For several years OHP has focussed on bringing to our theatre bars some of the best food and drink from suppliers local to us. This season we’ve expanded on that commitment by sourcing more small, local, independent businesses with exceptional sustainable, ethical, and always delicious produce.

Read on to find out more about some of the producers and suppliers whose food and drinks we are excited for you to enjoy and which echo the values at the heart of what makes any night at Opera Holland Park so special: supporting the local community, prioritising environmental sustainability, delivering high quality and discovering talent.

Our theatre bars are open 2 hours before each performance, in the interval, and after the show.

Theatre Bar

Our beautiful onsite bar is open both before the performance and during the interval, offering a selection of drinks and snacks for you to enjoy. Click here for the 2025 bar menu

Picnic Tables and Hampers

Picnic tables are available in The Dutch Garden Lounge, The Balustrade and The Terrace. Hampers can be pre-ordered from local restaurants Il Portico and The Belvedere.

Head to our picnic table page to find out more about booking your table and hampers.

The Ensemble

We welcome our Envoys, Ambassadors, Benefactors, Founders and Jubilee Society Members to The Ensemble.

Please pre-book your space in advance when booking tickets for the operas you are attending. Priority booking dates and more information about the 2025 Season can be found at this link.

Our suppliers

SPARKLING WINE & PROSECCO

The Emissary

Prosecco DOC Extra Brut

Ed Smith, founder of London-based The Emissary, is on a mission to bring ‘proper’ prosecco to the UK – prosecco as the Italians enjoy it! Which means a prosecco less sweet than much of what is imported here. This one has a beautiful straw yellow colour, notes of citrus and white flowers, and a refreshing dry finish.

Gusbourne

Brut Reserve 2021 / Rosé 2019 / Blanc de Blanc 2019

These are exceptional, world-class English sparkling wines made in the traditional method using only grapes from Gusbourne’s own vineyards in Kent and West Sussex. They win prestigious national and international industry awards year and year after, and OHP is so pleased to be continuing a long-standing relationship with Gusbourne at the theatre.

London Cru

Chardonnay 2023 / Bacchus 2023 / Pinot Noir 2023

We love that these are not just English wines but from London’s first urban winery (based in Fulham). London CRU’s vineyards in West Sussex produce delicious, well-balanced wines that are each relatively light in ABV and so especially suited for summertime drinking. Don’t be surprised that the red is served slightly chilled to make it even more refreshing and enhance the pinot’s red fruit flavours.

SPIRITS, LONG DRINKS / COCKTAILS

58 and CO

London Dry Gin / Triple Distilled Vodka

58 and CO is the house gin and vodka for OHP’s 2025 season. This small independent distillery founded and run by Carmen O’Neal (the CO in 58 and CO) is based in Haggerston where everything from distilling to bottling and distributing happens. Environmentally sustainable credentials are at the heart of 58 and CO – from the solar panels that power the stills, to the worms that eat their food waste, and bottles made in Yorkshire using recycled glass.

The multi award-winning gin is a classic London Dry that balances citrus and spice with responsibly sourced botanicals including pink grapefruit, bergamot, vanilla, lemon, juniper and coriander. The vodka is made with 100% British wheat spirit and nothing else for an incredibly clean taste that has a hint of clotted cream and biscuit. Both served with Fever Tree mixers.

London Vermouth and Tonic

London Vermouth Company’s amber vermouth is a very special fortified wine with a golden amber colour, perfect balance of sweet-to-dry; and flavour hints of blood orange, orange blossom and rhubarb. Mixed with Fever Tree tonic and served over ice it becomes a long, refreshing, delicious drink that’s perfect for balmy evenings in the park.

Botivo

Botivo Spritz / Botivo Botanical Aperitivo

This refreshing, bittersweet non-alcoholic aperitif is handmade in small batches at Lannock Farm in Hertfordshire. In a production process that spans more than a year, traditional maceration techniques are used to extract deep flavours from botanicals such as rosemary, thyme, gentian, wormwood, orange zest, and wildflower honey. Available at the bars in two ways: With prosecco as a Botivo Spritz; and as a no-alcohol Botivo Botanical Aperitivo with Fever Tree soda water.

BEERS & CIDERS

Round Corner Brewing

Drovers Hazy Session IPA / Frisby lager

Melton Mowbray might be best known for its glorious pies (and we have those too) but also produced in the famous market town are multi award-winning craft beers from this small brewery. We have two styles: A generously dry-hopped, thirst-quenching IPA with flavour notes of grapefruit, mandarin and orange blossom; and a classically smooth lager beer made with German pilsner malt and English wheat malt.

