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Andrew Scott, 33, plays Benedict Cumberbatch's psychotic nemesis Moriarty in the BBC's production of Sherlock.
What was your best party ever?
My sixth birthday party. I'd still rather eat a Cadbury's mini-roll than a canapé.
инфаFrom the louche literary to the frivolous luvvies, every London tribe has its own party rules - and rulers. Meet the scenesters on everyone's list...
BOOK CLUBBERS
WHERE THEY EAT
The John Snow pub in Soho and the bistros off Old Compton Street. They drop into The Club at The Ivy to meet literary elders such as Salman Rushdie.
WHERE THEY DRINK
At The Crown and The Betsey Trotwood in Clerkenwell, along with plenty of free wine at book launches at Soho House or The Groucho Club, where they can butter up the critics.
WHAT THEY WEAR
Writers prefer a genteel shabby look with classic vintage pieces. Stripey scarves and swishing coats, in line with the recent Sherlock Holmes revival, make them feel creative. A Moleskine notebook is a must.
WHAT THEY LISTEN TO
Bach and jazz pianist Bill Evans top playlists, but Elton John's Greatest Hits help get rhythm'.
PARTY GAME
Ex libris, where you guess the first line of a book, and Truth or Dare, which provides fodder for plots.
TRIBE
Ned Beauman, 25, was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award for his novel Boxer, Beetle.
Describe your best party ever…
A small illegal rave I went to last year in a disused launderette off Columbia Road. I saw a couple trying to have sex in a dryer.
What is your favourite party drink?
A Black Panther, which is two shots of coffee tequila, two shots of vanilla vodka, and two shots of amaretto. Devastating.
Amy Sackville, 29, won the 2010 John Llewellyn Rhys prize for her debut novel The Still Point.
What is your favourite party drink?
Fizz always makes it fun.
Who's your dream party guest?
Samuel Beckett, sat in the corner, adding a bit of gravitas.
Alex Preston, 31, an ex City trader, wrote This Bleeding City. He was one of Waterstone's New Voices 2010.
What is your favourite drink?
Vodka Martini. Potent, stylish and full of literary significance, from Fitzgerald to Fleming.
Aita Ighodaro, 27, has just written her debut novel Sin Tropez and is working on a follow-up.
Who's your dream party guest? Anyone laden with a big box of Ladurée macaroons.
Louise Yates, 29, a children's author and illustrator, won the 2010 Roald Dahl Funny Prize for her second book Dog Loves Books.
What's your best party trick?
I'm a better entertainer when I have my performing dog, Towser, at my side. He can catch a beer mat when it's flipped into the air.
Tom Chatfield, 30, is the arts and books editor at Prospect magazine and author of Fun Inc about the culture of video games.
What's your best party ever?
An all-night rave on top of the Great Wall of China. The least Communist kind of hedonism you can imagine, dancing all night in the open air guarded by members of the People's Liberation Army.
Evie Wyld, 30, won the 2009 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her first novel After the Fire, a Still Small Voice.
What's your party trick?
I can squirt wine through the gap in
my teeth. I believe Tennyson had the same talent.
THE IT PARADE
WHERE THEY EAT
Bumpkin in South Kensington reminds them of their country retreats, a home from home on weeknights, and the Charter pie is a favourite. The Brompton Bar & Grill's rarebit on toast is good for hangovers and to get the evening going around the grand piano.
WHERE THEY DRINK
Although things have moved towards Notting Hill of late, this tribe's hearts, and Amex Gold Cards, still belong to the King's Road. To kick things off it's Azteca for cocktails and 151 for old times' sake and every month Kate, William and Harry (everyone is only one degree of separation from a Royal) are in the private room at Raffles where the security is trained to spot sneaky journos. Pippa Middleton and Harry have had their birthdays there. Don't forget Boujis onWednesdays for naughty midweek fun.
WHAT THEY WEAR
Topshop and Zara rule the wardrobe by day but for nights out they head to Austique or Harvey Nichols to splash out on a designer dress that can only be worn once a season. For boys it's still blazers, jeans and loafers with assiduously tousled hair.
