23rd September 2024
Just a week to go until this year's Thame Food Festival!
Taking place over the weekend of the 28th and 29th September at Thame Showground. The Festival returns with Matty Edgell - winner of the last year's Great British Bake Off headlining the Big Cookery Stage. Alongside a new feature The Wine Studio hosted by Jane Rakison - presenter, writer and author, best known as the wine expert on BBC1's Saturday Kitchen Live.
This year's Big Cookery Stage sponsored by local recruitment company Downtown Recruitment, will also feature Dan Hunter, GBB0 2023 finalist alongside several familiar faces. In addition, visitors will have the opportunity to embark on a tantalizing journey through wine at festival's Wine Studio thanks to Churchill Auctions and Be Upstanding Marquees. Under the expert guidance of our esteemed host Jane Rakison, a variety of exquisite wines will be explored as people learn about their unique characteristics.
Within the entrance fee, the festival will also feature a variety of interactive FREE activities, including:
- Artisan and Street Food Market - A delicious mix of sweet, savoury, hot, cold, vegan, vegetarian and flavours from right the way around the world. There is bound to be something delicious to suit every taste!
- Festival on Fire – showing how to take your Open Fire Cooking and BBQ to the next level with LumberjAxe Food Company
- The Wine Studio - with Saturday Kitchen's very own Jane Rakison holding wine tastings throughout the weekend
- Live Music and Festival Bar – a diverse music lineup spanning eras and genres alongside the very best of craft brews, cocktails and drinks from award winning local and independent artisan makers
- Kids Cookery Sessions – 45-minute lessons with Mrs Bun the Baker (for an additional fee of £5 per child)
- Kids Activities – including circus skills, Thomley's Kids Activities such as face painting, bouncy castle, giant bubbles, tombola and more
- Fun Kids rides and bungee
- Dog Show – hosted by Hearing Dogs for Deaf People bring your four-legged friend and enter them into a category
- The Humble Country Shopping Marquee - step into an eclectic treasure trove of home and kitchenware.
- Wood Carvings – regular live demonstrations of the skills of chainsaw carving
Tickets are available to purchase online now, at £12 for adults (17+ yrs), £5 for children aged 12 – 16, all under 12s free. Gates open at 10 a.m. each day and once within the festival site all the music, demonstrations, interviews, circus workshops and masterclasses are free.
