Join Foodies Festival for our 12th year of Foodies Festival at Inverleith Park at 10am, with top local chefs including Daniel Ashmore, new Head Chef at The Pompadour, Neil Forbes, Head Chef at Café St Honore, Mattia Camorani, Executive Chef at G&V Royal Mile Hotel and Kaori Simpson of Harajuku Kitchen, Edinburgh’s best sushi and Japanese street food chef. To celebrate the return of Foodies Festival, each chef will be coming along to Inverleith Park tomorrow morning in their chef whites with kitchen props, delicious dishes, joined by the lovely little 2-year-old Isla who will be popping on an apron and chef’s hat to represent our brand new Kids Zone and Kids Cookery School. Every man and his dog is welcome at Foodies Festival, so our little Foodies Festival spaniel Ruby will also be joining in the fun to represent our furry friends who are welcome (on a leash!) at Foodies Festival this weekend.
Foodies Festival founder and director Sue Hitchen says “This year is set to be our best year yet, with an incredible line up of Scotland’s favourite chefs and the next Great British Bake Off Judge Prue Leith. We’re really excited about our brand new Healthy Living Zone in association with Lululemon, with a timetable of free yoga and wellness classes each day along with our live music stage championing the UK’s best unsigned bands.”
Foodies Festival is delighted to announce that Prue Leith, the new Great British Bake Off judge set to fill Mary Berry’s shoes alongside Paul Hollywood on Channel 4’s new series, will be joining Edinburgh Foodies Festival this summer. Visitors to Edinburgh’s Foodies Festival will be given the chance to ask Prue their questions about her illustrious career, cooking tips and of course, insight into the Great British Bake Off.
Foodie fans can look forward to a celebrity and Michelin-starred chef line-up in the Chefs Theatre this summer, with Scotland’s top chefs showcasing their culinary skills and inspiring the audience with their delicious dishes. There will be a focus on culinary wellness, with farm-to-table dishes, sugar-free cooking and ‘feel good’ food trends. We’re delighted to announce that MasterChef Winner 2016 Jane Devonshire will also be cooking up her family favourites and showing the Foodies visitors how to make gluten-free healthy, comfort food.
Top chefs in the Chef’s Theatre include:-
· Jane Devonshire, MasterChef Winner 2016
· Paul Wedgewood – Wedgewoods
· Kaori Simpson – Harajuku Kitchen
· Mark Greenaway – Restaurant Mark Greenaway
· Graeme Pallister – 63 Tay Street
· Iain Pirrie – Edinburgh School of Food & Wine
· Scott Davies – The Three Chimneys
· Michael Bremner – Great British Menu
· Neil Forbes – Café St Honore
· Ugne Bubnaityte – Great British Bake Off Finalist
· Stuart Ralston – Aizl
· Jamie Scott – The Newport & MasterChef: The Professionals Winner 2014
· Fraser Allen – Pompadour by Galvin Brothers
· Marcello Tully – Kinloch Lodge
· Juanita Hennessey – MasterChef Finalist 2016
· Adam Newth – The Tayberry
Jane says: “I’m really excited to return to the Chef’s Theatre at Foodies Festival this summer. I love Foodies Festival and being a part of the show, having taken part last year shortly after winning MasterChef. When I’m not in the Chef’s Theatre you’ll find me exploring the exhibitor stalls to see what delicious treats are on offer, getting lured in by the Street Food Village or chatting to visitors. I love the opportunity to cook for my fans and to pass on my cooking tips to fellow foodies.”
The Art of Healthy Living in Association with Lululemon
Foodies Festival is introducing a new health and wellbeing focus to Foodies Festival this summer and is collaborating with Lululemon for the first time to provide an exciting timetable of yoga classes, mindfulness, meditation and wellness talks. There will be Eating for Energy talks and top chefs demonstrating how to cater for food intolerances and inspiring people to reconnect with ‘real’, unprocessed food. Essentially, how to indulge the foodie in you and still maintain a healthy image; how to have your cake and eat it! Browse, buy and speak with experts in the healthy living shopping area with a hand picked selection of the best health, fitness and nutrition brands to keep you glowing long after you leave the festival.
Live Music, Restaurant Tents and Pop-Up Bars
Find out why Foodies Festival was hailed the “Gastronomic Glastonbury” by dancing along to the live music on our Entertainment Stage, and soaking up the atmosphere with a glass of Pimms from the Giant Pimm’s Teaport or double-decker BarBus. The Unsigned Music Stage is set to be bigger and better than ever and our VIP tent will have an exclusive acoustic music stage for the first time.
Drinks Theatre
Expert mixologists and sommeliers, including Neil Phillips and Charles Metcalfe, will host a full timetable of masterclasses on wine, whisky and champagne and cheese tastings in the Drinks Theatre each day. There’s a Beer for That will be leading beer and food pairings, so there’s something for everyone.
