Nantwich Food Festival, Friday,
August 31 to Sunday, September 2.
Featuring gourmet food halls with
more than 200 stalls, food courts
offering a huge range of culinary
choices, celebrity chefs and local
produce, beers and wines. There will
be cuisines from around the world.
The Family Friday Launch
extravaganza will take place from
6pm to 8pm, with street food from
exotic places, live music,
entertainers and surprises. The
festival will be open on Friday from
11am to 8pm; Saturday, 9am to 7pm;
and Sunday, 10am to 5pm.
The celebrity chefs will be Paul
Rankin (the Friday), Andrew Kojima
and Sean Wilson (Saturday), Sophie
Faldo (Sunday) and Nigel Brown (all
three days). The food theatre venue
is the Civic Hall in Market Street.
Town centre events are listed on
five pages of the 76-page free
Festival Guide, together with the an
entertainment schedule. The guide is
now available at the Civic Hall.
The Mornflake Food Hall will be
situated on the Bowling Green (pub)
car park where the Cat Radio and
Vine Inn music stage will be. Love
Lane car park (off the Waterlode
inner ring road) will be the
location for Applewood Independent
and Hall Smith Whittingham food
hall. Also there will be Cat Radio
music stage, the Delicious Trailer
venue for the Delicious Magazine
Regional Producers awards, and Kids'
Corner and more. Cheerbrook farm
shop Food Hall will be on The Square
(town centre).
A town centre map in the Festival
Guide shows 18 locations of
participants - including the
Festival Office.
Three pages of the Guide lists
exhibitors at the event. Charities
supported by the festival are:
Cheshire Wildlife Trust, Nantwich
Pre-School Group, Nantwich Food
Bank, One to One Midwives, the South
West Cheshire Scouts, St Luke's
(Cheshire) Hospice, and the
Neuromuscular Society.
Three competitions are part of the
festival. The BBQ Competition will
be looking for families and groups
of friends to show their barbecue
skills on the Sunday. Children can
follow the Mr Dabber trail using a
leaflet from Kids' Corner (on Love
Lane car park) for clues
to hidden secret letters to make a
word. For eight-to-12-year-olds
there will be a free burger making
competition (3pm on the Friday) with
the judging of the refrigerated
burgers on the Sunday. The prize is:
an iPad Mini donated by local
butchers, Clewlows, as is the meat
and seasoning for the burgers. Extra
flavouring can be added by the
entrants. Full details, including
how to enter in advance, are in the
Festival Guide.
There will be a Park and Ride
service from Nantwich Town F.C.'s ground on the
Waterlode, The Barony, and Brine
Leas School in Audlem Road. There is
a charge of £2 per vehicle.
For more details and the latest news
about the festival, visit the
website.
www.nantwichfoodfestival.co.uk
|
info@nantwichfoodfestival.co.uk