WHAT THEY DANCE TO
A bit of Beyoncé at Boujis, A-ha and Spandau Ballet at Maggie's and Mumford & Sons and The Correspondents at house parties.
PARTY GAMES
Anything involving dressing up, air guitar, the hokey cokey, and masquerade balls.
TRIBE
Olly Bolton, 27, founded Solution Sciences Ltd and invented the 'pretox' soft drink Alibi.
What was your best party ever?
The Space closing party last year in Ibiza was pretty amazing.
Hugo Taylor, 24, London's answer to Gossip Girl's Chuck Bass, works in PR.
What is your favourite party drink?
Whisky on the rocks. No mixer, no hangover.
Eveie Longdon, 22, is junior beauty editor at ES magazine and an ambassador for Harry Becher's campaign Too Many Women.
What's your party trick?
I can do an exceptionally loud wolf whistle, which is very useful for hailing taxis on the way home.
What's your favourite song to dance to? 'Sweet Dreams' by The Eurythmics. Every time it comes on I run to the dancefloor.
Caggie Dunlop, 21, is an actress and singer.
What was your best party ever?
Probably my 21st. The theme was Great Gatsby and everyone looked gorgeous.
What's your party trick?
I have a tendency to try and pick people up, particularly larger men. It gives me a lot of back trouble.
Oliver Proudlock, 24, is an artist launching a charitable clothing
line, Serge DeNimes, based on prints of the Rio Carnival.
What is your best party trick?
Moonwalking.
Who would be your dream party guest?
Jack Nicholson. He is a legend.
Amber Atherton, 19, is a model and has an online jewellery boutique, My Flash Trash.
Who's your dream party guest?
Salvador Dali.
Ollie Locke, 23, runs the door at Maggie's nightclub.
What was your best party ever?
A group of us were flown out to a wedding in the Australian rainforest. As head groomsman I led a conga line dancing to Men At Work's 'Land Down
Under', which echoed through the treetops.
What is your party trick?
I have a very feminine face; everyone now knows that I'm an excellent drag queen: my name is Olivia.
Charlotte Cowen, 28, is a make-up artist. She has worked for Gucci, Burberry, Louis Vuitton as well as Anna Wintour and Take That.
What's your favourite song to dance to? 'If There is Something' by Roxy Music.
Lucie Hirst, 24, is an estate
agent and an ambassador for Too Many Women.
What's your favourite party drink?
Espresso Martini: caffeine and alchohol, a dream combination.
What's your best party trick? Not falling over after ten Martinis.
Nicko Williamson, 27, is the founder of Climatecars, an environmentally friendly taxi service.
Who would be your dream party guest?
Bryan Ferry. He looks as if he likes a party.
Thephene.com;
toomanywomen.co.uk;
sentebale.org;
charlottecowen.com;
climatecars.com; alibidrink.com;
myflashtrash.com
PARTY PERFORMERS
WHERE THEY EAT
At Jo Allen in Covent Garden, where they've got a shot at impressing Trevor Nunn and Ian McKellen. Or The Wolseley, where it's anyone from Emily Blunt to Guy Ritchie they'll be sidling up to on the banquette.
WHERE THEY DRINK
Downstairs at the Phoenix Theatre on Charing Cross Road, but you have to be performing in a West End show to get in (the doormen have all the theatre programmes to cross-check against head shots). There's also Soho House, where they can prop up the bar with Eddie Redmayne.
WHAT THEY WEAR
Actors love accessories even more than the sound of their own voices. Freddie's personal favourite is a flat cap, which gives him the rakish air of Robert Redford in The Sting, and a Louis Vuitton cravat that makes him feel like a cockerel every time he plumps it up. The girls are a touch more glamorous, wearing Vivienne Westwood at a wrap party or floor-length Dior for an awards bash.
