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06 What We Love in London 08 Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait 12 Protest, Party, Pride
18 Our Favourite Areas: Soho 28 The Great Plate Robbery 32 June Events At The Colony Room Green
34 Food & Drink 34 Food & Drink 36 PAIRED: Torbreck 36 PAIRED: Torbreck 40 My London: David 40 My London: David Gwinnutt Gwinnutt
JUNE IN LONDON
Prue Freeman & Tom Onions, Daisy Green Collection Founders
It’s June and this month, the issue is full of sunshine, glamour and fun.
We are all very excited about the new opening of the Marilyn Monroe exhibition celebrating her 100 birthday at the National Portrait Gallery.
Inside you will find our celebratory cocktails exclusively available at Larry’s designed for her, alongside a look at what’s going on in London with plenty of reasons to spend more time outside - and not just to enjoyed the weather!
We head back to Holland Park for another summer of art, and open a few good bottles along the way with Torbreck joining us for June’s PAIRED dinner alongside some BBQ tips.
June also marks a month of PRIDE and we are fortunate to have acclaimed photographer David Gwinnutt reminiscing on the origins of PRIDE and what it means to him. We are very grateful for his contribution and we hope that you enjoy reading it as much as we did.
As always, we hope this issue gives you a few different ideas for the month ahead, whether that’s somewhere new to go, something deliciously Australian to drink, or simply an excuse to stay out a little later than planned.
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THE CON TENTS
Rhyannon Styles Bethnal Green London 2009 ©️David Gwinnutt.
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What We Love In London
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Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait
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Protest, Party, Pride: David Gwinnutt
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Our Favourite Areas: Soho
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The Great Plate Robbery 36.
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June Events At The Colony Room Green
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Food & Drink at Daisy Green
PAIRED: Torbreck
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My London: David Gwinnutt
Green Marilyn, 1962, by Andy Warhol, © 2026 The Andy Warhol Foundation
for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by DACS, London, National Gallery of Art,
Washington. Gift of William C. Seitz and Irma S. Seitz
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Marilyn Monroe; Laurence Olivier (Press Conferenceat The Savoy Hotel)
by Larry Burrows
From the original modern silver print, 15 July 1956
Given by Barbara Baker Burrows and Russell Burrows, 2012
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JUNE GUIDE
What to see, do and
where to visit this month.
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01 Marilyn Monroe™; Rights of Publicity and Persona Rights are used with permission of
The Estate of Marilyn Monroe LLC. Photo by Sam Shaw © 2026 Shaw Family Archives
02 Image courtesy of Shutterstock
WHAT WE LOVE IN LONDON
Our favourite exhibitions, openings and seasonal moments across the city this month.
Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait at the National Portrait Gallery (from 4 June) In celebration of the Hollywood star’s 100th birthday and in association with the Marilyn Monroe estate, Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait will explore the life, career and legacy of Marilyn Monroe through portraits created by some of the greatest photographers and artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Trooping the Colour (13 June) One of London’s most recognisable traditions returns this June as Trooping the Colour takes over Horse Guards Parade with military processions, music and plenty of ceremony. Even if you only catch a glimpse from afar, it’s one of those moments that makes the city feel unmistakably London.
Harry Styles at the Southbank Centre (11–21 June) The Southbank Centre hosts a special Harry Styles installation and pop-up experience this month, drawing fans down to the riverside for a celebration of music, fashion and creative collaborations. Expect long queues, plenty of photo opportunities and a lot of very well-dressed people.
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland at Opera Holland Park (from 19 June) Opera Holland Park brings Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to the stage this summer, transforming the park into a colourful world of curious characters, chaos and fantasy. Set beneath the open-air canopy in one of London’s prettiest green spaces, it’s a slightly surreal and very memorable way to spend a summer evening.
Taste of London (17–21 June) Taste of London is back in Regent’s Park, bringing together some of the city’s best restaurants, chefs and food brands for five days of eating and drinking in the sunshine. Expect live cooking demos, new restaurant launches and more snacks than anyone realistically needs in one afternoon.
David Bowie: You’re Not Alone at Lightroom, King’s Cross An immersive 360-degree exhibition celebrating the life and work of David Bowie. Featuring rare footage, photography and archive material projected across Lightroom’s vast gallery space, the show brings Bowie’s music, creativity and cultural impact vividly to life.
