Dates for your diary

11th – 13th Aug
Foodies Festival Glasgow
Rouken Glen Park
Foodies Festival is a celebration of top chefs, tasty food, delicious drinks and live music. Watch Michelin-starred chefs, MasterChef Champions, Great British Menu winners and top local chefs cooking their signature recipes and giving you hints and tips in the La Española Chefs Theatre. Not only that but you can also join Bake Off winners, celebrity bakers and patisserie chefs in the Cake and Bake Theatre.

The Glasgow leg will feature music from Scouting For Girls, Callum Beattie and an ABBA tribute band. The food, meanwhile, will come courtesy of chefs Omar Foster, Laura Michael and Sarah Rankin.
foodiesfestival.com/events/glasgow

19th – 20th Aug
Great British Food Festival Yorkshire
Wentworth Woodhouse
GBFF promises a line-up of top chefs and bakers this year. It will combine some names you may recognise, alongside some of the best chefs from local restaurants and pubs. Each will showcase a different dish and techniques.

Let them inspire you in your kitchen and learn how to create and perfect dishes at home. They will take you through one (or two) of their favourite recipes while sharing shortcuts and tips of the trade.

Elsewhere, there will be live music, a BBQ Stage, street food, bars and an artisan market. All this and the Cake Off comp for those budding bakers!
greatbritishfoodfestival.com/yorkshire

1st – 3rd Sept
Pub in the Park Chiswick
Chiswick House and Gardens
Pub in the Park is now the biggest food and music festival tour in the UK. Thousands of punters ate, drank and danced their way around eight locations in 2022.

The brainchild of Tom Kerridge, each festival celebrates everything there is to love about the British pub. There will be delicious food, award-winning chefs, music, great drinks – but, above all else, a fantastic time to be had with friends and family.

At the Chiswick leg, you can join chefs Kerridge and Matt Tebbutt; party to McFly, Ronan Keating and Squeeze; and tuck into dishes from The Hand and Flowers and Atul Kochhar Restaurants.
pubintheparkuk.com/chiswick

27th – 28th Sept
lunch!
ExCeL London
lunch!, the definitive event for the café, coffee shop and food-to-go sector, returns to the capital. It offers unrivalled access to some of the biggest names and operators in the industry. Among those who have already been announced as speaking at the event are Adam Martin, managing director of Tesco Hospitality; Amanda Lowe, head of innovation for Soho Coffee Shop; and Henry Ayers, co-founder of The Gentleman Baristas.

The show will once again co-locate with Casual Dining, which is for the restaurant, pub and bar sectors; and Commercial Kitchen, for executive chefs and decision-makers from all types of professional kitchens.
lunchshow.co.uk

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