A new food festival will launch in London this summer with a range of restaurant events and a night market at an iconic park in the capital.
London Food Month is being run by daily newspaper the Evening Standard, and aims to celebrate the diversity and influence in London’s food scene.
The new annual event will run throughout June of this year, with the centerpiece as a night market held at a park in Kensington. Inspired by the global street food scene, the night market will include up to 50 restaurants and food trucks, drinks and live entertainment for 12 nights beginning 7 June.
Co-directed by well-known food writers Grace Dent and Tom Parker Bowles, the festival will take place across the capital, and include fine dining, street food, cafes and late night eateries.
It has an overall theme of promoting awareness around food waste and food hunger, in partnership with official charity The Felix Project, which works with suppliers and restaurants to reduce and divert edible food waste.
“We’ll be eating the entire world, in one city, 24-hours a day. London loves food and we’re here to prove it,” said Dent.
London Food Month will also include events with international chefs on rare UK appearances, such as Massimo Bottura, chef-owner of Osteria Francescana in Modena. In addition, the Evening Standard’s longest standing food critic Fay Maschler will be curating a definitive list of her 50 favourite places to eat in London in 2017.
Restaurants interested in participating in the London Food Month can register on the event website londonfoodmonth.co.uk.