WHERE THEY DANCE
The secluded Bungalow 8 where owner Amy Sacco, who has the memory of an elephant, works the tables, greeting the likes of Gemma Arterton and plays some Lady Gaga to get the crowd going. Keira Knightley goes to Raffles on the King's Road for the privacy.
PARTY GAMES
An actor never turns down a good improv challenge – singing Guys and Dolls in Chinese, for instance. But never suggest Charades as it's forbidden among thespians – they're not performing monkeys, luvvie.
TRIBE
Gemma Chan, 28, plays Billie Piper's dominatrix arch-rival in ITV's final series of Secret Diary of a Call Girl next year.
What was your best party ever?
A weekend-long affair at a house near Cadiz. There was much mischief and paella. The police arrived at 4am.
Gwilym Lee, 27, is Michael Grandage's new golden boy and a drinking buddy of Jude Law. He is currently playing Edgar in Grandage's King Lear alongside Derek Jacobi, at the Donmar Warehouse.
Who would be your dream party guest?
I'd really like to down a bottle of whisky with Dylan Thomas.
Andrew Scott, 33, plays Benedict Cumberbatch's psychotic nemesis Moriarty in the BBC's production of Sherlock.
What was your best party ever?
My sixth birthday party. I'd still rather eat a Cadbury's mini-roll than a canapé.
Hannah Murray, 21, is studying English literature at Queen's College, Cambridge. She stars in the cyber-thriller Chatroom opposite Aaron Johnson, out later this month.
What is your favourite party drink?
Whisky and lemonade. It's much less dangerous than wine.
Freddie Fox, 21, brother of Emilia, son of Edward and cousin of Laurence, graduated from Guildhall this year. He is appearing in Richard Eyre's
A Flea In Her Ear, opposite Tom Hollander, at The Old Vic.
What was your best party ever? My 21st. I learned the tango especially for it.
Who would be your dream party guest?
Vivienne Leigh. She would light up the room.
Jessica Raine, 27, graduated from RADA in July 2008. Next year she is due to play the lead in the National's production of Clifford Odets' 1930s comedy Rocket to the Moon, set in New York.
What's was your best party ever?
For my birthday this year I went to The Bethnal Green Working Men's Club. I got drunk on rum, got a fake sailor tattoo and danced badly but with gusto. Then I lost my handbag and made everyone look for it, only to find it was
under my chair.
What's your party trick?
I do an extraordinary impression of a baby seal's face. Don't ask. It's ugly.
With thanks to oldvictheatre.com; donmarwarehouse.com;
national theatre.org.uk
A RECIPE FOR FUN
WHERE THEY EAT
Brindisa for Spanish ham and octopus; Polpo and its sister restaurant Polpetto for the cuttlefish in its ink and endless tumblers of Prosecco; St John Bread & Wine for offal on toast. Alice Hart held her book launch this summer at Stevie Parle's canal-side Dock Kitchen in Ladbroke Grove 'which has the best party terrace in London'.
WHERE THEY DRINK Casita, one of the city's smallest bars, for the margaritas; 69 Colebrooke Row for the inventive cocktails and the wacky piano player; The Drapers Arms for a pint and Dean Street Townhouse for G&Ts.
WHAT THEY WEAR
Pinnies in the kitchen. The boys always bring a clean shirt and jacket which they only don once the starter's on the table. For girls it's Nicholas Kirkwood shoes and dresses from Vintage Modes.
WHERE THEY DANCE
Downstairs at Pizza East in Shoreditch or at The Pigalle Club.
PARTY GAMES
The Profanisaurus Game. It's like the dictionary game where you have to guess definitions but you play it with Roger's Profanisaurus instead. Not one for the grandparents. After one too many, teen spirits prevail with a game of Spin the Bottle.
TRIBE
Flavio Carenzi, 37, is the
cocktail tsar of Nobu Berkeley, and makes Japanese concoctions for the likes of Cheryl Cole.
How do you wind down?
After spending all week in stuffy Mayfair I go with my friends to The Joiners Arms on Hackney Road for a Sunday night dance.
