Food ...plays a major role in the Vintage Festival There will be food to fit the music & fashion, & historically linked eating opportunities, not to mention some wicked period cocktails from the bars. Vintage transports visitors, via their taste buds, to the tastes & eating habits of days gone by with some truly inventive modern interpretations.
Inside the Royal Festival Hall.Official food partners for the Southbank Centre, Company of Cooks will provide themed bars and eating opportunities throughout.
Inside the Royal Festival Hall, there will be a wide range of foodie delights on offer themed and inspired by each of the Vintage clubs.
Sip our Studio 54 cocktail or a glamorous Cosmopolitan in the Style Studio,
Side Cars and Alabama Sours will be on offer in the Leisure Lounge, served to you by Vintage British Airways staff always on hand with a hot towel and a small snack!
The Torch Club will stay true to its decade with a Gin Martini or Vodka Gimlet, sure to get you swinging to the big bands.
If you can find the Shh club you may be served The Bootleg or Godfather, but Shh don’t tell anyone!
To top it all off, take in the views of London in the Penthouse with a Bloody Mary.
This will all be accompanied by British Classics that are sure to take you on a trip down memory lane ranging from London Old Peculiar Green Pea soup or Beef, stout and horseradish stew both with Campaillou Loaf, a selection of English sandwiches and desserts, prawn cocktail, cheese and pineapple sticks, ploughman’s lunch and devilled eggs, cheesy wotsits, skips and pork scratching,
and a BBQ featuring British Bangers, the White Bap , Grilled Corn on the Cob, Pork Chop and Coleslaw.
If you are looking for more salubrious surroundings then head to the Vintage Cocktail Lounge for ring side views of the ballroom.
Skylon
You have learnt the Charleston, now let your tired feet have a rest while you sit back and enjoy a decadent Afternoon Tea at Skylon. Taking its name from the iconic structure, built for the 1951 Festival of Britain, Skylon is the perfect dining experience for your Vintage weekend. Travel back to the 1920s and 1930s and listen to live music and DJs spinning 78s on original Gramophones, whilst marveling at the slim elliptic chandeliers and basking in elegance. Sip an ‘Old Fashioned’ cocktail from a special Vintage weekend menu and enjoy an intimate dining experience at lamp lit tables.
Download the Skylon Afternoon Tea menu here and the Skylon Cocktail menu here
Entertainment
Friday 2:30 Shellac Sisters
3:30 Red Hot
4.30 Shellac Sisters
5.30 Kate Garner
Saturday 2.30 Shellac Sisters
3:30 Emma Divine
4:30 Shellac Sisters
5:30 Matilda
Sunday 2:30 Shellac Sisters
3:30 Natalie Ross
4:30 Shellac Sisters
5.30 Anna Pigalle
Outside the Royal Festival Hal
lDine Al Fresco at 1 of the 18 Restaurants that surround TRFH all of which are coming to the party and getting in the Vintage spirit!
Enjoy a classic Prawn cocktail at Giraffe, ‘Branzino Impanato’ (fish and chips) at Strada, a ‘Papa Dobles’ Daiquiri at Las Iguanas, which was Ernest Hemingway’s usual tipple in Cuba or perhaps a Feng Sushi BBQ on the Festival Terrace. The kids can join in too at Yo! Sushi, who will be holding hour-long Mini Ninja classes to teach children how to make sushi. Your child can enjoy the lunch they've made, take home a rolling mat to get them started and be the proud owner of a Mini Sushi Ninja certificate!
Vintage Village
The Real Street Food Festival at Vintage will bring together the very best of this new generation of authentic vendors to Southbank Centre. Trading out of converted Citroën H Vans, horse boxes and ice-cream vans and serving up some of the very best quality, sustainable, local, seasonal and occasional foraged foods these quirky vendors are reinventing and challenging preconceptions about the limits and standard of street food and are a vibrant expression of the creative spirit of Vintage.
