Royal Festival Hall
The Royal Festival Hall is a world-famous concert hall and arts venue. Its foyers are open all day, every day, which makes its cafes and bars a popular meeting place.
The RFH is part of the Southbank Centre which includes the Hayward Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room.
The concert hall is the permanent legacy of the post-war Festival of Britain held on the South Bank in 1951
The Festival Hall reopened in the summer of 2007 after an extensive refurbishment and work to improve the difficult acoustics of the main concert hall.
Web: www.southbankcentre.co.uk
Open: Foyers daily 10am-11pm
Open: Foyers daily 10am-11pm
News & features about Royal Festival Hall
- Photos: Mayor of London's Carol Service at Southwark Cathedral (16 Dec 2009)
- Cologne Christmas Market returns to the South Bank (22 Nov 2009)
- Duke of Edinburgh visits "terrific" Topolski Century on South Bank (22 Oct 2009)
- BFI's new South Bank film centre: Government pledges £45 million (16 Oct 2009)
- Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting at Hayward Gallery (14 Oct 2009)
- Waterloo's P&O 'three sisters' development unacceptable says John Denham (9 Oct 2009)
- £70,000 price tag for world's tallest paper tower (6 Oct 2009)
- Shell Centre becomes 'Hell Centre' as Climate Campers descend on Waterloo (1 Sep 2009)
- SE1 United fashion show at Royal Festival Hall (31 Aug 2009)
- Couple attacked with bottles on South Bank: police appeal for witnesses (14 Aug 2009)
- Show goes on as South Bank's Ancient Mariner struck down by swine flu (5 Jul 2009)
- Arts training academy for local young people at Udderbelly on South Bank (11 Jun 2009)
- BBC launches remote-control art installation in South Bank railway arch (17 May 2009)
- Various Voices festival promises to "paint the South Bank pink" (1 May 2009)
- Boris Johnson: I performed "plastic surgery" on Waterloo's "three ugly sisters" (1 May 2009)
- Waterloo skyscrapers: "exemplary and inclusive" or "unjustified harm to heritage"? (29 Apr 2009)
- Waterloo skyscrapers: public inquiry gets under way (15 Apr 2009)
- Topolski Century: hidden South Bank gallery reopens after £3 million makeover (16 Mar 2009)
- Giant purple upside-down cow coming to the South Bank (12 Mar 2009)
- Taxi, street sweeper and traffic light form South Bank sculpture (10 Mar 2009)
- Go-ahead for Hatfields ballet school and student accommodation (21 Jan 2009)
- National Theatre appoints architects to produce master plan (28 Dec 2008)
- Tom Jones 'busking' on the South Bank (20 Nov 2008)
- Enough! campaign seeks volunteer army to tackle youth violence (25 Oct 2008)
- Alan Bishop appointed as Southbank Centre chief executive (23 Oct 2008)
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Restaurants, pubs & bars close to Royal Festival Hall
- Canteen (36 yards)
- Riverside Terrace Cafe (42 yards)
- Feng Sushi (44 yards)
- Le Pain Quotidien (44 yards)
- Caffe Vergnano (44 yards)
- Skylon (50 yards)
- Las Iguanas (58 yards)
- Ping Pong (58 yards)
- Strada (64 yards)
- Wagamama (68 yards)
- Giraffe (72 yards)
- EAT Cafe (76 yards)
- The Archduke (98 yards)
- Concrete (124 yards)
- Pizza Express (140 yards)
- Chez Gerard (140 yards)