HENLEY FOOD FESTIVAL - Archived
Food Sampling in May
Henley held its first Food
Festival in 2006. Chefs from some of the local area’s and England’s
best boutique restaurants come to the Thames river town, most famous
for it’s Royal Rowing Regattas, for a weekend in May . The
showcase is in the form of a competition. The first rounds of cooking
will take place in early March, but the grand public event is held
at the Market Place, Henley Town Hall in the Margaret Day Room and Courtyard
on the 11th-12th of May.
Some
of the participating chefs and restaurants will be Aiden Byrne of The
Dorchester, television’s
Antony Worrall Thompson of The Greyhound one of only seven chefs to
win the lifelong chefs award Meilleur
Ouvrier de Grande Bretagne, Tom Kerridge of The Hand & Flowers, celebrity
chefs Raymond Blanc of the Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons considered one
of the best restaurants in Europe and Mike Robinson from the Pot Kiln
and many more. Some of the hotels participating are The Baskerville Arms,
The Forbury Hotel, Hotel Du Vin, and the Red Lion Inn. There will be wine
and food samples and items for purchase at vending stalls in the exhibit
hall. Entrance to the festival is free and will run from 11:30 am to
9 pm Friday and
Saturday.
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Between cooking sessions, shop
along Henley’s downtown district
for its many antique shops, or visit the rowing museum in the river park
or the small and curious hand-made clothes museum behind the town hall,
or rent a boat at dockside for a personal cruise. Henley-On-Thames in
Oxfordshire is about an hour from London by car or by train and 20
minutes from Oxford.
For more on Henley see also Rowing
and Revolution at Henley-on-Thames. © Bargain
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