The second Budleigh Salterton Food and Drink Festival kicks off at 5pm on Friday March 13th with a fantastic line up of culinary expertise from River Cottage HQ, McMillan’s Deli and award winning author Mark Diacono; live music will be provided by The Exmouth Shanty Men and the Ukulele Rat Pack.
The local beer festival will open proceedings and some tasty foodie delights will be on offer in the kitchen!
The fun continues through the weekend with Glenn Cosby, last man standing in the 2013 British Bake Off, opening the event on the Saturday. The impressive chefs’ line up...
Only one day to go until the beginning of Dartmouth Food Festival (Friday 24th to Sunday 26th October), the foodies festival of choice. Guaranteed to be hugely gastronomic and a tasty weekend for all, world renowned chefs, wine experts and food writers will all be descending on Dartmouth from tomorrow.
With a new venue, new sponsor and abundance of exciting new speakers, Dartmouth Food Festival’s Eat Your Words is certain to be one of the many highlights of this year’s festival. Eat Your Words is a series of informative, light hearted and extremely fun talks and discussions from a...
The Budleigh Salterton Buy Local Food & Drink Festival Taster Day has lots and lots of goodies in store!
This fantastic one day fundraising event on Saturday 25th October will bring to Budleigh a bite-sized portion of what we will have at next year's main event in March: With the Farmers Market and their masses of local produce, catering and foodie stands, live cookery demos from top East Devon chefs, a mini beer festival, local cider and wine, live music, kids craft and lovely food to eat for you and your family throughout the whole day - enough to satisfy everyone's appetite...
This year Powderham Food Festival presents the “Theatre of Fire and Smoke” - everyone will be cooking over traditional fire - fire pits, BBQs, wood fired ovens . . . . searin’ and smokin’.
Helen Hayes, PR manager of Helpful Holidays, the key sponsor, is looking forward to the festival “We can't wait to celebrate a third year sponsoring this event. Fabulous West Country food is very much a part of our guests' self-catering holiday experience and we are happy to be involved again.”
So bring out your inner caveman or woman! Feast your eyes on the theatre of Fire 'n Smoke and...
This festival is now becoming an established event in every 'foodies' calendar.
Saturday 4 October 10-5pm
Heading the lineup:
Jane Baxter – ex head chef Riverford Field Kitchen Jane Baxter is a chef and food writer. She trained at the Carved Angel under Joyce Molyneux before moving to the River Café. After a stint travelling and cooking around the world, in 2005 she set up the acclaimed Riverford Field Kitchen in Devon. She is co-author of the Riverford Farm Cookbook and Recipes for Everyday and Sunday. Currently based in south Devon, her latest book, co-written...
Thousands flocked to Ottery for the second Food and Families Festival. The town centre was packed with people determined to make the most of the festival and they were rewarded with unending blue skies and culinary delights.
“We were blessed with an exceptionally sunny June day,” said Ruud Jansen Venneboer, one of the festival organisers.
“People came in their droves to celebrate all that is good about the region, and we were delighted to welcome so many first-time visitors to the town.”
Mill Street market was abuzz with stalls offering a wide variety of local...
The 2014 Ottery St Mary Food & Families Festival has attracted sponsorship from a number of high profile sponsors, from not only Devon but Cornwall as well.
Davidstow Creamery has come on board as Festival Marquee Sponsor. The Cornish cheddar maker’s General Manager, Martyn Anthony, is a resident of Ottery, and believes South West businesses should support South West events.
A regular supporter of community events, Everys Solicitors is this year sponsoring the Festival Cookery Demo Theatre, which will feature cook-offs and demonstrations from local food heroes including...
The Skin Angels were out in force at the recent Exeter Festival of South West Food and Drink, as they continued their quest to raise awareness of the importance of year round sun protection.
Skin Angels, set up in 2013 by Mariam Badavi from Exeter's Purity Boutique Spa, are on a mission to raise awareness of the importance of protecting skin from the sun, even on a cloudy day and aim to arm young people with knowledge about looking after their skin to prevent and treat skin conditions such as acne.
During the festival Skin Angel’s ambassador, singer and songwriter Charlotte...
Skin Angels ambassador, singer and songwriter Charlotte Ward, is launching a song in support of their campaign, later this month.
The song, titled ‘Cover it up’, will be sung live for the first time during Charlotte’s set on the Castle stage at the Exeter Festival of South West Food and Drink, between 1.30 and 2.30pm on Saturday 26th April.
Skin Angels, set up in 2013 by Mariam Badavi from Exeter's Purity Boutique Spa, are on a mission to raise awareness of the importance of protecting skin from the sun, even during the autumn and winter months and aim to arm young people...
Come and meet the characters behind the wonderful local produce that you find in our Food Hall. Find out how they make their artisan food and drink, and experience the tastes and flavours created by their passionate work.
A great annual event that lets you appreciate and experience some of the fantastic people and produce that we have in our region.
The festival will feature:-
Meet the producer Food and drink tastings Special offers
Face painting Bouncy castle
10am-4pm
Just turn up on the day. No pre-booking required. Free admission.
