London Restaurant Festival Kicks Off Tonight
Gordon Ramsay serving you dinner in the London Eye? Eight leading chefs (including Richard Corrigan and Fergus Henderson) cooking a single massive Sunday Roast? It's all part of the London Restaurant Festival, kicking off tonight and lasting through October 13th.
Conceived by famed Evening Standard restaurant critic Fay Maschler and former journalist Simon Davis, in association with the tourism board Visit London, the festival is a week-long celebration of food across the city—and not just through big-ticket events, but through special prix fixe menus at more than 500 restaurants all across London.
- Eat Film: Film showings paired with meals that best represent them—whether Tom Jones and a Welch feast, Eat Drink Man Woman and a Taiwanese banquet, or a kids 'showing of Ratatouille.
- Dine High on the London Eye: Already sold out, these dinners take place in one of the tremendous Ferris wheel's capsules, catered by chefs including Gordon Ramsay.
- The Big Roast: At Leadenhall Market, an enormous open-air roast cooked by eight of London's leading chefs; guests dine on beef, lamb, wild roe deer, game birds, Tipperary pig, and quail, plus Gordon's gin and tonics. (Want more booze? Bring your own.)
- Pierre Koffmann Pop-Up: At La Tante Claire, Pierre Koffmann earned three Michelin stars; the renowned chef hasn't been back in the kitchen since. But atop Selfridges, with spectacular views of the city, Koffman opens a pop-up restaurant for the Festival, serving signature dishes such as pig's trotter and a spectacular pistachio souffle.
For more information, check out the website. And Londoners, get on it; event tickets are going fast, so snap up the remaining ones while you can.
Carey is over in London thanks to Visit London, the city's official tourist organization, instrumental in putting the Restaurant Festival together, in connection with Virgin Atlantic and the Intercontinental Park Lane.
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