The Big Debate: Chewing the Fat

Our annual debate was a cracker in 2010 when flamboyant foodists Janet Street-Porter and Rosie Boycott went head to head with the knife-sharp culinary wit of Jonathan Meades and A.A Gill to debate the motion ‘French Cuisine Is A Spent Force'. Last year's motion: ‘There Is No Such Thing As Ethnic Food' was subjected to a flame grilling and was similarly gripping.

Speakers: A.A Gill, Jonathan Meades, Clarissa Dickson Wright, Hardeep Singh
Chair: Kirsty Young

Tickets included a glass of wine from Wines from Rioja and canapes

Categories: Events menu

Festival menus

In partnership with Livebookings, London Restaurant Festival Menus are the capital's most inspiring restaurant promotion and a fundamental part of making the event universally accessible. The Menus are specially created by the hundreds of participating restaurants and are available to customers throughout the Festival period.

Call to Action!

Side orders

A fundamental part of the London Restaurant Festival are the 'fringe' events which we call Side Orders. While LRF creates and operates the larger scale events as outlined opposite we really encourage all those working in the capital's restaurant scene to get creative and devise their own events to run throughout the festival. In 2010 we had over a dozen of these Side Order events going on including the Savoy Truffle Club, Bistroteque pop-up, a Cloudy Bay wine and food matching dinner and Street Kitchen, the mobile restaurant in an airstream. All were a sell-out and garnered plenty of publicity. No matter how small or how off-the-wall, we are interested in hearing your ideas and including them in the line up for LRF 2011. LRF is here to help chefs and restaurants poke their heads above the parapet and get noticed. So please get in touch with Adam Coghlan.