Gone are the autumn days when we wondered how warm it was outside. This weekend we are making a complete wardrobe change and, in addition to jackets, it will not hurt to bring hats: it will be 8-9 degrees, and on Saturday there is a chance of rain in the afternoon.

Terraces with heaters in Bucharest are already in high demand and demand will continue to grow. In addition, many restaurants have already prepared their interiors to welcome their customers.

But there are also places whose interiors look like real summer gardens or greenhouses, which will remain green even when it’s snowing outside (theoretically). There is such a place Erbario (Nicolae Haralambi 30)a signature cafe where you will feel like you are in a small botanical garden.

It opened in the spring of 2022 in an old house from 1930, renovated with great taste, whose identity was built around indoor plants from the beginning. In addition to specialty coffee, Erbario also has an excellent brunch menu, which is developed according to the season by chef Stefan Burlakou.

Another new place where you can drink coffee surrounded by lots of greenery Green mirrors (Armenian 23). The place itself is a plant, nursery and terrarium shop, but it’s home to the Replace cafe, which is also a clothing store. So, if you stop by, there’s a lot to check out, and you’re sure to leave wanting to learn more useful information about how to grow and care for plants.

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A terrace that remains open, both in the summer and this weekend J’ai Bistrot (Calea Griviței 55). There will also be a culinary event on Sunday, a teaser for the new menu, which means you’ll be able to try their new burgers for the first time. There will be three types: classic cheeseburger with fries – 500 g, 54 lei, Italian burger with fries – 500 g, 57 lei, truffle burger with fries – 500 g, 59 lei.

If you want a more special brunch this weekend, you can do it at RUALthe first AproBistro (Mihai Eminescu 114-116). This place was praised by those who visited it from the first days of its opening, and it has remained so. It also has a unique and interesting feature: “Bucharest’s first bistro located in an aprozar”, which means you can go home with the ingredients from which your meal was prepared.

The place is special, as the talented Laurentiu Hayradin cooks here, but the concept is not entirely unique, considering that Bucharest also has At the Fisheryfor example, a fish and seafood market where you can ask for your ‘catch’ to be cooked on the spot.

There is also another recommendation in this regard Animaletto’s House (Diana 4). Animaletto started as a pizzeria, and in 2022 expanded to a location near Piazza Rosetti. For those who get a little deja vu when reading the address, it’s because Diane’s Place 4 was there for a while.

The Animaletto house has retained much of the atmosphere and identity of the former bistro, but has also made improvements and is now one of the places in the city where you can combine everything: a bistro with a great cocktail bar, a generous beautiful terrace, as well as a space for events and parties after nightfall.

event

Snow from the Cindrel mountains “moves” to Bucharest for a day. Saturday, November 18, event Skiing in the city brings winter fun from the mountains to the heart of the capital, to the Bucharest Youth Park. Ski in the City is an event that wants to popularize winter sports for children and, at the same time, for young people who are passionate about freestyle and snowboarding.

And since most of them are in the capital, the fun from Peltinish moves to Bucharest for one day. Thanks to the support and snow received from the Allianz-Țiriac Arena Otopeni, a low-slope ski track for children aged 4 to 10 will be installed in the Youth Park, near the main entrance. want to have their first contact with sliding on snow.

Păltiniș Arena brings ski and snowboard equipment for the little ones to Bucharest, provided free of charge. And the instructors of the complex’s ski and snowboard schools will guide the kids through their first steps on the snow.

Introductory courses will last 30 minutes, children will be served on a first-come, first-served basis. At the same time, Skiing in the City is also an event dedicated to young sports fans, with competitions in jumping on a giant inflatable cushion and sliding down a tube with skis and a snowboard.

Jump setups consist of: Run, Kicker, and BagJump Landing. The competition consists of 2 jumps for qualification and 2 jumps for the final. Both in the qualification and in the final, the best jump counts for the rating. The program starts at 9:00 a.m. and will last until approximately 4:00 p.m.

Timo Maas has more than earned his title as a dance music legend. But he would like you to forget about it and connect with who he is here and now. And he is someone who never repeats the same trick, someone who is never happy to rely on his reputation or copy the success of his early career.

He is only truly happy when he is breaking his own rules, subverting expectations and exploring new musical realms. Narrator: For him, it’s never about consecutive hits or mindless hits, it’s about creating, creating, teasing, and ultimately having fun.

He knows exactly what to play and when, from shrill harsh funk to low-key brain-altering techno, using psychedelic synths stronger than any drug. He’s done it in every major club and festival on the planet, from Tomorrowland to Kazantip, from Creamfields to Coachella, for 17 years.

