Food Festival is a proper treat – 12th & 13th May 2012

The West Wales Food Festival boasts the best in local food and drink and demonstrations from the best chefs in Wales along with talks, walks, music, magic and many other delights.

Top Welsh chef Bryn Williams will be demonstrating his skills on both days in the Festival kitchen while in the Local Producer Marquee you will find the best local food and drink around from more than forty regional producers.

TV chefs Dudley Newbery and Angela Gray will also be on hand to share their culinary secrets and the Garden’s own Sally Hedger will be providing “grow your own” tips. Estate farm manager Tim Bevan will be doing his now famous tractor safaris and introducing our own organically reared Lleyn and Llanwennog sheep and Welsh Black cattle.

The Children Zone will again be a popular feature of the Festival with the Pumpkin Patch Cookery School taking centre stage in the Great Glasshouse along with apron-designing, badge-making and a host of other family-friendly events.

Award-winning investigative journalist, Joanna Blythman, the author of six landmark books on food issues, and eleven times Chelsea gold winner, the ‘King of Veg’ Medwyn Williams will be giving talks and there will be set-piece debates on the hot topics of the day.

And, of course, there’s the popular Gala Dinner on the Sunday night, when the Festival chefs cook a four-course dinner. This year’s Gala Dinner menu starts with a special reception of drinks and canapes - prepared by the National Botanic Garden head chef Nigel Roberts – in the Great Glasshouse at 6.30pm.

The Gala Dinner starts at 7.30pm in the Festival Marquee with a starter by Wales’ Slow Food Ambassador and chef proprietor of the Wynnstay, Machynlleth, Gareth Johns. He is cooking Terrine of Welsh trout with cucumber pickle, ramson dressing and a hedgerow salad.

Our main course is being provided by Chef patron at The Welcome to Town on the Gower in Llanrhidian, Ian Bennett. His alma mater is the Roux Brothers-run Waterside.

And finally, we are to be treated with “A Dessert of Flowers” by Ludovic ‘Ludo’ Dieumegarde @ The Coopers, Newcastle Emlyn.

Tickets are £45 per head (tables of 10 are £450) and the dress code is taclus/smart – but not black tie

For more information, call the Garden on 01558 667149, email hello@westwalesfoodfestival.com or log on to www.westwalesfoodfestival.com

 

7 Responses to “Food Festival is a proper treat – 12th & 13th May 2012”

  1. shan evans says:
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    How much is the entry fee for adults and concessions please

  2. gonbgw says:
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    Full information on Prices can be seen under Visitor Info – Opening Times and Prices – and under Support Us – Membership. Adult price is £8.50, OAPS £7.00

  3. Kym Barlow says:
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    What an outstanding venue for an event of this kind, it shows the versatility of the site. I attended on Saturday and had a great time, it was good to see the gardens so busy, full of people enjoying themselves in the gorgeous sunshine.

    An impressive range of excellent foods produced in Wales, we should do more to promote ourselves and the gardens.

    Well done the team at Middleton, keep it up!

  4. Kym Barlow says:
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    P.S. . . . can we have some outdoor theatre please!

  5. gonbgw says:
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    Glad you enjoyed your visit here Kym.
    We’ve got some outdoor theatre planned for the rest of the year.
    On the weekend of May 26-27 Chance Encounters Theatre are putting on Pirates, Plague and Plants for Health. This is an all day interactive activity for families who will find out what life was like here 400 years ago.
    On Saturday, June 16 at 2pm, we have Quantum Theatre doing Tales of Beatrix Potter outdoors.
    But keep your eye on our Events page as we may well have more outdoor theatre coming up.

  6. Ron Lovell says:
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    Visited gardens on Sat of Food festival, have not been to gardens for several years. Gardens were lovely. The food festival was poor,hardly any stalls.The info I had read about it was misleading.
    Not worth the entrance fee. Money back please.

  7. rachel evans says:
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    I went on the sunday and there were lots of stalls with fabulous food to sample and I bought some gorgeous venison which was locally sourced and very cheap. The highlight of the day was Luke Jugglestruck doing up close magic for our group, he was amazing. Our group are going again tomorrow as we enjoyed it so much!

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