Ravinder Bhogal, 31, named by Gordon Ramsay as the next Fanny Craddock, won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for her debut work Cook in Boots.
What's your favourite party drink?
Laurent-Perrier Cuvée Rosé Brut Champagne. It sparkles, pops, bubbles and can be the liveliest guest at the dullest party.
What's your party trick?
I read erotic poetry aloud and then do
a Bollywood dance.
Lily Vanili, 28, the queen of baked goods, has just launched her own counter in the Harrods patisserie and her book A Zombie Ate My Cupcake is out now.
What's your party trick?
I can take a cork out of the belly of an empty wine bottle without breaking the glass.
Who would be your dream party guest?
Snoop Doggy Dogg for obvious, cool-related, reasons.
Alice Hart, 28, is a chef and food writer whose recipes combine ingredients picked up on her travels in Europe and Asia.
Her ambition is to open a Vietnamese-style restaurant. Alice's Cook Book is out now.
What's your party trick?
I can do the splits.
Who would be your dream party guest?
Jack Black.
No contest.
Sam Bompas & Harry Parr curate wacky culinary installations with jelly. They've worked with the architect Norman Foster and their first book Jelly with Bompas & Parr is out now.
What's your best party?
Sam: Harry's birthday last year. We flooded a Grade I-listed building with four tonnes of a Courvoisier cocktail and made little rafts so everyone could boat around on it, drinking.
What's your party trick?
Sam: Getting naked, but I'm not very proud of that.
Harry: Levitating.
James Ramsden, 25, a food writer and cook, runs the Secret Larder supper club at his flat in Holloway with his sister. His
first book is due out next year.
What's your party trick?
I usually cook the rabbit after it's been pulled out of a hat.
Thanks to jellymongers.co.uk;, twitter.com/cookinboots;
lilyvanilli.com; nobu.com
THE REAL EASTENDERS
WHERE THEY EAT
Comfort food at A Little of What You Fancy, Kingsland Road's best-kept secret. Sunday brunch at Bistrotheque and Chez Mama Pauline's in Hackney.
WHERE THEY DRINK
The Nelson's Head and The George and Dragon before 11pm; Shoreditch House after.
WHAT THEY WEAR
Local designers Sybil Rouge, Roksanda Ilincic, Richard Nicoll and Giles, and charity shop finds.
Where they dance Dalston Superstore and East Bloc for 1990s club classics, or in Louise Gray's basement.
PARTY GAMES
At Agyness Deyn and Katie Grand's recent party they played musical chairs.
TRIBE
Louise Gray, 28, held her first solo show in September and sells her fluorescent designs via asos.com.
What's your party essential?
A split-level dancefloor.
What do you like to wear?
Fringing and jingly bits.
Princess Julia, 50, is a DJ whose 1980s style inspired Kylie's showgirl tour.
Where can you be found at parties?
Behind the DJ decks spinning electronic beats.
Theo Adams, 21, is the director of avant-garde performers the Theo Adams Company. Its latest show Cry Out is at the ICA next week.
What is your favourite party song?
Anything from Yentl.
Gwendoline Christie, 19, has acted with the RSC and appeared in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
What's your best party trick?
High leg-kicks and the splits.
Lulu Kennedy, 40, is the director of Fashion East, which helped to launch Gareth Pugh, Holly Fulton and Jonathan Saunders.
What's the best party you've been to?
It was a rave I organised in a supermarket where people played dodgems with the trolleys.
James Main, 30, better known
as Jeanette, is a gender illusionist, and muse to designers Giles Deacon and Gareth Pugh.
What's your party trick?
Get absolutely wasted.
Mandi Lennard is the head of Mandi's Basement, a brand consultancy whose clients include MAC and Bistrotheque.
Who do you party with?
Gareth Pugh and his flatmates are the best crew.
What do you wear?
Louis Vuitton bunny ears that Katie Grand gave me.
Erdem, 33, has had his digital-print dresses worn by Samantha Cameron and Michelle Obama.
What's your favourite place to party?
