Taste Film

Taste Film is fun culinary meets film experience that takes place across a few restaurants in London and Manchester. If you love your food and enjoy heading to the cinema - two of my favourite activities - then I can heartily recommend checking this out. I'm sure this is not the only version of this kind of event, but it is the one that I booked to go to and that I can vouch for.

That reads kind of like a sponsorship but (given this is my small personal blog that no one reads) I hope that it is clear that I'm just giving my opinion on an event I enjoyed.

The idea behind Taste Film is that you are served meals that are a part of, or inspired by, the movie you are watching. So it takes place in a restaurant rather than a cinema and you get to enjoy a themed experience.

Pretty cool, huh? I thought it was a great idea and had been very excited to go and try it out! So when there were some extra tickets released to see The Menu (I wasn't fast enough for the first release), I snapped a couple up and struggled to muster some patience to wait for the event.

Whilst there are lots of different films on offer through Taste Film, The Menu seemed like the perfect film for this kind of event. Pair the food with a delicious irony, as well as the meals from the film being so clearly defined and themed. My favourite touch was that the final course was "Bun Voyage, a no-fuss cheeseburger" which was, of course, served to-go.

Perhaps I am being unfair, but I don't really see how it would work for some of the "non-food" films that they show. If food isn't integral to the film, then how do you tie it together with the courses you are being served?

As I say, that might be unfair and since I had such a good time maybe I should go try another one out. But I will caveat my recommendation by saying you'd need the right choice of film to get the full experience.

What a great way to switch off from the world and focus on an experience. I love the cinema in general and that chance to lose yourself in another world. The brilliant courses layered on top of that feeling for a really memorable evening.