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

 EXPLORE: Deli, brewery and cinemas on the Highline 

Recently on Camdenist.com we previewed tasty 'pit stops' in the pipeline along the route of the equally not-built-yet Camden Highline elevated park. This weekend sees the official opening of two of them, hot on the heels of the recent arrival of

Curzon Cinema

's 

five screens at Hawley Wharf

,

 where the park will one day begin. From Giuseppe Miggiano's (above left) lovely Camden and King's Cross-based 

Casa Tua restaurants comes a brand new deli, 

Casa Tua Delizie.

 It opened last night selling fine Italian ingredients and proper gelato, just a couple of doors down from their existing spot on

Royal College Street

. Today it's the turn of Werewolf Brewery,

 finally opening its doors just around the corner in the arches on Randolph Street. After a stint as Head Brewer at London Brewing Company, Rich White has found a home for making/drinking his enticing American-style craft beers, which you can enjoy from the comfort of ghost train carriages. For those bang up for a big night out (see poll results below), Egg London lies at the far end of the Highline route, with upcoming weekend DJ lineups featuring the likes of Pig & Dan, Kollectiv Turmstrasse and Henri Bergmann to name a few playing through until the early hours. 

 EAT: Tuck into these two new openings 

Ex-Silo chef Brendan Eades has an exciting new restaurant with a focus on circularity and supporting artisans from the Global South called Warehouse. You can find it on the ground floor of The Conduit members club, its name hailing from the building's origins as a 19th Century fruit and vegetable store for Covent Garden Market, promising a seasonal menu with a commitment to sustainability. Menu highlights include venison with smoked beetroots and salted liquorice, roasted hispi cabbage with alliums and black garlic, and puddings of white chocolate, chestnut, pear and Oolong tea dome. Meanwhile, bringing a completely different offering to Fitzrovia, Mowgli Street Food also caught our eye this week. Owner Nisha Katona's first London restaurant, it is her mission to serve the kind of food Indians eat at home and on their street corners rather than the usual curry house stereotypes. Katona handpicks chefs who have no experience in this cuisine for her kitchens, training them all up from scratch. 

 ART: The great and the good of graffiti 

Celebrating an often misunderstood but crucial art form, Shutters is Camden Open Air Gallery's latest exhibition. It contains work from 25 of the city's most revered graffiti artists including some forefathers of the UK scene and members of the infamous Team Robbo, (who famously carried on King Robbo's long-running spat with his rival, Banksy). Current kings of the scene also feature, such as 10 Foot, whose work you'll recognise on railway bridges and buildings worldwide.

 PLAY: Zadie Smith's latest local story 

Just opened at Kilburn's Kiln Theatre is an intriguing adaptation of Chaucer's The Wife of Bath by leading local author Zadie Smith. The Wife of Willesden sees the theatre transformed into the nearby Sir Colin Campbell pub, where you are invited to pull up a stool, grab a pint, and listen to the life story from the mouth of Alvita, a classic North West London legend of a woman. Expect tall tales and bawdy stories told up close and proper personal. 

 WATCH: How 'Ebeneezer Goode' was born in Camden 

You may be familiar with The Shamen's iconic 90s number 1 hit, Ebeneezer Goode, but did you know that the song's 'very naughty' conception and recording both took place in Camden? In a video posted this week, vocalist Mr.C revealed how the track was first imagined via a sweaty, saucer-eyed dancerfloor encounter at the O2 Forum in Kentish Town. It was later recorded at a studio in Agar Grove, and its barely coded homage to raving on MDMA ironically was top of the UK charts on Drug Awareness Week. 

 THIS WEEK'S ONE-CLICK POLL After last year's muted festivities and fears over a lack of traditional essentials this time around, it seems like Christmas has panic-begun earlier than ever before. How do you feel about that? 

LAST WEEK WE ASKED:

As live venues continue to welcome us back to their club nights and concerts, how enthusiastic are you these days about going out after dark?

Whilst nearly half of us are still working out where we stand (or rather dance) when it comes to letting loose in the club, a fair few locals are totally ecstatic about the return IRL to raving and full-on gigs. 

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