Manchester Food & Drink Festival 3-13 October
Culinary legend Michel Roux will be among top chefs sharing recipe tips as the CityLife.co.uk Manchester Food and Drink Festival serves up a feast for food lovers everywhere.
Back for its 11th year, the festival is the largest of its kind in the UK and includes scores of events spread across Greater Manchester.
The main attraction will be at Manchester’s new city centre business district, Spinningfields, where some of the region’s leading chefs will be showcasing their talent in the festival’s Taste, Dine and Learn Pavilion.
A tented village is to be set up on Hardman Boulevard in Spinningfields with themed restaurants hosting dinners, cooking demonstrations and wine tastings.
One of the key festival themes this year is “Grow Your Own” with tips for turning gardens, back yards, and even patio spaces into urban vegetable plots.
There are more than 150 events planned for the CityLife.co.uk Manchester Food and Drink Festival, taking place in the region’s best restaurants as well as at Spinningfields. Other events are being staged in Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan.
Highlights include…
- Urban Harvest Festival - 3rd October, Taste Marquee, Spinningfields Pavilion
- Cookery Demonstration with John Torode - 4th October, Learn Marquee, Spinningfields Pavilion
- Charity Chef Auction - 6th October, Great John Street Hotel
- An Evening with Michel Roux - 8th October, Taste Marquee at Spinningfields Pavilion
- World Record Attempt by Jamie Stephenson - 9th October, Taste Marquee, Spinningfields Pavilion
- Festival Real Ale Bar and Greater Manchester Real Ale Festival - 10th and 11th October, Taste Marquee, Spinningfields Pavilion
Many of Manchester’s best city centre restaurant chefs will be hosting events during the CityLife.co.uk Manchester Food and Drink Festival including Lee Scott (City Cafe), Michael Riemenscheider (Juniper), Alison Seagrave (Harvey Nichols), Mark Grice (Colony Restaurant), Mark Jones (Choice) and Paul Beckley (The French).
Meanwhile, Chris Johnson is offering to take diners for a morning stroll around his favourite Lancashire farm before inviting them back to his celebrated Ramsons restaurant in Ramsbottom for a “posh” Sunday lunch.
The Festival features flavours for all palates, including a teddy bear’s picnic for toddlers, a Sex In The City cocktail event for city girls, and a pudding club for business high fliers. And there is room in the Festival programme for kitchen politics with events titled “Bring Back Elevenses”, “Cake Off” and “Who Ate All The Traditional Pies?”
Diners will be celebrating the international flavour of culinary life in Greater Manchester with food inspired by Spain, Palestine, China, India, Malay, Japan, France, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Mexico, and countless others, including, of course, England.
The Festival climaxes on October 13th with the CityLife.co.uk Manchester Food and Drink Festival Gala Dinner and Awards, when the region’s top chefs learn which of them has picked up this year’s coveted prizes including the 2008 Restaurant of the Year.
Filed under: Chefs, England, Food Festivals | Tagged: Chef, Food and Drink Festival, Manchester, Michel Roux, October 2008