BOXHALL City — the slick new food-and-drink hall inside the Metropolitan Arcade, just steps from Liverpool Street — chose Oktoberfest to launch its bottomless brunch series, and the result was a beer-soaked daytime party that felt more Munich tent than City lunch.
For £50, you get 90 minutes of free-flowing prosecco, fruity cocktails, and giant beer steins, plus a choice of food across the venue’s 13 kitchens. Our picks: a deeply comforting chicken ramen and gooey quesadillas, hearty enough to counterbalance the free-flowing fizz and cocktails.
The Oktoberfest touches — from yodelling contests to pretzel-eating competitions — made the kick-off particularly raucous. But the core concept is now a permanent fixture: every Saturday, BOXHALL turns brunch into a high-energy mashup of food hall grazing, bottomless drinks, and entertainment. Expect DJs spinning disco and R&B, a lively host corralling games like Guess That Tune, and a roaming singer who doubles as hype man, sparking table-side singalongs before 3pm.
If the City once felt like a brunch dead zone, BOXHALL is rewriting the script. Think of it as the party you’d expect in Shoreditch — just transplanted a few blocks east, with better transport links. The Oktoberfest edition proved the formula works; now it’s set to become the City’s Saturday ritual.
BOXHALL CITY, 1-27, The Arcade, Liverpool St, London EC2M 7PN
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