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We’re feeling rather boozy this week with a Cocktail Masterclass at The Kingly Club and a wine tasting at The Landau. We’re also arranging trips to Monaco for the annual, champagne-fuelled Grand Prix. Bottoms up!

Innerplace Cocktail Masterclass at Kingly Club, W1 - Thursday 4th March

We might love drinking cocktails but that doesn’t necessarily mean we know how to mix anything more exciting than a vodka and orange. So if you’ve always fancied trying Tom Cruise’s Cocktail moves, we’d be delighted if you would join us at a special  Innerplace Cocktail Masterclass and Members Party at The Kingly Club in Soho on Thursday 4th March.

The Kingly Club’s bar team will be hosting an informal two hour session for Innerplace members and their guests. The club’s bartenders have mixed drinks for the likes of Girls Aloud and George Michael over the years, with the cocktail menu including innovative concoctions such as The Devil Martini made with vodka, ginger, chilli, cucumber and passion fruit. During the session you’ll learn how to make various cocktails as well as doing some all important sampling! With its cool James Bond style décor and sexy, stylish vibe, The Kingly Club is one of London’s most enduringly hip night spots and is the perfect place to learn to make a truly classy cocktail (no risk of a Snakebite round these parts!).

The Cocktail Masterclass is the first in a series of special classes that The Kingly Club will be hosting this year. Forthcoming events will include a magic masterclass, a poker class and a pole dancing class (we reckon we might need to drink a few cocktails before trying that one). However this one is especially for Innerplace Members!

The evening will start from 6.30pm and we can accommodate up to 50 people in total. It’s free entry for Innerplace members with up to two guests each. It will therefore be on a first come, first served basis. If you would like to book your place, please let us know at info@innerplace.co.uk

Innerplace Wine Tasting Event in association with WineChap - Wednesday 24th February

Staying with the boozy theme, we just wanted to remind you about our first Innerplace Wine Tasting Event which takes place next Wednesday 24th February at The Langham Hotel. This will be a fun, informal session hosted by the WineChap. The evening is designed to help you navigate around restaurant wine menus (whilst trying some extremely good wines) which we thought would come in very handy for your busy dining schedules.

As well as learning about wine, the event will provide an opportunity to mix and mingle with other members outside of the usual nightclub environment. The event will be held in Postillion, The Landau’s stunning private dining room at the Langham so you will be in a suitably sophisticated setting for the evening!
Tickets are £35 each and include all the sampling wines and the course itself which should last about 2 hours.

Please let us know asap if you’d like to reserve places at info@innerplace.co.uk. The Innerplace Team will be there too so we hope you can make it.

The Monaco Grand Prix - Friday 14th to Sunday 16th May 2010

Formula 1 comes to Monaco just once a year for the Monaco Grand Prix and it’s without doubt the most prestigious event in the racing calendar. Monaco is closed off for the event as the city becomes one of the most thrilling, challenging race circuits in the world. Crowds line the streets to watch as F1’s supercharged cars scream around Monaco’s hairpin bends, screech up and down hills and whizz past the port. 

The Monaco Grand Prix is pretty exciting but the real draw is Monaco itself. Set against the exclusive backdrop of the French Riviera, Monaco attracts the international jet set. Even on the average weekend, it’s crammed with beautiful women, billionaires, designer clothes and glitzy parties galore and during The Grand Prix, the city packs even more of a glamorous punch. The swanky hotels and glossy restaurants get booked up sometimes years in advance for this most desirable of weekends. 

This year we’re lucky enough to have amazing access and the very best prices for The Grand Prix weekend. We can arrange pretty much anything from relatively standard packages to incredible pit-side VIP options or accommodation on uber luxurious Monaco yachts. We can also arrange entrance for members at the Amber Lounge, an elite Monaco night spot frequented by F1 stars, supermodels and A listers.

Weekend package prices start from £595 and go up to £4,695 for some of the most extravagant options. If you’re interested then contact us at info@innerplace.co.uk for full details.

Club of the Week

Thursday - Willa’s

This is one for all you fashionistas out there… London Fashion Week kicks off officially this Friday but if you can’t wait that long then Willas, Swallow Street, is holding their own launch party tomorrow, Thursday 18th February. Award-winning DJ Jodie Harsh will be co hosting the event along with celebrity owner Willas Keswick who is jetting in fresh from a very successful New York Fashion Week party at their glamorous sister venue in the States. This party promises to be an equally star-studded affair and Innerplace members are invited! IP members + 2 guests go free as usual so if you fancy going along then please send your guestlists through to info@innerplace.co.uk.

This Weekend

All of the top clubs should be overflowing with the fabulous and the glamorous this weekend as everyone is either in town for the Brits, the Bafta's or Fashion Week. So if you are out and about it should be an excellent opportunity for some celeb spotting!

London news and launches

Proud Galleries to launch a restaurant
Fashionable Camden gallery Proud has announced that it is to launch a restaurant in April. Called Proud Kitchen, the New York inspired canteen-style restaurant will be set within the 200 year old ‘rustic-industrial’ interior of the Old Horse Hospital. The restaurant will be designed by renowned interior designer Danielle Proud (the wife of Proud Gallery’s owner Alex) and will feature steel tables and antique crystal chandeliers. The menu will include a range of ‘New York small eats’ designed for sharing.

Mad Hatter’s Tea at The Sanderson
Just in time for the release of the new Alice in Wonderland film, The Sanderson is launching a Mad Hatter’s Afternoon Tea.  The tea menu includes surprising treats such as pineapple lollipops which turn your tongue from cold to hot, exploding mint ice cream and crackling chocolate cupcakes. The tea is £20 per person or £26 with a glass of champagne, and will be available as of March.

Tickets on sale for hot art preview
The Royal Academy of Arts is now selling tickets for its Annual Summer Exhibition Preview Party. Known as the hot art ticket of the summer season, this year’s party takes place on 9th June and celebrates the RA’s legendary Summer Exhibition. The exhibition has run every year since 1768 and is the largest open submission contemporary art exhibition in the world. The party attracts a large number of celebrities each year - in recent times these have included Lily Allen, Tim Burton and Claudia Schiffer. Tickets are £195.  

News of two brand new clubs, Runway and Tua Tara next week.

Have a good week

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