Saturday comes from 11:00 p.m CONTROL with his newest project – Storyteller. The ticket costs 40 lei.

also on Saturday byron releases his album “Ephemeride” in Roman arenas (in a heated tent). Pinholes and Dora Gaitanovichi will be guests. The Ephemeris album is a collection of conversations we don’t have, a direct look into the eyes of the person in the mirror.

Over the course of 10 tracks, Byron takes you on a journey through a complex universe of recurring thoughts and experiences, anxieties and existential questions, all subtly interwoven with a thread of hope and distortion. The price of the ticket is 135 lei.

Group Trooper 28 years of activity will be celebrated with a grand concert – Trooper Symphonic. The band’s most beloved songs will be heard from the stage on November 19, 2023 Halls of the palacein the version accompanied by an orchestra consisting of 50 people.

Trooper had its first symphonic project in 2009, on the occasion of the release of the album “Vlad Țepeș – Poemele Valahiei”, but in a much smaller format. The ticket price is 103 lei.

Theater and cinema

As for the plays playing in Bucharest this weekend, we have two that stand out. “(Revolution” premieres on Saturday Excelsior Theaterfrom 7:00 p.m., and is a play inspired by the texts of Yuval Noah Harari.

“Is man going to become a god, or is he going to self-destruct with the help of technology and irrational exploitation of Earth’s resources?

Yuval Noah Harari is one of the most commented thinkers of the early 21st century. His famous volume, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, is part of a global inventory of questions about individual and collective morality in an age of chaos and insecurity.

The digital revolution, which is supposed to make our lives easier (for example, by giving up decisions that are inevitably associated with the pain of making them), also confronts us with existential questions and difficulties unprecedented in the entire history of mankind: how do we cope with life, in which humans are easily replaced by algorithms?

How and in what way will we relate to reality when artificial intelligence and virtual realities will promptly respond to all our urgent needs? Will societies turn into digital dictatorships that manipulate our lives based on personal data in the hands of the few? What ethical dilemmas will arise in the era of genetic design? Under such conditions, will there be free will, and if so, in what form?” writes director Radu Nitsa about his performance. The ticket costs 50 lei. (They also play on Sundays, also from 19:00).

“Tea and milk” is a play written and performed by Edith Alibek and staged POINT on Saturday, from 8:00 p.m. The synopsis reads as follows:

“He is trying to build a life in London. He returns home for his 10th year school reunion. All former colleagues talk about investments, marriages and children. She hides in a corner and hopes that no one will ask her anything. Edith Alibek and Dana Paraskiv’s play celebrates the courage to fail (and laugh) in life when you feel disoriented – in another country, in the wrong company, or when you just feel like you’ve been abandoned.” The ticket costs 35 lei.

As far as films on the big screen go, we have two interesting international productions as well as two Romanian productions to consider.

“Midnight Calm” is a film about a group of people who suffer from a phobia of flying and try to overcome this fear with the help of flying. Sarah enrolls in an exclusive course designed to overcome her fear of flying, with the final challenge being a round trip from London to Reykjavik.

What seems doable on paper becomes complicated when the group includes a cantankerous writer, an inventor, his influencer girlfriend and a timid tour guide. Along with the turbulence, tempers flare and anxiety gives way to a frothy wave of paranoia that turns the trip into a race against time, at the end of which, literally, who can fly.

“The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” is a blockbuster opening this weekend. Years before becoming the tyrannical president of Panem, 18-year-old Coriolan Snow is the last hope of a once-powerful but disgraced family in the postwar Capitol.

As the tenth installment of The Hunger Games approaches, young Snow is dismayed when he is tasked with mentoring young Lucy Gray Bird, a tribute to the unassuming District 12.

However, when Lucy Gray attracts the attention of all of Panem by bravely singing during the ceremony, Snow feels she has a chance. Combining their instincts for spectacle and innate political acumen, Snow and Lucy race against time to survive.

“combat” shows us how a teenager lives at the end of World War II, more precisely in the fall of 1944. A boy tries to save the family’s two horses by taking them on an initial journey across the wild landscape of the Apuseni Mountains.

He is helped by an American pilot whom he saves after he crashes his plane.

At the age of 92, Nora Yuga is a unique character: a poet, novelist and translator, a young and avant-garde soul, with a playful spirit, charisma and self-irony. “Why am I called Nora when my sky is clear” this is the story of a writer whose books were banned by the communists for “morbid eroticism”, the story of a woman who lives by poetry.

A documentary portrait that invites us to discover the nature of this eroticism, how it still influences Nora’s work and outlook on life… and to discover the secret of youth without aging.