This is the last weekend of the Rye Bay Scallop Festival! Go see the scallop race kicking off at 10 am on Sunday! There are plenty of food and scallop related events and entertainment planned for the closing weekend.
Also, FRIDAY (today that is) is the market day of True Taste of Wales food festival. Stock up on all kinds of goodies from smoked meats to sweets in Golden Square, just off of Regent’s Street.
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
A chance to taste lots of local Yorkshire produce, visit the magical rhubarb-forcing sheds and hear about the heritage of this wonderful vegetable.
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:
– Take a cupcake or other cake-decorating class at the Cocoa Box. Yum.
– 27-28 Feb, Saundersfoot St David Food and Craft Festival, Pembrokeshire – more Welsh food!
Events such as the Cawl Cooking Trail and the Biggest Leek Competition attract crowds from miles around, who can also enjoy products from Pembrokeshire and Wales.
Male chefs – take that – Dorie has a family AND a career!
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exactly! can you bother Pri, gently, from over there for the Dorie photo-ops? haha xx