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The perfect day at Dartmouth Food Festival


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f you happen to visit on the festival Saturday why not make the most of your day and try and fit in the best the festival has to offer; here is a quick guide on what not to miss …


Start your day with a quick


breakfast bite: you are at a food festival after all! Join us upstairs at Dartmouth Yacht Club to hear The Guardian’s food writer Felicity Cloake talk about her new book ‘Red Sauce, Brown Sauce: A British Breakfast Odyssey’. This includes a bacon sandwich with your choice of sauce of course.


Then head along the South Embankment, making your way through the festival exhibitor tents on the way. There is an excellent selection of stalls with the best food and drink the west country has to offer. Stop off at Sharpham and sample the local cheese produced just up the river, and don’t miss the guys at Flint and Flame demonstrating their amazingly sharp chef knifes. Salcombe Distilling will be offering a taster of all their great products; it’s not too early for gin is it!


As you wander round the Boat


Float, check out Dartmouth Fine Foods and pick up something tasty to take home. There are plenty more stalls in the Market Square not to be missed, and some great live music too.


Head back to the Royal Avenue


Gardens. The chef demo stage should be well underway, and you should be in time to catch Mitch Tonks and Mark Hix (pictured above right) rustling up something fishy and teaching you a thing or two about the


love The Pig Apple who do a wonderful pork slider. Michael Sutton’s Cellar have a good selection of wine and fizz by the glass, so treat yourself to a glass to complement your lunch. Time to get your hands dirty and pick up some new foodie skills! Head over to the Field and Fork cookery school where the lovely Charlotte Pike will be hosting a hands on workshop teaching you how to make simple, seasonal vegetarian suppers.


great seafood available from our local coastline. They are always an entertaining pair to watch together in the demo kitchen. Time for lunch? There is a good selection of street food stalls in the Royal Avenue Gardens. We


If you need a rest, take the weight off your feet and pop into the Food Matters Tent. You should be able to catch the discussion ‘The locals get vocal about wine, cheese and possibly roast lamb’ with James Crowden (food writer and poet, pictured over, top left) in conversation with Mary Quicke


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