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0845 401 5034royalalberthall.com
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¡vamos! summer 2012is a collaboration between JungleDrumsOnline and Como No showcasing the best and hottest Latin Events in London.
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Welcome!¡ BiEnvEnidOS !
to London, one of the great Latin Capitals of the world. you know you’re a true Londoner not just by the fact that you don’t have any olympic tickets but also because you’re open to everything that this greatest of cities can show you. Even if you’re more at home with a Full English than a Full brazilian - Vamos has got something for you.
Vamos is a handy pocket guide and an indispensable website bringing you the best in live shows, exhibitions, films, flavours, parties and much more. In this guide the listings appear month by month, coded by artform, with handy sections on eating out, parties, the soundtrack to the summer and all the venues where the fun takes place. For completely up to date listings check our website at www.vamos-london.com and also sign up there for our monthly eflyer for the pick of the best.
ready for a true London Latin Experience? Then let’s ¡Vamos!
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Barbican Hall | 7.30pm, from £15
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23 JunESaT
Southbank Centre / Royal Festival Hall |7.30pm, from £15
Arguably the world’s greatest conductor leading the world’s best orchestra in a pro-gramme of beethoven and britten. Concert is also screened live for non-ticket holders in Clore ballroom at southbank Centre.
An afternoon of inspiring Latin American music featuring Diego Laverde rojas on Colombian harp, Mauricio Velasierra on Andean flute, Camilo Menjura on guitar, Carlos barcenas voice, Wilmer sinfontes on Venezuelan percussion and Mariano ortiz on accordion. In aid of sarah’s rural Libraries Project in Cajamarca, Peru.
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laTin american musicThe Forge | 3pm, £10
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As a girl, the guatemalan singer-songwriter devoured albums by robert Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Nina simone and Ella Fitzgerald, she discovered an affinity for the vintage African American sounds of the 20s, 30s and 40s and combined them with the sound of the Latin music she loved from the same era.
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24 JunESun
Southbank Centre / Royal Festival Hall | 7.30pm, from £8
A sensation wherever they play, the exuberant simón bolívar symphony orchestra performs a concert espe-cially for families in royal Festival hall. An introduced performance of popular classical and Latin-American music for an orchestra, conducted by young conductors from Venezuela’s El sistema.
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24 JunESun
Southbank Centre / Purcell Room | 6.30pm, from £8
A one-hour concert by the young Venezu-elan quartet, formed from the top players in the simón bolívar symphony orchestra.
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26 JunETuE
Southbank Centre / Royal Festival Hall |12.30pm, free but ticketed
Experience the sbsoV in rehearsal as conductor gustavo Dudamel puts the orchestra through its paces. This working rehearsal gives an insight into how this unique orchestra prepares for a concert.
Gilberto Gil (Back2Black Festival)@ Barbicam
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uK launch for Flavio renegado’s ‘Minha Tribo e’ o mundo’. his music connects African and Caribbean rhythms with textures of American hip hop, the energy of electronic music and the trickery of samba. .
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flavio reneGado + dJ madera verdeBedroom Bar | 8pm , £5 adv
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poeTry parnassus fesTival26 JunE - 1 JuLYTuE
Southbank Centre, free and paid events
The world’s most exciting poets, rappers, spoken word artists, singers and storytell-ers are gathering for this huge event that will make history as the largest poetry festival ever staged in the uK. Including raul henao (Colombia) , Alejandra del rio (Chile), Lia Colombino, Paulo henriques britto (brazil) and rocio Ceron (Mexico).
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An intense and atmospheric exploration of young love staged deep in the underground hub of the roundhouse. A promenade performance created by brazilian director renato rocha with fourteen London teenagers. rocha is known for his work with Companhia bufomecânica and his school-ing of the young actors in City of God.
The darK side of loveRoundhouse / Dorfman Hub | Times vary daily between 4pm and 8pm, £5 - £12.50
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Old Billingsgate | Doors 6pm, from £35
gilberto gil and back2black bring together over thirty brazilian and international groups over three days, presenting brazilian black culture on four stages in old billingsgate market, on the banks of the Thames. Among the artists participat-ing are Luiz Melodia, Marcelo D2, Criolo, Mart’nalia, Emicida, Arnaldo Antunes, Virginia rodrigues, Femi Kuti, roots Manuva and Fatoumata Diawara.
laTin american film series: cinema in The maKinG
29 JunEunTiL Fri
Instituto Cervantes each Friday in June 5pm / free with advance reservation
A series of feature films organised by the Instituto Cervantes from the selection made for the san sebastián and Toulouse Film Festivals.
