Your Friday morning essential read. Five local feel-good highlights, including exclusive special offers and events. Prepared with love by the team at Camdenist

 EAT: Two hot new eateries landing in Camden 

The coming days see not one, but two of East London's most celebrated restaurants expanding with brand new outposts on this side of town. First up, Haggerston's popular plant-based café and natural wine bar HELMA are taking over the little café within the tranquil surrounds of Triyoga's Jamestown Road studios. Head there for these kinds of stunningly healthy bowls, dahls, wraps and toasties, from next week. The following Thursday (17th), Shoreditch Burmese sensation Lahpet arrives at Covent Garden's swanky food and retail hub, The Yards. They'll be bringing these regional flavours of Myanmar to this second, bigger site for their West End debut, and there's a 50% OFF soft-launch offer running through the whole opening weekend (until Sun 20th) which is a very tasty deal indeed. 

 MUSIC: Indy Venue Week at Aces & Eights 

Tufnell Park favourite Aces & Eights is back to running a packed event schedule including live music, comedy and club nights through the week. Catch the finale of Independent Venue Week with a special solo songwriters night tonight, before Folkandroots fly the folk flag with lives acts across Saturday and Sunday in the intimate downstairs venue. DJ Plimsoles' free Saturday night party is back on each week, too, as is the regular Wednesday comedy sesh, Live at Aces.

 EVENT: Superbowl all-nighter at Blues Kitchen 

UK fans of the biggest fixture in the American Football calendar are spoilt by the Blues Kitchen, which throws a marathon Super Bowl 56 party next Sunday (13th). They start at 10am with brunch, move into live music via London's biggest blues jam as the evening gets going at 8pm (bring your instrument and get involved). There'll be plenty of Southern-style BBQ and pitchers of beers to get you ready for the game at 11.30pm, and the venue is open right through until the final whistle in the early hours of Monday morning, so book a table - and the day off work - now.

 EXPLORE: Find the origin of your Camden street name 

Camden boasts some cracking street names, often riffing on ancient manor grounds, aristocratic landowners, foreign wars, lost rivers, pubs or strange topographical landmarks. If you want to know your

 Agar from your Belsize, Camden History Society have put together a comprehensive guide to the origins of all the borough's place names (use Ctrl+F to quickly find your own). Meanwhile, if you'd like to hang them on your wall, the pictured retro-modern map by artist Mike Hall is available via Of Cabbages & Kings.

 ART: Zabludowicz Exhibition 

If you're after a truly sensory experience this weekend, visit Chiara Passa's virtual reality painting Still Life at Zabludowicz Gallery's Virtual Reality Room. The work encourages users to interact with two worlds and the objects they contain. Meanwhile over at Camden Image Gallery, Foz Foster's exhibition Home Front: Kaleidoscope of the Mundane is another world to get lost in. His kaleidoscopic paintings are concerned with both the beauty and the stress in our daily lives. 

 THIS WEEK'S ONE-CLICK POLL With VR becoming increasingly accessible via personal headsets (see above), how keen are you to jump on the virtual bandwagon? 

LAST WEEK WE ASKED:

The Market trumps the music as the definitive icon of Camden the world over, ever since first rising to prominence back 1970s. Even with the recent domination of the Brewery's tasty beer in pubs near and far, it's got a long way to go to take the Camden crown. 

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