London Restaurant Festival

London Restaurant Festival is a citywide celebration of eating out. The festival acknowledges and celebrates the pleasure and sustenance given to all by London's extraordinarily diverse range of restaurants.

The 2009 London Restaurant Festival – the first of its kind – was held on 8-13 October 2009 and is now finished. You can read about highlights from 2009 festival below.

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London Restaurant Festival 2009

The inaugural London Restaurant Festival in October 2009 was a great success.

More than 500 restaurants across London participated with special, fixed-price Festival Menus and events such as Lucky Dice and the In-House Big Roast.

London Restaurant Festival 2009 events included:

Gourmet Odyssey: a culinary tour of top London Restaurants
The London Eye Restaurant Capsules
The Big Roast: London's biggest-ever Sunday Roast was held at Leadenhall Market
Starter for Ten: a quiz with chefs v. critics, hosted by Bamber Gascoigne
Mouthing Off: Simon Schama's lecture on eating and uttering
Eat Film: where guests watched a movie then were served a meal inspired by the film
Pierre Koffman's Restaurant on the Roof at Selfridges
The Supersonic Masonique Pop Up restaurant

London Restaurant Festival kicked off with a Vanity Fair Opening party at Quaglino's and finished with an awards ceremony and closing do at brand new venue Pizza East in Shoreditch.

Read our London Restaurant Festival Award Winners feature to see a list and photo gallery of the winners and the London Restaurant Festival blog for a roundup of the closing party.