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Food and Drink Festivals featuring the very best, passion-driven sustainable and ethically minded producers. Weekly markets at Kings Cross
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We have been running major food festivals, regular markets and street food events since 2007 and are committed to bringing together the very best, passion-driven, ethically-minded producers and food businesses to help reconnect people to where their food comes from and celebrate the tastiest and most nutritious food you can find. It's all about the best food out there.

19/08/2026

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Borough Cheese Company always at Kings Cross Market with the finest dairy in the business. 💛 🐮 🐐

05/08/2026

Trader spotlight:

If you’re passing through King’s Cross, don’t walk by Casa Jorba without saying hello! Sandra’s amazing selection of fresh ibérico produce and Spanish sandwiches have been a steadfast mainstay of Kings Cross & Euston station for years. Handmade fresh using the highest quality imported produce - come try for yourself 🇪🇸 🥩

24/07/2026

Check this out! Lovely Sparkenhoe Red Leicester with a bit of legacy here at Kings Cross Market. 🧀

You can find it here Tuesday-Friday, 11-7 at

21/07/2026

Food-Jitsu at Kings Cross Market with our Tuesday team ❤️ 🥷

We’re outside King’s Cross station every Tuesday-Friday, 11-7

13/07/2026

We’re a Certified B Corporation™.

Real Food Markets Ltd has just been awarded B Corp™ certification, scoring 101.1 points on the B Impact Assessment™ - an independently verified measure of social and environmental performance.

B Corp™ certification recognises businesses that meet rigorous standards across five areas: workers, community, environment, customers, and governance. Fewer than 10,000 companies worldwide are certified.

For us, this reflects what the markets have always been built on: independent traders, local producers, public spaces brought to life, and a business model that creates real economic opportunity for small businesses.

There’s more to do - and more to say - but this is a meaningful milestone. Thank you to everyone who’s been part of it: the traders, the team, and the communities that make these markets what they are.

Learn more at bcorp.com and
https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/find-a-b-corp/company/real-food-markets-ltd/

22/05/2026

Back in 2008 we launched the Real Food Festival as a massive celebration and coming together of people who cared about food and how it was produced and wanted to make things better.

That event, and everything we have done since was directly inspired by Carlo Petrini and the philosophy he articulated through Slow Food, and turned into a powerful global movement.

Yesterday this great man passed away, and we want to recognise not only the impact he had on us - both personal and through what we do through Real Food - but how this one man, through his deep humanity, sharp intellect, charisma and unbridled vision, changed the conversation around food, and the whole food landscape.

It is difficult to overstate the change Carlin inspired and mobilised. Food is everything. It is elemental, It connects us to each other and the natural world. The way we think about food, provenance, sustainability, health, human rights, animal welfare, identity and cultural heritage… a lot of what today feels obvious and simply taken as received wisdom, was squarely and unapologetically put on the table by Carlo Petrini.

Many others also shared his views, had brilliant ideas and pushed the agenda to challenge and change the food system. Carlo Petrini, through his incredible ability to inspire and sheer conviction, was able to bring ideas together and -crucially- actually make them happen.

Real Food would simply not exist if it was not for Slow Food and Carlin. We had the great privilege of working with him, but more than that, we have the privilege and responsibility of taking his work forward, and keeping it alive.

26/03/2026

Theirs no better way to treat yourself than with a cookie 🍪

is at Real Food with their famous cookies and seasonal bakes, the perfect little treat for your lunch break or journey home.

Find them at Kings Cross and Euston this week and grab yours while they last.

24/03/2026

It’s a new week at Real Food and we’re ready to do it all again 🙌

Fresh traders, big flavours and proper lunchtime favourites, all waiting for you at Kings Cross and Euston.

Whether you’re hopping off the train, heading back to the office or just fancy something better than the usual, we’ve got some of London’s best independent food traders serving up all week.

Find us:

Kings Cross | Tuesday–Friday, 11:00–19:00

Euston | Tuesday–Friday, 12:00–19:00

20/03/2026

This is what proper on-the-go flavour looks like 🔥

If you’re passing through Euston and tempted by a standard meal deal… pause.

are serving up aromatic, freshly fried bhajis, golden samosas and flavour-packed Indian rolls that make lunchtime infinitely better. Crispy on the outside, perfectly spiced on the inside – the kind of snack that actually satisfies.

Find them at Real Food Euston this week.

17/03/2026

Ohhh this one is a showstopper 😍

Freshly piped, perfectly crisp and filled to order… are bringing a true taste of Sicily to King’s Cross 🇮🇹

Their traditional hand-piped cannoli are everything you want from a sweet treat – golden shells, creamy ricotta filling, pistachio, chocolate, candied peel… and yes, they’ve got vegan options too.

Find at King’s Cross this week and taste the difference for yourself.

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http://www.realfoodfestival.co.uk/

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