Roz Ambler – Devizes Food and Drink Festival | Celebrating the best food, produce & drink in Wiltshire

And the winners were…..

The Raffle Prize winners were: Golf for 4 at Bowood – Gareth Beynam A hamper from Wadworth – Ben Morris Subscriptions to Bake & Decorate magazine – Elaine Gale and Rosemary Ryan £20 to spent at Olivia Nails – Maria £20 to spend at Condado Lounge – Richard Sunday Roast for 2 at The Hour Glass – Paul Raggett £25 to spend at the Lamb, Urchfont – Sue Jole £20 voucher for I Spice – Richard Tomason Afternoon Tea at The Bear – Catherine Woodruff Hot Rock dining for 2 at the Castle – Teresa Howard Pinch of Nom family … →

Queen Elizabeth II

The Devizes Food and Drink Festival is saddened to learn of the death of Queen Elizabeth II. We are thankful and grateful for her 70 years of dedicated service and join with the country in sending our deepest sympathy to Her Majesty’s family

The Black Farmer

There’s a chance to sample these delicious sausages on the stand, and then buy your favourites to take home. Or snap up some of the sauces, relishes, dairy products and crisps on offer.

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Natural Flames

Delicious home made pizzas, cooked in a wood fired oven before your very eyes. All the popular favourites, plus a chocolate version for the sweet toothed.

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WINKLEPICKER

This travelling seafood and oyster bar sells sustainable fish mainly from the South West and Gower, always from the U.K.

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Four Friends Drinks

Introducing Napo, a natural, smooth, lemon-infused spirit made from wholesome ingredients with no additives, sweeteners or preservatives. Hand crafted with passion and Polish pride.

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Hollychocs

Former Cadbury engineer Holly designs recipes to make her chocolates sing to your senses. A perfect gift (or treat for yourself).

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Gourmet Goat Farm

A one-stop shop for all things goat! Goat meat, milk, award-winning cheeses, butter, soaps and lotions, goat curry spice blends and now goat milk ice cream! All very proudly British.

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DEVIZES & DISTRICT FOODBANK

Award winning Devizes restaurant Bengal Bite are fundraising for the Devizes and District Foodbank demonstrating and offering three delicious recipes.

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Since we last saw you

2021 seems a long time ago. After last year’s festival we did the washing up, donated the proceeds from our charity raffle and kitchenalia stall to three local charities, and had a breather. And of course we published the winning pies from the New Pie for Devizes competition, see below Then the Ukraine War started, and we just had to do something for the refugees. What we do best is feed people, and in record time we put together a community supper. People and local companies were wonderfully generous, with donations of ingredients, table decor, even sunflower seeds that are … →

The new Devizes Pies

In 2021, we asked people to compete to create a new Pie for Devizes. The entries were delicious, and the judges had a hard time deciding on the winners, but in the end these two had the edge. DEVIZES PICNIC PIE Created by Sue Lippiat Ingredients Hot water crust pastry 1 lb plain flour 6 oz lard 1 tsp fine salt 1 egg yolk ¾ pint water Filling 7 eggs and I yolk 115g packet stuffing 600g pork sausage meat 250 g bacon, lean & fat, minced Boiled new potatoes, halved Cornichons Jar of roasted red … →

Tuga Pastries

Authentic award winning Pastel de Nata created by Jose the Baker using organic milk, free range eggs and artisan flour. The true taste of Portugal.

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Street Food and Artisan Producer Market

Devizes Market Place

Saturday 24th September, 10 am – 4 pm

Stalls, Music, Wadworth Bar & Pub Games. So much to choose from at our fabulous street food and artisan food and drink market. Spend the day browsing and sampling wonderful dishes and take home great buys from our local producers and traders. Enjoy foot-tapping music from The Decades. Don’t miss the Wadworth Pop Up Pub, complete with Skittle Alley and Garden Jenga, pub snacks and pies. Sit back with a pint of Wadworth ale, or your choice of another drink, and enjoy the festival vibe.

Wadworth are lead sponsors of the Festival

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JB’s Seoul Shack

JonnyB lived for over ten years in South Korea, and fell in love with Korean street food. Come and try his Gilgeori Toast (a Korean spin on a toastie) and Gamja, similar to corndogs. You’ll love them.

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Ten Hides Distillery

Ten Hides Distillery is a new (opened this year) distillery in Poulshot, creating whisky from chalk filtered water from Salisbury Plain and locally grown premium barley.

