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
- Southbank Centre and National Theatre open riverside box office (17 May 2012)
- Southbank Centre plans £43 million makeover of Queen Elizabeth Hall and Hayward Gallery (29 Mar 2012)
- South Bank Skylon could make a comeback - in Hereford (24 Feb 2012)
- Southbank Centre launches Valentine's gifts incorporating honey from RFH hives (3 Feb 2012)
- Christmas market now open on the South Bank (20 Nov 2011)
- Queen Elizabeth Hall and Hayward Gallery on international list of 'endangered' buildings (6 Oct 2011)
- Temporary gardens created in South Bank street (16 Sep 2011)
- Festival of Britain's floral bicycle parade recreated on the South Bank (28 Aug 2011)
- Globe Mysteries at Shakespeare's Globe (11 Aug 2011)
- Fruit and veg pickers bring M&S campaign to the South Bank (13 Jul 2011)
- Ed Miliband: "no greater example" of community action than Coin Street (13 Jun 2011)
- Ed Miliband visits SE1 twice in one day (24 May 2011)
- Duke of Gloucester unveils Chopin statue on the South Bank (18 May 2011)
- Borough Market evicts eight traders in spat over Maltby Street (9 May 2011)
- Mixed fortunes for SE1 arts organisations as funding cuts are revealed (30 Mar 2011)
- Annie Lennox releases doves from Millennium Bridge (8 Mar 2011)
- Big Society can't replace professionals, Camila Batmanghelidjh tells South Bank audience (8 Feb 2011)
- South Bank's Festival of Britain 60 years on (19 Jan 2011)
- Tree was chopped down for Orient-Express South Bank publicity stunt (17 Dec 2010)
- Boycott launches 'biodiversity buzz' at Bankside bee hives (16 Dec 2010)
- Orient-Express railway carriage on South Bank for Agatha Christie Weekend (18 Nov 2010)
- Stamford Street closed eastbound until April 2011 (17 Oct 2010)
- Topolski Century suspends daily opening for a 'rethink' (1 Oct 2010)
- Royal Festival Hall organ: fundraising appeal launched (20 Sep 2010)
- Weekly farmers' market launches at Elephant & Castle (19 Sep 2010)
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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)
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- The Archduke (98 yards)
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