Earlier this month, I went to Fork N' Film's showing of "Home Alone" in London. I love the film "Home Alone", and it is one of my favourite Christmas films which features a young boy named Kevin who finds himself home alone during the holiday season while his family leaves to go to Paris, and he finds himself protecting the family home from burglars. Form N' Film decided to host the evening at Eight Embankment, which I had an awful time locating as online maps told me the wrong location. When I finally arrived, I just made it on time, although the movie did not begin until much later.
Eight Embankment is located just on the north side next to Waterloo Bridge.
When I entered, I was greeted and given a cocktail (Prosecco and orange juice) and shown to my table. A live band was playing Christmas music to get us into the Christmas mood.
I ordered a Prosecco at the bar while I waited. We were given popcorn to share. As I was on my own, I was seated at another table with a couple and their sister.
Before the movie started, we were also given a festive-looking wreath of mozarella and tomato and rocket for "Season's Greetings".
The film started with cheers, and we were promptly given the second and third items.
The ice bucket came onto the screen with the old man using salt from a trash can to clear the sidewalks, so we received a cocktail with a shovel served in a metal bin bucket (trash can). This was the Shovel Snowcake Slipper and was a wintery version of a Pina Colada cocktail. Coconut flakes were served on the side to give an indication of snow.
Next up, we had the cheese pizza, which came in a miniature pizza box. This came at the start of the film as well with the family having their pizzas delivered.
The next surprise came when Kevin finds he is at home alone, and he makes an ice cream sundae. We received a miniature version of the ice cream sundae complete with marshmallows and a cherry and syrup.
There was a bit of a wait for the next items. We were meant to get the shrimp or prawn cocktail as seen in the film when the family are in Paris, but it never materialized. When asked about it later, I was told that the menu had changed and they were not doing the shrimp / prawn cocktail.
So, we had to wait awhile to receive the firecracker pot roast, which I had the vegetarian version of as the non-vegetarian version is beef. I cannot remember which part of the film would have inspired this.
At nearly the same time, a Christmassy cocktail in a bauble was delivered. This "Christmas Tree Cosmo" is a version of the Cosmopolitan cocktail.
The macaroni and cheese dish came at the point in the film where Kevin sits down to enjoy his dinner before the clock rings with the time to let him know to prepare for the burglars. I had the vegetarian version which came without lobster meat.
Toward the end of the film, we see Kevin leave cookies and milk out for Santa on Christmas Eve. We were given an eggnog cocktail and a couple of M&M cookies.
The cookies did not look so great and the presentation was not so well here with half of a cookie missing.
Would I recommend Fork N' Film? Fork N' Film is a different concept of having food and watching a film inspired by the food. I've done this before with Edible Cinema (which I blogged about here), which doesn't seem to host events since I went many years ago. Fork N' Film is expensive. The online ordering system isn't great as they only had vegan and standard options, but I informed over email that it's vegetarian, though they did not have this listed as they should have. Also, locating the venue was difficult and instructions would have helped. The venue itself was adequate, but the tables were difficult and small and items kept being dropped and there wasn't always enough room. In terms of food, the food was average. The alcoholic drinks did not taste of alcohol at all, and the presentation on some of the items (cookies) was not great. I feel that it is a little bit expensive, but I've always liked this concept of dinner and film tied together.
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