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1996 at the Barbican Centre (until September) A new exhibition at the Barbican Centre celebrating one of Britain’s most chaotic and culturally defining years. Bringing together music, media and moments that shaped the decade, 1996 looks back at a time that still echoes through London today. We’re delighted to be a sponsor of this event
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MARILYN MONROE: A PORTRAIT AT THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
There are very few people whose image is instantly recognisable almost anywhere in the world, decades after their death, but Marilyn Monroe remains one of them. Even now, she still feels woven into fashion, film, photography and popular culture in a way that very few stars ever have been. This summer, the National Portrait Gallery marks what would have been Monroe’s 100th birthday with Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait, a major exhibition exploring the woman behind one of the most enduring images of the 20th century.
Opening on 4 June, the exhibition brings together portraits, photography and artworks spanning Monroe’s life and legacy, from early images of Norma Jeane before the fame, through to some of the final photographs taken shortly before her death in 1962. Alongside instantly recognisable portraits are more intimate moments that show a different side to Monroe, playful, thoughtful, intelligent and far more involved in shaping her own image than history often gives her credit for.
Marilyn Monroe, Ballerina Sitting, 1954, by Milton H. Greene, Milton H. Greene © MHG Collective, LLC.
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What makes the exhibition especially exciting is the sheer calibre of artists and photographers involved. Works by Andy Warhol and Pauline Boty sit alongside photographs by Cecil Beaton, Richard Avedon, Eve Arnold, Milton Greene and many others who helped define how Monroe was seen by the world. The exhibition also includes previously unseen photographs from a Life magazine shoot at Monroe’s Brentwood home, taken shortly before her death, quiet, candid images that feel worlds away from the polished Hollywood persona.
More than anything, the exhibition feels like a reminder of why Marilyn Monroe still fascinates people today. Beyond the blonde bombshell image was someone sharp, ambitious and endlessly watched, who understood exactly how powerful photography could be. The National Portrait Gallery feels like the perfect setting for an exhibition like this, not just celebrating Monroe as a Hollywood icon, but looking properly at the way she shaped visual culture itself.
Norma Jeane, 1946, by Bruno Bernard, Bernard of Hollywood Foundation.
Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait runs from 4 June – 6 September 2026 at the National Portrait Gallery. Tickets are priced from £25–27, with free entry for Members. The exhibition is located on Floor 0.
Book tickets via the QR code or visit National Portrait Gallery.
Marilyn Monroe, 1946, by André De Dienes, © André de Dienes / MUUS
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THE NORMA JEANE
COCKTAILS FOR A HOLLYWOOD ICON
Following a visit to Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait at the National Portrait Gallery, Larry’s feels like the natural next stop. Hidden beneath the gallery in its atmospheric underground vaults, the late-night cocktail bar has created two special serves inspired by Monroe and the glamour that still surrounds her almost a century on.
The Norma Jeane takes its name from Monroe’s original identity before Hollywood transformed her into a global icon. Made with pink peppercorn infused El Rayo Plata tequila, Italicus, yuzu sake, raspberry and lime, it’s bright, sharp and a little unexpected.
Alongside it sits The Monroe, a softer and more delicate cocktail built with Konik’s Tail vodka, rose liqueur, lychee, apricot and lime juice. Elegant without trying too hard, it nods to the polished image the world came to know so well and is inspired by Cecil Beaton’s rose covered photos of her.
With live jazz, candlelit corners and portraits lining the walls, Larry’s already feels like stepping into another era. This summer, the Monroe cocktails give visitors one more reason to linger a little longer beneath the National Portrait Gallery.
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PROTEST, PARTY, PRIDE.
David Gwinnutt reflects on queer London, Soho after dark, and why Pride should never lose its spirit of protest.
When I think of Pride three things come to mind, Protest, Friendship and Mess!
Did you know, Pride started as a protest? It’s true. It started in 1969 at The Stonewall Inn in Greenwhich Village, New York, a bar run by the mafia and patronised mostly by drag queens and hustlers of colour, who after being continually harrassed and beaten by the police, finally decided they could not take the brutality any more and fought back, rioting for six days. On the following anniversary of the riot Gay Pride was born. It should also be remembered that it was a trans sex worker, Marsha P Johnson, who is credited as leading the riot, putting the T firmly into protest.
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Another legend of protest is human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, who helped organise the UK’s first Gay Pride march in 1972 and he’s been instrumental in getting equality for LGBTQI people in many areas of life. I have marched with Peter a few times and it is a remarkable sight walking down Regent Street seeing the massed banks of onlookers seemingly parting as he walks by and all cheering him as if he’s a messiah.
