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FOOD & DRINK NEWS 023
Tom Kerridge’s Pub in the Park Countdown to W
ith tickets now selling fast for Tom Kerridge’s Pub
In The Park tour when it returns to Tunbridge Wells’ Dunorlan Park this July for the second successive year, the acclaimed TV chef recently delighted customers at The Compasses Inn in Crundale with a one-off evening of food and chat. Tom brought down two chefs from his Michelin-starred pub The Hand and Flowers
in Marlow, and the trio worked with head chef and licensee Rob Taylor and his team to create a special fi ve-course tasting menu. Due to the limited size of the quaint country pub, only 50 tickets were available for the event, and it prompted a huge surge of interest from customers across the county.
Rob and his wife Donna fi rst met Tom a couple of years ago at the
Top 50 Gastropubs awards ceremony, when Rob was named Chef of the Year. Tom later approached Rob and Donna to see if they were interested in taking part in his new gourmet food and music festival Pub in the Park when it came to Tunbridge Wells. “We were really chuffed to be asked,
and last July we closed the pub for a week and went along to run our stall at the event. I think Tom was really impressed that we were prepared to make that sacrifi ce, and offered to come down and cook in our kitchen as a way of giving something back.” INDEX is once again pleased to be a sponsor for Tom’s three-day food and music festival, Pub In The Park, when it returns to Dunorlan Park from 12th-14th July, bringing the people of Kent top notch food and cracking live music. Expect amazing tasting dishes from pop-ups of award-winning pubs and restaurants, cooking demonstrations, bars serving bevies from beers and cocktails to Pimm’s and prosecco, all topped off with live music from the main stage. • Tickets are on sale now. To sign up to the newsletter, visit
pubintheparkuk.com
Cracking great EASTER GIFT IDEAS
Easter’s not all about eggs and chocolate…give the craft beer lover in your life a gift they’ll truly love from home-based The Hildenborough Brewery Ltd. Currently available – for home delivery or collection –
is Golden Ale, Wheat Beer, APA, Porter and Best Bitter. • Visit
hildenboroughbrewery.com, call 07557 117078 or follow on Facebook @hildenbrew
Dine & Donate returns for its
second year Building on the success of the inaugural Dine & Donate campaign last spring, Tonbridge-based children’s charity Tree of Hope will once again be
Break the mould this year by treating your loved ones to an Easter treat with a twist – IKEA’s self-assembly Vårkänsla chocolate bunny. This three- piece milk chocolate rabbit, priced £2.95 from IKEA stores, is sure to egg-cite fl at- pack fans and it’s made using only certifi ed cacao from sustainable sources. How fast can you put yours together? • Visit
ikea.com/gb/en/
Forget about rows and rows of boring mass-produced disappointingly small Easter eggs on supermarket shelves, encased in plastic, in big showy boxes. Instead, beat a path to The Chocolate Shop in Sevenoaks and let your imagination and taste buds run wild.
• Pop into The Chocolate Shop, 69 London Road, Sevenoaks TN13 1AX, call 01732 742350 or visit
thechocolateshopsevenoaks.co.uk
encouraging individuals, corporates and community groups to host an event to raise vital funds for the charity. Last year hundreds of local people attended Dine & Donates across West Kent and raised more than £12,000. Events included simple coffee mornings, a fi ve-course dinner prepared by a former MasterChef fi nalist, an Indian banquet for 50, cocktails and canapes soirees, afternoon teas, themed supper parties, murder mystery dinners and BBQs. This year’s fundraising campaign runs until 31st May and Dine & Donate hosts simply need to decide what they’d like to organise and who they’d like to invite. Those interested in holding a Dine & Donate can receive their free pack full of ideas and resources at
dineanddonate.uk
© David Pearce
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