Meatopia On-Fire is the UK’s OG live-fire food festival. First staged in New York City by the late great Josh Ozersky, and brought to London in 2013. Since then Meatopia OnFire London has grown into a ‘must have’ ticket for food lovers from the UK and beyond.
A weekend-long celebration of all things delicious, Meatopia invites some of the very best live-fire chefs from UK, Europe and the World to cook one exquisite and uniquely selected dish each, over wood or charcoal only. Each day is carefully curated into a menu featuring a perfect balance of meat, fish, seafood and global cuisines.
Meatopia is the only food festival that curates the menus. We invite chefs to tasting sessions, working with them to select one delicious and unique fire-cooked dish each each day.
Each day has a uniqe menu with every chef serving just 1 perfect dish for 1 MeatBuck each from a variety of meats and cuisines. London '26 features 38 chefs on Saturday!
Working with Continental Drifts (Glastonbury Shangri La, Shambala) we programme an eclectic mix of live bands, solo acts and banging DJs to help dance your dinner away.
With 7 bars in London and 5 in Glasgow serving premium draft beers, mixologist-made cocktails and wines by the glass and bottle you can always cool the heat.
Meatopia is an all day experience for all the family* so we'll never split the day into sessions. Your ticket lets you arrive for lunch, stay for dinner and party in between! *Thursday in London and Friday in Glasgow are over 18's only.
The Cutting Room is our stage of edible demos. It's totally free and every 45 min session features a variety of chefs or producers and something free to taste.
Each year the world’s best live-fire chefs cooked exclusive dishes over each of the Meatopia weekends, using nothing but sustainable wood and charcoal and responsibly-sourced, quality ingredients — that means meat, fish and veg. Our alumni of chefs include Francis Mallmann, Niklas Ekstedt, Amninder Sandhu, Yotam Ottolenghi, Dave Pynt, Aaron Franklin, Fergus Henderson, Bryan Furman, and Lennox Hastie.
All that smokey, flavour-filled food is thirsty work. Luckily for you, Meatopia has a mind-boggling array of quenching beverages on offer. Think sinking a few sundowners in the yard, all manner of spirits, cocktails and liquid delights are on offer.
The finest, most sustainably sourced wood and charcoal is the star of the show at Meatopia, so gather around the fire and let your inner cave-person be mesmerised by it. From simple grills to imposing smokers and roaring fire-pits, every method of fire cooking imaginable is on show at Meatopia, and at the helm of the flames are some of the world’s most skilled chefs.
Live musicians, roaming brass bands, DJs and soulful singers can be found in every corner of the festival, and a crowd to go with them. We’ve had everyone from infamous party-starters New York Brass Band to legendary last-man-standing Bez of the Happy Mondays play to our punters, keeping the good vibes going through day and night.
