What to do This Weekend: 14th-16th October
This week it’s all about food as we see the arrival of three new brunches. Get ready to party with KERB, feast at Oklava, gorge on chocolate, Dinerama is relaunching for the winter months and Bread Ahead is opening it’s first permanent bakery. Choosing where to go eat the weekend is going to be that much harder…eating pants at the ready.
Kerb
KERB Turns 4
Four is the order of the day this Friday as KERB aka the street food specialists have their fourth birthday. Entry is £4, dishes cost £4 and for ever new keg there’ll be 4 free pints. They’ve got 15 traders on board to feed hungry revellers including Anna Mae’s legendary mac ‘n’ cheese; Killa Dilla’s slider sized quesadillas and vegan #KERBlaborations from vegan traders Club Mexicana X Spice Box. Kerb will also be whipping up specialist cocktails including a Birthday Cake spritz made from prosecco and Frangelico – because why eat cake when you can drink it? And Pig & Rig will be bringing their famed sound system to play reggae calypso and afro-beats. Buy your ticket online and grab yourself a free cocktail too. It’s time to partayyy.
Where: 5-11 West Handyside Canopy, Kingscross, N1C
Website: www.kerbfood.com
Street Feast
Street Feast Kick off the Winter Season
If you haven’t been to a Street Feast site then you’re not a true Londoner. Relaunching this weekend for winter, Dinerma in Shoreditch and Hawker House in Canada Water will see the addition of brand new traders, an undercover wine garden, frozen toffee vodka shots and boozy hot chocolate. Both sites are undercover and heated (double whammy) and with 8-hour-smoked sticky ribs from HotBox, award-winning jerk chicken from White Men Can’t Jerk and hot smoky Gai Yang barbecue chicken curry you can warm yourself up from the inside out.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 5pm at Dinerama
Friday and Saturday from 5pm at Hawker House
Where: Dinerama and Hawker House
Website: www.streetfeast.com
The Chocolate Show
The UK’s Biggest Celebration of Chocolate
We have national chocolate week, international chocolate day and world chocolate hour (not really) but we don’t really need an excuse to eat the good stuff. Just as well then that this weekend The Chocolate Show is coming to Olympia, bringing with it Hotel Chocolat’s School of Chocolate, celebrity chefs, demonstrations, tastings, a chocolate fashion show, chocolate sculptures and a small plates bar hosted by Adam Rawson. Although the plates are savoury, chocolate finds its way into each dish so think beef, chocolate and BBQ sauce sliders and smoked yogurt and porcini mushroom truffles.
14th-16th October
Where: Hammersmith Road, Kensington, W14 8UX
Website: www.thechocolateshow.co.uk
Tabun Kitchen
Middle-Eastern Lunch Stop
It’s now officially cold and if you’re anything like us you will’ve dug out your winter clothes only to reveal you really don’t like your A/W 15 wardrobe a year on. If you’re heading to Oxford Street this weekend to rethink your seasonal style you’ll need a break from the crowds. Head over to Soho and refuel with sharing mezze plates, grilled meats and traditional Palestinian plates – everything from smoked aubergine dips, grilled halloumi, homemade falafel – at cosy Middle Eastern spot, Tabun Kitchen.
Where: Tabun Kitchen, Berwick Street, London, United Kingdom
Website: www.tabunkitchen.com
Bread Ahead
Instagrammable Doughnuts
Your weekend plans will probably involve a trip to one of London’s great food markets. If you haven’t consumed your body weight in free samples then you may even be planning to save room for a doughnut from Bread Ahead in Borough Market. This weekend, give the markets a miss and head for Seven Dials, where Bread Ahead are revelling in the warm, doughy glow of their first permanent site – you don’t want to miss their legendary doughnuts.
Where: 1A Monmouth Street, Seven Dials, WC2H 9DA
Website: www.breadahead.com
MeatUp
Sharing Style Sunday Roast
Ah, the Sunday roast. The perfect ending to an indulgent weekend is an equally indulgent feast of slow cooked meat, gravy and all the trimmings. MeatUp offer roasts with a difference; huge boards made for sharing, just like you have at home but minus the washing up. Choose from beef, lamb, chicken or pork with roasties, Yorkshire puds, braised red cabbage, honey roast roots, seasonal greens and an ale and bone marrow gravy. As if that wasn’t filling enough there’s a whole load of starters to choose from – stick with the social theme and go for the mixed platter of ribs, spiced chicken pieces, squid and roasted scallop. Food coma? What food coma…
Sunday only
Where: 350 Old York Road, London, London Borough of Wandsworth SW18 1SS, United Kingdom
Website: www.meatupgrill.com
