London Cocktail Week is a food festival in Various, London.
Editorially verified May 19, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: Buy the £15 cocktail card; 250 bars run £6 signature cocktails throughout the week. Tickets to masterclasses sell separately.
Address: Various venues across London
London Restaurant Festival has run city-wide festival menus, restaurant-hopping tours and chef masterclasses across London every October for 17 years.
Tip: Festival menus are booked through OpenTable and go live before the ticketed events. The restaurant-hopping tours sell out first.
BBC Good Food Show at Olympia in west London, trading since 1990, runs four days of celebrity chef demonstrations and food retail stalls. The November London.
Tip: Buy general admission tickets plus a Super Theatre ticket separately for the headline chef demonstrations.
London Restaurant Festival has run city-wide festival menus, restaurant-hopping tours and chef masterclasses across London every October for 17 years.
Tip: Festival menus are booked through OpenTable and go live before the ticketed events. The restaurant-hopping tours sell out first.
London's Lunar New Year festival fills Chinatown and Trafalgar Square with lion dances, food stalls and hot food, and is free to attend.
Tip: The Trafalgar Square stalls are the easiest food; Chinatown restaurants take walk-ins only very early or very late on parade day.
Taste of London has run five days of tasting plates from the city's best restaurants in Regent's Park each June since 2004, alongside 150 artisan producers.
Tip: Weekend tickets sell out a fortnight ahead; weekday lunch slots are easier. The chef demonstration arena is the marquee programming.
Notting Hill Carnival in west London, trading since 1966 over the August bank holiday weekend, fills 50 blocks with Caribbean street food, sound systems.
Tip: Sunday is family day, Monday is the main parade. Jerk chicken counters line every block; expect £10-15 per plate.
London Coffee Festival at the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane in east London, trading since 2011, runs four days of specialty coffee tasting.
Tip: The Sunday tickets are cheapest and the smallest crowds. The Lab Stage runs demonstration and tasting workshops throughout the festival.