Lauren Mclean Food & Drink Photography. London, UK

I went to the London Taste Festival on Thursday the 16th June, following my passion for all things food related. I was a great evening out. I tasted many yummy things! I also got to support my friend and excellent chef Jesse Dunford Wood who was presenting at the festival.

Here is a view of the festival. It was quite muddy as it had been raining all day.

Of course one of the first things we did was go get a drink!

Then it was Jesse Dunford Wood’s first presentation in the AEG Taste Theatre. Jesse told the audience about his trade secrets of how he cooks a perfect Chicken Kiev.

After Jesse’s presentation we went for a walk around the tents.

This guy was giving away samples of a yummy gin.

Here are some ladies tasting some cheese at an exhibitors stand.

This was a lovely bread and cake shop.

And here’s the team working on the bread and cake stall!

This is the cup-cake stall called ‘Cupcake-a-licious’. I didn’t get to have a taste, but they do look very tasty.

Then I came across this stall run by ‘Spice Way Original Limited’.

Next I came across this interesting stall- ‘Bubbleology’. They make tea!!

They produce Milk and fruit teas in a variety of different flavors.

I came across this interesting little stall. They sold Bloody Mary’s called ‘Little Devil’.

This is the Waitrose cooking school. I wanted to go to one of the cooking classes but missed out as I didn’t realise you had to register. I will definitely be registering for this next year!

This was a stall that produced ice-cream from Buffalo milk.

Now to the food! This was a very tasty fish burger made from prawns and scallops.

Then I had a Chicken Tikka pie with raspberry Coolie. Sounds random but it really worked! It was a taste sensation.

I couldn’t go through the whole event without mentioning some of the entertainment. This is a company called ‘Circus’ (They recently appeared on the apprentice!). They were great fun.