite it being one of the hardest things to do. It follows two characters that met by chance at a cabaret performance and – as you’d hope for on stage – their connection was sudden and deep, which resulted in them just having to meet again. However, like any love story it wasn’t all roses and Champagne; there’s a secret that threatens to rock the worlds that they have both worked so hard to maintain…we wonder what the secret is?

Order a drink from their ever-so-sophisticated cocktail menu, sit back and enjoy the show…

After You will run from 13th to 22nd April at The Crazy Coqs

www.brasseriezedel.com



London’s Favourite Rooftop Cinema is Back for Summer

 

Summer is on its way, shout it from the rooftops! Well, four rooftops in particular: the Bussey Building (Peckham), Roof East (Statford) The Queen of Hoxton (Shoreditch) and Kensington Roof Gardens, who have just been announced as participating venues for the summer 2017 series of Rooftop Film Club.

As we trade our underground cinemas for the sky-high, al fresco variety, some things never change – predominantly boxes of popcorn and an action-packed programme of cult classics and recent releases. It’s lights, camera, action (literally) on Thursday 4th May as The Rooftop Film Club presses play on films featuring iconic rooftop scenes – hello Mary Poppins (Stratford) and Vertigo (Peckham), with street food and drink available to pick at if popcorn isn’t hitting the spot. Shawshank Redemption and The Departed will be shown over the following days, and the cinemas at Shoreditch and Kensington will launch shortly after, on Sunday 7th May. Love birds can trade their deckchairs for love seats big enough for two, as well as a glass of prosecco and bottomless popcorn. If bottomless popcorn doesn’t scream true love then we don’t know what does.

Summer is definitely on its way.

The Rooftop Film Club launches on Thursday 4th May. Tickets go on sale today.

www.rooftopfilmclub.com



Roman Polanski Shut Down by Judge in Rape Case

Roman Polanski just lost his bid to return to the United States without fear of prison.

Polanski’s lawyer, Harland Braun, has asked an L.A. County Superior Court judge to unseal a secret transcript of the testimony of the prosecutor in the Polanski case, proving the original trial judge back in 1978 accepted a plea deal for a 48-day sentence … this for raping a 13-year-old girl.

Polanski served the time but the judge denied he ever accepted the deal and was considering a 50-year prison sentence. The famed director went on the lam and has been living in Europe ever since.

Braun made the case his client — who was married to Manson murder victim Sharon Tate — was also jailed in Switzerland for 334 days. A Polish court said all tolled, Polanski had served his time and Braun wanted the new judge to accept that ruling so the 83-year-old director could return to the U.S.

The new judge did not agree, saying Polanski had no right to gripe about the sentence when he was in contempt of court for fleeing the country decades ago.

The judge also scoffed at Polanski’s request for guidance on how to come back to the country with assurance his sentence had been fulfilled.

Tmz