Friendship is always a huge part of the Pride day as mates meet to celebrate whatever Pride means to them. I love seeing all the different styles in our spectrum of a community, forming their tribes, creating a huge clash of queerness and taking over the city for a day. As someone who’s been out since 1975 when I was fourteeen, I watch with a wry smile the youthful exhuberance of this new generation of queer folk and how they bring their own unique brand of queer protest and party to the streets.
We all arrive at the point of Pride from a myriad of different journeys, yet whatever our journey has been we can take strength, and solidarity and a sense of celebration from the collective, the one day when our community really does seem to exist as one big fabulous whole. No matter what other trials or difficulties we have going on in our lives, Pride can be a day to put these issues aside, or to put them at the centre of your protest as we all march, shout, laugh, dance and wave our flags to let the world know we are here! No fear, no shame.
I firmly believe friendship extends across the rainbow to our straight mates. Seeing a Mum and Dad with their kids waving their rainbow flags, or grown-ass party goers vibing
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off the Pride atmosphere it’s always a heartwarming sight to see them with us. We should never take our allies for granted. Growing up openly gay I’ve always felt this friendship and acceptance was what made Britain cool and it led me to design a flag to celebrate this. I called it the Pink Jack and for a period in our queer history, 2006 - 2018 it was everywhere and represented what was great about Britain and the positivity shown to the queer community. Sadly times have changed. Political and social division has seen Britain drop to 31st on the Equality Index, where it was No1 during the Pink Jack years.
Mess! As the march ends and the crowds head into Soho to the waiting bars and restaurants. Early revellers congregate at the newly placed outside tables, everything looks neat and tidy and the drag queens hosting each venue pace around trying to chat to the early birds whilst double checking they look gorgeous before they go into battle. For the next few hours the party rages, the energy is intense and Soho only gets more and more rammed. It’s a battleground of happiness and physical endurance as the party assaults your senses from every direction. The clothes, the faces, the sweat, the heat, the cans, the smoke, the music, the shouts, the jostling bodies. The ground is blanketed by thousands of discarded bottles and cans, crunching and rattling underfoot.
We came, we saw, we conquered... and then went home, or to a club or an after party. Wherever your energy levels take you, the day will come to an end but the spirit of protest and friendship and pride should not. Foster friendships, make new allies and be prepared to protest and fight for your continued rights.
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Photo: Chris Jepson
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BEHIND THE LENS WITH DAVID GWINNUTT
From the 80s queer art scene to the walls of the world’s most prestigious galleries, David Gwinnutt’s lens has captured the definitive spirit of a generation.
Growing up as a gay kid in Derbyshire, David was captivated by the eclectic fashions of the day— from Bowie-inspired looks and the influence of hippies and mods to the raw energy of punk. During this time, he voraciously consumed magazines and discovered the photography of Guy Bourdin. This sparked a creative flame that remained latent until, as a young man working as an assistant to Sir Brian Clarke in London, he encountered the work of seminal portrait photographers such as Cecil Beaton, Robert Mapplethorpe, Diane Arbus, and David Bailey. Inspired to emulate them, he began his formal studies at Hornsey School of Art.
David began photographing his contemporaries, creating a unique and intimate record of the 1980s queer art scene. These images, many of which are collected in his 2017 book, The White Camera Diaries, document more than just the influential figures of the time, such as Derek Jarman and Leigh Bowery; they capture the reality of a life lived on the fringes.
We are lucky enough to display some of David’s work at Larry’s, Margot Green, Glamarama Green and Ziggy Green.
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By pairing his candid portraiture with personal anecdotes and letters, the book offers a rare, behind-the-lens look at the spats, sexual encounters, and profound friendships that defined his youth in London.
His work has earned significant institutional recognition. In addition to the National Portrait Gallery in London—which holds more than 20 of his works—his portraits are held in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian, the Royal Academy, and the National Portrait Gallery, Australia. Notably, his two renowned portraits of Leigh Bowery were exhibited at Tate Modern in 2025 as part of a major retrospective.
Two standout moments in David’s career include his 2017 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Before We Were Men, and his inclusion in The Independent’s 2013 “Rainbow List,” where he was ranked 16th among the 100 most influential LGBTQI people in Britain.
