Rooftop supperclubs, Independence Day feasts and cocktails: July's best Food and Drink events
02 July, 2012
by: Spoonfed Food And Drink
From pop-up restaurants to cocktail experiences: our selection of the five best food and drink events taking place across London in July.
Wednesday 4th July
Independence Day Feast @ Ben's Canteen
Food blogger Adam Layton has teamed up with Ben's Canteen in Clapham to create a mouth-watering Independence Day feast. The menu consists of classic American diner and BBQ staples including pulled pork corn dogs, slow roast brisket and root beer floats. There will be big, boozy 'house party' cocktails served in red Solo cups, as many pickleback shots as you can handle and American punk and old school hip-hop music blasting out of the jukebox. Yee-hah!
Tickets cost £30 and include a three course menu, a ‘house party’ cocktail and a portion of Billy Frank’s original cheeseburger jerky.
Friday 6th July
Ugly Fish Friday at Whitecross Street Market
City caterer Lusso is staging an “Ugly Fish Friday Pop Up” at Whitecross Street Market as a stand against the fishing quota system that sees dead fish thrown back into the sea. Assisted by 'The Fisherman’s Apprentice' Monty Halls, and his fisherman mentor Nigel Legge, Lusso will be hosting a lunchtime pop-up stall at the market, serving a range of ugly but tasty fish dishes. All fish will be sustainable and landed by Nigel in Cornwall the day before.
The stall will start serving lunch from 11 am and will continue until they run out of fish. All profits are being donated to Monty’s chosen charity - The Fisherman’s Mission - which provides emergency welfare support to fishermen and their families.
Sunday 8th July
Daheim German breakfast and lunch @ G.Kelly Eel and Pie Shop
A one day pop-up cafe in one of the last original eel and pie shops in London, Daheim will be open for breakfast and lunch. The menu includes Reiberdatschi (thin röstis) with apple and rhubarb compote or homemade graved trout; savoury sauerkraut and mincemeat strudels with gherkins, beetroot salad and horseradish cream; Bircher Müsli; Flammkuchen (pizza bread topped with creme, speck, sautéed onions and chives) and Bratwurst with sauerkraut, mustard and bread. Food blogger Julia will be serving up all these goodies and more, with her dad's vintage German record collection providing the soundtrack. Sounds fun!
Breakfast from 9:30am
Lunch from 1-3:30pm
cash only
Friday 13th - Saturday 14th July
The Courvoisier Institute of Grand Cocktails at the Heritage Rooms
Courvoisier are putting on a theatrical cocktail event in Bloomsbury Square, where some of London's top bartenders will be serving up classic cocktails in creative settings. Annabel's bar manager Mickael Perron will be whipping up the Courvoisier punch in the Heritage Rooms produce stores, while 5 Hertford Street’s bar manager Amanda Humphrey toasts the champagne cocktail in the Rococo ballroom and Rules' bar manager Chris Lacey serves a classic Sazerac in an apothecary cum science lab.
Tickets cost £10 and sessions last one hour.
Thursday-Saturdays
Forzawin Rooftop Supperclub @ secret location, Brick Lane
Street food heroes the Pizza Pilgrims have teamed up with Bash Redford and Pulse Films to host a summer rooftop supper club in Shoreditch. On top of a building near Brick Lane, the team have hand-built a traditional brick pizza oven with seating for 30 people. Open Thursday-Saturday from July-September, there will be different entertainment each night and you get a stunning view of the city to boot.
For £25, you will have a three course Italian meal including traditional Neapolitan Pizza from Pizza Pilgrims, plus a choice of new British craft lager Saint or an Aperol Spritzer (which you can buy more of on the night should you wish). To book a space, email info@forzawin.com.
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