Plated Festival 2026: Knightsbridge's First August Food Festival
August has traditionally been a quiet month for London restaurants, with regulars away and the city half empty. This year Knightsbridge and the King's Road are trying something about it. Plated, a new festival run jointly by the Knightsbridge Partnership and the King's Road Partnership, opens on Saturday 1 August and runs until 31 August, with more than 30 of the area's kitchens offering festival menus, one-off dishes and pairings. No membership or ticket is needed, and new offers are released every week.
The Knightsbridge highlights
- Kahani: the Michelin-starred Indian restaurant is serving an Afghani Lamb Do Pyaza for £22, with a complimentary glass of Champagne on arrival. It is the standout value of the month.
- The Fifth Floor at Harvey Nichols: three courses and a Fever-Tree cocktail for £40. Mention Plated when booking for priority on the terrace, which makes this the easiest way into the Fifth Floor on a hot evening.
- Hawksmoor Knightsbridge: a two or three course set menu with a complimentary drink, from £25.
- The Lanesborough Grill: a three-course set menu from executive chef Shay Cooper, with a complimentary glass of Laurent-Perrier La Cuvée.
- SETTE at the Bvlgari Hotel: a festival-exclusive lobster and seafood risotto finished with Amalfi lemon at SETTE.
- Harry's Dolce Vita: two festival dishes, burrata with black truffle and lobster ravioli with caviar.
- The Mayfair Chippy Knightsbridge: an Afternoon Sea tea of three tiers of seafood at £48 a head, served at its Lobster Shack.
CLAP London on Basil Street is also listed among the participants on the festival website, with its offer to be confirmed there, so it is worth checking back before you book a rooftop evening.
Over on the King's Road
The Chelsea half of the festival is just as tempting. The March Hare is running a weekend oyster happy hour at £2 an oyster, plus cocktail masterclasses at £45, and Ixchel has a £28 weekday Mexican lunch with an August-only upgrade to raw Porthilly oysters. The Ivy Chelsea Garden has an al fresco menu, The Cadogan Arms and The Lost Explorer are collaborating for the summer, and Sticks'n'Sushi and Rabbit are also taking part. The Knightsbridge Partnership's festival preview sets out the opening offers in full.
How it works
Booking is made directly with each restaurant through its usual reservation system, rather than through a central ticketing site. Because offers change week by week, the festival's own Plated website is the place to check what is live, and signing up to its email list gives early access to festival-only menus and to the tables that fill fastest. The festival has partnered with Broadsheet for its launch year.
Our advice: if you only book one thing, make it the Kahani lamb. Then book the other headline offers for the first week, when choice is widest, and leave the later weeks for the new releases. Knightsbridge and Sloane Square stations cover both halves of the festival, and the walk between them along Sloane Street makes a fine digestif.
Lead image: Gene Hunt via Flickr, CC BY 2.0.
