Toast is a three-day festival held annually to showcase leading chefs and restaurants from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. At this year’s festival, held at Clapham Common, in addition to the food was live entertainment including Australia’s Sneaky Sound System and live polo matches (each day the UK team will take on the SA, Aussie and Kiwi teams.) There was also wine classes, cooking demonstrations and other sessions.

Pat and I stayed just long enough for a walk around to the all the stalls, a bite to eat and a few minutes of the polo match.

My honest thoughts? I thought the whole event was a little sad. I might have enjoyed it a bit more if the day was a bit nicer and I’d been with a big group of people but I doubt it. I get bored easily and I really think without having a load to drink, which is what I think a lot of the people attending would be at the festival to do, I would still have found it boring.