Street Food Avenue
Now in its 12th year, Foodies Festival attracts street food vendors from around the world, offering visitors the chance to take a culinary trip to all corners of the world. Japanese, Thai, Malaysian, Argentinian, Turkish, Indian, Korean, Mexican, French and African are just some of the flavours to feast on this summer. With everything from Crème Brulee campervans to flavours of Morocco and paella, we challenge you not to be lured in by the sensory overload of the Street Food Avenue.
Artisan Producers Market
A stunning array of Great Taste Award winners will be exhibiting at Foodies Festival 2017, each being hailed as a producer of ‘Exquisite, Outstanding and Simply Delicious’ food and drink. This is a fantastic opportunity for visitors to meet artisan producers from the local area and across the country, ask questions about their produce and story, and stock up on award winning produce. With over 200 stalls to peruse at each festival, visitors will be spoilt for choice while they meander between smoked salmon tasting stands, outstanding local cheeses, melt-in-your-mouth brownies, scottish tablet, award-winning oils and chutneys, and much, much more. We will be there selling our Loch Leven Scottish Tablet so be sure to pop by our stall and say “Hi!”
Cakes & Desserts Theatre
From Great British Bake Off winner Candice Brown to baking extraordinaire Charlotte White, master chocolatier Fiona Sciolti and top local cake-makers and patisserie chefs, the Cakes and Desserts theatre is set to expand to include not only top local bakers but also local chefs renowned for their outstanding desserts. From delectable desserts to show-stopping cake towers, these chefs and bakers will be inspiring visitors to reach for their spatulas and whisks at home to recreate their delicious summer bakes. Avid bakers can get hands on with our practical baking masterclasses or bring along your best bake to enter our very own Foodies Bake Off competition judged at 3pm each day with a KitchenAid Mini for the winner! The Chocolate, Cake and Dessert Village with freshly baked breads, sponges, tarts, jellies and desserts gives you the opportunity to taste, decorate and learn from local experts. Afternoon tea can be enjoyed in the beautifully decorated Vintage Tea Room, where teas, handmade cakes and scones with clotted cream and jam are served on china from a tea trolley by vintage styled tea ladies and gentlemen, and vintage music for ambience.
Kids Zone and Kids Cookery School
The Kids Cookery School is a chance for the whole family to join in while the children are introduced to new food and flavours from around the world. There will be fun science inspired kids cookery with Kiddy Cook leading classes on ‘Marvellous Microbes’, science experiments you can eat, making sherbet and ‘Fizz! Bang! Wallop!’ classes on how Co2 makes dough rise as they make bread bubble bombs, carbon dioxide rockets and delicious dough balls with homemade garlic butter with the kids. In addition there will be outdoor activities, simple crafts, toys, books, bouncy castles and trampolines, giant hula hoops, giant Jenga, chess and garden games. Private toilets and a nursing area will also be included.
Live Music, Restaurant Tents and Pop-Up Bars
Find out why Foodies Festival was hailed the “Gastronomic Glastonbury” by dancing along to the live music on our Entertainment Stage together with Success Express, with local favourites taking to the stage. Enjoy the music and soak up the atmosphere with a glass of Pimms from the Giant Pimm’s Teaport, a rum cocktail from the Rum Galleon Ship, gin and tonic from the Giant Gin Pot or bask in the sun atop the double-decker BarBus.
Don’t forget to stop by one of the amazing restaurant tents, which champion new restaurants and provide visitors with the first taste of newly launched menus – the only difficulty is deciding where to dine with such a culinary feast on offer! Restaurant tents include Bilbao Tourist Board, celebrating the new direct Edinburgh-Bilbao route with Spanish delicacies, CAU Steak Restaurant with it’s distinct Buenos Aires twist and Maki and Ramen restaurant with freshly made sushi and steaming hot ramen.
VIP: The Red Carpet Welcome in Association with Anthropologie
The Foodies Festival VIP experience will be taken to a new level in 2017 with Anthropologie styling the VIP area along with a top florist, with exclusive VIP creative summer workshops, champagne tasting sessions, and ‘Meet the Chef’ sessions held in the comfort of the VIP area, complimentary glass of fizz in hand. The VIP lounge will also have a new deli and gourmet snacks area and complimentary, exclusive Foodies Festival tote bags with VIP goodies inside. Live music on the VIP acoustic music stage will add to visitors’ luxury experience in VIP and make their time at Foodies Festival all the more memorable.
Festival Highlights:
· Art of Health Living and Balanced Lifestyle with Yoga Classes
· Grow Your Own
· Brand New Creative Summer Workshops
· Michelin-star, celebrity and top local chefs cooking in the Chefs Theatre
· More award-winning producers than ever before
· Champagne, wine, gin, rum and craft beer masterclasses
· Cake Off Competition and the famous Chilli-Eating Challenge
· Live Music from local bands at the Unsigned Music Awards Stage
· Burlesque Baker Charlotte White and patisserie chefs whipping up summer bakes in the Cakes & Desserts Theatre