The Kernel Brewery

Pale Ale

Bermondsey-based and one of London’s first craft breweries, Kernel are credited with being at the forefront of London’s wave of microbreweries. One of the things we most love about their dry, light-bodied Pale Ale is that each batch uses different hop varieties from around the world based on seasonality, availability, and the whims of the brewer. The individuality of the hops really comes through in both aroma and flavour.

Nirvana Brewery

IPA / Pils

For OHP’s first low alcohol beers at the theatre bars we have chosen these ones from family-run Nirvana Brewery in Leyton, the UK’s first dedicated alcohol-free brewery. They are stunningly good whether as a full-bodied and satisfying IPA that’s biscuity and caramelly, balanced and crisp; or the Pils lager that is refreshing twist on the classic German Pilsner. Both 0.5% ABV

Trevibban Mill

Pink sparkling cider / Tiger Milk still cider

On a beautiful former arable farm near Padstow in Cornwall is this family-run producer of ciders (and wines) using fruits from their own orchards. The pink sparkling cider is elegantly dry and fermented with organic Pinot Noir grape skins for a flavour profile that hints at dried red fruits.  The Tiger Milk still cider is butterscotchy with its toffee apple notes, and made like a skin contact wine – meaning it’s not just the juice that is fermented but also the skin, pulp and seeds. Why Tiger Milk? That’s Trevibban Mill’s nod to the stripes on the apples they use to make this.

SOFT DRINKS

Marlish

still / sparkling water

In the hills of Northumberland is this small, family-run, independent farm with its own spring water source.  Their water takes hundreds of years to naturally filter through the rock strata, and is then canned at source to retain the high levels of purity and mineralisation it has gained along the way. Marlish cousins and co-founders, Joseph Evans and Elizabeth Walton, work hard to minimise the environmental impact of what they’re doing with aluminium cans, a solar-powered factory, tree planting and much more.

Wildpress juices

Crown Gold / Ashmead Kernel

These are apple juices pressed from heritage apple varieties found by Wildpress at the last remaining traditional apple orchards working to protect older orchards, promote biodiversity and farm sustainably. Those factors all make for apples that are extra delicious and worth the higher, fairer price Wildpress pay the farmers for them. OHP have two Limited Edition presses, both using organic apples from Hall End Farm in Herefordshire: Crown Gold is a family-friendly, typically sweet style; and Ashmead Kernel which is sharper, with a balance of sweet-to-dry that dips refreshingly onto the dry side.

Nuisance Sparkling Botanicals

Nettle & Elderflower

Nuisance champion the great outdoors by using ingredients that might be found on the doorstep (or in a park…) and turning them into botanical-based soft drinks. Their nettle and elderflower is made with 100% natural ingredients and is a glorious bringing together of elderflower’s floral sweetness with nettle’s herbaceous, more earthy notes.

Karma Cola

This is the ethical take on a cola. Made with organic and Fairtrade ingredients by a company that has a commitment to supporting communities in Sierra Leone (where the cola nuts come from) by ensuring fair prices for the cola nut farmers, and investing in community projects through the Karma Foundation.

FOOD

(all subject to availability)

Honey & Co

Salad boxes / dips with crispy pita / cookies

Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich of Honey & Co are beloved in the London food scene and have an enthusiastic following gathered from their fabulous London restaurants, many cookbooks and regular recipes in the Financial Times. We are delighted to be welcoming Honey & Co to OHP this year with a selection at the bars of their delicious Middle Eastern food to suit every level of hunger. We have:

  • Chicken Salad Box – Roast chicken & tomato tabuleh salad
  • Sabich Salad Box – Roast aubergine, shredded cabbage, amba pickled mango, tahini (vg & gf)
  • Hummus with Chickpea Garnish and Crispy Pita
  • White Chocolate, Currant and Orange Cookie

Holtwhites’ British Cheese Selection

From this small, independent north London deli comes a box containing The Fine Cheese Co. crackers, tomato and chilli chutney, and three individually wax-wrapped British cheeses: Coastal Cheddar, Cornish Yarg and Coastal Bassett Stilton.

Dickinson & Morris Melton Mowbray Pork Pie

All the elements of a classic pork pie are present and correct with these Melton Mowbray icons of 100% outdoor-bred British pork encased in a rich, hot water crust pastry. Made by Dickinson & Morris who have been producing hand-crafted, award-winning pork pies for over 170 years, and served in a box with a small jar of Tracklements English mustard.