This year marks the 10th year anniversary of the highly successful London Restaurant Festival. It’s a month-long festival held in October and celebrates the unique London restaurant scene.
About the festival
The festival is a celebration of food with different events happening all over the city. This year, the focus of the festival is on celebrating the international flavors that shaped London’s restaurant industry. It was the cohesive mélange of different flavors that made London an important spot in the culinary world.
To highlight these international flavors, 10 cuisines were chosen and will be highlighted in different events. Each cuisine will be showcased by top chefs from different parts of the world.
More than 400 restaurants across London will be participating. These restaurants will be venues for several events. This year, the festival will be showcasing 60 unique events. Organizers are expecting around 50,000 people attending this month-long festival. In addition, there are a lot of popular places to stop by. The Best Western Palm Hotel is definitely a place to stay to check out the majority of the popular capital’s destinations.
Events
There will be several brand-new events that will be launched during the festival. Some of these are restaurant-hopping tours, chef-hosted events, Ultimate Gastronomic Weekends, Gourmet Odyssey and Eat Art.
Gourmet Odysseys include a long lunch at top restaurants in the city. The lunch will feature a sumptuous 3-course meal by celebrated chefs.
There will be two weekends for the Ultimate Gastronomic Weekend. The first is on October 6-7, participated by Melissa Helmsley, Michel Roux, Jr., Richard Kirkwood, Vivek Singh and Francesco Mazzei for meet-and-greet events; the second weekend is on October 27-28 is a Michelin-studded event. It will feature exclusive visits to the city’s top restaurants: Angler, City Social and Club Gascon, with a special lunch served at Claude Bosi at Bibendum.
Eat Film includes a unique pairing of special screenings with sumptuous food at Temple Cinema in Andaz.
Tasting Menu series will happen in several venues. There will be 20 exclusive menus in various popular London restaurants like the Som Saa, Greyhound Café and Kiln.
For £45, the restaurant-hopping tours will include delicious foods from 5 restaurants in one day. This year, restaurants included in the tour are Devonshire Square, St James & Regent St, and Tapas Tour. This year also adds up-and-coming restaurants in St Katherine Docks and Battersea Power Station.
Eat Art will be hosted at the Saatchi Gallery. It is a private tour of the gallery with a 4-course dinner held at the Gallery Mess. This event will be hosted by various artists.
Eat Talk is a series of forums hosted by Richard Vines of Bloomberg. Michelin-starred chefs will be participating in the talk series.
There will also be tea-tastings during a private tour of The Chitra collection. This is one of the rarest collections of antique teaware in the world.
Restaurant wine-tasting events will cover 4 evenings. This will include a range of some of the world’s fine wines from various countries.
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Participating Chefs
Among the participating chefs are Bill Granger flying straight from Australia just for this event. The husband-and-wife Michelin-star team Dylan Jones and Duangporn “Bo” Songvisava will be cooking at Som Saa.
Anne-Sophie Pic, one of the most decorated female chefs in the world and a Michelin-star recipient, will be hosting a one-night only dinner at La dame De Pic.
Tickets
The tickets and ticket prices vary depending on the event. Some events and restaurants offer meal deals.
Tickets are available through the official website of the festival organizer, londonrestaurantfestival.com.
To have more budget for the festival’s many activities, you can choose to stay at Palm Hotel which is also one of the best wedding venues in North West London. These offer great deals and are mostly close to the places participating in the festival.
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