A JOURNEY FROM FIELD TO FORK...

NO ordinary food festival, Let’s Eat Glasgow! will burst into life on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 September as it returns twice as big and bold as the sell-out launch event last year.

Let’s Eat Glasgow!, which is free to enter, is the brainchild of Real Food, Real Folk – a cooperative of top city restaurants Cail Bruich, Crabshakk, Guy’s Restaurant, Mother India, Ox and Finch, Stravaigin, The Gannet and Ubiquitous Chip.

What else makes it so different? For some, it’s the rare chance to eat great restaurant food at festival prices. This year, eight guest restaurants – Banana Leaf, Café Gandolfi, El Perro Negro, Eusebi Deli, Lychee Oriental, Martha’s, The Hanoi Bike Shop and Wee Guy’s – will join Real Food, Real Folk to offer 46 dishes priced from just £5.

For others, it’s the big colourful European style market, celebrating the best food and drink being grown, reared and cooked across the West of Scotland, from oysters and venison, cheese and chocolate, to craft wines, spirits and beers and much more.

Add to that inspirational and entertaining chef and celebrity demonstrations, live music and a small farmyard marking the start of the festival journey from ‘field to fork’.

Yet, dig a little deeper and Real Food, Real Folk’s ambitions for Let’s Eat Glasgow! are much bigger.

Through what is believed to the UK’s first major food festival with a social purpose, the not for profit co-operative supports and raises fund for a host of innovative organisations working to end food inequality in Glasgow.

This means visitors to Let’s Eat Glasgow can enjoy great food and drink whilst helping others eat well.

Next week: See how a Scottish physicist and Danish chef inspire Real Food, Real Folk..

Let’s Eat Glasgow, SWG3, Finnieston, Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 September. Advance purchase of restaurant food vouchers highly recommended. letseatglasgow.co.uk