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Tate Britain | Sat - Thurs 10am - 6pm, Fri 10am - 10pm, £14
British Museum / Room 90 | Daily 10am - 5.30pm, free
Picasso remains the twentieth century’s most important single artistic figure, a towering genius who changed the face of modern art. In a major new exhibition at Tate britain, Picasso & Modern british Art explores his extensive legacy and influence on british art.
Discover spain’s most important set of Picasso prints in this exciting new show. The Museum has recently acquired a complete set of Picasso’s Vollard suite – 100 etchings produced between 1930 and 1937. The only complete Vollard suite held by a public museum in the uK.
A first uK solo exhibition for the Argentina born artist Amalia Pica, featuring newly commissioned works of sculpture, photog-raphy, installation and performance. The exhibition elaborates upon Pica’s ongoing interest in the social act of listen-ing, sites of celebration and technologies of mass communication.
amalia picaChisenhale Gallery | Wed - Sun 1 - 6pm, Thu 1 - 9pm , free
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An intoxicating cocktail of rumba, salsa, rum and reggaeton. Juventino “El Chico Divino”, the stunning latin hearthrob singer and dancer from Charanga habanera, Cuba’s Timba super group, Eric Turro “El Maestro”, and osvadys “the don of reggaeton”. With live band sonora La Calle.
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Daniel Mordzinski, the writers’ photog-rapher, has been working for more than 30 years on an ambitious ‘human atlas’ of spanish and Latin American literature. Mordzinski has taken portraits of the main protagonists of spanish letters of three generations.
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Instituto Cervantes | Mon - Fri 10am - 6pm, Sat 10am - 3pm, free
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Two Cuban artists who “carnivalize” everything they touch by turning it into celebration, chaos, performance, entertain-ment, and humour. They are capable of “cannibalising” and devouring everything.
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elio rodriGueZ & douGlas pereZ casTroBreese Little Gallery Thu - Sat |12noon - 6pm, free
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AFRICA UTOPIA
1 – 28 Julybook Tickets 0844 847 9910southbankcentre.co.uk/africautopia
BAABA MAAL OUMOU SANGARÉ & BÉLA FLECKANGELIQUE KIDJOPACO PEÑAGREGORY MAQOMATAJ MAHALVOCAL ENSEMBLE OF AFRICAFUNMI OLAWUMI
Gilberto GilCriolo Luiz MelodiaMarcelo D2Mart’naliaEmicidaTonoFlavio RenegadoArnaldo Antunes Edgard ScandurroNatasha Llerena& more
Old Billingsgate Market, London, EC3Fri 29 Jun – Sun 1 Julbarbican.org.uk/back2blackPart of London 2012 FestivalProduced by the Barbican, Zoocom Events and Serious
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Bolivar Hall | 7pm, £12, £8 concessions
SUMMER STUNNER ALLNIGHTER14 JULYSAt
Scala. | 7pm - 6am, £15 (non-members), £12 (members)
the night begins with your choice from up to 28 masterclasses at all levels. Followed by dancing in 4 rooms (Salsamax, Viva Cuba, Zouk Central & Bachata Rosa) and featuring the European Salsa Open Championships Grand Finals. Djs Salseando, Big Les, Sylves-ter, Sol, Dr Jim, Dani K, Amir, tony Lara.
A one off Latin Music and Dance Event at the O2, featuring the best of UK and world dance teachers, performers, DJs, international dancers, bands and singers. Unlimited beginners lessons, 70+ master-classes, 25 showcases, 15 DJs, 8 zones of dance, 6 live bands, 1 world record.
LONDON GOES LATINO2 / Greenwich Peninsula | 12noon - 2am / from £15
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A choir of young singers from Santiago de Cuba. their repertoire includes a wide range of styles from the Renaissance to the contemporary. they perform works by Mon-teverdi, Mozart, Bach, Mendelssohn, Ravel and Rimsky-Korsakov, and Cuban composers as well as popular boleros set to wonderful choral harmonies.
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Principal Dancer with the Royal Ballet.
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AFRO-CUBAN FIESTA - THE JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS & PEDRITO MARTINEZ
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Barbican | 7.30pm, from £15
this special concert explores the con-nections between the American jazz big band tradition and Afro-Cuban jazz. the JLCO with wynton Marsalis are joined for the concert by acclaimed Cuban percus-sionist Pedrito Martinez plus Ariacne trujillo, and Jhair Sala.
