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21st T


- 23rd


october 2016


he Dartmouth Food Festival is now in its 14th year attracting over 20,000 people to see chefs in action in this beautiful town.


It takes place this year between 21 and 23 october


(Friday to sunday) where there’ll be a wide array of market stalls, celebrity Chef Demonstrations and other activities going on. With an abundance of locally- produced, high quality ingredients and a growing reputation for world-class food, Dartmouth is the perfect setting for what has been described as a ‘feast for the senses’. 2016 sees the return of Mitch


Tonks, one of the Festival’s original ambassadors. Mitch describes the Festival as having “a party atmosphere from start to finish” which is clearly why he returns every year and we love having him and his team! Mitch has become one of the most


Dartmouth is the perfect setting


for what has been described as a ‘feast for the senses’.


respected and knowledgeable seafood people in the country and an acclaimed restaurateur, chef and author in the process. His seahorse restaurant has won the observer’s ‘Best uK Restaurant’ gong and his Rockfish takeaway restaurant chain has twice claimed ‘Best Independent Restaurant’ at the national Fish & Chip Awards. of his books, one of them – Fresh – scooped ‘Best Fish Book’ at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. And his achievements and influence have been further recognised with a nomination for ernst &


Young’s ‘entrepreneur of the Year’ and inclusion in The Caterer’s prized ‘Top 100 Most Influential Foodies’ list. We’re also delighted to welcome Romy Gill MBe who is one of the few female Indian chef/owners in the uK, having opened Romy’s Kitchen Restaurant in september 2013 in Thornbury. she has since been nominated as a BBC Bristol Food Hero, shortlisted for an Asian Women of Achievement Award, was one of five women listed in the inaugural Bristol and Bath Business Awards in the ‘Woman of the Year’ category and was nominated as ‘Best newcomer’ in The British Curry Awards 2014. Tom Parker Bowles listed Romy among his top ‘fabulous female chefs in the uK’ in the Daily Mail and this year she has become an ambassador for Bristol 2015 european Green Capital. Matt Tebbutt is also set to return and we’re so excited! Matt’s culinary career


began with a diploma from Leith’s school of Food and Wine. He completed a traineeship with Marco Pierre White, then moved to the kitchens of Chez Bruce, followed by a stint at Clarke’s where he learned the art of bread-making. He returned to Wales in 2001 after an absence of


eight years and with his wife Lisa, has transformed the former Foxhunter pub at nantyderry into an acclaimed restaurant, winning AA Restaurant of the Year for Wales in 2004. Matt had previously also worked with


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