Following on from the huge success of last year, the second Highcliffe Revival Food Festival, sponsored by Hoburne Holiday Parks, will take place on Saturday 21 May 2016 and is to be held in association with Christchurch Food & Wine Festival. Once again the theme will be to “shop local” and to support the food producers with plenty of artisan food, seafood and good meats from the local deli and butcher. Food stalls, demonstrations and lots of street entertainment are also being planned. A host of leading local chefs will be taking part in cookery demonstrations, and for this year there is also to be a Kids Kitchen, as well as a baking competition.
Celebrity TV chef and popular author Valentine Warner (pictured below) will be returning to give demonstrations, and will be attending a special lunch at the Cliffhanger restaurant.Valentine is a cook, food-writer and broadcaster. He would generally prefer to be found in a field rather than an office, and is most likely to be holding a spoon, a fishing rod or a mossy stick!
Mary Reader, Chairman of Highcliffe Revival Food Festival said: “Last year his demonstrations were inspirational and really fitted our theme of promoting quality local produce – and for that reason we have decided to ask him back.”
Also appearing inthe Festival demonstration theatre will be Luke Matthews, Executive Chef at the world-renowned Chewton Glen Hotel, and recently voted Hampshire Chef of the year. Local Christchurch chef James Golding, Chef-Director at the multi-award-winning Pig group of hotels, and Kevin Brown, head chef of the highly acclaimed Lord Bute restaurant in Highcliffe, will be there demonstrating samples of their new summer menus. New for this year will be Colin Nash head chef from the popular ‘Three Tuns’ at Bransgore.
Mary went on to say: “We are delighted with our excellent line-up of chefs, and also for this year we are to have a ‘Kids Kitchen’ which is being sponsored by our very own Dorset butcher of the year, Chris Watson.”
So save the date and join the Highcliffe community on Saturday 21st May 2016
Programmes with more details will be available by early April, but the latest news will be on www.highcliffevillage.com
facebook – highclifferevivalfoodfestival@HcliffeVillage.
For more details contact Tracey Beesley – [email protected]
