Food Festivals: part one

Whether you like them led by celebrity chefs and packed with entertainment or small with opportunities to meet and learn from local specialist producers, there is no doubt that there is a feast of food festivals that take place here in the West Midlands. Starting from June, I’ve put together a roundup for you. June …

September Events

September is always a good month to visit food festivals, to meet producers and enjoy seasonal produce. My round up this month takes you from Shropshire to Warwickshire, with the return of huge well known events like the Ludlow Food Festival to lesser known celebrations like the Ginger and Spice Festival.   In Staffordshire, the …

Festival Fever

With a lovely mellowness, September gives us a bumper crop of food festivals. From the original and bar-setting  Ludow  Food Festival (8th – 10th) to newbies like Independent Birmingham (17th) celebrating individual businesses, there is a food festival for everyone’s appetite this month. Leamington Food & Drink Festival will be celebrating its 10th anniversary ((9th …

Jump into June’s events

This is a good month to see your favourite chefs in action, with cookery demos at festivals all across the West Midlands in June. Catch Jean-Christophe Novelli in Coventry,  Simpson’s Nathan Eades  at Foodies Festival in Birmingham, Brad Carter at Ragley Hall’s Fabulous Food Festival and Chris Burt at Shrewsbury Food & Drink Festival. Specialist …

May’s marvellous food & drink events

Welcome to my round-up of May's marvellous food and drink events. This month you can brush up on your Thai  cookery skills in a class with Suree Coates or learn more about your favourite tipple as Gabe Cook, aka The Ciderologist, hosts Birmingham Wine School’s first ever cider evening. Over in Coventry, the city’s cathedral …

March-ing on our stomachs

March Events page is packed with food and drink festivals, wine tastings and themed dinners. This means that from Staffordshire to Shropshire, Worcestershire to Warwickshire you have my top picks of the tastiest things to do this month. Enjoy discovering the glut of culinary talent in the West Midlands!

2015 food adventures

Happy New Year! In 2015 I’m looking forward to eating at The Smoke Pit in Northampton, sipping cocktails at The Botanist in Birmingham and learning some new cookery skills at Harborne’s Food School, which I will be writing up as new blog features for you shortly. I am also very excited about two new food …

Trio of new food festivals

From the 22 applications for Operation Footfall support to revitalise town centres, Warwickshire County Council has awarded funding to three new food festivals. Alcester & Forest of Arden Autumn Food Festival - as with the Spring festival, the Autumn Food Festival on Saturday 19 October will have over 100 exhibitors displaying a delicious and unusual …