London is absolutely packed full to the brim with restaurants, cafes, pubs, bars, and all manner of food and drink venues. And yet, our ravenous appetite for the next best thing sees us still constantly searching out the new, the spectacular, the exciting, and the unexpected. But to do so with sit-down venues can add up pretty quickly – both in terms of time commitment and cost. That’s where the city’s many incredible food and drinks festivals come into play.
Throughout the year, all manner of vast, sprawling festivals drop down in the city to allow you to chow down and sip your way through all manner of culinary delights. Whether it’s a blazing BBQ festival or a wine-tasting event, there’s a festival for all appetites.
So, if you’re looking for your next foodie day out or delightfully boozy tasting affair, see below for the best food and drinks festivals in London in 2026. (Or plan ahead to next year for the return of the events you’ve missed!)
Thailand Showcase is a free-to-visit festival where visitors can spend three entire days sipping, snacking, sauntering, and soaking up the very best of what Thailand has to offer. There’s set to be over 50 vendors and exhibitors on display across the weekend, ranging from food to fashion – and everything in between, really.
Calling all hop-heads, sour-beer-sippers, and larger-lovers, this is the event for you. The annual London Craft Beer Festival is “London’s biggest celebration of all things beer”. How big exactly is it? The event features “150 breweries from the UK & around the world, serving up over 800 different beers and hosting 20,000 people across the two day event.”
Oh, and there’s no faffing about with tokens or beer purchases, either. One ticket nets you access to the festival, all your beer samples during your session, and a special branded tasting glass to take home.
Find out more and grab your tickets here.
Ben & Jerry’s Sundaes in the Park returns to Chiswick House & Gardens this June to treat attendees to unlimited ice cream and two stages of live music. The festival also features talks and workshops, with 100% of ticket proceeds donated to social mission partners.
The world’s largest chicken wing festival returns to London this July with a bumper weekend of live music, entertainment, games, rides, eating competitions, and TONS of chicken wings. Head to Wing Fest to try the UK’s very best chicken wing purveyors, all battling to be crowned the best in the country. With 45 street food traders, restaurants, and BBQ teams serving up their wares, the festival expects to serve a whopping 500,000 chicken wings.
Find out more and grab your tickets here.
You can find some of the city’s most talked-about restaurants tucked away in Peckham, and the Peckham Weekender is a chance to try a bunch of these venues without breaking the bank. As part of the three-day festival, Peckham’s best restaurants will serve up special cut-price dishes, ringing in at just £10 each. And £1 from the sale of each of these dishes will then be donated to the Peckham Pantry. It’s a chance to eat good and do good all at the same time.
The UK’s Biggest Pizza Festival will touch down in Richmond this summer with an enormous celebration of, you guessed it, pizzas. This is your chance to try the best pizzas, in all manner of guises, from across the country. Expect wild, wacky, traditional, and regional pizzas alongside live entertainment and top-notch cocktails from expert mixologists.
Find out more and grab your tickets here.
Fancy trying some of London’s fanciest restaurants? Well then, you’ll want to head on over to King’s Road and Knightsbridge to check out the Plated festival. It’s an enormous celebration of dining and drinking, whereby visitors can unlock incredible deals and discounts. It’s bringing together “more than 30 restaurants, bars and hotels… for a month of exclusive menus, festival-only dishes, chef collaborations, complimentary cocktails and one-off dining experiences”.
KERB Goes East is an enormous street food festival that is dedicated to East and Southeast Asian flavours. Across the 50+ vendors, hungry London foodies can try everything from Japanese comfort food to Singaporean curry puffs, Indonesian classics, Korean-Mexican fusion dishes, and much more.
A special Jamaican Independence edition of the London Reggae & Food Festival, this festival brings together “legendary sound systems, celebrated DJs, live performers and some of the capital’s best Caribbean street food traders.” It’s the ultimate summer celebration.
Europe’s biggest taco festival is returning to Richmond Athletic Ground with an enormous celebration of tacos and tequila. The Tacover is your chance to try some of the best Mexican food and drink from London and around the UK. Come hungry, and you’ll leave stuffed to the gills!
