Covent Garden Cooks Up a Feast

One of the most popular areas in London will be staging a nighttime market. Covent Garden will play host to the capital's only food night market, reliving its role as the original Larder of London. An array of delicious foodstuffs will be on on sale from over forty stalls erected on Covent Garden's famous piazza.

Covent Garden is more commonly associated with street entertainers. The market will start this Thursday, August 7 and Friday, August 8. The night markets will continue for every Thursday and Friday for the remainder of August. A List chefs will cook up a storm in kitchen theatres. The Hairy Bikers are due to appear on August 15.

Independent travellers can hear about Covent Garden's rich and varied history with the Museums, Galleries & The Performing Arts, London travel guide. The London tour guide begins outside the National Gallery, take in the National Portrait Gallery, before listeners have the chance to follow in the footsteps of the stars in Leicester Square. Walk on to St Martin's Theatre, the home of the world's longest running theatre show. Then head to Long Acre and the site where John Logie Baird made the first television broadcast in Great Britain in 1929. Then walk back in time with Walk Talk tours to Covent Garden.

When the Romans left Britain in the fifth century it was thought that their city of Londinium had been abandoned. However, recent excavations under the London Transport Museum building revealed that Covent Garden was the hub of a thriving Saxon settlement called Lundenwic, with its own port on the nearby Thames. This settlement was in turn abandoned after the Vikings invaded. Monks from Westminster Abbey (then known as Westminster Convent) tended ‘convent’ garden. The monks grew fruit and vegetables, and they sold their surplus produce to the town’s people.

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