Yahoo News The best events and things to do this week, August 10-14
London is in the middle of one of the biggest heat waves in living memory, and it’s thirsty work.
Thankfully, the capital’s rooftop bars and beer gardens are open and welcoming people back for a pint or two in the sun. The capital’s green spaces are packed with socially distanced sunbathers, too.
Elsewhere, more and more venues are opening up and staying Covid-secure, with mini-golf, tourist favourites and exhibitions all ready to check out this week.
Here's our pick of what to get up to over the next few days.
Head to Benares for a bottomless lunch and dinner
Mayfair’s Indian fine dining restaurant is launching a brand new bottomless lunch and dinner on Tuesday and Wednesday. Head down to Berkeley Square to try the Thali feasting platter, which includes poppadoms, curry dishes, dal tadka, spiced seabass, saag aloo, Rasmalai dessert and more. Guests can enjoy second, third or fourth helpings of dishes, as well as unlimited wine or Cobra beer for 90 minutes. The restaurant is taking part in the Government’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme, which means diners can enjoy the deal for £23 per person instead of £33. There’s a bottomless brunch to check out on Saturday, too, costing £48 per person.
August 11 & 12, 12a Berkeley Square, Mayfair, W1J 6BS, benaresrestaurant.com
Take on an alfresco workout in King’s Cross
Take part in yoga or 80s aerobics in King's Cross this week, with a series of outdoor fitness classes from fitness studio FRAME. There’s a range of sessions taking place until August 31, from intense workouts to movement and breathing exercises. This week’s classes include a wide range of pilates events, costing £22 per class and lasting 45 minutes each.
Various locations around N1C, moveyourframe.com
Head for a round at the reopened Puttshack
The city’s booziest mini-golf spots is now welcoming back guests, after Puttshack White City opened its doors last weekend. It’s a chance to unwind with a cocktail-fuelled, Covid-secure round with friends. Puttshack will also be taking part in the Eat Out to Help Out scheme every Monday to Wednesday through August, in case you want to pair your golf with some grub.
Westfield, Ariel Way, W12 7HB, puttshack.com
Enjoy a vino voyage of discovery with The Wine Workshop
Vino enthusiast The Wine Workshop has launched a new series of hampers, featuring expertly selected bottles picked by aficionados Douglas Blyde, Jane Parkinson and Luca Dusi. Wine lovers can pick from three new delivery cases – respectively titled “Old World vs the New”, “Kinder wines for Our Planet” and “ Independent Italian” – to discover new producers and pore over tasting notes. If they feel like taking the experience further, guests can enjoy a tasting session with the expert themselves too.
See Titian: Love, Desire, Death at the National Gallery
The National Gallery is one of the leading London galleries to reopen after lockdown, and there’s a special exhibition to entice art lovers back this week. Six masterpieces reunite for the first time in 300 years in Titian: Love, Desire, Death, examining the renaissance master’s works created in the 1550s and 1560s for Philip II of Spain.
Until January 2021, Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DN, nationalgallery.org.uk
Head to one of London’s reopened attractions
Some of the biggest tourist hotspots in the city have reopened, with parts of the city getting back to something like normality. Londoners can admire one of the best views anywhere in the capital with the London Eye, which is open now. Those with a taste for the macabre can visit the newly reopened London Dungeons on Westminster Bridge Road, while London's Sea Life aquarium is ready to welcome back nature lovers now too. Read our full guide here.
Various locations
Experience a dizzying new dance music exhibition
With clubs still closed across the capital and beyond, many Londoners are itching to get their dance music fix. The next best thing can be found down in Kensington at the Design Museum, whose new exhibition, Electronic, dives into the history of clubbing and dance music with a multi-sensory experience. Read our five-star review here, and then book your tickets to head down this week.
Open now, Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High Street, W8 6AG, designmuseum.org
Have a drink in a new beer hall on the Costa Del Tottenham
North London nightclub The Cause has been busy rejigging its venue for socially distanced shindigs. It launched the first part of its Costa Del Tottenham outdoor space a few weeks back, with DJs, food, drink and more, and now it’s launched a massive beer hall called the Northside. It’s open now, with 16 beers from eight breweries on offer, as well as the tunes to back it up. Tables are booked in advance.
Open now, The Cause, Ashley Road, N17 9LZ, costadeltottenham.co.uk
