Foodies Festival announce inaugural London Christmas Foodies Festival
Foodies Festival, the UK's largest celebration of food and drink, are delighted to announce their inaugural Christmas instalment 'Foodies Festival Christmas' - to be held at the Old Truman Brewery from the 28th - 30th November 2014.
Following the success of Foodies' series of nine summer events across the country, organisers are promising to round-off 2014 with a cracker of a festival, bringing together the spirit of Christmas and the joy of feasting with friends and family.
Foodies Festival Christmas sees a range of culinary activities take place in the enchanting surroundings of the Old Truman Brewery, with London's top chefs cooking live in a new open air Chefs Theatre for all to enjoy. Visitors can learn from the experts how to prepare the perfect Christmas feast with a full range of produce available to buy in the artisan market.
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As well as traditional mince pies, mulled wine and roast chestnuts, the festival boasts a huge selection of new features including a Whiskey Arena with a range of whiskeys and malts for sale and a Ski Bar serving après ski cocktails, off-piste snacks including crepes and toasties and live DJs to create a chilled out St Anton vibe. These are complemented with a Soda Bar and food and drink matching masterclasses with experts in the Drinks Theatre; who will advise on the best champagne and wines to buy this season.
The Christmas Feasting Table takes centre stage at the festival, where visitors can sit at communal banqueting tables under twinkling fairy lights and festive decorations with friends and family and tuck into foods served from the surrounding Street Food Avenue, Pop-Up Restaurants, Coffee Corner and Cheese Village with cheesemakers from the UK, France and Italy.
"Introducing a Christmas festival to London this year is a dream come true for us; there really is no better way to celebrate a fantastic year than with a big festive feast. This will be our first festival in East London, so we are very excited to give the gift of Foodies Festival and welcome new visitors."
Sue Hitchen, Founder of Foodies Festival
Visitors should visit the Producers Grotto where they will discover a Craft Beer Market and pop-up breweries, highlighting London's top craft brewers. Visitors can enjoy a hot toddy while browsing local artisan produce to enjoy or have gift wrapped as gifts to take home. A Pudding Hall is a haven of sweet treats with pâtissiers and chocolatiers selling eggnog tarts, marzipan bonbons and macaron; as well as a life-size Gingerbread House serving warm ginger beer and roasted ginger marshmallows. There are also hands-on masterclasses in cake decorating and icing, where participants can personalise eatable treats to hang on the Christmas tree at home.
Just like Christmas day there is lots of post-feasting fun to be had with entertainment throughout the day. Visitors can register their team to compete in the Christmas Bumper Quiz at 5pm daily, have a group Christmas jumper picture taken in the photo booth, sing carols and learn how to dance the Gay Gordon with ceilidh dancing and live music from the Entertainment Stage.
For the little ones, an Elf Cookery School invites children under 12 to bake snowballs and decorate gingerbread men, cookies and cupcakes to leave out for Santa. There are also live reindeers to pet and snow balls fights to be had in the courtyard.
For more information visit https://foodiesfestival.com/event/christmas/