The George & Dragon. Last year they held an unforgettable John Hughes tribute night.
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Andrew Scott, 33, plays Benedict Cumberbatch's psychotic nemesis Moriarty in the BBC's production of Sherlock.
What was your best party ever?
My sixth birthday party. I'd still rather eat a Cadbury's mini-roll than a canapé.
инфаFrom the louche literary to the frivolous luvvies, every London tribe has its own party rules - and rulers. Meet the scenesters on everyone's list...
BOOK CLUBBERS
WHERE THEY EAT
The John Snow pub in Soho and the bistros off Old Compton Street. They drop into The Club at The Ivy to meet literary elders such as Salman Rushdie.
WHERE THEY DRINK
At The Crown and The Betsey Trotwood in Clerkenwell, along with plenty of free wine at book launches at Soho House or The Groucho Club, where they can butter up the critics.
WHAT THEY WEAR
Writers prefer a genteel shabby look with classic vintage pieces. Stripey scarves and swishing coats, in line with the recent Sherlock Holmes revival, make them feel creative. A Moleskine notebook is a must.
WHAT THEY LISTEN TO
Bach and jazz pianist Bill Evans top playlists, but Elton John's Greatest Hits help get rhythm'.
PARTY GAME
Ex libris, where you guess the first line of a book, and Truth or Dare, which provides fodder for plots.
TRIBE
Ned Beauman, 25, was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award for his novel Boxer, Beetle.
Describe your best party ever…
A small illegal rave I went to last year in a disused launderette off Columbia Road. I saw a couple trying to have sex in a dryer.
What is your favourite party drink?
A Black Panther, which is two shots of coffee tequila, two shots of vanilla vodka, and two shots of amaretto. Devastating.
Amy Sackville, 29, won the 2010 John Llewellyn Rhys prize for her debut novel The Still Point.
What is your favourite party drink?
Fizz always makes it fun.
Who's your dream party guest?
Samuel Beckett, sat in the corner, adding a bit of gravitas.
Alex Preston, 31, an ex City trader, wrote This Bleeding City. He was one of Waterstone's New Voices 2010.
What is your favourite drink?
Vodka Martini. Potent, stylish and full of literary significance, from Fitzgerald to Fleming.
Aita Ighodaro, 27, has just written her debut novel Sin Tropez and is working on a follow-up.
Who's your dream party guest? Anyone laden with a big box of Ladurée macaroons.
Louise Yates, 29, a children's author and illustrator, won the 2010 Roald Dahl Funny Prize for her second book Dog Loves Books.
What's your best party trick?
I'm a better entertainer when I have my performing dog, Towser, at my side. He can catch a beer mat when it's flipped into the air.
Tom Chatfield, 30, is the arts and books editor at Prospect magazine and author of Fun Inc about the culture of video games.
What's your best party ever?
An all-night rave on top of the Great Wall of China. The least Communist kind of hedonism you can imagine, dancing all night in the open air guarded by members of the People's Liberation Army.
Evie Wyld, 30, won the 2009 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her first novel After the Fire, a Still Small Voice.
What's your party trick?
I can squirt wine through the gap in
my teeth. I believe Tennyson had the same talent.
THE IT PARADE
WHERE THEY EAT
Bumpkin in South Kensington reminds them of their country retreats, a home from home on weeknights, and the Charter pie is a favourite. The Brompton Bar & Grill's rarebit on toast is good for hangovers and to get the evening going around the grand piano.
WHERE THEY DRINK
Although things have moved towards Notting Hill of late, this tribe's hearts, and Amex Gold Cards, still belong to the King's Road. To kick things off it's Azteca for cocktails and 151 for old times' sake and every month Kate, William and Harry (everyone is only one degree of separation from a Royal) are in the private room at Raffles where the security is trained to spot sneaky journos. Pippa Middleton and Harry have had their birthdays there. Don't forget Boujis onWednesdays for naughty midweek fun.
