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The York
Food and Drink Festival will run for 10 days in September,
celebrating the best of regional and world food in the heart of
historic York.
The Festival
makes a great day out with food markets, cookery workshops, tastings
and dinners. Events begin early-morning and continue through the day
with daily wine tastings, Slow Food workshops, drinks at the new
Evening Fountain Café leading on to Festival dinners in the
Guildhall and Mansion House.
Festival
highlights include:
Shopping:
Parliament Street and St Sampson's Square will be filled for the
duration with market stalls offering food to buy and food to eat in
the street. Shop for Yorkshire cheeses, wild boar sausages, organic
vegetables, sticky toffee pudding to eat with Yorkshire clotted
cream. From hog roasts to paella there will be plenty of street food.
Restaurants too will take to the street with dishes from Loch Fyne,
Hotel du Vin and the award winning Thai restaurant Sukhothai in Leeds.
Cooking:
The region's top chefs will be out in force: Andrew Pern from the
Star at Harome, Paul Heathcote from the Olive Press in Leeds,
Stephanie Moon from Rudding Park, the Festival Director Michael Hjort
from Melton's. You can also see Rachel Green from Yorkshire TV's 'The
Flying Cook' and Rob Green from Green's of Whitby
Besides daily
demonstrations in the Cookery Theatre in Parliament Street, there
will also be hands-on cookery workshops for adults and children in
the Guildhall
Eating:
Naturally there will be plenty to eat at the Festival. At workshops,
market stalls and the Evening Fountain Café - a marquee in
Parliament Street - offering beer, wine, music and food including
Ghanaian curry and a Yorkshire hog roast from Scott's of York.
In the
evening there will be Festival dinners: A Victorian dinner in the
Mansion House; a curry cooked by York's own Gurkha regiment; the York
Dinner with food sourced entirely from within the city walls and a
sumptuous Yorkshire Sommelier and St Emilion wine tasting and dinner
in the Guildhall.
An irreverent
YorkshireVision Sausage Contest promises good fun. Vote for your
favourite sausage in a Eurovision-style competition to find
Yorkshire's best sausage followed later in the week by the
YorkshireVision Cheese Contest and the YorkshireVision Pudding Contest.
Drinking:
Among a wide ranging wine programme,
there will be a tutored wine tasting every afternoon as well as the
ever-popular Ale Trail. Visit York's most characterful pubs and claim
the T shirt.
Information
and Ticket line now open: 01904 466687 www.yorkfoodfestival.com
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