Food Weekend Guide

Happy Easter weekend! Also known as the weekend when it is okay to eat a lot of egg and bunny-shaped chocolate.

There are plenty of activities on offer this weekend, but, in addition, to all the fun around town, you could be:

Making a beautiful and hassle-free Easter brunch

Baking beautiful Easter egg cookies

Organizing an Easter egg hunt

Don’t forget to enter Saveur’s spring produce photo contest – entries have to be submitted by 5 April!

Saturday:

Farmers markets: Acton, Ealing, Notting Hill, Pimlico Road, Twickenham, Wimbledon Park

ACTON
9am – 1pm
Location: Public square on Acton High Street / King Street
Tube: Acton Town & Ealing Common

EALING
9 am – 1pm
Leeland Rd, West Ealing
Rail: West Ealing
Buses 207, 607, 208, E8, 83

NOTTING HILL

9am – 1pm
Car park behind Waterstones, access via Kensington Place
Tube: Notting Hill Gate
Buses: 12, 27, 28, 52, 70, 94, 328.

PIMLICO ROAD
9am – 1pm
Orange Square, corner of Pimlico Road and Ebury St,
Tube: Sloane Square
Buses 211, 11 & 239

TWICKENHAM
9am – 1pm
Holly Road Car Park, Holly Rd, off King St, Twickenham TW1
Rail: Twickenham
Buses: 33 490 H22 R68 R70

WIMBLEDON PARK
9am – 1pm
Wimbledon Park First School, Havana Road
Tube: Wimbledon Park
Buses: 156

Also:

Brave the crowds and go to Covent Garden Real Food Market. Free tastings! I’m there! (I’m actually away this weekend, but if I were not, I definitely would be.)

Bonnet-making contest with prizes from Hotel Chocolat

Easter egg hunt at Battersea Zoo

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Sunday:
Farmers markets: Blackheath, Clapham, Islington, Marylebone, Queens Park, Walthamstow

BLACKHEATH
10am – 2pm
Blackheath Rail Station Car Park, 2 Blackheath Village
Rail: Blackheath
Buses: 54, 89, 108, 202, 380.

CLAPHAM
10 am – 2pm
Bonneville Primary School, Bonneville Gardens SW4
Tube: Clapham South Tube

ISLINGTON
10am – 2pm
William Tyndale School
Richmond Grove N1
Just behind Islington Town Hall on Upper St
Buses 43, 30.

MARYLEBONE
10am – 2pm
Cramer Street Car park, Just off Marylebone High Street
Tube: Baker Street or Bond Street

PECKHAM
9.30am – 1.30pm
Peckham Square, Peckham High Street
Buses: 12, 36, 171, 345
Rail: Peckham Rye or Queens Road

QUEENS PARK
10am – 2pm
Location: Salusbury Primary School, Salusbury Road
Tube/Rail: Queens Park, Brondesbury Park

WALTHAMSTOW
10am – 2pm
Town Square by Selbourne Walk Shopping Centre, off the High Street, Walthamstow E17
Tube: Walthamstow Central

Also:

Egg-rolling in Highgate

Easter bunny at Spitalfields farm

If you’re sick of creme eggs, have some exotic marmalade, elderflower, rose or – my favorite – sea salt  chocolate from Peyton & Byrne.