Save the Date – Great Cornish Food Festival: 23, 24, 25 September.

The largest festival anywhere that’s completely dedicated to Cornish food and drink is back again this September. Prepare to be wowed by a 3-day gastro extravaganza, where over 100 different food experts and chefs gather to celebrate Cornwall’s beautiful bounty and showcase why this popular peninsula has gained such a reputation as the UK’s No. 1 destination for great food and drink.

In a convenient, accessible, all-weather location in the centre of Truro – Cornwall’s only city – the event has become a regular favourite for tens of thousands of people from all over Britain and beyond.

Festival organisers Cornwall Food & Drink are welcoming two new high profile headliners this year - April Bloomfield (Spotted Pig, NYC) and Tom Adams (Pitt Cue, London). These two remarkable chefs have come together to create a new Cornish venture in an old Georgian dairy farm called Coombeshead, near Launceston. They are restoring the original farmhouse into a guesthouse and dining room and will also be using the 66 rolling acres as a working farm. Eventually they hope to create workshops, curing rooms, producer events and general pig-based merriment throughout the year. They will be joined on stage by Philip Warren, renowned local farmer and master butcher, who supplies meat to many well-known chefs and restaurants in Cornwall and London.

The festival continues to be a FREE event thanks to key sponsor GWR and all the other sponsors committed to promoting and supporting the Cornish food and drink scene.

A list of stallholders confirmed so far is available from the festival website and details of the full line-up of masterclasses, demonstrations and tasting will be announced in the following weeks. See http://www.greatcornishfood.co.uk/festival

Stallholder List:

Baker Tom - www.bakertom.co.uk

Brian Etherington Meat Co - www.etherington-meats.co.uk

Brownie Baker - www.thebrowniebaker.co.uk

Buttermilk Confections - www.buttermilk.co.uk

Cornish Cheese Co. - www.cornishcheese.co.uk

Cornish Edible Insects - cornishedibleinsects.co.uk

Cornish Orchards - www.cornishorchards.co.uk

Cornish Sea Salt - www.cornishseasalt.co.uk

Davidstow Cheddar - www.davidstowcheddar.co.uk

Deli Farm Charcuterie - www.delifarmcharcuterie.co.uk

Furniss of Cornwall - www.furniss-foods.co.uk