Thousands head to Regent's Park for the World's Greatest Restaurant Festival
Gwyneth Paltrow dons her wellies and joins thousands with an appetite for al fresco dining at the busiest Taste of London yet
Despite a drizzly start to the UK’s largest restaurant festival, Regent’s Park hosted 50,000 people across the four day Taste of London event (16-19 June) where world-class chefs, celebrities and those with a taste for the good life sampled over 200,000 Michelin starred dishes.
The sell-out event was made all the more successful with the launch of the new Secret Garden which played host to the likes Tristan Welch, Paul A Young, Rene Redzepi and Gwyneth Paltrow who is a regular at the festival and was this year promoting her new cookbook ‘Notes from my Kitchen Table’.
Justin Clarke, managing director of Taste Festivals commented: “We’ve had an overwhelming response from visitors this year who were out in force to taste some of the finest food the capital has to offer. Once again Regent’s Park was transformed into a gourmet heaven attracting visitors from around the world keen to experience a day of dining like no other!”
Over £12,000 was raised at the event for the humanitarian organisation Action Against Hunger who launched its Love Food Give Food appeal with guest chefs including Theo Randall, Marcus Wareing, Cyrus Todiwala, Jun Tanaka and Mark Jankel. Action Against Hunger is encouraging those who love to cook to help raise even more funds by hosting dinner parties around the UK this summer. Visit www.lovefoodgivefood.org to find out more.
And for those who didn’t make it down to Regents Park over the weekend then all is not lost. Taste of London has teamed up with toptable, the UK’s number 1 online restaurant booking service to offer exclusive promotions at an enviable line-up of Taste of London restaurants.
For the next week award winning dishes from Le Caprice, Bentley’s, Club Gascon, Benares, Rhodes 24 and Maze (to name just a few) will be served as part of a series of exclusive menu promotions. For more details and to book visit www.tasteoffers.toptable.com
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Taste of London 2011 by Numbers
- Taste of London returned to London’s Regent’s Park from 16 to 19 June 2011
- The UK’s most stylish food festival celebrated its best restaurant line-up to date, totaling an impressive eleven Michelin stars.
- Visitors dined from 40 of the capital's top restaurants and bought from 200 food and drink producers
- 50,000 visitors visited the show over the four days
- Over 20,000 glasses of Laurent-Perrier were consumed over the four day open air festival
- Over 10,000 truffle based dishes were served over the four days
- Over 200,000 dishes of award winning food were served over the four days
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Notes to editors: Action Against Hunger | ACF International is an international humanitarian organisation committed to ending child hunger. ACF works to save the lives of malnourished children while providing communities with sustainable access to safe water and long-term solutions to hunger. www.actionagainsthunger.org.uk
Action Against Hunger’s Love Food Give Food appeal unites food lovers across the world in turning their passion for food into action. The message is ‘If you love food, show it by sharing’. By hosting a dinner party in aid of Action Against Hunger, food lovers can make a big difference in helping malnourished children and their families worldwide. www.lovefoodgivefood.org
Love Food Give Food is kindly supported by unearthed®, Champagne Taittinger, Taste Festivals, Carluccios, Jazz FM, Clear Channel, Harden’s Restaurant Guide, Peach Factory, Delicious Magazine and Restaurant Magazine.