The 2011 Food and Drink Festival has the best 5-day programme yet with many more local businesses joining in the fun!

Wednesday 21st September

Special Festival menu at Calcot Manor Hotel
From Wednesday to Friday lunchtimes, Calcot Manor is running the following 3-course local festival menu for 15 per person:

Home Farm Beetroot Ravioli with Sage Butter and Courgette
Calcot Organic Black Beef, Slow Braised with Home Farm Coloured Carrots ,Dumplings and Beef Tea
Tetbury Tart with Elderberry Sorbet

GOSSAS Launch Dinner
Gloucester Old Spot Sausage Appreciation Society launches the Festival with a traditional 3-course menu and speaker to celebrate The Gloucester Old Spot Sausage and other pork dishes. Click here for the menu.
Bookings direct with The Close Hotel on 01666 502272.

Where: The Close Hotel
When: 7.00 for 7.30pm
Cost: 19.95 per person

Thursday 22nd September

Tour of Aunt Addie's Project in Long Newnton
Coffee and a biscuit on arrival and then a whistle-stop tour of the social farming project which is driven by creating an experience for local groups - disadvantaged / disabled and other community  to learn about - and reap the benefits from - planting and growing. There are fruit trees, bee hives, 27 allotments, a commercial arm with polytunnels and masses of varieties of crops and herbs as well as countless plans in progress.

Where: Aunt Addie's Project  off The Fosse Way
(Take the B4014 towards Malmesbury from Tetbury and go through Long Newnton.  After the lay-by - which is on your right - take the next left unmade left-turn which is marked as a public by-way.  Then turn right into Aunt Addie's).
When: 10.30am
Cost: 5.00 per person payable on day (and you will take home a small hamper of seasonal veg)

Bread Making Demonstration with Tom Herbert at The Priory Inn
(can be followed by Cotswold Tasting Lunch)
Tom Herbert, the 5th generation baker and owner of Hobbs House bakery who has 'hot bread in his genes' will use the Priory Inn as a base for a fascinating demonstration of bread baking.  The Inn's wood-oven will be used to bake your bread. Please book direct with The Priory Inn on 01666 502251

Where: The Priory Inn
When: 10.00am - 11.30am
Cost: 7.00 per person payable on the day (and you will take home a loaf of bread)

Cotswold Tasting Lunch at The Priory Inn (can be followed by Shipton Mill tour)
A two course lunch based on the very best Cotswold fayre from within The Priory Inn's renowned 30 Mile Food Zone. The timing will work to allow participants to attend Tom's bread-making in the morning and Shipton Mill Tour in the afternoon. Anyone not attending either morning or afternoon events are very welcome.
Bookings with the Priory Inn on 01666 502251

Where: The Priory Inn
When: from 12pm
Cost: 14.95 per person

Shipton Mill Tour
A tour of one of the very best flour mills in the country. Set in a beautiful Cotswold valley near Tetbury, the mill at Shipton Moyne Wood has been producing flour since the time of the Domesday Book. Today it produces a wide variety of Speciality Flours, using both traditional grain and traditional methods. An inspirational tour. Booking direct with The Tetbury Tourist Office on 01666 503 552.

Where: Shipton Mill
(Take the B4014 towards Malmesbury from Tetbury and go through Long Newnton.  After the lay-by - which is on your right - take the immediate next right onto an unmarked right-turn and drop down the hill to the mill).
When: 2.30pm
Cost: Free

Fun Dining at Cafe 53
Amateur chef Tina of The Pink Cab Company will be cooking a locally sourced vegetarian dinner with The Cafe 53 resident chef in an intimate but open plan experience. See menu.
Bookings direct with Cafe 53 on 01666 502020.

Where: Cafe 53
When: 7.00pm for 7.30pm
Cost: £15 per person

Friday 23rd September 

Cheese-Making Experience Day at Woefuldane with Melissa Ravenhill
Spend the day in our Farm Dairy making hard and soft cheeses. You will make two small batches of soft and fresh cheese which will be ready for you to collect a few days later. Throughout the day we will also be making a full commercial batch of hard cheese which you will be able to observe and help with. Your day will end as you prepare your very own hard cheese to press. Your cheese will be cloth wrapped and labelled to be stored and ready for you to eat – three months or so later. All protective clothing is provided as is a bread and cheese lunch in Farmhouse.
Booking is essential as places are strictly limited.
To book please telephone Melissa Ravenhill on 07966 088225.

Where: Woefuldane Organic Dairy GL6 9AT
Cost: 95.00 per person all inclusive (you will ultimately end up with over £50.00 worth of cheese)
Also visit the dairy shop in Minchinhampton at 3-4 Market Square, Minchinhampton, Glos GL6 9BW

Tour of Local Vineyard - Bow-in-the-Cloud (can be followed by Potting Shed lunch)
This delightful vineyard is located one mile east of Malmesbury on a small pocket of Cotswold cornbrache soil in an area which is generally characterised by clay. The Willingdales produce the spectacular medal winning “Cloud-Nine” bubbly and many other delicious wines that you will get to try within the smell of the soil and the gently loping hares.
Wines will be available for purchase.
Bookings direct with Tetbury Tourist Office on 01666 503552.

