Here are a few food festivals happening in London over the summer, i have picked these four out as my favourites, as well as being the biggest ones. I urge you to try and go to one if you have any interest in food whatsoever, it’s a great and different day out, an alternative to the norm of going to a music festival.
Taste of London
Date: 17th-20th June
Location: Regent’s Park
Ticket Price: £22 (standard ticket)
Summary: An array of the finest restaurants in London, each with their own sample menus that you can taste at the festival. There is also a demonstration theatre with top chefs displaying their culinary skills, trade stalls, wine tasting, champagne master classes and new for this year a taste of malaysia with three of the best malaysian restaurants in London.
Highlights: Tom Aiken’s demo on thursday, Atul Kochhar’s on friday, Gary Rhodes, Giorgio Locatelli, Heston Blumenthal and Jason Atherton’s on saturday and Michel Roux snr on the sunday
Rating: Having gone to this last year and having the opportunity to talk with Anthony Worrall-Thompson and Michel Roux jnr was a highlight of my year so its got to be a 10/10
Great British Beer Festival
Date: 3rd-7th August
Location: Earls Court
Ticket Price: £8 in advance £10 on the door
Summary: If you like quality and well produced beer then this is the event to go to. Over 450 real ales, ciders, perry’s and beers from around the world. Its Britain’s biggest beer festival with breweries from all over the world serving their finest brews. There’s live music, food and traditional pub games as well as tutored beer tastings.
Highlights: There’s quite a lot of beer!! ‘Meet the brewers’ tasting session on the friday where you can meet the head brewers of some of the top breweries in Britain and try their produce.
Rating: I’m going this year and i reckon it’s gonna be an 8/10 (if i can remember any of it)
Feast On The Bridge
Date: 12th September
Location: Southwark Bridge
Ticket Price: Free
Summary: Part of the Mayor’s Thames Festival, Southwark Bridge get’s transformed into a community feast with huge banqueting tables, food from some of the best UK sustainable producers, butter churning, foraging along the thames, treading grapes and baking a 6 metre long cake.
Highlights: ‘The sacred Mayonnaise ritual’ at low tide and who wouldn’t want to go to a banquet on a bridge in the middle of london on a summer’s day?
Rating: 7/10
Notting Hill Carnival
Date: 29th-30th August
Location: Notting Hill
Ticket Price: Free
Summary: It’s the largest street festival in Europe, 40,000 volunteers and over a million carnival revellers. It’s one of London’s most vibrant and exciting events of the year.The carnival stretches for 20 miles with over 40 sound systems and hundreds of food stalls.
Highlights: Try and find Levi Roots’ Caribbean food stall and get some barbecued jerk chicken with a big glug of his reggae reggae sauce
Rating: 9/10
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