Local sourdough business on the rise
Childhood friends and south east London locals, Nic and Ollie, started their subscription- based delivery service Butter & Crust as a side hustle and have now grown it into a full-time business, delivering artisan sourdough and other breakfast staples by bicycle to households in Dulwich, Herne Hill, West Norwood, Forest Hill, Camberwell and Peckham.
The duo are passionate about high quality, sustainable food, and dreamt up Butter & Crust to make artisanal morning essentials more easily available. Loaves are sourced from Bermondsey’s Snapery Bakery and Flor Bakery along with a range of products including Monmouth coffee, Townsend Farm apple juice, cultured butter, breakfast pastries, and Bermondsey-made Husk and Honey granola.
Deliveries arrive weekly or fortnightly and you can cancel at any time.
For more information, visit: https://butterandcrust.com
Get your kicks at North Cross Road’s new health hub
Get your fix of vitamins -and thrills- at East Dulwich’s Vits+Kicks, a brand new bar & kitchen offering a delicious blend of health and hedonism.
Originally a mobile bar specialising in fresh juice and smoothie cocktails for festivals and corporate events, Vits+Kicks expanded to a pop-up during the pandemic and, earlier this year, 57 North Cross Road became its first permanent home.
By day, you can replenish in a tranquil setting filled with an immune boosting array of fresh juice and smoothie combinations, specialty hot drinks, and a balanced, healthy brunch and lunch menu to match.
In the evenings, guests can escape with a carefully crafted food menu, deliciously designed to complement the spirit of the health-kissed Vits+Kicks favourites and twisted cocktail classics.
On the menu:
The Kicks: Signature fresh juice and smoothie cocktails mixed using only natural ingredients and alcohol, a classic cocktails list with a Vits+Kicks twist, and the finest selection of natural, house wines, and beer.
The Vits: Immune boosting centrifugal juice combinations, vegan protein and superfood fuelled smoothies, as well as a signature hot drink selection with milk and dairy-free alternatives.
The Food: From Wednesday to Sunday, there’s healthy brunch offerings, from 10am-3pm, and an all-day food menu (lunch is served from 12pm-3pm and dinner is 6pm-11pm) featuring favourite dishes like steak chimichurri, Hawaiian inspired protein Poke bowls, as well as vegan and gluten-free options.
Vits and Kicks have outdoor seating in front of the bar and in the back garden, and hire out the venue’s back space Studio 57 for private parties. They can cater to 28 people for sit-down dinner parties and 35 for stand-up cocktail/buffet affairs. The mobile drinks bar is set to hit the road again this summer for festival season.
Independent yoga instructors also run classes in Studio 57 from Monday-Saturday.
Visit Vits and Kicks at 57 North Cross Road,
SE22 9ET. Phone: 07527 236 991.
www.vitsandkicks.co.uk
The gold standard of non-surgical facelifts arrives in SE22
East Dulwich’s Aesthetics by Lauren Turner is one of the only clinics in south east London offering the groundbreaking new Morpheus 8 treatment.
Revolutionary in skin tightening, Morpheus 8 is a deep fractional, radiofrequency (RF) treatment that delivers exceptional skin, tissue and collagen remodelling to improve skin appearance and reduce irregularities. Combining two of the most effective anti-ageing salon treatments: micro-needling and radiofrequency, it can be used on the face, neck and body.
Described as the gold standard in “non-surgical facelift” Morpheus 8 requires between 1-3 initial treatments and maintenance every year or two years. The downtime is minimal, around a few days.
Prices start from £450 per session.
Visit Aesthetics by Lauren Turner at 133 Lordship Lane, SE22 8HX.
Phone: 020 8226 3800.
www.aestheticsbylaurenturner.com
High intensity vibes at this year’s Dulwich Festival
Hit up Gokay Fitness at this year’s Dulwich Festival for a free HIIT class. A sponsor of this year’s Festival, Dulwich Personal Trainer, international bodybuilding champ and ex Turkish Airforce sergeant Gokay Kurtuldum is hosting an Open Day on May 21 from 11am-3pm with free 20-30 minute HIIT classes every hour.
From his Dulwich Sports Ground base, Gok and his team of five Personal Trainers run outdoor High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) and boxercise classes, as well as 1:1 Personal Training and a customised 3-month body transformation programme.
For more information on Gok’s wellbeing club, at SE21 7AF, visit: www.gokayfitness.com or follow him on Instagram @GokayFitness
For the love of Pod
Within the warm glow of a purple cocoon in Dulwich, an immersive and otherworldly experience awaits. Hotpod yoga, which opened in Dulwich in 2019, sees yogis enter a tent-like ‘pod’ combining dark lights, heady aromas and mesmerising soundscapes. If you’ve never tried yoga, this variety is an ideal entry-point, says owner and teacher Lindsey Huebner. The practice can be whatever you want it to be: workout, moving meditation, spiritual practice or just an hour of solace from the hustle and bustle of daily life.
“I love the heat because it gives you a lot of ease in the practise,” Lindsey tells the South Londoner. “You get more flexibility for free and that can be a good way of getting into yoga in the first place. The founders are two guys who didn’t get the appeal of yoga at all and they were quite stiff so physically yoga was so challenging for them that they didn’t get the mental benefits because it was such a strain. But then they went to a hot class and they were able to get the physical warming benefits with no excess strain and actually enjoy the practice.”
Hotpod has studios all over the world, and over 40 locations in the UK alone. Pods fit 20 people and are heated to 37 degrees, which is considered a middle range.
“I did my yoga teaching training in India where every class was essentially a hot yoga class because we’d be sweating away,” Lindsey says. “When I came back to the UK, I practised at Hotpod as a student in Brixton and Dublin, and Dulwich is the first studio I actually taught at.”
The pandemic and subsequent lockdowns brought about soul searching both in the personal and business sense for the Canadian native and she took the plunge and became a studio franchisee.
Lindsey describes yoga as a “vast practice.” “It’s not a workout. It’s really good for the mind and body.”
The signature heated purple pods are a far cry from the mirrors and florescent lighting that can be found in traditional gym environments. “It’s an immersive experience,” she says. “We have great teachers, it’s a welcoming atmosphere for all experience levels and abilities – there’s no contortion contests – and then when you’re zipped into this space, it takes on an otherworldly feel. It becomes more insular and you have an hour to do something just for you. Your phone isn’t even in the room. There’s something really special about having a tune-out moment like that.”
Hotpod Dulwich offers three different class styles.
Hotpod flow: A vinyasa flow style structure of fluid movements, a punchier first half with strengthening postures and a second half focused on balancing and stretching.
Nurturing flow: At the opposite end of spectrum, in this class you just chill the whole way through. It’s a slower pace, you hold stretches for longer and it’s really beneficial for clearing the mind.
Foundation flow: A brand new addition, following the same structure as Hot Pod Flow but it breaks down movements a bit more, allows more time with each posture and is more like a moving meditation. If you’re brand new it’s a good class to start with.
On Saturday 28 May, Hotpod Dulwich is hosting an open day in support of mental health charity Beder where all classes are free/by donation. People register with a £5 deposit, which can either be refunded once you attend or can be donated to Beder. Read more: https://beder.org.uk
Hotpod runs an intro offer of £20 for 10 days of unlimited yoga.
Visit Hotpod Dulwich at 13-19 Croxted Road,
Unit 3, SE21 8SZ.
https://hotpodyoga.com/studios/dulwich
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