Edmund White. Paris 1986
Trojan & Leigh Bowery Farrell House London 1983
All images ©️David Gwinnutt. DACS London.
Derek Jarman & John Maybury Soho 1983
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OUR FAVOURITE AREAS: SCARLETT GREEN: SOHO AT PRIDE
Where to stay, eat and explore around Soho
Few people realise Soho’s name is thought to come from an old hunting cry, a shout of “so-ho!” once used to call hounds across the fields that stood here centuries ago. These days, the neighbourhood calls to a very different crowd. For decades, Soho has been the beating heart of London’s LGBTQ+ community. A place of protest, performance, creativity and freedom, where generations have gathered in its bars, clubs and late-night streets to celebrate being exactly who they are.
Eat: The French House
49 Dean St, Soho, London W1D
Tucked above the legendary French House pub, this tiny upstairs dining room is one of Soho’s best-kept secrets. Black-and-white photos line the walls, the menu changes daily, and the cooking is bold, seasonal and completely unfussy.
Expect rich French and British classics done brilliantly, alongside the kind of atmosphere that feels unmistakably old Soho.
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There’s nowhere else in London quite like it. Loud and a little bit gritty in all the right ways. Independent bookshops sit next to legendary drinking dens, drag queens spill onto Dean Street, and somehow there’s always music drifting out from somewhere. During Pride Month especially, the whole neighbourhood feels alive with history.
Right in the middle of it all sits Scarlett Green. Hidden just off Soho Square,
Stay: Hazlitt’s
6 Frith St, Soho, London W1D
Hidden behind an unassuming Georgian townhouse in the middle of Soho, Hazlitt’s feels like stepping into another era. Think creaky floorboards, velvet armchairs, four-poster beds and shelves lined with old books, all lit by candlelight and low lamps.
It’s intimate, slightly decadent, and full of the kind of old London charm that’s becoming harder to find. Right in the heart of Soho, but somehow still quiet enough to feel like a proper escape from the city outside.
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it’s become a go-to for long brunches, cocktails that turn into dinner, and people-watching from morning through to late evening. Colourful and always buzzing, it captures that same Soho spirit, open, slightly chaotic and endlessly fun.
Nearest Tube Station: Tottenham Court Road.
Scarlett Green: Life in Soho
Sat on Noel Street, Scarlett Green sits right in the middle of Soho’s beautiful chaos. From early morning coffees to late-night cocktails, it’s one of those places that seems to move with the rhythm of the neighbourhood around it. Busy, loud, colourful and always full of life.
By day, it’s all long brunches, strong coffee and tables spilling with pancakes, Fancy Bacon Rolls and people catching up over oat flat whites. Weekdays blur between meetings and lazy lunches, while weekends feel like a proper Soho scene, music playing, queues at the door and that unmistakable buzz that comes with the area.
As the evening rolls in, the atmosphere shifts. Lights dim, cocktails land on tables, DJs take over on Saturdays and Scarlett Nights begins to feel more like a dinner party than a restaurant. Big sharing boards, watermelon cocktail fountains, birthdays stretching late into the night.
In a neighbourhood known for excess, energy and freedom, Scarlett Green fits right in. Open all day, always busy, and exactly the kind of place Soho does best.
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CULTURE AT DAISY GREEN
Art, music and stories from across
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BEING NATURE, IN BLOOM SPRING: EXHIBITION AT HOLLAND PARK CAFE Exhibition continues daily until 18th June.
With spring now in full Bloom in Holland Park, we celebrate the latest seasonal chapter at Holland Park with an exhibition featuring Fabio Almeida, Ralph Anderson, and Hermione Allsopp. Curated by Justin Hibbs, the exhibition is a playful, yet thoughtful meditation on touch, history, transformation, and the sensory experience of the natural and built environment.
All three artists have distinctly different approaches but share a common preoccupation with surface and a focused attention on its material qualities. A refined sense of touch and texture becomes a carrier of meaning and references the surface realities that surround us. From the weathered patina of the built environment referenced in Almeida’s work, to
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Fabio Almeida & Ralph Anderson
Anderson’s finely sanded ‘excavated’ surfaces revealing layered histories of paint, to Allsopp’s concrete-like expanding foam, unexpectedly embedded with decorative ceramic plates that evoke the organic qualities of lived-in surfaces, each artist invites us to experience the world through our haptic senses.
