Kerb Goes East: A brand-new Asian street food festival is coming to Canada Water this August

Kerb, the London street food company, is launching a new two-day outdoor festival dedicated to East and Southeast Asian cuisine this summer. Kerb Goes East will take place at Canada Water venue Corner Corner on Saturday 8^th and Sunday 9^th August, marking a return to the large-scale outdoor events on which the business was originally built. The event is part of Round The Dock, the area’s summer events programme, and will run from midday to 6pm on both days, with free entry.

Kerb have teamed up with Corner Corner residents Urban Garden Fair, the market platform founded in 2024 that showcases independent East Asian craft and culture businesses. The result is a weekend that will bring together more than 50 visiting food and retail traders, alongside music, shopping, a bar and waterside activities. The food line-up from Kerb includes Oishi Don (for Japanese comfort food), Old Chang Kee (specialising in Singapore’s curry puff), Borobudu (serving Indonesian dishes), Komex (combining Korean and Mexican flavours), You Bao (bao buns) and Mandala (Himalayan dumplings). Also confirmed are Lil’Wong Bakes, who make pandan-based treats, and Asian bakery Can Toast, and yet more traders are still to be announced.

Since launching as a pop-up market in 2012, Kerb has expanded into food halls, markets, corporate catering and operations abroad. In 2023 it launched Kerb+, a social enterprise providing coaching and mentoring for people from marginalised backgrounds, including refugees and ex-offenders. In early 2025 the company opened Kerb Goes East location Corner Corner and Kerb Berlin, its first food hall outside the UK, followed by drinks and sports destination Kerb Social Club in Spitalfields. 

Simon Mitchell, CEO of Kerb, said: “Kerb started life as an outdoor market, creating spaces where London’s best independent food businesses could thrive and people could discover incredible food together. 14 years later, we’ve grown in ways we could never have imagined, but that original spirit has never left us. Kerb Goes East at Canada Water feels like coming home. It’s everything we love about street food with independent traders and bringing people together over a shared love of food, while celebrating one of the most exciting and fast-evolving food cultures in London today.”

Food Desk

Kerb Goes East takes place on 8^th and 9^th August 2026 at Corner Corner, Maritime Street, London SE16 7LL, with more trader announcements to follow. For further information, visit the company’s website here.