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 [email protected] or log on to www.westwalesfoodfestival.com