Roost is an enormous chicken festival that will bring some of the world’s best chicken dishes together in one place. It’s the brainchild of a link-up between Eating With Tod and the foodie forces behind the fried chicken festival, WingJam, as they take chicken-y food festivals to new heights. The festival will feature everything from “Carolina barbecue and Harlem pan-fried chicken to Caribbean jerk, Middle Eastern shawarma and Korean-inspired wings” – as well as a competition to find out who serves the very best wings in the whole world.
Meatopia
This meat-focused love letter to BBQ and carnivorous delights describes itself quite simply as “a festival of fire cooking, live music, and delicious drinks”. And that’s exactly what it serves up! Going strong since 2013, when it crossed the pond from New York, where the festival was founded, Meatopia offers up 4 days of delicious food from “some of the very best live-fire chefs from UK, Europe and the World”.
It’s an ideal day out where you can eat, drink, and party – surrounded by grills, smokers, and roaring fire-pits. Come hungry, leave happy!
Find out more and grab your tickets here.
Vegan beer, vegan food, and live entertainment collide at Mile End Stadium this September as the Vegan Beer Fest returns after an 8-year hiatus. Attendees can expect “a carefully curated line-up of independent breweries, top vegan food traders, and a full programme of music, entertainment, and shopping.” Oh, and did we mention the dedicated karaoke tent?
Find out more and grab your tickets here.
Taste of the Caribbean
This roving festival is Europe’s largest food & drink festival dedicated to Caribbean food. And you’ll find it popping up in and around London from May through to September. It’s a perfect day out for the whole family, with authentic Caribbean food, cocktails, celebrity chef cooking demos, live music, funfair rides, and more.
Find out more and grab your tickets here.
Grabbing a ticket to attend the Pour Choices wine tasting festival sure wouldn’t be a poor choice. That’s because this particular event allows visitors to sample a wide variety of some of the UK’s very best wines. And this year they’ve got their biggest line-up yet, with everything from juicy pet-nats to textural skin-contact whites. Plus, the event also features wild beer and cider, sake, oysters, talks from leading names in the natural wine world, and more.
A ticket for Pour Choices includes 5 tasting tokens, a branded tasting glass to keep, and access to all workshops and talks.
Find out more and grab your tickets here.
The largest Sicilian food and drink event in the city is back for 2026, following a blow-out 10th anniversary event, and it’s going to be bigger and better than ever before. This year’s festival sees them expanding to a whopping five days of food and drink celebration. Explore everything from “volcanic Etna wines and artisan bronze-die pasta to sun-drenched pistachios, savoury panelle, crispy pizza fritta, and world-class cannoli and cassata”.
Basically, it’s everything amazing about Sicilian food and drink in one place.
Find out more and grab your tickets here.
London’s first-ever Korean food festival touches down in King’s Cross this May, courtesy of popular TikTok foodie, Rollin Lee (widely recognised as London’s leading Korean food content creator) and Market Root (the team behind six successful Korean creator markets in the capital). As well as firm favourites like kimchi and Korean Fried Chicken, the festival will give Londoners the chance to immerse themselves in the country’s cuisine and tuck into many other delicious Korean dishes.
Calling all spice-lovers, this is the London food and drink festival for you. The Hot Sauce Society Festival is London’s biggest hot sauce festival. Meet, mingle with, and sample the wares from over 40 independent craft hot sauce makers, whilst also enjoying street food pop-ups, craft beers, frozen margaritas, DJs, competitions, and more.
And if you fancy testing your spice tolerance, why not sign up for the Hop Burns & Black Chilli Karaoke? Warning: it’s NOT for the faint of heart.
Find out more and grab your tickets here.
Bloomtown Coffee Festival
Beloved independent coffee companies, Batch Baby and Coborn Coffee, are joining forces to bring back the intimacy, nerdiness, joy, and fun of coffee festivals before they became enormous events. In their own words: “What if we just put all the coffee people in a room again… and took the pressure off?” It’s a chance for roasters to meet customers, and for baristas to meet farmers – for everyone to get together, try incredible coffee, and get ‘stuck in.’
All that results in Bloomtown: “No ticket sales. No exhibitor fees. No barriers. Just good people, making and sharing really good coffee.”
