London Restaurant Festival is a food festival in Various, London.
Editorially verified August 5, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: Festival menus are booked through OpenTable and go live before the ticketed events. The restaurant-hopping tours sell out first.
London Cocktail Week, the city-wide cocktail festival since 2010, runs nine days of bar-discount cards, masterclasses, festival-pop-up bars and bartender.
Tip: Buy the £15 cocktail card; 250 bars run £6 signature cocktails throughout the week. Tickets to masterclasses sell separately.
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.
Meatopia at Tobacco Dock in east London, trading since 2013 as an annual three-day live-fire meat festival, hosts 50 chefs cooking over open fires.
Tip: Three sessions per day (lunch, afternoon, evening). Friday evening session is the built chef session; Sunday lunch is family-friendly.
London Cocktail Week, the city-wide cocktail festival since 2010, runs nine days of bar-discount cards, masterclasses, festival-pop-up bars and bartender.
Tip: Buy the £15 cocktail card; 250 bars run £6 signature cocktails throughout the week. Tickets to masterclasses sell separately.