Led by Quantic and Mario Galeano, Ondatrópica cradles the talents of some greats from the seventies golden age of Medellin’s Discos Fuentes such as Michi Sarmiento on sax, wilson Viveros on timbales and Pedro ‘Ramaya’ Beltran on flute alongside a breaking wave of young tropicalistas to create a new Caribbean sound spanning the generations.
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20 JULYFri
A full free day of the best of Brazil in music, dance and food in North west London.
Rare London show for the acclaimed Afro Cuban vocal ensemble from Camaguey.
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SIMÓN BOLÍVAR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF VENEZUELA
Worthy of all the praise they get and more, the product of Venezuela’s El Sistema play some all to rare London shows.
23 - 26 JUNe
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RIO ARTISTS OCCUPATION
Rio artists occupy the streets, stages and squares of London in collaboration with London artists.See page 12.
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Rio’s famous celebration of the African roots of popular music brings a galactic line up to fishtastic Old Billingsgate.
29 JUNe - 1 JULY
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PROMETHEUS AWAKES
Bound to be a stunning show from Barcelonan mad men La Furas del Baus who came to London-fame by chasing their audiences with chainsaws in Docklands in the 1980s, now col-laborating with Graeae.See page 06.
23 JUNe
A one stop shop for the best in contemporary Latin American Art on show in Earls Court for three days only. See page 06.
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The man who brought jazz and funk to bossa nova is back - Mas Que Nada. See page 14.
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Hotel Medea@ Hayward Gallery
ONE HACKNEY FESTIVAL21 JULYSAt
Clissold Park 11am - 7pm / free
A day of celebration to welcome the Olympic torch to hackney. Featuring collaborative performances by hackney groups and artists from Fundição Progresso in Lapa and by Rio’s leading disabled carnival group Embaixadores da Alegria.
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Paraiso School of Samba opens the Big Dance Carnival with a parade at 12.30pm followed by a show on the stage of Crystal Palace Concert Bowl at 1pm.
THE BIG DANCE CARNIVAL Crystal Palace Park 12.30pm / free
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HOTEL MEDEASouthbank Centre / Hayward Gallery (not every night) | 11.45pm, £40
An overnight experience with a live DJ, hot chocolate and twisted games of hide and seek, exploring the dark revenge myth of Medea. the show runs from midnight to dawn, with breakfast included.
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Marcos Saboya – creates aMAZEme, an installation featuring a maze made up of thousands of books, taking particular inspiration from writer Jorge Luis Borges.
Bt River of Music welcomes the world to London with a once-in-a-lifetime week-end of free music at landmarks along the River thames. Latin American artists ap-pearing include Ondatrópica (Colombia), Carlinhos Brown (Brazil), Roberto Fonseca (Cuba), Aurelio Martinez (honduras).
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Southbank Centre / Clore Ballroom | Daily 10am - 10pm, free
Tower of London | Americas’ stage 11am -10pm, free with £3 ticket processing fee
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BBC PROMS: JOSE HERNANDO ARIAS NOGUERA & EGIDIO CUADRADO
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Royal Albert Hall |10.15pm, from £12
Born in London of Colombian descent, 2012’s young BBC Radio 3 Music Acad-emy apprentice is self-taught 20-year-old accordionist, singer and guitarist José hernando Arias Noguera. Performing with his mentor Egidio Cuadrado the Colombian accordion king.
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Southbank Centre / Clore Ballroom | 3pm, free
A unique collaboration brought to you by Lawnmowers Theatre Company (UK), Opaxoro da Apae (Brazil) and Orchestra Sertão (Brazil). Drawing on the rich popular North East traditions of Brazil and England. They invite you to dance Ciranda, Samba de Roda, Lawnmowers Two Step and more.
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Royal Albert Hall |7.30pm, from £10
Their feel good anthems are a heady mix of country and pop with a liberal dose of Brazilian sunshine stirred in.
CANDOCO UNLIMITED6 SEPTEMBERThU
Southbank Centre / Queen Elizabeth Hall | 8pm, from £10
Candoco Dance Company present an evening of bold new dance featuring twelve disabled and non-disabled perform-ers from the previous, current and future Olympic Nations - China, UK and Brazil.
