‘Secret Garden’ tea is part of food festival

A weekend of celebrating food and drink will be held in a top Perthshire resort this month.

The five-star Gleneagles Hotel will be holding a number of luxury food events, including afternoon tea by two Michelin-star chef Andrew Fairlie, a beer festival and a pop-up seafood bar.

Andrew Fairlie will be hosting a ‘Secret Garden’ afternoon tea from his very own garden, which is hidden within the 850-acre grounds of Gleneagles.

The flavours of the afternoon tea will be a ‘celebration of summer’ with produce and summer flavours from the hotel garden, such as cucumber, strawberry, geranium and raspberry.

Afternoon tea will be served in the Glendevon from Monday, August 20 until Sunday, August 26 for £40 per person.

And for the first time ever, the resort will host its own ‘pop-up’ seafood bar, with some of Scotland’s best seafood suppliers.

The seafood bar will be in the grounds of the estate, overlooking the gardens and croquet laws.

Dishes such as Hebridean crab salad, grilled langoustines, Loch Fyne oysters, lobster roll with thermidor sauce and Gleneagles smoked salmon will be on the menu.

Experts will also be on hand to chat to guests about the seafood industry of Scotland.

The seafood bar will be open from Friday, August 24 until Sunday, August 26.

And finally, the hotel will also host its first beer festival.

The Auchterarder 70 beer festival will showcase small craft brewers from Scotland, including Gleneagles’ Auchterarder 70 beer.

Tastings will be offered and there will be a menu created to go with each beer, including a hog roast, with live music.

The beer festival will be on in the hotel’s own bar on Saturday, August 25 and Sunday, August 26.

Transfers by prior arrangement will also be offered between Gleneagles Railway Station at the luxury hotel.