Hermione Allsopp transforms discarded domestic objects into sculptural forms that question value, memory, and everyday materials. Her ‘Mantle Deposits’ featuring ceramic bowls in the familiar organic form of vegetable leaves are embedded in rock like expanding foam, as if a trio of meteors had landed and acquired hot impressions of flora whilst coming to rest in Holland Park.
Hermione Allsopp
Fabio Almeida creates large-scale collages that blend architectural and organic references, combining geometric structure with weathered surfaces that evoke a nostalgia for a bygone era of modern optimism. The earthy palette, shapes, and surfaces of tarnished layers of paper lend a more fragile and human sensibility to the gritty realities of contemporary life. Ralph Anderson delicately sands through layers of paint to reveal buried imagery, using an archaeological approach to explore memory, decay, and traces of the future. In ‘Bloom’ and ‘Yellow Line’, this process reveals AI-generated floral wallpaper, suggesting a future already buried and rediscovered like a fading cultural memory, a fragment of our future, now past, revealed through the worn patina of natural decay.
Exhibition continues daily until 18th June at Holland Park Cafe.
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UNDER THIS ONE TREE Alan McFetridge at Holland Park Café
21 JUNE – 19 SEPTEMBER 2026 Scan the QR code to RSVP Holland Park Café, Ilchester Place, London W8 6LU
Developed over 12 months, McFetridge’s work in and around Holland Park grows from sustained attention to the park’s trees, seasonal change, and the rhythms of the living landscape. It marks an important first step in a new cultural programme at Holland Park Café, where art, ecology, hospitality and public life meet.
The title Under This One Tree draws on a line from Zbigniew Herbert’s poem A Small Bird, first published in 1957. McFetridge encountered the line through a handwritten letter from the American photographer Robert Adams, sent after Adams saw McFetridge’s book On The Line. In the letter, Adams quoted Herbert’s question: “How can we live anywhere else but in this one tree?”
For McFetridge, that question became a prompt for the residency, with trees more than human presence and a way to honour the ancestry they maintain with shelter, exposure, dependence, memory and time. They stand beside us at a radically different pace, shaping the atmosphere of the park and the lives that move through it.
McFetridge’s wider practice explores landscape fire, ecology and
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collective memory through long-term photographic research. His work has developed through fieldwork in fire-affected landscapes, books, exhibitions, academic publications, and community return. At Holland Park, these questions move through the intimate scale of one café, one public garden, one season and one tree at a time.
Set beneath the historic arches of Holland Park Café and surrounded by greenery, Under This One Tree invites visitors to pause within the everyday life of the park. Encountered over brunch, after a walk through the gardens, or during an afternoon coffee, the exhibition offers a moment to look again at the living world already around us.
The exhibition also opens onto a wider programme of artist-led workshops, walks, conversations and seasonal projects developed through the residency. Together, they invite visitors from across London to gather at Holland Park Café and take part in an emerging programme of art, ecology, food and public conversation.
A small number of works and editions will be available during the exhibition.
Alan McFetridge, Under This One Tree, 2025. Courtesy of the artist.
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4TH JUNE 2026: THE GREAT PLATE ROBBERY A behind-the-scenes look at the making of this year’s limited-edition artist plates.
There’s something quite magical about seeing an object made by hand. Especially when it starts as a sketch on paper and ends up as something you’ll hold at a dinner table, slightly imperfect in all the right ways, carrying fingerprints of the people who made it along the way.
Ahead of this year’s Great Plate Robbery, we travelled up to Stokeon-Trent, the historic heart of British ceramics, to step inside the world of Duchess China 1888 and capture the making of this year’s limited-edition charity plates.
Designed exclusively for the event by Margo in Margate, the collection is full of the artist’s signature style — vibrant colours and playful shapes that make you smile the longer you look at them.
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What surprised us most wasn’t just the artwork itself, but the sheer amount of craftsmanship behind every single plate. Inside the factory, nothing felt rushed. Giant sheets of printed decals were carefully aligned by hand, applied onto the ceramics with incredible precision before disappearing into towering kilns to be fired. Every stage of the process still relies on skilled craftspeople, many of whom have spent decades working within the pottery industry.
There’s a beautiful contrast to it all. Bright, expressive contemporary artwork being brought to life through generations-old techniques in one of Britain’s most historic manufacturing towns. You can feel the human touch in every part of the process.
The finished plates will appear at The Great Plate Robbery this June at Bondi
Green, where guests will have the chance to take home one of the highly limited-edition pieces as part of the evening’s fundraising efforts for The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity and Prostate Cancer Research.