Where: Bow-in-the-Cloud vineyard SN16 9NS
Directions from Tetbury: Take B4014 towards Malmesbury - turn right at garden centre junction with A429 Shortly after this right turn, take the 1st exit at the Whychurch roundabout B4040 Charlton Road. Less than a mile - look out for sharp right turn signposted Lea and Garsdon. Take right turn – Noah’s Ark is first house on right hand side – drive in to field to left of garage.
When: 11.00am - 1.00pm
Cost: 5.00 per person payable on day (a wine tasting included in the price)

Lunch at The Potting Shed in Crudwell
Delightful country pub setting for a great Potting Shed lunch. See sample menu.

Where: The Potting Shed, Crudwell SN16 9EW
When: From 1.30pm
Cost: See menu

Duchy Home Farm
Great opportunity to tour the organic ground-breaking farm owned by HRH Prince of Wales.
Bookings direct with Tetbury Tourist Office on 01666 503552.

Where: Home Farm, Tetbury
When: 2.30pm
Cost: free

Saturday 24th September

Cotswold Oktoberfest - a Celebration of Local Lagers at The Priory Inn
Come and enjoy a range of different lagers made by a small family-run business near Bourton on the Water The Cotswold Brewing Company. Each beer embodies the passion and commitment that The Keene's have for their delightful product.  Weather permitting, the Oktoberfest will be under tents accompanied by live 'oompah' music from The Swindon Brass Band. 

Entrants to the Tetbury Tater Competition must bring those bulging buckets of potatoes for judging from 11.00am.

Where: The Priory Inn, Tetbury
When: From midday - close  (band playing between 2pm - 4pm weather permitting)
Cost: Free entry

Judging of Tetbury Tater Competition
From 11.00am at The Priory Inn, there will be the judging of the famed Tetbury Tater Competition so bring those heavy buckets and weigh-in your spuds!

Cheese-making experience day at Woefuldane with Melissa Ravenhill
Running again on Saturday - see details on Friday programme.

Jesse Smith's Big Pan
The marvellous sizzling big pan will be available outside Jesse Smith's butchers in Long Street Tetbury throughout the day serving the very best local sausages and burgers.

A Ladies Lunch with The Cotswold Chef
Celebrating the best of what The Cotswolds has to offer, our very own Cotswold Chef ™ , Rob Rees MBE is hosting an exclusive Ladies Lunch on Saturday 24th September 2011. You will partake of a private demonstration and lunch hosted by Rob Rees, The Cotswold Chef ™. Each guest will have direct access to the man himself to learn how to cook and prepare a two course lunch and then enjoy the full experience with friends. Rob has a wealth of knowledge to share and his presentations are full of fun and interesting anecdotes. Bookings to be made directly with The Cotswold Chef Food Centre on 01285 656813

Where: The Food Centre (located in the grounds of The Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester)
When: From 11.30am through to around 2.30pm
Cost: 27.00 per person

Wine Tasting (German wines) by Tom Panton
In the stylish setting of Tetbury Market Hall, the chance to enjoy some fabulous German wines and nibbles with Tom Panton

Where: Upstairs at Tetbury Market Hall
When: From 6.30pm
Cost: tbc

Dinner and Launch of Margot Smith's Recipe Book at The Close Hotel
Tetbury resident Margo Smith will introduce you to her book 'Food, Family and Faraway Places'. A personal collection of recipes, which Margot either wrote or adapted from other sources, over the past 60 years. The book is a culinary journey through her early life growing up in a hotel, and then on to the worldwide travels as the wife of a serving officer in the Royal Air Force.

Guests will enjoy a three course meal designed around carefully selected menus from the book. During the meal we will be joined by the informative and entertaining Jackie Wheels from Oxford Wines, who will guide us through wines chosen to complement the various courses.

Guests gather at the hotel from 7pm to sit down at 7.30pm and the cost is £29.95 per head. Booking is essential and can be made by contacting The Close Hotel directly on 01666 502272.

We look forward to seeing you for what we are sure is going to be a most enjoyable eveing.

Where:  The Close Hotel, Tetbury
When: 7 for 7.30pm
Cost: 29.95 per person per person

Sunday 25th September

The Festival Market
The perfect culmination of Tetbury's 5-day Festival featuring over 50 stalls in the historic Market Place with the very best food and drink that The Cotswolds has to offer, cooking demonstrations, competitions and fun for all the family.

Cooking demonstrations - exact timetable of events to be posted soon:
Xanthe Clay, Tom Herbert, Peter from The Rectory Hotel, Dan from The Potting Shed Pub, Voley Farm, Margot Smith and a butchery demonstration by local venison farmer Arthur Witchell.

The kids will not be bored as there'll be fun for them in the form of Cirencester's fantastic Party Shop.

A great cider and sausage festival will run at The Snooty Fox throughout the day.

The food competitions are open to all - all entries need to be left upstairs in the Market Hall by 10.00am and judging will take place at midday.  See Tetbury Advertiser for entry form or download here.

Categories: Home-grown hamper / a biscuit to eat with cheese / a fruit bread / a jelly to eat with meat / a decorated bun (children under 12) / a home-made wine / home-brewed beer / home-made cordial / rudest vegetable.e.

Where: The market takes place in the centre of Tetbury focussed on The Market Hall
When: From 10.00am throughout the dayy
Cost: free

Live music and pizza evening at The Priory Inn
Rounding out The 2011 Festival is live music at The Priory Inn from Phil King one of the very best acoustic singer-songwriters in the South-West. Look out for a 2 for 1 pizza offer flyer at The Festival Market.
Where: The Priory Inn
When: From 8pm
Cost: Free entry

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