Food Events
Tesco offers a taste of Wales
Shoppers to Welsh Tesco stores will get a true taste of Wales during the next two weeks as the supermarket throws its weight behind Welsh Food Fortnight (20 September – 5 October 2008).
Top chefs create divine cakes for Chocolate Week
Divine Chocolate, the leading Fairtrade brand co-owned by cocoa farmers, is co-sponsoring national Chocolate Week 2008 (13th-19th October). Launched in collaboration with the Academy of Chocolate and now in its fifth year, Chocolate Week is all about unadulterated chocolate indulgence, and because Divine is celebrating its 10th birthday, this year’s line up is set to be the best yet.
Online ticket sales soar for Eastbourne Beer Festival
Festival fans are being urged to get their tickets for the sixth annual Eastbourne Beer Festival before they sell out as online sales hit an all time high. Since going on sale in July, more than 500 tickets have been sold online through the town’s official tourism website, VisitEastbourne.com’s E-shop.
A great British Sunday roast
The Landau, located on Portland Place, London W1 is to launch a sumptuous new Sunday Roast menu at this year’s Regent Street Festival on Sunday 7 September 2008 under the direction of British Head Chef, Andrew Turner.
Leamington Spa Food & Drink Festival deemed outstanding success
The Leamington Spa Food & Drink Festival, which took place on Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 August, has been deemed an outstanding success. Around 10,000 people attended the Festival over the two days and over 50 local businesses exhibited their produce from stalls in the Pump Room Gardens. Even the rain on the Sunday didn’t deter people from celebrating the event which has now safely put Leamington on the map as a top food and drink destination.
New 'Taste Trail' at the Leamington Spa Food & Drink Festival
A ‘Taste Trail’ is being incorporated for the first time into the Royal Leamington Spa Food & Drink Festival’. The Taste Trail, which features 13 different restaurants in the town, encourages people to visit participating restaurants and sample their food free of charge.
Haute Chocolate – High fashion food
Forget about London, New York and Paris fashion weeks. Turn off Project Catwalk and prepare for the most important fashion event of the year. The most stylish thing to hit the catwalks this season is chocolate, as the UK finalists compete for the coveted World Chocolate Masters title, showcasing the very best practice in contemporary chocolate.
San Francisco celebrates Slow Food
Slow Food Nation has announced the line-up for 23 Taste Workshops, one-hour in-depth taste experiences led by passionate artisans guiding students of Slow Food in the complexity and delight of good, clean and fair food. The Taste Workshops will be held on Saturday, August 30 and Sunday, August 31, during Slow Food Nation at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco.
Gourmet in the city
Gourmet Glasgow, the annual festival promoting the city’s reputation for great food and top notch restaurants, launches on Monday 4 August in conjunction with Glasgow: Scotland with Style.
Celebrity chefs head to Covent Garden’s night market
Following its huge success in 2007, Covent Garden will once again be revisiting its heritage as the original larder of London with London’s only food night market, and now including a kitchen theatre fronted by celebrity chefs.
Discover Jerez in the heart of the capital
Do you feel like you’re missing out on yet another summer? Are you fed up with the constant gloom and doom of the credit crunch, not to mention the grey skies? Well have no fear as you are invited to discover the sunnier, Spanish side of life right in the heart of the capital thanks to The Sherry Institute Of Spain.
Enjoy Chocolate Afternoon Tea at the Baglioni Hotel
The very British tradition of taking afternoon tea or low tea goes way back to the early 19th Century where in England at the time there were only two main meals a day. It was fashionable during this period for the upper classes to eat dinner very late in the evening with lunch always at Noon.
Royal Leamington Spa Food & Drink Festival returns for 2008
Next month sees the return of the ‘Royal Leamington Spa Food & Drink Festival’. Due to its popularity, the Festival has been extended to take place over two days. The Festival, which is free to attend, will take place on Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 August from 10am – 6pm at the Royal Pump Room Gardens.
Put the heat back into your summer at Felbrigg Hall’s Chilli Fiesta
Following its outstanding success last year, 2008 will see the return of Felbrigg Hall’s Chilli Fiesta and summer fete, in what is hotting up to be the highlight event for the property this summer.
Top chefs cook up something divine for Chocolate Week
Divine Chocolate, the leading Fairtrade brand co-owned by cocoa farmers, is co-sponsoring national Chocolate Week 2008 (13th-19th October). Launched in collaboration with the Academy of Chocolate and now in its fifth year, Chocolate Week is all about unadulterated chocolate indulgence, and because Divine is celebrating its 10th birthday, this year’s line up is set to be the best yet!