Authentic Spanish churros with chocolate sauce, and a range of Spanish coffees made with Spanish coffee beans; also serving hot chocolate and soft drinks.
All the flavours of Barbados! Premium artisan speciality goods including Rum Cakes, Pepper Sauces, Marinades, Seasonings, Syrups & Cordials, Earthenware pottery pieces. All products are from small family businesses; hand made and filled; and only retailed at artisan markets and food festivals, and through our website visit the website
Here you will find tasty, homemade Tibetan food, including the famous Momos! – delicious steamed and pan-fried meat and veggie filled dumplings served with spicy dips and salads.
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 … →
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
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.
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.
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 … →
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 … →
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.
Ten Hides Distillery is new distillery based in Melksham at Avonside Enterprise Park. They will be creating whisky from chalk filtered water from Salisbury Plain and locally grown premium barley.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Fordingbridge Fudge makes traditional, luxury, old fashioned homemade fudge to a unique recipe that uses local Jersey milk and cream for glorious creaminess.
A range of delicious Tonic Waters, made from Welsh Spring Water, with honey to sweeten. Perk up your gin with 10 different flavours including rhubarb, passion fruit, botanicals and new mango – delicious!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Fanny Annie’s is an independent street food kitchen from Dorset, producing a range of fresh grilled cheese sandwiches from locally sourced ingredients.
A small craft cider & perry 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.
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.