BBQ and meat festival Meatopia is coming to London on September 7th, and you can win a huge box of meat to celebrate it. All you need to do is tweet us a picture of your best meaty moment.
There are just a couple of weeks to go until Meatopia, London’s biggest festival of BBQ and smoking, takes place at London’s Tobacco Dock on September 7th 2013. To celebrate this, Lovefood.com has teamed up with Meatopia to offer one lucky winner £250 of meat from Turner & George, who are providing all the meat for Meatopia from their new site in St John Street, Islington. The prize also includes a pair of tickets to Meatopia.
Turner & George is the brainchild of Richard Turner (Hawksmoor) and James George (East London Steak Company) and all of their meat is rare breed from British farmers.
How to enter
(You need to be on Twitter)
To enter, simply tweet a picture of your best BBQ or grilling moments to @lovefood using the hashtag #KingofMeatopia. Richard and James are judging the competition and are looking for the very best cuts and the juiciest pictures. The #KingofMeatopia competition is held in partnership with Maldon Sea Salt.
If you've not used Twitter before, it's really easy. Here's how to get started, and here's how to upload and tweet a picture.
The menu at Meatopia
Organisers are today unveiling some of the dishes that guests can expect to taste and sample. Get a load of this...
Richard Turner (Hawksmoor)
Charcoal Grilled Deckle Steak with Anchovy Butter
Gizzi Erskine
Korean Free Range Chicken Wings, charcoal grilled, served with smashed cucumber
Chris Hastings, Hot & Hot Fish Club (Alabama)
Grilled free range Chicken with McEwen and Sons Crimson Grits with Smoked Chicken, Stone Fruits and Verjus
Martin Morales (Ceviche)
Corazon Andino (Ox Heart of the Andes): tender beef heart marinated in Panca chilli, served with Huacatay sauce and Yucca chips
Dan Doherty, (Duck & Waffle)
BBQ pigs head: boned and rolled Korean style pigs head with truffle slaw
Beau Myers, (Almost Famous burgers)
The Run BMC Burger (Beefy Munch Crunch): a chuck, marrow and brisket patty with BBQ salt n pepper pretzel beef rib, pork crackling, crumbled beef monster munch, peppercorn mustard cream mayo and a tangy beef stock beer BBQ jus dip
Jon Finch (Grillstock)
Tri-tip beef: Barbecue Tri-Tip Beef with Pit-Smoked Meaty Beans and Garlic Green Herb Sauce
Mark Rosati (Shake Shack)
The Shackburger: an American cheeseburger made with 100% Aberdeen Angus Beef topped with lettuce, tomato and ShackSauce
Wild Game Company
Venison steak frites. Red deer venison steak (served medium rare) with béarnaise and frites
What is Meatopia?
Meatopia has been described as a ‘bacchanal of pork, beef, lamb, chicken, duck, turkey and quail'. It has been running for ten successful years in New York. It's also been described as a ‘meat lover’s paradise’ (New York Magazine). It’s a ‘rare breed’ food event led by chefs that is set to become a serious fixture on the London calendar, with chefs such as St John’s Fergus Henderson, Gizzi Erskine and Pitt Cue’s Tom Adams creating bespoke recipes for the event’s visitors.
Created by well-respected food writer Josh Ozersky in 2003 in New York, Meatopia celebrates the very best of BBQing and music. All of the renowned chefs and iconic restaurants will produce their dishes in handy ‘tasting’ sized portions so guests can try as many of them as possible as they graze, chat, drink and dance their way through the afternoon.
Meet the meat
Strong attention is paid to provenance and with Richard Turner at its helm, the meat will be in the safest hands in London. British reared and raised on independent farms and smallholdings by people who care about flavour and sustainability, the meat will be supplied by James George, MD of Turner & George and supplier to many of London’s most successful restaurants.
To wash it all down there will be craft beer, aged spirits and a fine selection of pairing wines. Music is at the heart of Meatopia – you can expect supercharged sets, jaw-dropping live performances, chuggy jams in dark corners and jump-up lunatic dance along smashers from bands and DJs spanning the genres.
And if that isn’t enough, London’s coolest cabaret, cirque, art installations, roaming performance, immersive activities and random acts of weirdness will add yet more colour, variety and spontaneity to the whole event.
"I want to come even if I don't win!"
Of course you do, here's how. Visit www.meatopia.co.uk to book tickets.
Ticket prices:
Tier 1 £45 Includes tokens for 2 taster dishes and 2 drinks.
Tier 2 £85 For the true Meatopia fan. Includes tokens for a whopping 6 taster dishes and 6 drinks. Plus express queuing for the bars and a Meatopia goodie bag.
Teen £35 As per Tier 1.
Child £0 Children under 12 are free but still need to book a ticket to gain entry. As per Tier 1.
**Please note tokens are also available to buy on site in order to purchase further dishes and drinks**
Opening times: Midday – 9 p.m.
Tobacco Dock is at 50 Porters Walk London, Greater London E1W 2SF
(Meat pictured is for illustration only, actual contents may vary)
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