Foodie pop-ups: London 2022's gastronomic ventures

Legare x Garden Museum Cafe

Neighbourhood Italian Legare is teaming up with the delectable Garden Museum Cafe to host a one-night only, four-course Italian-inspired menu in the latter's leafy confines. The event sees the two head chefs, Legare's Matt Beardmore and the Garden Museum's George Ryle, fire up the stoves together, while Legare founder Jay Patel sorts the wines. This is a gastro garden party not to be missed.

East Meets West at Three Sheets

Tip-top Dalston cocktail bar Three Sheets is looking to Korea for inspiration this summer, with its three-month pop-up, East Meets West. Look forward to fresh spins on classic cocktails as well as more unusual tipples, like the Shiso + Plum (Jinro Plum, Shiso, Anise, Gin, Soda).

Sating appetites is a six-course menu from Chef Joo Won of Cálong, highlights from which include Iberico Pork Belly Bulgogi and Vermicelli Japchae.

Wild Feasts at Oxmoor Farm

Surely the flavour of the season, Oxmoor Farm is luring London foodies to Buckinghamshire with its promise of farmyard fine dining, hosted by a stellar lineup of chefs. The pop-up supper club will seat diners at two long dining tables under a shared tented roof (think Wilderness Festival's feasting tent) where a welcome cocktail will loosen conversation before giving way to a multi-course feast prepared by The Towpath Café's Joe Woodhouse (9 July), The Conduit's Brendan Eades (23 July), organic farmer Xanthe Gladstone and food stylist Clare Cole (6 August), Silo's Max Mclean and Ed Tejada (27 August), and ex-River Café chef George Williams (10 September).

Oxmoor Farm is a 40-minute train ride from London. Tickets are £50 - £70pp.

Savour Food Festival

Behold: a brand new food festival. Savour is popping up in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea for two days this July, bringing with it the chance to sample the dishes of some of London's top restaurants (like a mini Taste of London!). Among the line-up of 12 restaurants and 15 bars is Covent Garden's Frenchie, Italian favourite Polpo, rustic Soho hot spot 10 Greek Street and the Salt Yard Group. As well as showing off their signature dishes, each restaurant has been challenged to create a dish for just £3, so you really can eat your way around them all.

Also on site is the team from foodie website Mob, creating an exclusive vegetarian menu for the event, and drinks trucks by way of Vinoteca, Maison Mirabeau Rosé and more.

Tickets from £25

Cocktails in the City

With so many of the World's Best Bars on our doorstep, it can be tricky for cocktail connoisseurs to choose where to drink. That is, until Cocktails in the City – the festival of all things shaken or stirred – comes to town, running for three weekends between July and September. Featuring 20 of London’s most popular drinking establishments all under one roof, Cocktails in the City is a chance to bar-hop between your favourite watering holes in north, south, west and east London – without so much as setting foot on the tube.

Tickets are £20pp.

Nomadic Kitchen Table

Flee inner-city life for a night of magical woodland dining. Nestled deep within 90 acres of woodland within the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, Nomadic Kitchen Table serves up a foraged feast cooked on an open flame, using wild seasonal ingredients. Nomadic can host private events of up to 30 guests between its cosy tepee and rustic outdoor dining table.

The ongoing Feast Over Fire series is priced at £99pp and includes a welcome cocktail made with local botanicals and a guided foraging tour of the estate.

Funicular Productions: The Murdér Express Part Deux

Back by deadly demand: The Murdér Express is one of Funicular Productions’ signature experiences, and it returns this season, taking new cohorts of pleasure-seekers on ‘a journey of a lifetime’. Head back in time to the newly opened Pedley Street Station, where you’ll be among the first to ride the new luxury train: The Murdér Express. Sip on cocktails, tuck in to a fancy feast but don’t get too comfy, as the train’s name unsubtly suggests, something more sinister could be on board. Look forward to entertainment and storylines from a professional cast, and a multi-course meal from MasterChef: the Professionals finalist and long-term Funicular collaborator Louisa Ellis.

Tickets cost £70 - £75pp.

Eleven98 at Hackney Coffee Co

Hackney Coffee Co is a coffee shop by day, interactive fine-dining experience by night (on occasion). Going by the name Eleven98, the pop-up supper clubs are held roughly once a month and seat up to 20 guests at a time. Guests are welcomed with a cocktail on arrival – but are expected to bring their own drink of choice to see them through the rest of the evening – leaving the focus on chef Aidan Brooks’ six-course tasting menu, which is comprised largely of ingredients grown in the borough of Hackney.

Tickets £72pp.

Michelle Trusselle's Myristica supper club

Fine dining meets Caribbean soul food at Michelle Trusselle’s delectable supper clubs. Dishes are exciting, overtly colourful and impossibly pretty – arranged with intense attention to detail on the plate. The food is sourced sustainably, too, all found locally in a bid to mirror the freshness of meals served in the Caribbean. The supper clubs are held once a month and are regularly booked up well in advance, so hurry if you want to reserve a seat at the table.

Mamma Mia! The Party

First came the music, followed by the hit stage show, then not one but two blockbuster movies, and now you can be part of the party with a Mamma Mia immersive experience. London's O2 will host a theatrical and dining experience, which has already impressed in Stockholm. Mamma Mia! The Party invites audiences into a Greek island paradise, where olive trees, trickling fountains and trailing bougainvillea transport you to Nikos' Taverna for an evening of Mediterranean food and live performance. Tickets £99 - £180.