W5 gets cheesy again

Back in June we launched our first ever 'Cheese Fest' - part of Evening Standard's London Food Month. You came in your hundreds to taste, buy, meet the experts and vote for the W5 Cheese Cup. And we're delighted to say that we'll now be making this an annual date in the diary with the launch of our 'We Love Cheese' festival on Sunday 8th October.

We are very excited to be showing our support to our local Ealing Half Marathon and all of their fabulous runners. If you're a runner, have no fear, we have all you could ever need - pre and post run with our selection of traders. 

Northfields Market will be twice as fun this Saturday, running in conjunction with The Northfields Avenue Fun Day! Find us alongside your favourite Northfields businesses for a family-friendly day of gourmet treats, street food, and activities for everyone.

Get ready for the sweetest W5 Food Market yet: Hen Corner will be talking bees, bee-keeping, and honey, with bee-keeping gear for the little ones to try, and Raw Artisan Honey will discuss characteristics of different honeys and how bee-keepers achieve them. Lots of honey to taste and take home, plus all our regular traders to keep your store cupboard stocked

Our next Wonderland Collective pop up will take place at The Broadway Bar & Grill on Fulham on Sunday 28th May. Set to be our biggest pop up to date we’ll be featuring a variety of designers, makers and artisans from across London. Throw in DJs, cocktails and great food – what better way to spend your Bank Holiday Sunday. Watch this space to find out who our traders will be.

May will bring Hen Corner’s Sara Ward discussing urban smallholdings - with the added bonus of a visit with her chickens. Our bar host of the month, Long Arm Brewing Company will also be on hand offering tastings of their locally brewed beer, and a talk about achieving different flavours in brewing.

We’re looking forward to the April 9 market, when our resident bread vendor Desi Baker Boy will be discussing ‘Baking Speciality Breads at Home’, whilst new to the W5 Food Market Rum Cask will enlighten us to some of the history of rum, including its background with the Navy, and the meaning of ‘Gunpowder Proof’. Rum Cask will also host the bar at the April market, delighting us with their collection of cocktails all featuring rum.

For the last of our Ealing Bites shopping evenings, Leigh Montague, fashion designer and Founder of British made brand Monty & Co., will discuss her passion for "British manufacturing and why provenance matters".

Don't miss out on our Mother's Day Wonderland Collective pop-up at Tribeca Studios on Saturday. 

This week is our very own Lucy, from Handmade in Ealing, will be running a chocolate workshop & tasting. You'll get to taste different types of chocolate, learn a little about where chocolate originates from, as well try your hand at molding or dipping chocolates (or get messy trying).

This week's Ealing Bites is featuring "A guide to craft beer" from Riccardo of the Dragonfly Brewery. He'll be taking us through craft beer, from its definition and basic brewing science, through to the difference between lagers and ales. Topped off with with a brewery tour and sampler tray of 3 x 1/3 pints of home-brewed beers.
Please note there is a £5 brewery tour and tasting fee, payable on the night.

This week our guest speaker is photographer Jonathan Cole, talking about "How to take great photos". Whether a keen amateur or simply a smartphone snapper, Jon will give you a few indispensable tips for taking better shots. He’ll also tell a story or two of his experiences of what can happen along the way when you make your passion your career.

Join us at The Wonderland Collective pop-up shop on Acton High Street on Thurs 2nd March for the next of our Ealing Bites shopping evenings. We have a packed night with two speakers: Shelley Henderson, Business Consultant & Co-founder of Ealing Mums in Business will be talking about "The Importance of Social Media for Business" and Start Up Sisters, Rosie and Sophie Osborne will be explaining the art of "Creating Hygge Heaven".

A one-off Christmas market featuring W5 Food Market traders, Park + Bridge pop up wine shop, and lots of Chritsmas food ideas. Face painting, balloon modelling and 'Make your own Christmas decorations' in our kids tent.