WHAT THEY WEAR
Topshop and Zara rule the wardrobe by day but for nights out they head to Austique or Harvey Nichols to splash out on a designer dress that can only be worn once a season. For boys it's still blazers, jeans and loafers with assiduously tousled hair.
WHAT THEY DANCE TO
A bit of Beyoncé at Boujis, A-ha and Spandau Ballet at Maggie's and Mumford & Sons and The Correspondents at house parties.
PARTY GAMES
Anything involving dressing up, air guitar, the hokey cokey, and masquerade balls.
TRIBE
Olly Bolton, 27, founded Solution Sciences Ltd and invented the 'pretox' soft drink Alibi.
What was your best party ever?
The Space closing party last year in Ibiza was pretty amazing.
Hugo Taylor, 24, London's answer to Gossip Girl's Chuck Bass, works in PR.
What is your favourite party drink?
Whisky on the rocks. No mixer, no hangover.
Eveie Longdon, 22, is junior beauty editor at ES magazine and an ambassador for Harry Becher's campaign Too Many Women.
What's your party trick?
I can do an exceptionally loud wolf whistle, which is very useful for hailing taxis on the way home.
What's your favourite song to dance to? 'Sweet Dreams' by The Eurythmics. Every time it comes on I run to the dancefloor.
Caggie Dunlop, 21, is an actress and singer.
What was your best party ever?
Probably my 21st. The theme was Great Gatsby and everyone looked gorgeous.
What's your party trick?
I have a tendency to try and pick people up, particularly larger men. It gives me a lot of back trouble.
Oliver Proudlock, 24, is an artist launching a charitable clothing
line, Serge DeNimes, based on prints of the Rio Carnival.
What is your best party trick?
Moonwalking.
Who would be your dream party guest?
Jack Nicholson. He is a legend.
Amber Atherton, 19, is a model and has an online jewellery boutique, My Flash Trash.
Who's your dream party guest?
Salvador Dali.
Ollie Locke, 23, runs the door at Maggie's nightclub.
What was your best party ever?
A group of us were flown out to a wedding in the Australian rainforest. As head groomsman I led a conga line dancing to Men At Work's 'Land Down
Under', which echoed through the treetops.
What is your party trick?
I have a very feminine face; everyone now knows that I'm an excellent drag queen: my name is Olivia.
Charlotte Cowen, 28, is a make-up artist. She has worked for Gucci, Burberry, Louis Vuitton as well as Anna Wintour and Take That.
What's your favourite song to dance to? 'If There is Something' by Roxy Music.
Lucie Hirst, 24, is an estate
agent and an ambassador for Too Many Women.
What's your favourite party drink?
Espresso Martini: caffeine and alchohol, a dream combination.
What's your best party trick? Not falling over after ten Martinis.
Nicko Williamson, 27, is the founder of Climatecars, an environmentally friendly taxi service.
Who would be your dream party guest?
Bryan Ferry. He looks as if he likes a party.
Thephene.com;
toomanywomen.co.uk;
sentebale.org;
charlottecowen.com;
climatecars.com; alibidrink.com;
myflashtrash.com
PARTY PERFORMERS
WHERE THEY EAT
At Jo Allen in Covent Garden, where they've got a shot at impressing Trevor Nunn and Ian McKellen. Or The Wolseley, where it's anyone from Emily Blunt to Guy Ritchie they'll be sidling up to on the banquette.
WHERE THEY DRINK
Downstairs at the Phoenix Theatre on Charing Cross Road, but you have to be performing in a West End show to get in (the doormen have all the theatre programmes to cross-check against head shots). There's also Soho House, where they can prop up the bar with Eddie Redmayne.
WHAT THEY WEAR
Actors love accessories even more than the sound of their own voices. Freddie's personal favourite is a flat cap, which gives him the rakish air of Robert Redford in The Sting, and a Louis Vuitton cravat that makes him feel like a cockerel every time he plumps it up. The girls are a touch more glamorous, wearing Vivienne Westwood at a wrap party or floor-length Dior for an awards bash.
