Get The Most From Your Bank Holiday Weekend: 25th – 28th May
I hope you’re across the whole ‘it’s a bank holiday’ thing last bank holiday I turned up to work only to wonder why nobody else was showing up and wondering if the rapture had happened while I was making my cereal. But given how much is going on in this week’s bumper ‘what to do this weekend’ guide it will be impossible to forget. Roll on the long weekend!
Syon Park
Foodie Festival
Stately home Syon Park is the backdrop to the UK’s biggest food festival this weekend with Foodies Festival. Combining food (obvs) and music (perhaps less obvs) the event will be a chance to enjoy numerous nibbles, partake in masterclasses, meet Masterchef 2018 winner Kenny Tutt and listen to the likes of The Hoosiers and actual Dancing In The Moonlight off of the 90s Toploader!
Saturday 26th to Monday 28th May
Where: Syon Park, Brentford, Middlesex, TW8 8JF
Website: www.foodiesfestival.com
Aster
Voulez Vous?
You don’t need Money, Money, Money to enjoy Aster’s Abba brunch, so be a Super Trooper, Take A Chance On them in a brunch that really shouldn’t be your Waterloo. The bottomless brunch from Swedish Executive Chef, Helena Puolakka, will include a live band churning out the very best of Abba. Gimme Gimme Gimme.
Monday 28th May
Where: 150 Victoria Street, London SW1E 5LB, United Kingdom
Website: www.aster-restaurant.com
London Cheese Festival
Cheesy Peasy!
We have undertaken some very inexact straw polling to discover that you basically all go mad whenever we mention cheese. So here goes: cheese! And specifically a three day cheese fest in the form of The London Cheese Project. Organisers hope that their celebration of British cheese at Hoxton’s Geffrye Museum will be their biggest festival yet and with free talks and demos, street food traders, live music and craft beer it promises to certainly live up to the title.
Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th May
Where: 136 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E2 8EA
Website: www.londoncheeseproject.com
Galvin at Windows
Race for Youth
Combine appetite with altruism this weekend by joining Galvin At Windows Michelin-star chef Chris Galvin and First Dates’ Maître’d Fred Sirieix as they host a 5km race round Mayfair and ending at Galvin at Windows Restaurant for a Champagne breakfast. The event is to raise money for Galvin’s Chance, which helps young people get into employment with youth training and opportunities working in hospitality.
Friday 25th May
Where: 22 Park Ln, London W1K 1BE, United Kingdom
Website: www.galvinschance.co.uk
The Perception at W London
Retoxication
Perception, the bar with Europe’s largest disco ball (a fact I continue to get excited by) are staging RETOX, a brunch with enough tox to have you spending bank holiday Monday in bed. Bottomless wine, copious amounts of blissfully unhealthy food (Oreo Cheesecake anyone?) and decent DJs, all under Europe’s biggest disco ball (like, how do they know? Is there a list?).
Sunday 27th May
Where: 10 Wardour Street, Leicester Square, London, W1D 6QF, United Kingdom
Website: www.theperceptionbar.com
Star of Bethnal Green
Word On The Street
It’s happy 10th birthday to The Star of Bethnal Green! The celebrations will include their seventh annual street party and it’ll be bigger and better than ever. The good vibes will be underscored by the best 80s, 90s and 00s music from soul, disco, RnB as well as ‘general good-time songs. There’ll be events for kids (face-painting, bouncy castle and the like) and parents will be able to sample street food from the local ‘Beats and Eats’ pop-up Smokey Tails, Hanoi Cà Phê and Café So Vegan, alongside craft beers and cocktails.
Monday 28th May
Where: http://starofbethnalgreen.co.uk/whats-on/
Website: www.designmynight.com
Feria De Londres on Southbank
Spanish Carnival
The Southbank will be ringing to the sights, sounds and smells of Spain as Feria De Londres descends on the capital. The Spanish food, drink and entertainment festival will bring traditional Andalusian Feria to the heart of London. From Friday 25th May until Sunday 27th the Southbank will play host to a vibrant celebration of Spanish culture and cuisine. Join the fiesta and knock back tapas, cocktails, sherry and enjoy masterclasses and experiences.
Friday 25th to 27th May
Where: Bernie Spain Gardens (Next to OXO Tower Wharf), South Bank, SE1 9PH
Website: www.feriadelondres.com
We Are FSTVL
THE Bank Holiday Weekend Festival
Someone stole all the vowels at FSTVL, but We Are FSTVL turns up in Upminster this weekend for a bank holiday festival to remember. The festival will be headlined by names like Carl Cox and Eric Prydz as well as Richy Ahmed, Cristoph, Danny Tenaglia, GW Harrison and Ellie Cocks. Or if you can’t make the festival (fstvl) then why not make tracks to EGG London for the afterparty?
Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th May
Where: Damyns Hall Aerodrome, Aveley Road, Romford, RM14 2TN
Website: www.wearefstvl.com
