Halloween food: pop-ups, foodie parties and devilish menus in London

Delve into brain food with a difference as London's food scene gets a Halloween-themed makeover
A curious Invitation: Day of the Dead Ball
Emily Jupp31 October 2014

If your inclinations at Halloween lean more towards the treats than the tricks, and you can’t stand all that dressing up palaver, you’re in luck. There’s a big bundle of excellent foodie events happening over the weekend, and you won’t need to wear a witch's hat or devil horns to enjoy them.

Bite Me Pizza on Westbourne Grove is serving a special pumpkin spice pizza (until Sunday, bitemepizza.co.uk) and you’ll also find pizza-with-a-theme in the form of a wickedly spicy jalapeno and mozzarella version at Shoreditch street food market Urban Food Fest (Saturday, urbanfoodfest.com), along with Mexican Day of the Dead pulled beef wraps and arepas made with feta cheese, grilled chicken and black beans.

Urban Food Fest: Mexican wraps

In Covent Garden, Shake Shack is launching its Trick or Treat menu (until Sunday, shakeshack.co.uk) with a Trick SmokeDog (why it’s a trick puzzles me, maybe it’s referring to the tricks the fat content plays on your waistline). It’s topped with cheese, sweet cherry peppers and Wiltshire smoked bacon. For pudding, or as they call it, a Treat, there’s Pumpkin Pie Oh My Concrete, which translates as frozen custard (like ice cream but more dense) with pumpkin pie.

For those of us who like to pretend to be zombies while we eat (such fun!) Cinnamon Soho is serving a lamb’s brain burger. Wash it down with the Brain Freeze cocktail, served in a skull-shaped glass and made with spiced rum, Amaretto, Blue Curacao, lime and apple juice.

More Halloween drinks come from Big Easy in Covent Garden, which is serving a Scarlet O’Horror Slushie made with smoky bourbon, cranberry and lime (until Saturday, bigeasy.co.uk), and Porky's has a ‘From Hell’ menu (located at Bankside, Camden and Boxpark, porkys.co.uk), including Devil’s Poison; bourbon swizzled with cayenne pepper, maple syrup and apple juice in a chilli-flake-adorned glass — it’ll make a fiery start to your All Hallows Eve.

And if you’re secretly relishing the chance to dress up but don’t want to skimp on the quality of the food, go to the Day of the Dead Ball, organised by party group A Curious Invitation (Saturday, acuriousinvitation.com), which is an evening of spooky thrills based on stories from the Brothers Grimm, at the rather grand St Pancras Great Hall. You’ll be greeted by a shrivelled crone who’ll tempt you with sweets, cakes and a rather decadent drinks menu, courtesy of cocktail pros Bourne & Hollingsworth.

I’ll see you there, in my devil horns.

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