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A MOVEABLE FEAST

Winkworths, Market Place, SN10 1HT

Saturday 24th September. 7.30 pm £18

Enjoy a deceptively delicious dinner in the prestigious home of Winkworth Estate Agents. Conveniently situated in the heart of Devizes, the premises offer comfortable dining opportunities, with plenty of space for entertaining. Spacious plates, ample glassware and cutlery within easy reach of the food, will make this the perfect setting for a convivial evening and a property themed home-made meal.

Hills Waste Management are sponsors of all Dine Somewhere Different events.

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There’s a Buzz about Bees

Rowdefield Farm, Conscience Lane SN10 2JE

Sunday 25^th September 11 am £10 (12 yrs & over)

Some of Wiltshire’s keenest beekeepers will be showing us their hives and explaining the fascinatingly intricate life of the bee and how honey is made and harvested. Experts will be on hand to give advice and talk about the joys and tribulations of becoming a beekeeper. Tea and coffee with honey cakes and biscuits will be available as well as some bee related products [honey, candles etc] for sale.

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The Teddy Bears’ Picnic

Hillworth Park, SN10 5HB

Sunday 25th September 3 pm £3 (10 yrs & under)

If you go down to the park today, you’re sure to have fun and games. And colouring. And stories. And songs. And a yummy teddy-themed picnic! Bring your special teddy and an adult to make sure teddy behaves.

We will be running a Field Hospital for any teddy requiring minor injury treatment. Bring in damaged bears for diagnosis and emergency first aid from expert bear doctors.

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SHOOT, EAT, AND LEAVE

The Ranges, Station Road SN10 1BZ

Monday 26th September 6 – 9.30 pm £25 (18 +)

Hidden under a railway tunnel in Station Road, the Wiltshire Shooting Centre houses state-of-the-art target systems and space for us to host a dinner in an unusual venue. Come at 6, and have an hour of supervised shooting, no experience necessary, before opening that bottle of wine you have brought along. Then enjoy a tasty three course dinner.

Hills Waste Management are sponsors of all Dine Somewhere Different events.

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The Great Foodie Quiz

The Literary & Scientific Institute, SN10 1JJ

Monday 26th September 7.30 pm £12 team of 4

With cryptic questions only loosely connected to Food and Drink, this is a firm fixture at the Festival. If you instantly realise ‘Punch Moll has Gun’ is not a different outcome for seaside puppets but an anagram of Ploughman’s Lunch, this is the quiz for you. Nibbles will be provided to feed the brain cells.

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HAMPSHIRE GLUTEN FREE COMPANY

Home made gluten and wheat free bakes, both sweet and savoury. Plus confectionery and preserves.

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BUG GRUB – FOOD OF THE FUTURE?

Cheese Hall, SN10 1BN

Tuesday 27th September 12.30 pm £18

Flying prawns, anyone? That is how entomologist, author, academic, television presenter and explorer George McGavin thinks of insects, and he will be talking about how we should be incorporating them into our diet, and frying some up as an optional extra in our 2 course lunch. An entertaining, informative, scientific and possibly challenging experience.

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BACK TO SKOOL

Conservative Club, Long Street, SN10 1NW

Tuesday 27th September 7 pm £20.00

Remember yellow, pink or green custard, frogspawn and the never to be repeated liver poached in water? We present elevated school dinners, this time properly cooked and very tasty! Banish those dreadful memories, this will be therapy for those damaged by blancmange and immobile gravy. Optional dress code – school uniform or teaching outfits. And no running in the corridors!

Blueleaf Propery are sponsors of this event.

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BRUNCH WITH FELICITY CLOAKE

The Peppermill SN10 1BL

Wednesday 28th September. 10 am £16

Meet the Guardian’s creator of the How to Cook the Perfect column, Felicity Cloake, as she talks to the Daily Telegraph’s Xanthe Clay about her new book ‘Red Sauce, Brown Sauce – a British Breakfast Odyssey’. Both sauces will be available with the full English Breakfast Brunch being served. Wilf has been invited and is considering attending.

Copies of the book and Felicity’s others will be available to buy and will be signed.

This event is sponsored by Walter Rose & Son

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Tales & food of the Eastern Med

St John’s Parish Rooms, Long Street, SN10 1NP

Wednesday 28th September 7 pm £20

After a cocktail, a lavish spread of hot and cold meze will be offered, complemented by a selection of readings from the lands where such foods are enjoyed – Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon, Egypt and more. We are pleased to announce there will be a snatch of Khalil Goubran in the original language, plus a translation for those whose Arabic is rusty.

