A falafel festival is coming to London

This is guaranteed to get falafel lovers’ pulses racing...
A load of balls: Falafel from Hoxton Beach, made with chickpeas and fava beans
Falafel Hoxton Beach
Ben Norum6 April 2016

The country’s first festival dedicated to falafels is coming to London this spring.

The appropriately-named London Falafel Festival will take place at Borough Market on May 1, and is being brought about by food writer Daniel Young of youngandfoodish.com, who also gave us the London Pizza Festival.

It will see four well-known falafel makers from London and far-afield compete to be rated the best of the bunch.

Flying over from Cairo is Mustafa Elrefaey of street food business Zööba, who’ll be making charred aubergine-stuffed falafel amde from fava beans.

Hadi Hazim of pop-up Fusion Cult will head in from Beirut to cook-up his original black-eye-bean falafel.

The best food in London

1/17

And representing London will be Uri Dinay of City falafel and humus bar Pilpel making spiced chickpea falafel, and Louai Fares and Rasheed Muhammed of street foodies Hoxton Beach with blended fava and chickpea falafels.

Tickets will go on sale on April 6 and cost £20 (children under 12 go free), which includes half-sized portions of each of the four falafel dishes, allowing visitors to choose which they like the best.

There’ll also be stalls selling craft beer, cocktails, soft drinks and ice cream to help wash down all the beany balls. There will also be cookery demonstrations from Rachel Green, who’ll be cooking with pulses throughout the day.

It coincides with 2016 being the International Year of Pulses (just in case you didn’t know), which it was declared by the United Nations.

The festival will run from 1-5pm. Visit youngandfoodish.com for tickets.

Follow Ben Norum on Twitter @BenNorum

Follow Going Out on Facebook and on Twitter @ESgoingout

Create a FREE account to continue reading

eros

Registration is a free and easy way to support our journalism.

Join our community where you can: comment on stories; sign up to newsletters; enter competitions and access content on our app.

Your email address

Must be at least 6 characters, include an upper and lower case character and a number

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account

* Required fields

Already have an account? SIGN IN

By clicking Create Account you confirm that your data has been entered correctly and you have read and agree to our Terms of use , Cookie policy and Privacy policy .

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Thank you for registering

Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged in