When  is  the  festival?

September 19-28

What  is  the  York  Food  and  Drink  Festival?

The York Food and Drink Festival will run for 10 days in September, celebrating the best of regional and world food in the heart of historic York.

The festival makes a great day out. Events begin early-morning and continue through the day with food markets, cookery workshops, daily wine tastings and dinner and drinks at the new Evening Fountain Café leading on to festival dinners in the Guildhall and Mansion House.

 

Festival  highlights:

Shopping
· Parliament Street and St Sampson's Square will be filled for the duration with market stalls offering food to buy and food to eat in the street.
· Shop for Yorkshire cheeses, wild boar sausages, organic vegetables and sticky toffee pudding to eat with Yorkshire clotted cream.
· From hog roasts to paella there will be plenty of street food.
· Restaurants too will take to the street with dishes from:
      o Loch Fyne
      o Hotel du Vin
      o The award winning Thai restaurant Sukhothai in Leeds

Cooking

Hands-on: cookery workshops for adults and children in the Guildhall

· The region's top chefs will be out in force:
      o Andrew Pern from the Star at Harome
      o Paul Heathcote from the Olive Press in Leeds
      o Stephanie Moon from Rudding Park
      o Festival Director Michael Hjort from Melton's
      o Rachel Green from Yorkshire TV's 'The Flying Cook'
      o Rob Green from Green's of Whitby

Besides daily demonstrations in the Cookery Theatre in Parliament Street, there will also be hands-on cookery workshops for adults and children in the Guildhall.

Eating
Naturally there will be plenty to eat at the Festival.

At workshops, market stalls and the Evening Fountain Café - a marquee in Parliament Street - offering beer, wine, music and food including Ghanaian curry and a Yorkshire hog roast from Scott's of York.

In the evening there will be Festival dinners:
· A Victorian dinner in the Mansion House
· A curry cooked by York's own Gurkha regiment
· The York Dinner with food sourced entirely from within the city walls
· A sumptuous Yorkshire Sommelier
· St Emilion wine tasting and dinner in the Guildhall

Clifford's Tower: enjoy a meal and some wine

YorkshireVision contests
Vote for your favourite sausage in a Eurovision-style competition to find Yorkshire's best sausage followed later in the week by the YorkshireVision Cheese Contest and the YorkshireVision Pudding Contest.

Drinking
Among a wide-ranging wine programme, there will be a tutored wine tasting every afternoon as well as the ever-popular Ale Trail. Visit York's pubs with most character and claim the t-shirt.

 

Further  information

For more information and to purchase tickets, call 01904 466687 or visit the York Festival of Food and Drink online.