Part artwork, part collectible and part dinner table conversation starter, they’re the kind of objects that don’t just sit on a shelf. They hold a story. And after seeing firsthand how much care goes into making them, they feel even more special because of it.
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JUNE EVENTS AT THE COLONY ROOM:
Monday 1 June: Breaking Taboo – Recalling the Spirit of Leigh Bowery’s London Opening night for Breaking Taboo, a new installation by Biba Bibitch exploring the world around Leigh Bowery and London’s alternative queer club scene between 1984 and 1988. Combining photographs, ephemera, clothing fragments and text, the show reconstructs the unstable energy of Taboo and its surrounding underground culture. Exhibition runs throughout June. Admission free.
Tuesday 2 June: Intimate Subjects – Dr Simeon Koole Launch event for Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain’s Cerebral Age. Historian Dr Simeon Koole explores the cultural history of touch in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain, tracing how ideas around intimacy, contact and bodily experience continue to shape the present. Admission free.
Monday 8 June: Taboo Exhibition Talk – Biba Bibitch A conversation with figures from the post-Taboo underground, exploring the worlds of the clubs Anarchy and Sacrosanct, the arrival of the Limelight as an alien force on London nightlife. Come and hear first-hand accounts of the strange final years before AIDS took hold and Acid House transformed everything.
Tuesday 9 June: Looking for Mr Schwitters – Jennifer Potter Launch event for Looking for Mr Schwitters, Jennifer Potter’s exploration of artist Kurt Schwitters and his final years in England’s Lake District after fleeing Nazi Germany. Part biography, part literary quest, the book traces art, exile and landscape through the story of one of the twentieth century’s most singular avantgarde figures. Admission free.
Tuesday 16 June: Joey Casey in Conversation with Andrew Lownie Historian and biographer Andrew Lownie joins Joey Casey for an evening discussing royal scandal, espionage and political intrigue. Lownie is the author of Traitor King, Entitled and biographies of John Buchan and Soviet spy Guy Burgess. Admission free.
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Monday 22 June: Ten Studies for a Portrait of Francis Bacon Preview performance of Ten Studies for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, a new two-part play by Eugene O’Hare, directed by James Hillier, whose previous productions include Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell. Admission free.
Tuesday 23 June: The Pen Is Mightier – Edward Tudor Pole Edward Tudor Pole discusses his memoir The Pen Is Mightier: Autobiography of a Punk Rocker, reflecting on music, performance and a life spent at the stranger edges of British culture. Admission free.
Wednesday 24 June: BodyMap An evening with the legendary 1980s fashion duo BodyMap and their explosive influence on style, performance and London club culture. In conversation with writer, broadcaster and former Michael Clark dancer, Katie Puckrik.
Monday 29 June: Rachel Megawhat Exhibition Launch Opening night for a new exhibition by Londonbased artist Rachel Megawhat. Best known today for her oil paintings, Megawhat previously worked extensively in photography, with works held in public and private collections including the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and the Sigrid Kirk Collection. Admission free.
Tuesday 30 June: Dressed In Black – Goth Divas From The Dark Side 1941–2025 Launch party for Dressed In Black, curated and annotated by writer Cathi Unsworth, author of Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth. Exploring gothic icons from the 1940s to the present day, the exhibition celebrates the women who shaped the darker side of music and culture. Admission free.
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FOOD AND DRINK
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FIRE & FEAST
Smoke, char and golden hour dinners — the BBQ favourites made for long summer evenings across the Daisy Green Collection.
There’s something about the first proper stretch of warm weather in London that changes the way we all want to eat. Longer evenings, colder drinks, terrace tables filling up from late afternoon, and suddenly the BBQ dishes on the menu start calling your name.
Across the Daisy Green Collection, summer is the moment these fire-cooked favourites really come into their own. From golden hour dinners along the canal at Bondi Green to long terrace evenings at Margot Green, it’s all about smoke, char and relaxed feasting as the sun starts to dip.
Leading the line-up are our Hereford steak skewers from HG Walter. Rich, beautifully marbled and cooked over the BBQ until perfectly charred on the outside and blushing in the middle, they’re made for sharing over cocktails as the city shifts into that soft summer evening glow.
The T-bone steak is another standout. Big, bold and unapologetically indulgent, it arrives with that deep smoky flavour only fire cooking can give. Best enjoyed outdoors with a crisp glass of rosé, good company and absolutely nowhere to rush off to.
