The ultimate Sunday Roast
Tickets are on sale for the inaugural, six-day London Restaurant Festival (8th – 13th October 2009). Sold on a first come, first served basis, tickets are available for the following events:
The Gourmet Odyssey
At lunchtime on Saturday 10th October a fleet of liveried Routemaster buses will take guests on a truly unique Gourmet Odyssey of London.
There will be four different gourmet routes for guests to choose from, covering four different areas of London: Piccadilly, Soho, Pall Mall and Park Lane. Each area will have two buses departing which will take guests on a four hour food-laden journey. Each odyssey will start with a glass of GH Mumm champagne at London’s exclusive Met Bar, before guests head off to sample three different courses at three different top-London restaurants. Some of the greatest restaurant names in London will be on the itineraries including Nobu, Theo Randall, Corrigan’s Mayfair, Scott’s, Gordon Ramsey’s Maze, Hakkasan, Quo Vadis, Sake No Hana, Hibiscus and Wild Honey.
To add to the experience, a well-known chef or restaurant critic will be on board each bus.
The Big Roast
London’s biggest ever collective Sunday Roast. On Sunday 11th October 800 people will sit down on long tables in Leadenhall Market and enjoy a Sunday roast cooked by feted London chefs such as Mark Hix, Richard Corrigan, Fergus Henderson, Tim Hughes, Anna Hansen and Rowley Leigh. Each will cook different meat. It’s the ultimate Sunday lunch.
Festival Menus
Many of the 350+ restaurants that have signed up will be offering a specially-created fixed-price ‘Festival Menu’. Visitors to the London Restaurant Festival website will be able to search through these venues by restaurant name or by postcode/area.
Other LRF Landmark events
Some of the other high-profile events that form part of the festival, such as the capsule restaurant in The London Eye, the Pierre Koffmann Pop-up restaurant at Selfridges, The London Restaurant Festival Lecture with Simon Schama, and the celluloid celebration of food and film entitled Eat Film, will all go on sale in early September with more news and reservation details going out on the 9th September at the official press launch of the festival.
Simon Davis, Director of the London Restaurant Festival and CEO of A Private View said: “We’ve had a tremendous amount of positive feedback from both restaurants and members of the public. We also have over 400 restaurants set to join next month, so the site is going to be a great place to inspire visitors to pick restaurants they may not have tried before. The festival has already seen a whole host of London restaurants sign up – from famous names such as The Ivy, Scott’s and Theo Randall, to house-hold favourite Pizza Express.”
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