Get ready for a fabulous food festival this autumn as York’s famous Food and Drink Festival returns to the City’s streets and historic venues once again.
Focusing on Yorkshire food and drink and with a 2011 theme of “Dine at My Table”, the festival will feature:
- daytime and evening events across the city and in the Mansion House and York Guildhall;
- evening events in a large marquee at the fountain in Parliament Street; and
- food markets, cookery demonstrations and a beer tent in Parliament Street every day of the festival
Every night in and around the Festival’s market in Parliament Street (apart from on the final Sunday) there will be early-evening entertainment, including a chef’s demonstration at 5.00pm.
A number of the stalls stay open until 7.00pm allowing visitors to browse at twilight, including a variety of hot food stalls, whilst food and drink (including some terrific Yorkshire real ales) will be served until 9.00pm at the large licensed area of the Fountain Café and the Beer Tent. In addition, the Festival’s own stall next to the Fountain Café will be serving different food each evening to complement that night’s theme. Activities will differ each night and will include dancers, choirs, bands, gardeners and chutney makers!
Keep your eye on the Festival website (details below) for further information on the Fountain Café programme in the coming months, whilst some of the themes and start times confirmed already will be as follows:
Sat 17th 7.30pm Fashion City York
Sun 18th 6.00pm Y Factor
Mon 19th 7.30pm Ghurkha Curry Charity Night
Thurs 22nd 5.00pm Choirs evening
Fri 23rd 5.00pm Harvest
Sat 24th 7.30pm Chocolate
The nearby Grazing Café will also be open until 7.00pm each evening, showcasing York’s independent food retailers. Here you can order “grazing plates” of a variety of Yorkshire, ethnic and continental deli items (you can either plump for the standard “snack” grazing plate for £3.00, or go for a £5.00 “lunch/supper” plate).
Across the 10 days of the Festival there will be a large number of cookery demonstrations, cookery classes and workshops, specially commissioned lunches and dinners, a Festival Ale Trail, food tastings and drinks events including an introduction to wines and spirits.
Tickets go on sale on 4 July, and you can find out more, and see a detailed daily breakdown of the Festival programme on the Festival’s comprehensive website here.
And if you’re looking to stay in York during the Festival, you’ll find some great York hotels and York guest houses on Hello Yorkshire.
And if food festivals are your thing, you may be interested in next spring’s Dales Festival of Food & Drink.
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