Elsewhere across the collection, the grills are firing all summer long for seafood, flame-finished vegetables and laid-back plates designed to linger over. At Daisy Green, BBQ season has never been about formality. It’s about atmosphere. The smell of smoke drifting through the terrace, music in the background, another round arriving just as golden hour hits.
And that’s really the magic of summer dining in London. Those evenings where daylight stretches on, tables spill outside and dinner slowly turns into drinks.
So whether you’re settling in canalside, rooftop or terrace-side, now’s the time to order from the grill and make the most of summer while it’s here.
Cooking Tip For steak cooked over fire, take it off the grill just before you think it’s ready and let it rest for at least 5–10 minutes. The residual heat will continue cooking the meat while the juices redistribute, giving you a more tender, evenly cooked steak with that perfect blush in the middle. A final sprinkle of flaky sea salt just before serving makes all the difference.
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TORBRECK: THE WEIGHT OF PLACE
An evening with Andrew Tierney on Barossa, balance and why great wine should never intimidate
Deep in the Barossa Valley, where some of the oldest living Shiraz and Grenache vines on earth live, Torbreck has spent more than three decades perfecting the perfect pour.
Founded with a singular ambition, to stand among the world’s great wine producers, Torbreck has never been interested in fashion. Its philosophy has remained remarkably unwavering since the first vintage in 1995: respect the vineyard, honour the season and intervene as little as possible. In an era increasingly obsessed with immediacy, Torbreck’s approach feels almost radical in its patience.
This month, we welcome Andrew Tierney of Torbreck for an intimate evening exploring the enduring power of place in Australian fine wine, a conversation that moves beyond tasting notes and into the deeper
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questions of custodianship, heritage and identity.
At the centre of it all is the Barossa Valley itself: a region shaped by a Mediterranean climate, generations of growers and vineyards dating back to the 1840s. These ancient, dry-grown vines (many among the oldest producing vines in the world) yield wines of extraordinary concentration and unmistakable character. For Torbreck, they are not simply agricultural assets; they are living history.
Fruit is sourced from an intricate network of vineyard sites across the valley, each carrying its own soils, exposures and microclimates. Understanding how each parcel responds to climate, season and farming is fundamental to the Torbreck philosophy. Harvest is dictated not
by schedules but by expression. In the cellar, restraint rules. Wines are handled gently, moved minimally and matured according to their own needs rather than predetermined timelines.
The result is a collection of wines that feel deeply anchored to origin: powerful yet composed, intensely structured yet unmistakably elegant. Ahead of the dinner, we spoke with Tierney about wine intimidation, why serving temperature matters more than most people realise, and the bottles that best capture the soul of Torbreck.
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For someone who finds wine intimidating, where should they start? “By understanding that their tastes are their own. Put simply: like what you like. Wine can sometimes become wrapped up in technical language and jargon, but at the end of the day it’s a beverage, fermented grape juice from somewhere interesting. As sophisticated as it can be, it should still feel approachable.”
What’s a food and wine pairing you love that might surprise people? “I’m not a huge believer in rigid food-and-wine pairings because I think it’s difficult to narrow things down so simply. Most wines will work with most foods. The general rule is straightforward: lighter-bodied wines with lighter dishes, fuller-bodied wines with richer dishes. Beyond that, it’s really about enjoyment.”
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What makes Torbreck wines instantly recognisable? “Our bottle shape, certainly. The label hasn’t changed since our first wines in 1995. But stylistically, it’s about producing wines that are soft and silky yet still powerful, balanced expressions of the vineyards they come from.”
Is there one bottle everyone should try at least once? “For Torbreck, it would be either The Steading or RunRig. Those two wines best personify who we are and what we value in both winemaking and the Barossa. Outside of Torbreck, I’d encourage people to explore exceptional Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from Australia and New Zealand. The quality coming from this part of the world can rival the old world in remarkable ways.”
What’s something people often get wrong about wine? “Storage and temperature. It’s a complete hotchpotch, which drives me crazy. Room temperature for red wine is wrong, it’s meant to be cellar temperature, which should be below 18°C. Personally, I prefer red wines served around 16°C. Lighter-bodied reds can even be cooler. People forget wine warms naturally in the glass anyway, because we’re usually drinking it in rooms that are closer to 22°C. If you enjoy keeping wine at home, the best investment you can make is a wine fridge. Even a small 48-bottle fridge is enough to properly protect a collection and serve wines exactly as they should be.”