WHERE THEY DANCE
The secluded Bungalow 8 where owner Amy Sacco, who has the memory of an elephant, works the tables, greeting the likes of Gemma Arterton and plays some Lady Gaga to get the crowd going. Keira Knightley goes to Raffles on the King's Road for the privacy.
PARTY GAMES
An actor never turns down a good improv challenge – singing Guys and Dolls in Chinese, for instance. But never suggest Charades as it's forbidden among thespians – they're not performing monkeys, luvvie.
TRIBE
Gemma Chan, 28, plays Billie Piper's dominatrix arch-rival in ITV's final series of Secret Diary of a Call Girl next year.
What was your best party ever?
A weekend-long affair at a house near Cadiz. There was much mischief and paella. The police arrived at 4am.
Gwilym Lee, 27, is Michael Grandage's new golden boy and a drinking buddy of Jude Law. He is currently playing Edgar in Grandage's King Lear alongside Derek Jacobi, at the Donmar Warehouse.
Who would be your dream party guest?
I'd really like to down a bottle of whisky with Dylan Thomas.
Andrew Scott, 33, plays Benedict Cumberbatch's psychotic nemesis Moriarty in the BBC's production of Sherlock.
What was your best party ever?
My sixth birthday party. I'd still rather eat a Cadbury's mini-roll than a canapé.
Hannah Murray, 21, is studying English literature at Queen's College, Cambridge. She stars in the cyber-thriller Chatroom opposite Aaron Johnson, out later this month.
What is your favourite party drink?
Whisky and lemonade. It's much less dangerous than wine.
Freddie Fox, 21, brother of Emilia, son of Edward and cousin of Laurence, graduated from Guildhall this year. He is appearing in Richard Eyre's
A Flea In Her Ear, opposite Tom Hollander, at The Old Vic.
What was your best party ever? My 21st. I learned the tango especially for it.
Who would be your dream party guest?
Vivienne Leigh. She would light up the room.
Jessica Raine, 27, graduated from RADA in July 2008. Next year she is due to play the lead in the National's production of Clifford Odets' 1930s comedy Rocket to the Moon, set in New York.
What's was your best party ever?
For my birthday this year I went to The Bethnal Green Working Men's Club. I got drunk on rum, got a fake sailor tattoo and danced badly but with gusto. Then I lost my handbag and made everyone look for it, only to find it was
under my chair.
What's your party trick?
I do an extraordinary impression of a baby seal's face. Don't ask. It's ugly.
With thanks to oldvictheatre.com; donmarwarehouse.com;
national theatre.org.uk
A RECIPE FOR FUN
WHERE THEY EAT
Brindisa for Spanish ham and octopus; Polpo and its sister restaurant Polpetto for the cuttlefish in its ink and endless tumblers of Prosecco; St John Bread & Wine for offal on toast. Alice Hart held her book launch this summer at Stevie Parle's canal-side Dock Kitchen in Ladbroke Grove 'which has the best party terrace in London'.
WHERE THEY DRINK Casita, one of the city's smallest bars, for the margaritas; 69 Colebrooke Row for the inventive cocktails and the wacky piano player; The Drapers Arms for a pint and Dean Street Townhouse for G&Ts.
WHAT THEY WEAR
Pinnies in the kitchen. The boys always bring a clean shirt and jacket which they only don once the starter's on the table. For girls it's Nicholas Kirkwood shoes and dresses from Vintage Modes.
WHERE THEY DANCE
Downstairs at Pizza East in Shoreditch or at The Pigalle Club.
PARTY GAMES
The Profanisaurus Game. It's like the dictionary game where you have to guess definitions but you play it with Roger's Profanisaurus instead. Not one for the grandparents. After one too many, teen spirits prevail with a game of Spin the Bottle.
TRIBE
Flavio Carenzi, 37, is the
cocktail tsar of Nobu Berkeley, and makes Japanese concoctions for the likes of Cheryl Cole.
How do you wind down?
After spending all week in stuffy Mayfair I go with my friends to The Joiners Arms on Hackney Road for a Sunday night dance.
