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Foodies Festival moves to the Downs
Foodies Festival Bristol has upped and moved to the Downs for what promises to be their biggest event yet.
Celebrating their 10th anniversary, the three-day food and drink festival from Friday, June 26 to Sunday, June 28 has stepped things up a notch this year with a new wine and champagne theatre, plus a new tasting theatre, and new craft beer theatre.
Visitors can also look forward to live cookery demonstrations from local Michelin-starred brothers Jonray and Peter Sanchez Iglesias of Casamia restaurant in Westbury-on-Trym; or learn some Indian cookery skills from Romy Gill of Romy’s Kitchen in Thornbury.
This year’s celebrity chef quota is met with the likes of Great British Bake Off winner John Whaite and MasterChef Winner Tim Anderson.
Local MasterChef winner Ping Coombe also will join the residents of Street Food Avenue to launch her new street food pop-up ‘Chairman Ping’.
Ping said: “I’m incredibly excited and so looking forward to officially launching Chairman Ping and our signature pork bun at The Downs this weekend.”
Visitors can also enjoy 3D cake modelling, chocolate making and sugar-craft masterclasses in the Cake & Bake theatre.
Or if you feel like publicly humiliating yourself, you can enter a chilli eating competition and try to break the current record of 16 million scoville chilli (that’s 6400 times the average chilli heat).
More than 200 exhibitors will be flogging their award-winning goods in the artisan producers market, plus there will be plenty of family entertainment around the festival and a live music stage.
Foodies Festival takes place from June 26-28 on the Downs. For more information, visit www.foodiesfestival.com/bristol.
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