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CONFERENCE: WORLDS TOGETHER
6 – 8 SEPTEMBER ThU
Tate Modern, £395
A three-day event providing a platform for educators, artists and cultural professionals from all over the world to debate impor-tant issues, exchange ideas, and shape an agenda for the future of learning and the arts. Contributors will include the Brazil-ians Michel Groisman, Gabriela Duvivier and Elisa Bracher.
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BEST ALBUM 2011 • ‘nÓ na OreLha’best sOng 2011 • ‘nÃO eXiste amOr em sP’
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CD, LP & DigitaL. Out On June 25
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Criolo
400,000 Brazilians can’t be wrong, or at least not the ones who downloaded this cracking debut release from the thinking man’s Seu Jorge. When Criolo sings the achingly beautiful Não Existe Amor Em SP (Love doesn’t exist in Sao Paulo) you don’t care you just want to be there. Catch him at Back 2 Black in London in June. Sterns (released June 25)
“This’ll be the album to launch Seu Jorge into the big time” writes the Guardian somewhat missing the point. This is in fact the coolest man on the planet’s bid to make the ultimate album to get the twisted fires started at a Brazilian barbecue. But whether it’s sirloin in Rio or Turkey Twiz-zlers in Fashionable SE22 his baritone is really cooking this time. Wrasse (out now)
SOUNDS FOR LATINLOVERSWherever you go in london’s latin Summer there are certain tunes that are going to follow you. here is the vamos pick of the albums that are going to make london’s summer latin.
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Ondatrópica Ondatrópica
Speaking of Colombia’s loping-rhythmed musical gift to the world, here is a timely reissue of a compila-tion from the vaults of Discos Fuentes from the seventies. Vacuum packed these tunes sound as fresh as the day they were first canned in Medellin. World Circuit (out now)
Welcome the new cumbia vision lovingly assembled in Colombia’s Abbey Road (Discos Fuentes) by Quantic, the thinking man’s Damon Albarn, and Mario Galeano. Big hitters from Colombia’s golden age face curved balls from the younger generation and every track is a home run. Catch Onda-trópica live in London at Hackney Empire on 20 July at and BT River of Music on 22 July. Soundway (released July 16)
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KIZOMBA CLUB NIGHT
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Tito’s Latin Club (La Pollera Colora) 9:00pm | free before 8:30pm & £5 afterSalsa and bachata classes and club. London’s most successful Cuban Salsa classes & Latin Nightclub.
Guanabara 5pm | freeEat, drink and dance Brazil every Monday.
Guanabara 5pm | freeThe beautiful sounds of Brazilian jazz and Bossa Nova influenced by great artists including Jobim and Joao Gilberto.
Barrio Central 6.30pm | freeCome to enjoy the DJ’s spinning the other side of Brazilian Music + Samba and Forró Classes ‘till 8pm.
@ El Peñol 10pm till late | £5Weekly Wednesday Kizomba Classes and Club with Kizomba, Semba, Kudoru and more.
Guanabara 5pm | £5Samba circle featuring a top team of musi-cians from Rio. Before and after the band resident DJ Limao is in charge of the music.
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Guanabara 9pm | £5One night in São Paulo. The economic heart of Brazil is also the main nightlife hotspot, world famous for its club scene.
Negracha 7.30pm | from £10Warm up with a tango lesson or two, before live bands and Djs from Argentina fire up the dancefloor, Buenos Aires style.
Floripa | Free entry before 10pm. £5 between 10 and 11. £10 after.An Afro Latin Tropical Brazilian Block Party with Corazón DJs Nik Weston (Mukatsuku Records), Rob Coley (Soul-Identity Music) and special guests.
Guanabara 7.30pm | £5A tropical riot of dance sounds and an eclectic mix of global music with a Brazil-ian twist! Different live bands every week alongside live percussion, Capoeira, DJ’s and samba shows.
Guanabara 8pm | £10Capoeira, Brazilian circus performers some of South America and Europe’s leading live music artists and DJ’s make for an unforgettable Saturday night.
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LIVE BOSSA NOVA & SAMBA SESSION BRASIL BRASILEIRO!SUNDAY
Made in Brasil 12pm | freeRudy Rocha provides the laid-back soundtrack at the home of London’s best Caipirinha, right in the heart of Camden.
Guanabara 2pm - 4am | £6Expect loads of Brazilians creating a very happy and relaxed environment. Forro dancing classes at 7 free of charge.