Ravinder Bhogal, 31, named by Gordon Ramsay as the next Fanny Craddock, won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for her debut work Cook in Boots.
What's your favourite party drink?
Laurent-Perrier Cuvée Rosé Brut Champagne. It sparkles, pops, bubbles and can be the liveliest guest at the dullest party.
What's your party trick?
I read erotic poetry aloud and then do
a Bollywood dance.
Lily Vanili, 28, the queen of baked goods, has just launched her own counter in the Harrods patisserie and her book A Zombie Ate My Cupcake is out now.
What's your party trick?
I can take a cork out of the belly of an empty wine bottle without breaking the glass.
Who would be your dream party guest?
Snoop Doggy Dogg for obvious, cool-related, reasons.
Alice Hart, 28, is a chef and food writer whose recipes combine ingredients picked up on her travels in Europe and Asia.
Her ambition is to open a Vietnamese-style restaurant. Alice's Cook Book is out now.
What's your party trick?
I can do the splits.
Who would be your dream party guest?
Jack Black.
No contest.
Sam Bompas & Harry Parr curate wacky culinary installations with jelly. They've worked with the architect Norman Foster and their first book Jelly with Bompas & Parr is out now.
What's your best party?
Sam: Harry's birthday last year. We flooded a Grade I-listed building with four tonnes of a Courvoisier cocktail and made little rafts so everyone could boat around on it, drinking.
What's your party trick?
Sam: Getting naked, but I'm not very proud of that.
Harry: Levitating.
James Ramsden, 25, a food writer and cook, runs the Secret Larder supper club at his flat in Holloway with his sister. His
first book is due out next year.
What's your party trick?
I usually cook the rabbit after it's been pulled out of a hat.
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THE REAL EASTENDERS
WHERE THEY EAT
Comfort food at A Little of What You Fancy, Kingsland Road's best-kept secret. Sunday brunch at Bistrotheque and Chez Mama Pauline's in Hackney.
WHERE THEY DRINK
The Nelson's Head and The George and Dragon before 11pm; Shoreditch House after.
WHAT THEY WEAR
Local designers Sybil Rouge, Roksanda Ilincic, Richard Nicoll and Giles, and charity shop finds.
Where they dance Dalston Superstore and East Bloc for 1990s club classics, or in Louise Gray's basement.
PARTY GAMES
At Agyness Deyn and Katie Grand's recent party they played musical chairs.
TRIBE
Louise Gray, 28, held her first solo show in September and sells her fluorescent designs via asos.com.
What's your party essential?
A split-level dancefloor.
What do you like to wear?
Fringing and jingly bits.
Princess Julia, 50, is a DJ whose 1980s style inspired Kylie's showgirl tour.
Where can you be found at parties?
Behind the DJ decks spinning electronic beats.
Theo Adams, 21, is the director of avant-garde performers the Theo Adams Company. Its latest show Cry Out is at the ICA next week.
What is your favourite party song?
Anything from Yentl.
Gwendoline Christie, 19, has acted with the RSC and appeared in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
What's your best party trick?
High leg-kicks and the splits.
Lulu Kennedy, 40, is the director of Fashion East, which helped to launch Gareth Pugh, Holly Fulton and Jonathan Saunders.
What's the best party you've been to?
It was a rave I organised in a supermarket where people played dodgems with the trolleys.
James Main, 30, better known
as Jeanette, is a gender illusionist, and muse to designers Giles Deacon and Gareth Pugh.
What's your party trick?
Get absolutely wasted.
Mandi Lennard is the head of Mandi's Basement, a brand consultancy whose clients include MAC and Bistrotheque.
Who do you party with?
Gareth Pugh and his flatmates are the best crew.
What do you wear?
Louis Vuitton bunny ears that Katie Grand gave me.
Erdem, 33, has had his digital-print dresses worn by Samantha Cameron and Michelle Obama.
What's your favourite place to party?
The George & Dragon. Last year they held an unforgettable John Hughes tribute night.
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