FOOD FESTIVAL FANTASTIC Dartmouth Food Festival, which ran from October 19-23, was a huge success. Bringing thousands of visitors to the town, the festival featured some of the world’s top chefs, and some great community events. Along with Dartmouth’s own Mitch Tonks, Serin Aubrey, Darren Brown, Tom Woods, Stu Woolvin, John Hodgeson, Philip Watts, Adam Parnham and others, were Mark Hix, Fergus Henderson, Valentine Warner, Jane Baxter and JP Bidart. The town’s Embankment, Royal Avenue Gardens and Old Market were transformed with marquees, stalls and demonstration kitchens, and the town was heaving with visitors eager to taste some of the amazing food on offer. The food festival, with Bridgetown Brewery, also launched a special beer solely for use at the festival, named after the First Lady of Food in Dartmouth – Joyce Molyneux. Joyce’s Choice was a cheeky bitter with a light colour and hints of citrus – and was brewed to celebrate Joyces’s amazing effect on the restaurant culture in Dartmouth after the opening of her restaurant the Carved Angel, and her 80th Birthday, which is this year.
Above: Jon Pope, Fergus Henderson, Joyce Molyneux, Mitch Tonks and John Jones celebrate the new beer and the Dartmouth Food Festival
WENDY BOWS OUT OF ROWING CLUB AFTER 9 YEARS. Wendy Ryan has been honoured as she stepped down from her position as Club Secretary and Chairman of Kingswear Rowing Club. Wendy has been integral to the club since its foundation in 2002 – and is well known for her hard work and dedication, especially for working with the club’s younger rowers. The youth section of the club is thriving and the club’s members did not let her step down without giving her a BIG thank you.
At the annual prize giving for the rowers, held at the Royal Dart Yacht Club, Wendy was presented with flowers and special engraved oar by the club’s juniors. Her hard work and great success as secretary and chairman was also marked by the club voting her ‘Honorary Club President’ at the meeting.
DARTMOUTH BECOMES TV FOCUS
Dartmouth has featured on TV this month and been filmed to appear in a special programme next year. Channel Four screened ‘The Hunt for Tony Blair’ by the Comic Strip, which was directed and written by Peter Richardson, patron of the Dartmouth Comedy Festival and Blackawton resident.
Utilising locations around Dartmouth, the film starred Stephen Mangan, Harry Enfield, Robbie Coltrane, Jennifer Saunders and many other luminaries. Local celebrities such as Nigel Way MBE and Kate Ryder of Café Alf Resco appeared as extras in the cutting satire on the career of the former Prime Minister, which was made in the style of a 1940s spy thriller.
Following on from Simon Drew’s
EOS BRINGS GLAMOUR TO DARTMOUTH AGAIN Dartmouth was again graced by Eos one of the world’s most expensive and largest privately-owned sailing vessels. The three-masted ship pulled in to the port on October 25th
and drew
admiring glances until she sailed away. Owned by Billionaire film- producer and internet mogul Barry Diller, the yacht is the very definition of ‘luxury afloat’.
The 92metre long sail yacht has a draft of 5.5m, a gross tonnage of 1,500, and can cruise at 16knots. She was launched in 2006 by Lurssen Yachts of Bremen and was designed by Langan Design Associates. She can hold 16 guests, all living in conspicuous luxury and has a permanent crew of up to 21 sailors. Her glamour, as it has done on its previous visits, has attracted scores of admirers to the port, and town bosses are hoping she visits again soon.
appearance on ‘Come Dine With Me’, it is hoped the TV appearance will give another boost to Dartmouth’s tourist industry, which so conspicuously benefited from ‘The Antiques Roadshow’ last year, and from ‘The Return of the Chef’ in 2004 and ‘Down to Earth’ before that. Another TV crew was also in town this month for new show ‘The Great British Taste Tour’, which will screen on ITV in the New Year. Dartmouth mayor Paul Allen, town crier Lez Ellis and his wife Liz, celebrity chef Mitch Tonks and Dittisham Hotel Fingals all featured. Their contributions will be put together in a special, one-hour programme in 2012 – and all in Dartmouth hope it gives the boost to the town that the other TV appearances have.
Pic from Andy Kyle 43
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