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Cubana | free Wed and Thu, Fri and Sat free to 11pm £5 after
ULU 8.30pm| £10Second Saturday of each month for Salsa and Kizomba. Two rooms for your dancing pleasure.
night. Including Salsa & Kizomba lessons in 4 rooms on the 3rd Friday of every month.
Fiesta Havana 7pm| £4 plus classesClasses until 9.30pm then non-stop dancing to the hottest salsa, mambo, bachata & kizomba from resident Djs JD & Salseando..
229 9pm - 2am / £8 including classOne of the best, two Saturday nights a month with the Salsa Room and the Fusion Room.229 Great Portland Street W1W 5PN
490 Fulham Rd SW6 5NH
EL GRANDEClub Colosseum 9.30pm | £10London’s biggest monthly salsa
1 Nine Elms Lane SW8 5NQ
Malet Street WC1E 7HY
48 Lower Marsh SE1 7RG
96 Charing Cross Rd WC2H OJG
SALSA CLASSESBar Salsa 7pm | £4Monday night starts at 7pm with top international teacher Super Mario and his team leading salsa dance classes until 9pm. Dj Mario and guest Dj Julian “ the Duke” spin afterwards. Regular salsa nights throughout the week.
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For a full list of parties and venue addresses see vamos-london.com
Live Salsa and Latin Music on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10.30pm and on Fridays and Sat-urdays from 11pm.Featured bands include Palenke, Robin del Castillo and Cuban Combination.
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108 Essex Road N1 8LX 020 7226 5551sabor.co.uk
Stylish Islington restaurant and patron of Colombian arts in London. Dishes include moqueca de peixe (Brazilian fish stew), conejo en salsa de chocolate (slow-cooked rabbit in chocolate sauce).
BEST LATIN FOODIN LONDON
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CEVICHE (Peruvian)
17 Frith Street W1D 4RG 020 7292 2040 cevicheuk.com
The new kid in the barrio this year is Don Martin Morales’ diner but its really hit the ground running with Don Ceviche, barbecued anticuchos and more ways with pisco than you thought possible.
As well as an unquenchable summer thirst for mojitos, caipirinhas and premium Mexican beer brands, londoners like to get their laughing gear round all manner of latin tucker. A number of big chains have established themselves in the city in recent years (and some of them are very good) but in a spirit of comestible independence let us point you in the direction of some of london’s unique eateries.
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MESTIZO (Mexican)
50 Broadway Market, E8 4QJ 020 7275 9900buenayre.co.uk
197 New King’s Rd,SW6 020 7736 5188emporiosaopaulo.co.uk
148 Clapham Manor St, SW4 6BX 020 7622 0599rinconlatino.co.uk
103 Hampstead Road NW1 3EL 020 7387 4064 mestizomx.com
Authentic and very popular restaurant in Hackney serving the best parrillada in town - four selections of meats, provolone cheese and mushroom served from a smoldering hot grill. Good Argentine wine list and wallet friendly prices.
Upmarket Brazilian emporio (delicatessen) and cafe in Parsons Green with an impres-sive range of top quality produce from Brazil including guarana, pao de queijo (small cheese breads served hot from the oven), artisan cachacas and feijoada served with a smile by the owner Carminha.
Also opening this summer we’re looking forward to trying Lima London, headed up by top Peruvian chef Virgilio Martinez, chef patron of Central in Lima and Sushisamba which looks set to extend the culinary love shared between Brazil and Japan.
Long established Spanish-Colombian tapas in Clapham. Good range of dishes with some unusual choices like fried cas-sava served with chillies and guacamole, veal empanadas and a buzzing atmo-sphere attracting a vibrant local crowd.
Smart modern Mexican restaurant, run by Mexicans, with a slick tequila bar. A range of good specialities but their Sunday brunch with huevos rancheros, menudo, pozole and birria is the one to go to when you are hungry.
MOO GRILL (Argentinian)
4 Cobb St, E1 7LB 020 7377 9276moogrill.co.uk
One of the city’s most coveted lunch spots. The signature dish (lomito) is their delicious Argentinian sandwich of beef, chicken or aubergine served with ham and cheese, salad and fried egg.
