The smell of more than 200 food dishes will waft through Victoria Park this weekend, as vendors cook up cuisine from around the world during the International Food Festival.
Hungry foodies will have around 50 different options to choose from: Mexican, Nicaraguan, and Vietnamese, to name a few.
The festival’s president, Doug Hillier, said he was inspired to bring the three-day event’s focus back to providing Londoners with authentic cultural experience’s during a trip through the Caribbean.
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“I was in some of the poorest neighbourhoods, seeing how they cook with raw vegetables, ” he explained.
“In these areas, I was able to taste the flavours of the community. You go to one end of Cuba and it’s one flavour, you go to the other end of Cuba, it’s another flavour.”
Hillier mentioned he’s encouraging food trucks to set up tents instead, so patrons can have a more personalized customer experience.
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James McInnis, owner of the vegan fast-food restaurant Globally Local, told AM980, you don’t need to be vegan to enjoy the food he’ll be serving up at the festival this weekend.
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The festival will also feature exhibitors, cultural crafts, a beer tent, and — for those looking to get more adventurous in the kitchen — live cooking demonstrations.
Hillier is excited to have someone he met while travelling do a cooking demonstration through Skype in the Beer Garden, from his one bedroom home in Jamaica.
“We’ve created a cooking show for him, and we’ve put him online and the hits are amazing, lots of people are looking at him cooking this wonderful culturual food, right in his tiny little kitchen,” he said.
The event runs from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., Friday through Sunday. Admission is free.
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