ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT FOODIES FESTIVAL NEWCASTLE
WANTING some food for thought to help remedy any post-Bank Holiday blues? You’ll want to put Foodies Festival Newcastle on your menu for this coming weekend then.
The nationwide event is arriving on Tyneside for three days of top-notch food and drink with some familiar faces from our TV screens also getting in on the act.
If that alone is enough to have your tastebuds well and truly tickled, here’s a guide to the Foodies Festival...
WHEN IS FOODIES FESTIVAL NEWCASTLE AND WHERE WILL IT TAKE PLACE?
Foodies Festival will run from today, Friday, June 2, to Sunday, June 4, at Exhibition Park.
WHAT EXACTLY IS IT?
It’s billed as a three-day feast of celebrity and local chefs, new food and drink theatres, artisan producers, a Street Food Village, Desserts Theatre and the Chef’s Theatre which will host masterclasses from top local and Michelin Star chefs who will share their favourite summer recipes for you to take away and recreate at home.
With over 200 stalls to peruse at each festival, visitors will be spoilt for choice while they meander between smoked salmon tasting stands, outstanding local cheeses, melt-in-your-mouth brownies, award-winning oils and chutneys, and much, much more.
Learn to bake in the Cake and Bake Theatre; enjoy afternoon tea in the Vintage Tea Tent; taste wine, champagne and craft beer in the Drinks Theatre; buy from local producers in the Artisan Market; kids enjoy the Children’s Cookery Theatre; live music on the Unsigned Music Awards Stage; enter the Chilli Eating Competition; refreshing cocktails from the Bar Bus, Pimms Teapot & Appleton Estate Rum Bus and have a fun day out in the VIP experience.
You can also take a stroll along Street Food Avenue where all manner of tempting smells with greet you.
Now in its 12th year, Foodies Festival attracts street food vendors from around the world, offering visitors the chance to take a culinary trip to all corners of the world.
Japanese, Thai, Malaysian, Argentinian, Turkish, Indian, Korean, Mexican, French and African are just some of the flavours to feast on this summer. With everything from Crème Brulee campervans to flavours of Morocco and paella, we challenge you not to be lured in by the sensory overload of the Street Food Avenue.
WHO WILL BE THERE?
If you call into the Desserts Theatre you’ll be able to watch Great British Bake Off Winner Candice Brown, while Michelin-starred chefs will be cooking their signature recipes in the Stoves Chefs Theatre alongside Masterchef ’s Juanita Hennessey and Lorna Robertson, who of course hails from Berwick.