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Barbican Centre Silk StreetEC2Y 8DS
Barbican020 7638 8891barbican.org.uk
Barrio Central 6 Poland StreetW1F 8PS
Oxford Circus020 3230 1002barriocentral.com
Bedroom Bar 62 Rivington StreetEC2A 3AY
Old Street020 7739 5706bedroom-bar.co.uk
Bolivar Hall54-56 Grafton WayW1T 5DL
Warren Street020 7387 6727cultura.embavenez-uk.org
Breese Little Gallery 30d Great Sutton StreetEC1V 0DU
Barbicanbreeselittle.com
British Museum Great Russell Street WC1B 3DG
Holborn020 7323 8299britishmuseum.org
Cargo 83 Rivington StreetEC2A 3AY
Old Street020 7739 3440cargo-london.com
Chisenhale Gallery 64 Chisenhale RoadE3 5QZ
Mile End020 8981 4518chisenhale.org.uk
Clissold Park 229 Stoke Newington Church Street N16 9HJ
Manor House
Crystal Palace ParkThicket RdSE20 8DT
Crystal Palace
Drawing RoomTannery Arts, 12 Rich Estate,Crimscott Street SE1 5TE
Borough020 7394 5657 drawingroom.org.uk
Earls Court One Warwick Road SW5 9TA
Earls Court020 7385 1200eco.co.uk
El Peñol 382-384 Brixton RoadSW9 7AW
Brixton020 7274 1919elpenol.co.uk
Floripa91-93 Great Eastern Street EC2A 3HZ
Old Street020 7613 4228floripalondon.com
The Forge 3-7 Delancey Street NW1 7NL
Camden Town020 7383 7808forgevenue.org
Guanabara Parker Street WC2B 5PW
Holborn020 7242 8600guanabara.co.uk
Hackney Empire 291 Mare Street E8 1EJ
Hackney Central020 8985 2424hackneyempire.co.uk
Instituto Cervantes 102 Eaton SquareSW1W 9AN
Victoria020 7235 0353 londres.cervantes.es
Koko 1a Camden High Street NW1 7JE
Mornington Crescent0870 432 5527 koko.uk.com
London Pleasure GardensRoyal Victoria Docks E16
Canning Towncarnavaldelpueblo.com
The Mall GalleriesThe MallSW1Y 5BD
Charing Cross020 7930 6844mallgalleries.org.uk
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Made in Brasil12 Inverness Street NW1 7HJ
Camden Town020 7482 0777made-in-brasil.co.uk
Momo 25 Heddon Street W1B 4BH
Piccadilly Circus020 7434 4040momoresto.com
National Maritime Museum Park Row SE10 9NF
Cutty Sark (DLR)festival.org
Negracha4 Wild CourtWC2B 4AU
Holbornnegrachatangoclub.com
O2Greenwich Peninsula SquareSE10 0DX
North Greeenwichtheo2.co.uk
Old Billingsgate 1 Old BillingsgateEC3R 6DX
Monument020 7283 2800oldbillingsgate.co.uk
Ronnie Scott’s 47 Frith Street Soho W1D 4HT
Leicester Square020 7439 0747ronniescotts.co.uk
RoundhouseChalk Farm RoadNW1 8EH
Chalk Farm08444 828008roundhouse.org.uk
Roundwood ParkHarlesden Road NW10 3SH
Willesden Junction
Royal Albert Hall Kensington Gore SW7 2AP
High Street Kensington0845 401 5045royalalberthall.com
Royal Society6-9 Carlton House TerraceSW1Y 5AG
Charing Cross020 7969 5200
Scala275 Pentonville RdN1 9NL
Kings Cross St Pancras020 7833 2022scala-london.co.uk
Somerset HouseStrand WC2R 1LA
Temple020 7845 4600somersethouse.org.uk
Southbank CentreBelvedere Road South Bank SE1 8XX
Waterloo020 7960 4200southbankcentre.co.uk
Tate Modern Bankside Bethnal Green SE1 9TG
London Blackfriars 020 7887 8752tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern
Tito’s Latin Club4-6 London Bridge StreetSE1 9SG
London Bridge020 7407 7787titosperuvianrestaurant.com
Tower of LondonEC3N 4AB
Tower Hillbtriverofmusic.com
UdderbellyJubilee Gardens off Belvedere Road SE1 8XX
Embankment0844 545 8252underbelly.co.uk
Urdang Academy Finsbury Town Hall, Rosebery Ave EC1R 4RP 020 7713 7710theurdangacademy.com
Victoria & Albert Museum Cromwell Rd Islington SW7 2RL
South Kensington020 7942 2000vam.ac.uk
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