Brighton’s Food Festival Team have 12 days of events at the end of May.
Centre piece will be the huge seafront Sussex & The World Weekend on Saturday 30 and Sunday, May 31 which this year includes the Live Food Show, Brighton Beer & Cider Festival, Rockinghorse Children’s Food Festival, Brighton Wine Festival, a host of English Wine Week activities and masterclasses, and a craft furniture installation created by Yelo Architects and FareShare Brighton & Hove using food packaging waste.
Festival Director Nick Mosley, said: “Our city’s and county’s growing reputation as one of the UK’s leading food and drink destinations and producers has made the festival team radically revisit our programme of events”,
“This year – with the generous support of our sponsors and supporters – we’re spreading the festival over four main periods to create a platform to showcase the brilliant food, drink and hospitality offering, whilst nurturing the many small and independent restaurants, bars, retailers and producers we enjoy in Brighton and Sussex. We’re also running events later in the year – including a further Sussex & The World Weekend over the August Bank Holiday and a new Big Sussex Christmas Market on December 5-6.”
Surrounding the free-to-enter weekend events, there is an extensive programme of tours, trails, tastings and themed dinners.
Highlights include: The Set Pop Up at the Sea Life Brighton aquarium, A Taste of Guernsey supper club with Cantina, Food Lab featuring seven chefs and producers at 64 Degrees, The Three Chefs go to the Movies at Curry Leaf Café, food trails of The Laines and Kemp Town, a beer & cheese matching dinner with Harveys brewery and La Cave à Fromage at Jeremy’s Restaurant, and two International Chef Exchange dinners at Terre à Terre and Drakes with guests chefs from Vancouver and Saint Lucia respectively.
Nick continued: “Whilst the local food economy is always close to our hearts, our international partnerships are becoming an increasingly strong strand of the festival’s offering. Through our International Chef Exchange initiative, we’ve grown strong reciprocal arrangements with hospitality and tourism businesses across the globe with our Spring Harvest alone seeing friends from Vancouver in western Canada, Saint Lucia in the Caribbean, Läckö Kinnekulle in Sweden, and the beautiful Channel Island of Guernsey participate in our events whilst we participate in theirs, promoting the gastronomic offering of our region. It’s exciting for the festival team and our colleagues in the food and drink industry that some of these partnerships are now leading on to joint European Union projects.”
The festival organisation also hosts a year-round programme Sussex Wine and Gourmet Bus Tours, taking consumers behind-the-scenes at vineyards, breweries, cider makers, cheese producers, rare breed farmers, deer parks, chocolatiers and many other quality artisan producers in the county.
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