This event is sponsored by Devizes Books

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A PRACTICAL COOKERY COURSE

Etchilhampton

Thursday 29th September 10 am £20

We are operating a waiting list, so if you would be interested in attending please email via the contact form.

Boning a chicken demystified! Come to expert Janey Hillier’s country kitchen for a step-by-step friendly lesson on how to bone and stuff a chicken. A hands-on cookery class ending with a delicious easy-to-serve dish to take home. Free range chicken and stuffing ingredients provided. Bring your own knives and a pinny. Address supplied with tickets.

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A’BECKETT’S VINEYARD

English wine, cider and apple juice, grown and made just five miles from Devizes.

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Bath Soft Cheese Co

A range of delicious, award-winning organic cheeses.

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BRADGATE WOODCRAFT

Beautiful hand made wooden chopping and serving boards, knife blocks, door stops, cheese knife holder sets and charming wooden mice.

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We Meat Again

Delicious burgers and loaded fries from a locally based company that uses locally sourced ingredients wherever possible.

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Honeycombers

A treasure trove of raw artisan honeys from all over Britain, plus a range of other honey and bee related products.

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Amore Prosecco

Take a refreshing break from market shopping with a sparkling glass of prosecco from this stylish bar.

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FORDINGBRIDGE FUDGE

Fordingbridge Fudge makes traditional, luxury, old fashioned homemade fudge to a unique recipe that uses local Guernsey milk and butter for glorious creaminess.

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Waitey’s

Delicious spiced pastes, chutneys, marinades and condiments with flavours from around the world, made just down the road in Calne. Try before you buy.

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Buzbee’s Wales

A range of delicious Tonic Waters, made from Welsh Spring Water, with honey to sweeten. Perk up your gin with 9 different flavours including rhubarb, passion fruit and botanicals – delicious!

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FAIRY GLEN BREWERY

Fairy Glen is a small brewery based in South Wales, who aim to create traditional, easy drinking session beers. They cask, keg and can the beers they produce, and will be serving three of them at the Market.

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WADWORTH

Take a moment during the day to enjoy a pie and a pint at Wadworth’s pop-up Pub. Wadworth has been brewing its beers in the heart of Devizes since 1875 and will be serving up some of its most popular brews, or why not buy some to take home?

Wadworth are lead sponsors of the Devizes Food and Drink Festival.

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COFFEE BEANS & CHOCOLATE DREAMS

The Gourmet Brownie Kitchen, Maryport Street SN10 1AH

Thursday 29h September 10 am £10

Nibble on some perfect brownies, made in Poulshot, while comparing different types of coffee guided by an expert from Hilperton based coffee company Dusty Ape. A lovely event that is supporting local businesses.

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MURDER MYSTERY DINNER

Corn Exchange, SN10 1HS

Thursday 29th September 7.00 £22

A dastardly death on board a yacht in the 1930s. Can you help crack the crime, over a delicious three course dinner? The All Cannings Players bring you Keeled Over, a murder mystery involving a group of elegant socialites on holiday in the South of France. There’s a prize for the amateur sleuth who identifies the villain.

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Lunch among the veg

Windsor Drive Allotments.

Friday 30th September 1.15 pm £13

Enjoy a garden-fresh lunch in the shelter of a tractor shed and enjoy seeing how other people’s vegetables are progressing. There’s nothing like gazing at a neat row of leeks, or beans, or radishes to get the culinary juices flowing, particularly when the meal has been cooked by Dine Somewhere Different chef of many years’ standing, the one and only Roger Day. Afterwards enjoy a stroll round the plots, pond and woods if you like, but bring sensible footwear.

Hills Waste Management are sponsor of all Dine Somewhere Different events.

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Signwriting Workshop

An expert tutorial at Wadworth Brewery

Friday 30th September. 1 – 2 pm £25

This event is now sold out, but we are operating a waiting list in case anyone cannot come on the day. To go on the list, please contact us via the contact form

Join a select group to learn all about lettering from Wadworth’s signwriter. You will create a perfect single letter on a tile to take home, but not before having a refreshing drink as a reward for your hard work.

