Two-day food festival comes to Hammersmith’s Lyric Square
The international food ‘Feastival’ kicks off on Friday May 17 from 11am to 9pm with a huge street food market in Lyric Square running alongside an impressive line-up of live music acts.
The following day (Saturday), King Street is shut to cars from 10am to 6pm, with more than 150 stalls full of food, drink and gifts. There will also be a jam-packed schedule of singers, bands, street entertainment and cookery demonstrations.
The event is hosted by Hammersmith & Fulham Council, which said: “The two-day event is part of our efforts to invest in and improve our town centres. We want to make H&F a great place to work, live and socialise.”
You will be able to have your brunch, lunch and supper all in one place in the outdoor seating area at the extended Lyric Square Food Market on Friday from 11am.
The mouth-watering array of street food on offer from across the globe includes White City resident Tieyan Eweka’s Nigerian eatery Jollof Mama and the Marrakech Kitchen to name a few.
There will also be live music acts from noon on the day with the likes of Jazz Mino, one of British most exciting new pop artists with more than 6,000,000 streams on Spotify alone, as well as Ky Lewis.
Traffic-free King StreetKing Street will be pedestrianised on Saturday for the pop-up market, which runs from 10am to 6pm. There will be everything from crafts, jewellery, home accessories, boutique fashion and art on offer plus cookery demonstrations and food tasting. You will be able to sample cuisines from Greece to South Korea and beyond.
While your music taste will be satisfied with the wealth of music talent performing jazz, soul, funk, classical, rock, pop and more across four busking pods down King Street, as well as on stage in Lyric Square. Children’s workshops, stilt walking chefs, comedy and more are all on tap at the pedestrian-friendly market, which also includes the Queen of Hearts on roller skates as well as Bridie, and her seven-foot-tall tea trolley.
To allow for the Spring Feastival Market, King Street will be closed to traffic between the Hammersmith Gyratory and Leamore Street from 5am to 9pm on Saturday May 18.
The following signed diversion route will be in place during the closure:
- Hammersmith Gyratory
- Shepherds Bush Road
- Goldhawk Road
- Paddenswick Road
- Dalling Road
- Glenthorne Road
- Leamore Street
- King Street.
Buses will be on diversion. Buses affected are the 27, 190, 266, 267, 391, H91, N9 and N11.
