Events
British Asparagus Festival, Vale of Evesham, Worcestershire
Britain’s Best Dish, the ITV1 TV series, is back and looking for contestants. Fame, fortune and £10,000 awaits. Find where your closest audition venue is here...
This month we embrace two UK Bank Holidays, whiskey, honey, watercress, vegetarian food and BBQs, plus much more.
Spirit of Speyside Whiskey Festival, Scotland
Tewkesbury Festival of Food and Drink, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
Dales Festival of Food, Leyburn, Yorkshire
EAT! Food Festival, Newcastle and Gateshead, Tyne and Wear
South of England Spring Garden and Leisure Show, Ardingly, West Sussex
Celebrate the Taste Fine Food Fair, Chichester, West Sussex
Honey Week, nationwide, UK
National Watercress Week, nationwide, UK
Fruity Friday for Cancer Research, nationwide, UK
Festival of Fish, Selfridges Food Hall, Oxford St, London
Arley Horse Trials and Country Fair, near Northwich, Cheshire
Sani Gourmet Food Festival, Sani Resort, Halkidiki, Greece
National Vegetarian Week, nationwide, UK
British Tomato Week, nationwide, UK
World Jersey Cheese Festival, Jersey, Channel Islands
English Wine Week and Devon Wine Week, nationwide and Devon, UK
Taste of Spain Festival, Regent St, London
National BBQ Week, nationwide, UK
29 May–1 June 2008
The Taste Festivals start in Edinburgh. Check out Taste's other UK venues...
Some of Scotland's best restaurants are showcased alongside speciality foods and drinks companies and celebrity chef cooking demonstrations at the first in a nationwide series of top-notch festivals, organised by Channel 4.
At the
delicious. magazine’s Producers' Market, which will feature at
the English and Scottish Taste Festivals, a selection of artisan
producers will be selling and sampling food and drink products. It offers a variety of homemade and homereared food and ingredients, brought to Taste by local producers.
Wine and champagne lovers should follow their noses to
Taste
Wine, sponsored by Wine Rack, where enthusiasts can perfect their tasting techniques in 10 minute Wine Experience sessions.
At the
Laurent-Perrier Champagne Bar, take part in the Laurent Perrier Champagne Masterclasses, a suitably indulgent experience that marries Laurent-Perrier Champagne with fine dining from renowned eateries such as Le Caprice and The Ivy. The Laurent-Perrier
Champagne Masterclasses are only available to those who have bought a Connoisseur’s ticket.
Edinburgh’s Food and Whisky School will provide activities and demonstrations that celebrate Scottish whiskies.
And the popular
Taste Theatre will feature Scotland’s
Michelin-starred chef, Martin Wishart, alongside Nick Nairn, Tom
Kitchin, and celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson. The well-regarded chefs will compete to create the finest interpretation of Edinburgh’s Signature Dish, as created by this year's winner of the Scottish Food Scholarship.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Read all about David Bann, chef/proprietor of his eponymous Edinburgh award-winning vegetarian restaurant, who'll be featuring at Taste Edinburgh.
Other Taste Festivals taking place: