Tickets on sale for London Restaurant Festival

26th August 2009, 10:19am

Tickets have officially gone on sale today for the London Restaurant Festival, which takes place from 8-13 October.

Members of the public will have the chance to buy tickets for events taking place over the six-day festival by visiting www.londonrestaurantfestival.com. Sold on a first come, first served basis, tickets will be available for the following events from today:

The Gourmet Odyssey: At lunchtime on Saturday 10th October a fleet of Routemaster buses will take guests on a Gourmet Odyssey of London. There will be four different gourmet routes for guests to choose from, covering four different areas of London: Piccadilly, Soho, Pall Mall and Park Lane.

Each area will have two buses departing which will take guests on a four hour food-laden journey. Each odyssey will start with a glass of GH Mumm champagne at London's Met Bar, before guests head off to sample three different courses at three different top-London restaurants. 

Some of the greatest restaurant names in London will be on the itineraries including Nobu, Theo Randall, Corrigan's Mayfair, Scott's, Gordon Ramsey's Maze, Hakkasan, Quo Vadis, Sake No Hana, Hibiscus and Wild Honey.

To add to the experience, a well-known chef or restaurant critic will be on board each bus.

The Big Roast: London's biggest ever Sunday Roast. On Sunday 11th October 800 people will sit down on long tables in Leadenhall Market and enjoy a Sunday roast cooked by London chefs such as Mark Hix, Richard Corrigan, Fergus Henderson, Tim Hughes, Anna Hansen and Rowley Leigh. Each will cook different meat.

Festival Menus: Many of the 350+ restaurants that have signed up will be offering a specially-created fixed-price 'Festival Menu'. Visitors to the London Restaurant Festival website will be able to search through these venues by restaurant name or by postcode/area. Bookings are being taken from today.

Other LRF Landmark events: Some of the other high-profile events that form part of the festival, such as the capsule restaurant in The London Eye, the Pierre Koffmann Pop-up restaurant at Selfridges, The London Restaurant Festival Lecture with Simon Schama, and the celebration of food and film entitled Eat Film, will all go on sale in early September with more news and reservation details going out on the 9th September at the official press launch of the festival.

Simon Davis, director of the London Restaurant Festival and CEO of A Private View said: "We're very excited about tickets going on sale today. We've had a tremendous amount of positive feedback from both restaurants and members of the public.

"We also have over 400 restaurants set to join next month, so the site is going to be a great place to inspire visitors to pick restaurants they may not have tried before. The festival has already seen a whole host of London restaurants sign up - from famous names such as The Ivy, Scott's and Theo Randall, to house-hold favourite Pizza Express."

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• 16 Sep 2009 - Chef line up announced for London Eye event
• 11 Sep 2009 - Dine for free at West End restaurants
• 04 Sep 2009 - Covent Garden is official hub for London Restaurant Festival
• 08 Jun 2009 - Top London restaurants sign up to six-day festival

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