Wadworth are lead sponsor of the Festival

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Foraging for a feast

Caen Hill Locks Car Park, SN10 1RF

Saturday 1st October. 9.30 am £19

or 12 noon £19*

Join forager Rob Gould, and chef Alex Mcallister-Lunt for guided walks around the Jubilee Plantation beside the Caen Hill locks and gather wild ingredients that Alex will subsequently prepare for a magnificent multi-course dinner in the evening. Whilst you walk, you will talk about some key principles of foraging responsibly and will also touch on the law regarding the harvesting of wild food. There will be plenty of opportunities to discuss the plants you see with both Rob and Alex, including how they can be used in the kitchen.

The noon walk is led by Rob, as Alex will be in the kitchen preparing the banquet.

*Reduced ticket price available for walk + banquet

This event is sponsored by The Healthy Life

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Dog’s Dinner

Fox & Hounds, Nursteed, SN10 3HJ

Saturday 1^st October. 12.30 pm £15 Dogs eat FREE

Take your dog(s) on a date!. We will be serving a two course lunch for owners, and a canine meal for accompanying dogs. Dogs’ dinners are supplied by local company Hug, who specialise in freshly prepared dog meals using natural and healthy ingredients. Special Guest Cushla Lamen, a Galen Myotherapist who specialises in canine massage, will teach you two massage techniques which are suitable for dogs of all ages, sizes and breeds.

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WILD HARVEST BANQUET

St Joseph’s School, SN10 1DD

Saturday 1st October 7.30 pm £35*

An evening of unusual culinary adventure. Come and experience a uniquely delicious multi-course meal that’s creative, interesting, generous and exquisitely presented while also embracing the sustainable ethics of food and how it’s produced today. Created by chef Alex Mcallister-Lunt and inspired by the various foraged plants and wild foods gathered by Rob and Alex together with festival walkers, the meal will include some of best seasonal produce available from local producers. This feast goes above and beyond anything you’ve experienced before!

*Reduced ticket price available for walk + banquet. Bookings for this event close on 24th September.

This event is sponsored by NFU Marlborough

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COALS

Gourmet, char-grilled burgers, butchers’ sausages, pulled pork and posh kebabs with home made relishes and marinades.

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Cherry Tree Preserves

Since 1997 Cherry Tree Preserves have focussed on producing the finest chutneys, preserves, marmalades with flavours to excite tastebuds everywhere.

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SCOUT & SAGE

Scout & Sage Micro Distillery produce award winning gin and are based in the village of Semington, Wiltshire.

They distill using traditional methods on an handmade copper pot still.

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Niche Alcohol Supplies

Cherish every note of the divinely distilled, award-winning spirits from Niche Alcohol Supplies. Visit them and taste these amazing spirits.

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THE GOURMET BROWNIE KITCHEN

Artisan brownies in a huge variety of flavours including vegan and gluten free options.

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De la cuisine

Cathy specialises in making Japanese food with Filipino fusion. Everything is freshly cooked, and locally sourced where possible.

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Stainswick Farm Oil

Oil from rapeseed grown, pressed and bottled on the farm, minimising food miles and maximising quality and taste.

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Jacqui’s Homemade Sweets

Jacqui’s Homemade Sweets makes different flavours of fudge, cake, pies and crumbles, and now vegetarian savoury quiches, too.

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Rutts Lane Cider

A small craft cider producer which uses apples that would mostly otherwise be wasted. Only local apples are used for Rutts Gold Cider, while other ciders are made from West Country cider apples from selected specialist orchards in Dorset and Hereford. If you have a productive apple tree, read on.

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The Wiltshire Chilli Farm

With a decidedly un-PC take on the hot sauce world, Fire Foods bring you a risqué take on flavour!

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Glastonbury Cheese

A fabulous range of ‘Glastonbury’ artisan west country cheeses, from cow’s, ewe’s and goat’s milk, now available by mail order.

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Pigs, glorious pigs

West End Farm, Bishops Cannings, SN10 2LL

Sunday 2nd October 2 pm £10 adult, £5 children (5-12)

How does a responsible farmer look after his livestock? Visit local farmers, Cameron and Muriel Naughton who have been rearing their RSPCA assured quality pigs for over twenty years and discover how a quality porker comes to your table. Visit the pig shelters up on the Downs, play with the piglets, learn how higher welfare standards ensures a better product and then return to the farm for tea and home-made cakes. There will also be an opportunity to sample some farm pork products.

This event does not have disabled access and is not suitable for very young children. Transport to see the animals will be by farm vehicles and a safety waiver will need to be signed by all.

This event is sponsored by NFU Mutual

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