There will be a different look to future Great Yorkshire Shows as the new £10m exhibition hall takes centre stage providing an impressive new showcase for the country’s finest food and drink. Hall 1 will be the venue for a new food emporium – which will feature everything from the benefits of home grown veg […]
Category: Regional food events
Global Group works again with Christchurch Food & Wine Festival
Christchurch Food & Wine Festival has again worked with Bournemouth-based creative and print specialist the Global Group to bring a new sparkle to the branding for the successful annual event, now in its 17th year. The festival organisers initially worked with Global last year, when the design company, which specialises in the food and hospitality […]
Exeter Festival of South West Food & Drink Set For 13th Year!
Exeter’s annual food and drink festival continues to go from strength to strength with tickets for the 13th year selling fast. Returning to the Castle and Northernhay Gardens in the very centre of Exeter, the Festival attracts more than 100 artisan food and drink producers from the region selling delicious south west meat, cheeses, bread, […]
From Barrel to Bottle for Barnstaple’s annual Foodfest
As one of the regular sponsors of Barnstaple’s annual Foodfest, Johns of Instow and Appledore will be bringing the award winning ‘From Barrel to Bottle’ to the event this year. Now in its seventh year, Foodfest 2014 will take place on Sunday 19thOctober 2014 at Barnstaple’s Historic Pannier Market. With a history going back over […]
Extra helpings of cocoa for National Chocolate Week served by York
There’s only one place for chocoholics this week and that’s York, birthplace of the KitKat, Smarties and Terry’s Chocolate Orange, and Britain’s home of chocolate. During National Chocolate Week (13-19 October), this already sweet city will be in chocolate overdrive enabling visitors to eat, drink, make and learn about more chocolate than ever, as well […]
Moorland Garden Hotel in Devon to celebrate the inaugural Delicious Drake’s Trail
What do Sir Francis Drake, Plymouth Gin, Dartmoor lamb and South African wine have in common? They’re all on the menu for a weekend of food and drink delights at the Moorland Garden Hotel in Devon from 3rd to 5th October to celebrate the inaugural Delicious Drake’s Trail, a food festival on the run. Highlights […]
National Afternoon Tea Week Celebrates The Great British Tradition
National Afternoon Tea Week takes place on the 11th to 17th of August. In 1840 Anne, the seventh Duchess of Bedford, started requesting tea, bread and cake at 4pm to stave off hunger until dinner and soon after afternoon tea became a much-loved, quintessentially British tradition. National Afternoon Tea Week celebrates this great heritage with […]
Fodder turns 5
Fodder, the innovative and unique farm shop which revolutionised the relationship between consumers and Yorkshire agriculture, while at the same time giving all its profits to charity, is celebrating their 5th anniversary. The café and shop, which is located at Harrogate’s Great Yorkshire Showground, first opened its doors on the 17th June 2009 and from […]
Haloodies hail first British Halal Food Festival as a great success
Britain hosted its first halal food festival last month. Haloodies, the fans of halal food of every background and profession, religion and race headed for the Docklands of London in order to celebrate the occasion. The simple reason being that they all enjoy halal food. The last weekend of Septmenber saw some visitors at the […]
Swaffham plays its part in this years Brecks Food and Drink Festival
One of the high points in the month-long Norfolk Food Festival took place in Swaffham last weekend, with the enthusiastic participation of practically all the local folk, plus thousands of visitors from as far off as London and Cambridge. The Brecks Food and Drink Festival was a huge success in its first year and the […]