Zurich meets London: Festival Hub at Borough Market

Zurich is so much more than chocolate and cheese and ice cream stalls on the lakeside promenade! And here’s the proof. For one week this spring, from 17–21 May, Borough Market’s Market Hall will be turned into a miniature Zurich foodie paradise. The Zürich meets London festival hub consists of a village of stalls that serve up an irresistible selection of local specialities, ranging from the intense flavours of Züri-honey to Zurich’s favourite sausage, a perfectly grilled Cervelat, and from the rock hard and yet melting-on-the-tongue Tirggel to zesty Turicum Gin flavoured with the blossoms of the linden, complete with tonic water from Gents, also from Zurich.

There will also be a branch of the popular vegetarian restaurant Tibits, a gin & juice bar, and – of course! – a gourmet chocolate stall. Adding to the celebratory ambience, the pop-up version of Zurich’s liveliest and most innovative radio station, GDS.fm, will present a fizzy mixture of music, interviews and reportages live from the festival hub.

Producers
Taucherli, handmade chocolate
Turicum Gin
Gents Tonic Water
Mampfstrauss, edible flowers
Stadtjäger, charcuterie
Leibacher Biber, ginger bread
Stoll Kaffee, coffee
Züri Honig, honey
Brennerei Hans Erismann, Tsyri Lowland Whisky & liqueurs
Schwerzmann Kirschstengeli, cherry chocolate stalks
Straumann Hüppen, chocolate
Wild & Edel, walnuts sweet & sour
Blütenschmaus, syrup & jam made out of roses
Honegger Tirggel, honey biscuits
Das Pure, charcuterie & fish
Hofstadl Öpfelringe, dried apple rings
Maurice de Mauriac, watches

About Zürich meets London – A Festival of Two Cities

As the City of Zurich celebrates this year the 100th anniversary of its seminal home-grown art movement Dada, it has announced a multi-venue festival in London on 17-21 May that will include cultural, science and culinary events. Performing artists and visual artists, scientists, philosophers, top chefs, and musicians all come together to examine and showcase the far-reaching creative influence of two of Europe’s greatest cities, London and Zurich. It celebrates the crucial role of intercultural cooperation in artistic, scientific and culinary innovation.

The festival is jointly presented by the City of Zurich, Canton of Zurich and Zurich Tourism, the University of Zurich (UZH) and the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and kindly supported by the Embassy of Switzerland in the UK and the ETH Zurich – The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Zürich meets London locations include Borough Market, Rich Mix, Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Place, University College London, Central Saint Martins, Imperial College London, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Google UK, Corsica Studios and many more.