Food Events
Taste the summer in Leicester Square
Luxury ice cream maker Häagen-Dazs has launched a brand-new Limited Edition flavour - Apricot & Cream - available exclusively at the Leicester Square shop. The new ice cream pairs sweet sun-kissed apricot pieces with delicate apricot ice cream for a light and refreshing flavour that really encapsulates the summer. And, like all Häagen-Dazs ice creams, Apricot & Cream is rich, thick and creamy, so it melts slowly in the mouth making that taste of the summer last even longer.
Afternoon tea tops menus as Leicester Square eatery comes of age
Enjoy the indulgent pleasure of one of England’s finest traditions uniquely combined with luxurious ice cream. Häagen-Dazs Leicester Square is launching its Afternoon Tea menu, providing a unique opportunity to savour a delicious array of patisseries and fruit scones with decadent ice cream. Choose from a tempting variety of teas or, for the ultimate Afternoon Tea accompaniment, a glass of chilled Champagne.
Taste the best of British meat at Leeds, London and Bath
If you are planning a visit to one of the Taste festivals taking place around the country in the next few weeks, make sure you look out for Broad Stripe Butchers (broadstripebutchers.co.uk). The UK’s favourite online butcher will be exhibiting at A Taste of Leeds (5-8June), A Taste of London (19-22 June) and A Taste of Bath (3-6 July). You will be able to sample the company’s delicious sausages (plain and herb varieties) plus gourmet mini burgers, and most importantly of all, cubes of Casterbridge fillet steak.
Revive Juice Bars unveils search for the next Kate Moss
Revive, the popular chain of fresh juice and smoothie bars, today announced the launch of a new partnership with top model agency Storm. The brands have teamed up to find fresh faces and new talent across the UK, and will also be looking for models to star in the leading juice bar chain’s media campaigns next year. The competition will run for throughout 2008, with a number of dedicated scouting days and hopefuls can also enter online at Revivejuicebars.com.
Food festival brings sunny Spain to London for the weekend
Tapas Fantasticas runs from 28-29 June, 12pm-6pm, and is a new free festival created by Wines from Rioja celebrating Spanish tapas, wine and lifestyle. The colourful event will be running over two fun filled days at Ely’s Yard, The Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London E1.
Celebrity chef Phil Vickery cooks up a pudding storm
Everybody loves a good pud! From homemade apple pie to granny’s spotted dick or mum’s treacle tart, everyone’s a winner. But how often do you make home-made puds and do you really know where to start? Well don’t panic! Celebrity chef Phil Vickery is here to save the day.
Tesco event named Scotland's top food festival
Tesco Enjoy the Taste of Scotland Food Festival has been crowned Scotland’s largest food and drink festival after figures showed more than 21,000 people attended the event last weekend at George Square, Glasgow.
Its World Cocktail Day at the Alcron
This year will mark the 10th anniversary of World Cocktail Day, a yearly celebration held every May 13th, at the Alcron Hotel’s Be Bop Bar and at Bugsy’s Bar in Prague. This international event was launched in 1999 through the initiative of the Radisson SAS Alcron’s Be Bop Bar and its Bar Manager, Alexander Miksovic, to commemorate the date the term “Cocktail” was first coined in 1806.
A taste of things to come
British Food Fortnight runs from 20th September to 5th October, and now in its seventh year, the event is the biggest national celebration of the diverse and delicious range of food that Britain produces. To mark the launch of the seventh British Food Fortnight, the organisers have produced a short film explaining why it is best to buy British food. Seen through the eyes of children, the film can be viewed from the home page of the event’s website Britishfoodfortnight.co.uk.
Aspiring chefs take on Ireland’s elite
Aspiring chefs Ciaran Cush and Samantha Freeney are to compete at Northern Ireland’s influential IFEX ChefSkill competition on behalf of Barnardo’s Northern Ireland.
The York Festival of Food and Drink 2008
It’s early spring but the team at the York Festival of Food and Drink are already working on the programme for the city’s annual food spectacular to take place in September.
The tastiest tickets in town
Expect Taste Festivals to be the hottest tickets in town when they go on sale on 5th March. Thousands of passionate foodies will be booking for the fabulous events at London, Bath, Birmingham, Leeds and Edinburgh that will showcase the country’s best restaurants, chefs and fine food and drink companies.
Burns Night Supper – Food, drink & poetry
On Friday January 25th Chef & Brewer will be celebrating the life and work of Scottish poet Robbie Burns with a ritual of traditional food drink and poetry. Highlights of this special five course supper include Chicken Livers with a creamy Whisky sauce, Haggis, Neeps & Tatties, Wild Scottish Venison Steak with Rumbeldethumps and Chocolate & Whisky Tart.
Boost Juice Bars burst into Essex
Australia’s fastest growing smoothie and juice bar chain, Boost Juice Bars, is set to open its 6th UK store this Saturday 8 December, at Lakeside Shopping Centre – following the successful launch of the brand in April.
Flippin’ marvellous pancakes
The 5th February is the ultimate freedom pass for all kids to pancake heaven and is the only time when parents can legitimately give into their children’s pleas for pudding. After all pancake day only comes around once a year!