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Torbreck Runrig, Barossa Valley, South Australia 2026 LISTINGS
One of the classic Torbreck wines, with the added benefits of the
excellent 2015 vintage. It is a gorgeously deep pool of supple, mouthfilling/watering fruit flavours. Seduction clinically confronts
and comforts the consumer. Black fruits, liquorice and a shaft of
dark chocolate, plus oak, do the business.
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31 MARCH JIM BARRY (£140pp)
29 APRIL MICHAEL HILL SMITH MW FROM SHAW + SMITH (£140pp)
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06 MAY HENSCHKE (£160pp)
03 JUNE TORBRECK (£140pp)
24 JUNE WILLUNGA (£140pp)
22 JULY ENGLISH SPARKLING SPECIAL
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30 SEPTEMBER GROSSET & MT HORROCKS (£140pp)
21 OCTOBER VASSE FELIX WINES (£140pp)
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MY LONDON: DAVID GWINNUTT
This month, we explore London through the lens of David Gwinnutt, an artist and photographer whose work has become a vital archive of the city’s creative history. A prominent fixture of the 1980s club scene, he has spent decades capturing the raw, unposed reality of London’s art and queer communities. His take on the city is deeply personal: defined by intimate portraits of icons and outsiders alike, where every frame captures a candid moment of truth in the lives of those shaping the cultural landscape.
A part of London that has always felt important to you? It has to be Soho because it’s a place where exciting worlds collide... the gay scene, film and TV and the old art world of Bacon Freud, et al. Compton Street has always been thegay street and it’s always fun to check everyone out, see and be seen! Legendary film maker Derek Jarman always took breakfast at Patisserie Valerie and walking with him early mornings to breakfast always felt special. Another amazing memory was gay pride one year and the street was festooned with hundreds of Pink Jack’s, a flag I had designed.
A street in London that holds memories or meaning for you? Villiers Street which leads to Heaven nightclub. I walked that route, like so many of my peers, hundreds of times going to Heaven, which in the 80’s was the biggest and most exciting gay club in the world. The sense of anticipation and excitiement was palpable. I remember chatting with Rupert Everett in the queue and seeing Leigh Bowery for the first time as he walked down Villiers Street at midnight.
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Is there a pub, bar or late-night spot that feels quintessentially London to you? The Salisbury Pub, St Martins Lane. It’s a splendid Victorian boozer with decoratively mirrored walls and Art Nouveau elements. It’s Grade II Listed and known to be gay friendly, it has a rich gay history. It was frequented by Oscar Wilde, appeared in the film Victim with Dirk Bogarde and was a haunt of gay serial killer Denis Nilson
A place in London that feels tied to the city’s LGBTQ+ history or culture for you personally? Phoenix House on Charing Cross Road. This is where Derek Jarman lived. I stayed some nights there and visited many other times. Derek was the head gay in many ways. So many creatives, young and old visited him, his flat felt like the centre of the gay art world. My portrait of Derek in the doorway of his flat at 9am one morning is in the National portrait Gallery collection. Another of my portraits of him with John Maybury in the flat is also in The NPG collection.
Is there a restaurant or café that feels like a real London institution to you? Well most have gone now! But Langans Brasserie still remains. The walls are covered in original works by famous artists such as David Hockney, Ron Kitaj, Richard Hamilton, Alan Jones and many more. The upstairs restaurant has a huge mural of the Venice Regatta by Patrick Procktor. Langan’s hayday was the 70’s and 80’s when old school A-list stars went there and the owner Peter Langan was notorious for being rude to everyone, especially if they ordered an omlette! I was taken many times as a young man and once had dinner at the same table as Mick Jagger and David Bailey.
A hidden corner of London you think more people should know about? The Green in Winchmore Hill N21. It’s a picturesque Green with independent cafes and restauants and an amazing gastro pub The Kings Head at it’s North corner. It has a village atmosphere with the buzz on London commuters heading to the station nearby. On it’s East side Chase Side (known as millionaire’s row) leads to Grovelands Park which has a beautiful lake teeming with wildlife at it’s centre. The lake is overlooked by the famous rehab centre, The Priory an impressive pink stucco Neoclassical villa built in 1797.
Photo: Sister London Villiers Street
© David Gwinnutt / National Portrait Gallery The Salisbury Pub
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