Festival

• The dishes you need to try at Taste of London this week

  

  Heading to this year's Taste of London and wondering what you need to try? As judges of Best in Taste we had an early preview of this year's top festival dishes. Here's our pick. 

• Meatopia, the live-fire cooking festival is back for 2024 - here's the line-up

  

  It's one of London's most popular food festivals and it's back at Tobacco Dock for its 11th year - Meatopia 2024 is on the way. 

  As ever, the festival, first launched by its founder Josh Ozersky, is mainly all about live-fire cooking, alongside a big focus on sustainability. They always manage to get an incredibly impressive line-up for the festival and here's a

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• 8 things to look forward to at Taste of London 2024

  

  Taste of London's five-day festival of food and drink is coming to Regent's Park this summer for its 20th anniversary. Here's why you need to make sure you're going.

• Sarnie Party sandwich festival is hitting London this month

  

  If your weekends are spent tracking down the best sandwiches in town - and we wouldn't judge you for that - then you're going to need to free up the weekend of 17-19 May in your diary. That's when Sarnie Party is taking over the Camden Town Brewery in Kentish Town for three days of devotion to things in bread. 

  The festival, curated by Meatopia's Molly Hutchinson and Allie Behr of Hot Sauce

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• Peek into the future with the Future of Food Festival at Regent Street and St James’s

  

  Circle the week of 18–24 September in your calendars, as it marks an exciting debut for a new food festival in London. The Future of Food Festival will be a series of events that takes over Regent Street and St James’s with 17 events, 23 participating restaurants, one Urban Farm and famous chefs celebrating central London’s diverse culinary landscape.

• The Home of Food, London’s newest food festival takes over Lord’s

  

  This September, something brand new is coming to Lord’s when the world-famous cricket ground is turning its attention away from the Ashes and The Hundred to hold an exciting new food festival - The Home of Food.

• The best dishes at Taste of London 2023

  

  Heading to Taste of London and wondering what you need to try this year? We had a preview of this year's dishes, as judges of Best in Taste, and here's our pick. 

• Cocktails in the City sets out its 2023 plans

  

  Cocktail enthusiasts, sit up. This summer sees the return of Cocktails in the City to London’s Bedford Square Gardens.

  There’ll be the usual masterclasses, tastings, interactive games, live music, street food, and – of course – exciting cocktails from 60 of London’s best bars for your enjoyment, all within a private beautiful Georgian garden.

  This year the three alfresco events will be held on three separate months,

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• McFly's Danny Jones joins Tom Kerridge for this year's Pub In the Park

  

  After making it all the way to the final of last year's Celebrity MasterChef, before losing out to Lisa Snowdon, McFly's Danny Jones has obviously been seriously bitten by the cooking bug. This summer he's doing the double, both performing and cooking when he joins up with Tom Kerridge for this year's Pub in the Park tour.

  The McFly guitarist will be in London for two dates on the tour - cooking live on

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• Britain's best music festivals for foodies

  

  Britain's festival scene is back with a bang this summer. If you want to know where the food's going to be as good as the line-up, here's our guide to the best music festivals for foodies.

• The Big Feastival is back with Nathan Outlaw, Sigala and Tom Brown headlining

  

  Updated 14/4/21 with more chefs

  Even just a few short weeks ago, we could hardly believe we'd be bringing you news of summer festivals that you could actually book. But now that the government has released details of its roadmap to freedom, summer events are starting to look up.

  One of the biggest festivals for foodies any summer has always been The Big Feastival and we've got the scoop on who is

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• Attend the Virtual Food Festival with Rick Stein, Gizzi and more

  

  Now that we're practically in summer it'd be nice to be thinking about heading to a food festival over the coming months. Well now, as part of the new normal, in addition to perusing our Staying In section for delivery inspiration, you can still attend that food festival.

  Following the success of the first one that they ran last night,

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• Take a look at what's on this year's Taste of London winter menu

  

  The Christmas season has officially kicked off, and that means it's nearly time for the winter edition of Taste of London, taking place later this month at Tobacco Dock. Top chefs who'll be serving up blinding dishes include Smoking Goat's Ali Borer, Master Wei's Guirong Wei, Tou's Ana Gonçalves & Zijun Meng, Smokestak's David Carter, Oklava's Selin Kiazim, Berber & Q's Josh Katz and lots

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• Top chefs head up the Mayfair Literary Festival

  

  The upcoming Mayfair Literary Festival has a couple of events that London's foodies might want to get on their radar.

  28 October

  The Fumoir at Claridge’s is the setting for a talk called “Tales from Couture” from legendary fashion illustrator and Claridge’s artist in residence David Downton.

  1 November

  Tales from the kitchen sees chef and food writer Ravinder Bhogal heading a panel of some

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• Action Against Hunger Launches Streatfest festival with a starry line-up

   

  Action Against Hunger, the charity with a mission to end child hunger, has a long relationship with the UK restaurant scene, with many a successful campaign and fundraiser event over the years. And this year, they are kicking off their annual Love Food Give Food campaign with a brand new one-off festival at Flat Iron Square on 11th September.

  Called Streatfest, the line up of chefs

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