Power of Summer Riverside Feast

Power of Summer is the latest incarnation of the always awesome Street Feast events, and just might be their best one yet, atmosphere-​wise.
Set up in a «pop-​up park» on the riverside with the iconic Battersea Power Station looming large overhead, the location is secluded and blocked off, yet open-​air and summery.
The SF group is getting more and more organised and it shows: large ticket stalls are located under the bridge, where you pay your entry fee: £4 for feast entry only, which is waived before 6pm on Thurs and Fridays. And the signage throughout is totally branded, colourful and helps set the atmosphere.
A large marquée provides protection from rain — or in our case last weekend, the blazing sun! — and there are plenty of traditional tables/​chairs for eating your grub underneath. Throughout are less traditional areas of seating like lower benches grouped around low square tables.
Food vendors change weekly, but personally I wasn’t overly excited about the selection on my visit. I saw a lot of new «faces» to the food stall event market out there though, which was nice and refreshing.
I paid £14 for a «large» lobster roll from B.O.B. Lobster but for the value wished I’d saved £4 and gone for the lobster mac & cheese. We also sampled some cheesy tots from Dogtown for £4 and husband waited about 15 minutes for a short rib sandwich with slaw and truffle mayo from Le Bun for £8.50 (he attests the long wait was well worth it, and raved about the sandwich).
Unbelievably, there were NO dessert vendors. No donuts, no brownies and, truly shockingly, no ice cream at a summer food fest.
However, they make up for it with loads of stuff to do other than eat. This event is very family friendly, and plenty of toddlers and older ones enjoyed the two trampolines, a small splash/​sprinkler area (which only made a little mud), random footballs being kicked about, oversized Jenga, etc.
And perhaps the coolest partnership of all, Everyman Cinema had a proper outdoor cinema set up for £10 a ticket (sold out when we showed up 2 hours before show time though — get your tix online beforehand)
Heinekens set you back £5, a Dubbel £6, a «large» cocktail £10. DJ provided the perfect daytime summer tunes with remixed oldies.