The Brigton & Hove Food and Drink Festival Sept. 2008
The Brighton & Hove Food and Drink Festival is a celebration of the best of food and drink available in Sussex and is growing from strength to strength in the "city of festivals" annual line up.
The 2008 festival will run throughout September. Click here to see the main events dates.
The festival is run by a not-for-profit company with a group of enthusiastic local volunteer directors who manage it for the love of food and drink, Brighton & Hove and the fun of the events, which bring the Sussex foody community together. The festival's core events are hugely popular and in 2008, for the first time, they have a fantastic market every single weekend of September.
Festival themes:
Key themes which the festival to be promoted this year are:
- Sussex produce, with advice and guidance from respected organisations including the Slow Food Campaign, CAMRA, as well as the local Food Partnership and Sussex Enterprise's ‘A Taste of Sussex'. Over 100 Sussex producers will participate in the local food and drink market on the Big Food Fest Weekend and the festival uses all its events to promote local produce and low food miles. It also has strong links with the new Sussex Food & Drink Awards.
- healthy eating, especially amongst children and families. Fun and educational activities, run by professionals, in the Royal Pavilion Gardens throughout the Big Food Fest Weekend promoting healthy eating. Promotion of vegetable growing through seed distribution project in partnership with local paper.
- hospitality and catering professions - the benefits and satisfaction that training and working in this industry can bring. Local City College students are offered the opportunity to see some of the top local and nationally renowned chefs in action, as well as participate in some of the main festival events.
The festival will kick off with the Battle of the Bars, seeking the best bar tender in Brighton. Always a sell out, we only have 250 tickets to sell. 100 special guests and supporters of the festival, as well as the media, will also be invited to enjoy the VIP hospitality, with a feast of Sussex produce.