If your new year detox isn’t proving too much fun, here’s something that should cheer you up. On Friday 27 January, Lancashire Court’s glamorous Hush restaurant is hosting its first ever Comedy Cabaret, in collaboration with Laughing Boy Comedy Club.

The event will be held in the venue’s newly refurbished Private Dining Room, where guests can enjoy a two course meal alongside side-splitting entertainment from three exciting acts. Headlining is Simon Evans who featured on last year’s Mike Mcintyre’s Comedy Road show and he’ll be followed by fellow comics Josh Widdicombe and Suzi Ruffell.

Doors open  7pm and tickets cost £35 per person and include entertainment, a two course meal and a glass of wine – we won’t tell if you won’t and after all the 27th is neeeearly the end of the month.

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Botanist doctor of mixology Paolo Brammer doesn’t do January detoxes. In fact he’s a staunch believer that a little of what you fancy actually does you good.

Until 12th February both The Botanist on Sloane Square and Chiswell Street Dining Rooms in the City will be serving up a selection of good-for you cocktails that promise to keep you fighting fit and each creation is packed full of vitamins and minerals designed to restore your body and mind ready for the year ahead.

Ours is a skinny Green Business with vodka, fresh cucumber, basil and spirulina powder – the dietary supplement rich in B12 which protects the liver from toxic substances (vodka?) and helps build more red blood cells. We’ve never heard such a good excuse for a tipple!
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If you’re spending the week snapping up sale bargains in Selfridges, start counting the days til February LFW when the store will unveil the first phase of its new women’s designer galleries – 17,000-square foot of Neoclassical architecture fused with cutting-edge technology.

The room will host eight boutiques: Chanel, Prada, Lanvin, Celine, Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Givenchy and Dries Van Noten plus collections by edgy (new to Selfridges) labels including Gareth Pugh, Haider Ackermann, Rick Owens, Comme Des Garçons and Anne Demeulemeester.

Also on the cards is an exciting digital installation by artist-to-watch Daniel Brown (the guy who created those brilliant digitally blooming flowers for Mulberry last Valentine’s Day) and he’s designed a triptych of screens that will show a continually evolving image.

But perhaps the best bit is changing rooms will feature three digital screens with built-in cameras, allowing customers to snap pictures or videos of themselves to check each look from different angles – answering the question ‘does my bum look big in this?’ once and for all. But those in any doubt will also have the option of e-mailing the images to their friends for a second opinion.

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Image: By illustrator Tanya Ling who has created a series of watercolour illustrations of  ’the modern luxury woman’ to feature in the store’s new advertising campaign.

So many January sales so little time! But if you feel yourself flagging, help is at hand from Soho Gelateria, Gelupo.

The super cool sister brand of Jacob Kenedy’s Bocca di Lupo, across the road from the mothership in Archer Street is dishing up shots of espresso gelato and granita, perfect for injecting some much needed mid-shop stamina.

And if your January detox precludes an alcoholic pick-me-up, they’re also a great expresso martini alternative as Gelupo’s new late night opening hours mean you can switch the bar for the ice cream bar until 11pm during the week and 1am on Fridays and Saturdays.

www.gelupo.com

If you had failed to miss the opening of this month’s hottest film, The Iron Lady, you’re quite probably still on the come down from a heavy Christmas.

But here’s your chance to catch up – and fast!

The 1980s-inspired nightclub Maggie’s – on Chelsea’s end of the Fulham Road – will be celebrating ‘Maggie Mania’ with a special Margaret Thatcher cocktail.

The Maggie’s Head (above) will be making up part of a refurbishment, ‘Maggie’s Facelift’, which the nightclub has recently undergone (think new Pacman DJ booth, new 80s wallpaper, etc).

In addition to this funky, topical cocktail, Maggie’s will be hosting a special night on 19th January: they’re inviting people to a special screening of The Iron Lady at Chelsea Cineworld, later transporting guests – by Routemaster – back to the nightclub for Barcardi and Grey Goose cocktails. And… there’s a special guest to boot!

Go on, travel back in time. Everyone else seems to be…

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