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Æfenmete

eh-ven-meh-teh

Old English for ‘evening meal’: a celebratory 10th-century banquet reimagined in the Foyle Rooms at Turner Contemporary.

  • 17 & 18 April 2026
  • Foyle Rooms, Turner Contemporary, Margate
A laid table with a candle, a sculptural arrangement of fennel and a printed menu, guests beyond.
Leeks and a turnip arranged upright in a small vase with yellow flowers.

The eight-course feast explores the historical ‘hungry gap’: the lean weeks before the spring harvest, when winter stores ran low and communities relied on foraging, hunting, fishing and preserving food from the surrounding landscape.

Rooted in Margate and the Isle of Thanet, the landing site of both the Anglo-Saxons and the arrival of Christianity in England, it draws on early medieval recipes, historical chronicles and archaeological evidence.

The Foyle Rooms at sunset, long tables of diners silhouetted against floor-to-ceiling windows over the sea.