{"id":3941,"date":"2017-02-17T16:30:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T16:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3941"},"modified":"2018-08-13T10:59:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T10:59:06","slug":"littlebird-return-to-the-middle-ages-at-londons-medieval-banquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/02\/littlebird-return-to-the-middle-ages-at-londons-medieval-banquet\/","title":{"rendered":"LittleBird Return to the Middle Ages at London’s Medieval Banquet"},"content":{"rendered":"

London’s Medieval Banquet<\/h1>\n

A Feast Fit for a King!<\/h2>\n

With\u00a0a stylish selection of places to eat, a beautiful view of the water and of course being only a stone\u2019s throw from the Tower of London and Tower Bridge, St Katharine\u2019s Docks is a great area to visit of an evening, but there\u2019s even more going on here than first meets the eye as the LittleBird team discovered recently\u2026<\/p>\n

Priya and Lizzie make a new friend…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Venture through doors guarded by knights in shining armour (literally) and you\u2019re suddenly transported back to the Middle Ages, where Henry VIII and his court of knights, jesters, jugglers, acrobats and minstrels warmly await to entertain and feast with you at London\u2019s Medieval Banquet!<\/p>\n

Descending in to the softly-lit depths of the impressive historical venue that is Ivory House, we were shown a trove of costumes and medieval-themed accessories, which are available to hire for the night should you wish to truly immerse yourself in the times!<\/p>\n

Appropriately dressed, we were then seated at our banquet table where we discovered character sheets, to complete our medieval identities – you may here on in refer to me as Galien of Rooks Keep! Here we\u00a0were also introduced to our \u2018Wench\u2019 for the evening, who briefed us on traditional medieval customs \u2013 let\u2019s just say that the table etiquette was a little different to the P\u2019s and Q\u2019s we teach our children nowadays!<\/p>\n

Alex, Henry VIII & Louisa…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Lizzie’s (a.k.a Galien) character sheet…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Following the \u2018Mead Oath\u2019 and a chorus of the House Song, table manners were quite enthusiastically flung out of the proverbial window as we sipped soup straight out of the bowl and drummed our fists on the table in applause of a sword fight! \u2018Please may I have a drink?\u2019 was exchanged for the cry of \u2018WENCH!\u2019 and our impressive 4-course meal of traditional medieval fare was punctuated (probably quite necessarily) by singing, dancing, juggling and acrobatics, as well as duelling knights…\"Entertainment<\/p>\n

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The banquet itself was delicious with soup, meat and cheese platters, a hearty roast chicken main course and rounded off with a generous slice of fruit pie and cream. Washed down with ale and\/or wine, it\u2019s needless to say that we were suitably full. Having feasted like Kings we then danced the rest of the evening away, to music which gradually brought us back to the 21st<\/sup> Century and reality…!<\/p>\n

All that’s left to say is a big thank you to all those involved at London\u2019s Medieval Banquet for a truly spectacular and thoroughly entertaining evening!<\/p>\n

Yours,<\/p>\n

Galien of Rooks Keep<\/p>\n

(a.k.a Lizzie!)<\/p>\n

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LittleBird – minus a few!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Sorry Alex, it had to be done!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"Go<\/a><\/p>\n

Bring your sword, your loudest voice, your dancing shoes and a big appetite, and join Henry VIII and his court for an awesome and quirky evening at London’s Medieval Banquet<\/a>…<\/h6>\n
Get up to 50% off with LittleBird’s offer\u00a0here<\/a>!<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

London’s Medieval Banquet A Feast Fit for a King! With\u00a0a stylish selection of places to eat, a beautiful view of the water and of course being only a stone\u2019s throw from the Tower of London and Tower Bridge, St Katharine\u2019s Docks is a great area to visit of an evening, but there\u2019s even more going … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2656,563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ideas","category-whats-on"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3941"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5457,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions\/5457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}