Entry is free, but tickets are required. Grab yours here.
This spirited touring drink festival brings people together in one place to celebrate the delicious worlds of gin and rum. Londoners can sample from over 120 of the best gins and rums on the market – including locally-made British spirits, as well as delicious drinks from around the world. “If you’re thirsty for knowledge or just want to party the night away, the Gin & Rum Festival is for you!”
Find out more and grab your tickets here.
St James’s Food Fair
A stand-alone food and drink festival that forms part of The Future of Food Festival, the St James’s Food Fair will transform St James’s Market “into a lively open-air celebration of food and drink.” The event will feature curated stalls, live demonstrations, tastings, and plenty of special products and brands to discover.
Find out more about The Future of Food Festival here.
Are you a lover of agave? A tequila fiend? A mezcal maestro? Then this is the festival for you. With over 250 tequilas, mezcals, and agave spirits to try, there’s a world of opportunity to explore the Mexican imports. Regardless of whether you’re dipping your toe into the world of the spirits, or are already a seasoned sipper, there’s plenty to learn and experience.
Find out more and grab your tickets here.
If you’re heading to this particular food and drink festival in London, be sure to brace for the caffeine jitters! That’s because this caffeine-fuelled celebration features “275 artisan coffee and gourmet food brands”. Guests can enjoy everything from coffee tastings and interactive workshops to street food, cocktails, music, art, and more.
The standard tickets net you entry to the festival as well as access to the coffee and food tastings, as well as the workshops and talks. You can wander around and fill up your cup with some of the best coffee from around the world – all in one place. Or if you want the ultimate experience, upgrade to the Ultimate Ticket, which also nets you fast track entry, access to LCF Club Lounge, a Coffee Cocktail, and an LCF Tote Bag full of goodies.
Find out more and grab your tickets here.
FUME is a relative newcomer to London’s food and drink festival scene, having launched in 2024. Founded by Eating With Tod in collaboration with Alex Holland Davis from Savour Events, the celebration of worldwide BBQ has grown from a sell-out event in a carpark in Peckham to taking over West Village at Allianz Stadium.
Spread across 4 days, the event’s goal is simple: “to bring the best barbecue in the world together in London and make it accessible to everyone.” Festival attendees also get to vote for their favourites, culminating in an awards ceremony on the final day.
Find out more and grab your tickets here.
If you’re after a truly meat-y affair, be sure to run on down to Richmond this summer to check out the outrageous Burger Fest. Following a blow-out event last year, they’re back for 2026 with some of the best burger vendors from across the country. It’s your chance to try award-winning burgers and viral-favourite-vendors, all in one place.
If you’re someone who is conscientious of where you buy your food and where it comes from, you’ve likely heard of Nourished Communities. A group of ‘modern day farm shops’ in London, their mission is to “[connect] Londoners with exceptional, locally sourced produce and the makers behind it.
For 2026, they’re returning with the second iteration of their grassroots food festival, the Nourished Communities Food Festival. They’re bringing “the capital’s most exciting independent producers, artisans, and cultural tastemakers together for a one-day celebration of London’s thriving food scene.” Visitors can expect “tastings, workshops, talks, performances and community-led food culture”.
The best part? Tickets are just £2.50, with everything included in the entrance (except for the workshops). Plus, under-16s can get in for free!
Find out more and grab your tickets here.
Taste of London is perhaps the most anticipated date on the London food and drinks festival calendar. The city’s best restaurants, food vendors, drinks suppliers, and more descend upon Regent’s Park for a five-day long celebration of eating and drinking. Attendees can explore a world of deliciousness thanks to the festival’s roster of 36 restaurants, 50 chefs, and 150 artisan producers, across eight sessions of deliciousness.
This week-long cocktail festival will see you roaming around the city in search of liquid flavour sensations. 45 Asian bars and restaurants across London are shaking up exciting cocktails with daring ingredients as part of the ‘Taste the Orient‘ festival. Drinks could include anything from dried fermented tuna to fresh mangosteen, Okinawan black sugar, Buddha’s Hand grated tableside, and sake kasu, the pressed lees from sake production.
Find out more here.
