Feast London This Weekend!

Last night I Feasted on London's finest! This is the third "Feast London," it is essentially a festival of food vendors. Made up of the great and the good of London's trendy eateries this is a Mecca for London's foodies. This isn't just any old street food venue though, oh no! This is Feast London, set in an amazing venue, usually half sheltered (half cold/wet), feast is a ticketed affair. The ticket price covers live music as well as the hiring and decoration of the location which is usually fab! Last time in a half dilapidated warehouse in Islington, this time in the Tobacco dock, Wapping! However the variety of dishes, flavours and names on offer here all under one roof is well worth the £8 entry. There are somewhere in the region of 30-40 coloured market stalls here. Big names and small names side by side. Some are old school street vendors, some big name restauranteurs,

 but all selling delicious food! Once you have entered and got your bearings it's best to walk the stalls, find out what each stall is offering and then pick which ones will make your hit list. Last time we went, we greedily got stuck in and then were a little disapointed when full, we came across Ceviche's stall. This time we did it right, toured the entire market and then split up in different directions! I ordered Dishoom's lamb bun with coleslaw and curried crisps and it was amazing, succulent juicy lamb in a great bun! Others in the
party went for Hix's fish dogs and Big apple hot dogs. Again both brilliant (I may have had a bite of each). Then up stairs for a BBQ pulled pork roll from Nose to Tail, great. We then turned towards the bar, unfortunately one of the down sides of this otherwise fantastic festival is the alcohol offering and prices. Meantime larger and ale is on offer here as the only beer and at £4 a bottle! I found this a little hard to take, the spirit prices are also quite steep so we plumped for a £15 bottle of good tempranillo instead.

 Downstairs again we found one of my favourite Soho establishments, Bone daddies. Doing their Tantamen ramen noodles. Beautiful peanut flavoured broth with a runny egg, superb! We retired to one of the massive trestle tables and nestled in amoungst other happy foodies to enjoy our noodles and wine. The atmosphere is friendly and it is almost like being at a gourmet Glastonbury, with the Pizza Pilgrim's wood fire smell oven filling the air with a gentle smokiness and the live band playing in the background.

After this we played a little Ping Tron (glow in the dark ping pong) and ate some pan-fried scallops with cauliflower puree. We decided upon one more dish after this as we were nearly bursting at the seams and settled on a sweet course. This was harder than it seemed however as there wasn't much choice. The Queue for waffles was nearly as long at the building, which left nutella crepes or the Meringue girls (picture left). To be fair even if the waffle queue had only been an inch long we'd done our home work, the Meringue girls do phenomenal work! With a multitude of flavours and colours meringue girls make the most amazing dessert by simply applying cream, caramel and chocolate sauce to some of their hazelnut meringues. This dessert brought about the comment that my girlfriend would happily swap me for another one! Despite nearly being replaced by a dessert, I would encourage you all to get a ticket to Feast London. There are four hour slots for lunch and dinner Friday to Sunday, or look out for the next one if you can't go this weekend!