Autumn Food Festivals
The first Welsh Tapas Festival is being held in Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire this weekend, featuring Tapas Alley, with six tented tapas bars serving street-style dishes using a rotation of chefs – and you can vote for your favourite.
Stay at the Cawdor Hotel, Llandeilo; rooms from £65 per night: 01558-823500, www.thecawdor.com
For more information on Carmarthenshire and places to stay: 01267-231557, www.discovercarmarthenshire.com
For more information and places to stay: 01424-451111, www.visit1066country.com
Left: fresh seafood in Hastings. Right: farmer Jack's shop in Arreton village
www.norfolkfoodanddrinkfestival.co.uk
Stay at The Hoste, Burnham Market. Double rooms cost from £150 per night: 01328- 738777, www.hotels.com
www.visitisleofwight.co.uk
Mersley Farm self-catering cottages cost from £61 per person (four sharing), including return car ferry from Portsmouth or Lymington: 07551-012160, www.mersleyfarm.co.uk or www.wightlink.co.uk
Left: local produce on show at Norfolk's food festival. Right: stay at the Cawdor Hotel during the Welsh Tapas Festival
01539-822222, www.tastecumbria.co.uk
Stay in the picturesque Bassenthwaite Valley at the Castle Inn Hotel, from £52.50 per person per night, including breakfast: 01768-776401, www.castleinncumbria.co.uk
www.falmouthoysterfestival.co.uk
St Michael’s Hotel & Spa, Falmouth, o ers two nights from £209 per person, including a seafood platter, afternoon cream tea and a cocktail, room and breakfast: 01326-312707, www.stmichaelshotel.co.uk
Left: tuck into tapas in Wales. Right: chef James Martin at Taste Cumbria
Contact Wendy at wendy.gomersall@lady.co.uk
DEVON SENT Abbfest, celebrating Devon’s food and drink, takes place at Fermoy’s Garden Centre, Newton Abbot, from 20 to 22 September, with food, drink, arts and crafts, cookery demonstrations and live music. A weekend pass costs £7.
www.abbfest.org
Stay at Ilsington Country House Hotel, from £62.50 per person, per night: 01364-661452, www.ilsington.co.uk
SEAFOOD SAFARI The lobster season kicks o in West Sweden on 23 September. Just under two hours’ drive north from Gothenburg, the Smögen Sea Lodge o ers lobster safari packages for £252 per person, including B&B, lunch, lobster safari, cooking lesson and a blow-out ve-course lobster supper.
www.sealodge.se and www.westsweden.com
Cook Mary Berry
ALL HAIL MARY! Baking doyenne Mary Berry is a guest at West Dean Gardens, near Goodwood, West Sussex, for its inaugural Grow! Cook! Eat! autumnal weekend event, 5 and 6 October. Entry from £8.60.
www.westdean.org.uk
the Goodwood Hotel, from £145 per room per night for a two-night stay: 01243-775537, www.goodwood.co.uk/hotel
Stay at the Cawdor Hotel, Llandeilo; rooms from £65 per night: 01558-823500, www.thecawdor.com
For more information on Carmarthenshire and places to stay: 01267-231557, www.discovercarmarthenshire.com
HASTINGS SEAFOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL
Taking place on 14 and 15 September, this beach-front festival is now in its eighth year, celebrating the best in local produce and catches from the local eet. Plus there will be live music and entertainment on both days.For more information and places to stay: 01424-451111, www.visit1066country.com
Left: fresh seafood in Hastings. Right: farmer Jack's shop in Arreton villageNORFOLK FOOD AND DRINK FESTIVAL
The Norfolk Food And Drink Festival takes place all this month, when towns and villages throughout the county will stage events including afternoon teas, street food stalls, the Battle of the Bangers (to find the best sausage), markets, cookery demos and brewery tours.www.norfolkfoodanddrinkfestival.co.uk
Stay at The Hoste, Burnham Market. Double rooms cost from £150 per night: 01328- 738777, www.hotels.com
SWEETCORN FAYRE
September sees not only British Food Fortnight but also sweetcorn month on the Isle of Wight, celebrated at the annual Sweetcorn Fayre in Arreton Old Village, on 28 and 29 September. Witness the world’s largest sweetcorn fritter, live music, dog and duck trials and snail racing.www.visitisleofwight.co.uk
Mersley Farm self-catering cottages cost from £61 per person (four sharing), including return car ferry from Portsmouth or Lymington: 07551-012160, www.mersleyfarm.co.uk or www.wightlink.co.uk
Left: local produce on show at Norfolk's food festival. Right: stay at the Cawdor Hotel during the Welsh Tapas FestivalTASTE CUMBRIA FOOD FESTIVAL
The Taste Cumbria Food Festival in Cockermouth on 28 and 29 September, has a farmers’ market, demos by celebrity chefs such as Aldo Zilli and Paul Rankin, master classes and workshops, live music, street theatre and children’s activities.01539-822222, www.tastecumbria.co.uk
Stay in the picturesque Bassenthwaite Valley at the Castle Inn Hotel, from £52.50 per person per night, including breakfast: 01768-776401, www.castleinncumbria.co.uk
FALMOUTH OYSTER FESTIVAL
Falmouth Oyster Festival takes place from 10 to 13 October in Events Square in Falmouth and foodies can enjoy oyster tasting and oyster shucking competitions, cookery demonstrations, wine and local ale, a ne food market, arts and crafts, sea shanties, live music and a Falmouth Working Boat race.www.falmouthoysterfestival.co.uk
St Michael’s Hotel & Spa, Falmouth, o ers two nights from £209 per person, including a seafood platter, afternoon cream tea and a cocktail, room and breakfast: 01326-312707, www.stmichaelshotel.co.uk
Left: tuck into tapas in Wales. Right: chef James Martin at Taste CumbriaContact Wendy at wendy.gomersall@lady.co.uk
DEVON SENT Abbfest, celebrating Devon’s food and drink, takes place at Fermoy’s Garden Centre, Newton Abbot, from 20 to 22 September, with food, drink, arts and crafts, cookery demonstrations and live music. A weekend pass costs £7.
www.abbfest.org
Stay at Ilsington Country House Hotel, from £62.50 per person, per night: 01364-661452, www.ilsington.co.uk
SEAFOOD SAFARI The lobster season kicks o in West Sweden on 23 September. Just under two hours’ drive north from Gothenburg, the Smögen Sea Lodge o ers lobster safari packages for £252 per person, including B&B, lunch, lobster safari, cooking lesson and a blow-out ve-course lobster supper.
www.sealodge.se and www.westsweden.com
Cook Mary BerryALL HAIL MARY! Baking doyenne Mary Berry is a guest at West Dean Gardens, near Goodwood, West Sussex, for its inaugural Grow! Cook! Eat! autumnal weekend event, 5 and 6 October. Entry from £8.60.
www.westdean.org.uk
the Goodwood Hotel, from £145 per room per night for a two-night stay: 01243-775537, www.goodwood.co.uk/hotel