From going out to galleries, eating out to entertainment, the in-crowd gives us their recommendations

If anyone knows what’s cool right now, it’s Bertie Brandes, who as fashion editor at Vice, co-editor of cult zine, The Mushpit, and columnist at The Guardian, has usually hunted out the best places to eat, drink, and while away a weekend long before they’ve been overrun with buggies and teenage hipster-tourists from the home counties. Check out her best tips, and free up your friends for some fun-times. 

My best kept shopping secret is Mary Portas’ amazing charity shop on Westbourne Grove. It’s full of really rich women’s cast-offs. My friend got an incredible Issey Miyake skirt there. 

When I’m staying local, I always get the avocado toast at Wilton Way café, it’s delicious. I also love Anatolia which is the best Turkish restaurant on Mare Street. 

The best way to spend Saturday night is to go out for dinner because it would be so busy to go out anywhere else. Eat Tokyo in Notting Hill is amazing. You go there and eat so much and drink so much sake that you couldn’t even do anything else.

Other than stay at home in bed, I’d stroll up to Victoria Park on a Sunday afternoon, go to the Ginger Pig, get some really nice food and then go home and cook it. 

I had this Tagliata at Trullo in Islington recently that I just can’t even describe – it was delicious. It’s like completely raw, but so tender. It was amazing. I also love the Mexican breakfast at Spit Jacks. It’s good because it’s really fatty and fills you up when you’re hungover but you know it’s not disgusting horrible meat, but it’s also really normal prices, like £8 for a breakfast. 

I just bought my boyfriend Gabriel Bruce’s album Love in Arms from Rough Trade East which was really exciting. I always buy records there. I like that it’s really big, so nobody’s watching you pick out the music that you like and you can spend ages in there. It’s independent and has a heritage, which is really cool, but unusual now. 

Victoria Park is probably my favourite area of London, it’s so green and it’s just a really nice experience to walk down there. There are loads of independent shops, a really amazing deli and obviously the park. I love The Deli Downstairs but it’s ridiculously expensive so I can’t ever really shop there – I just go in and look at the potatoes. 

There are SO many places that I want to live, in fact these are places that I will live, not just that I want to live. I really want to live in the desert near LA - you can drive from the desert to the snowy mountains in three hours. Oh my god can you a imagine how beautiful it would be to live in Venice, that would be the absolute dream. 

If I only had £5 left in the world, I’d club together with someone else on their last £5 so we could buy an alright bottle of wine. Or I’d get a bottle filled up at Borough Wine – that’s £5.