Rugby Food & Drink Festival Guide 2014 by Caroline Smith / Peninsula Design

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Food & Drink Festival 2014

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Rugby Food and Drink Festival

& Real Ale Trail!

25 to 28 September 2014 Rugby Town Centre RUGBY D

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FREE FESTIVAL GUIDE

including Real Ale Trail Passport

Farmers Market ★ Food Fayres ★ Pop-Up Kitchen Real Ale Trail ★ Special Food Events ★ Kid’s Kitchen www.rugbyfoodanddrinkfestival.co.uk

Welcome to the Rugby Food and Drink Festival and Real Ale Trail Rugby Food and Drink Festival and Real Ale Trail is a four day festival celebrating the amazing variety of high quality food, drink and real ales that Rugby and the surrounding area has to offer. The festival plans to serve up a delicious mix of food, drink and entertainment along with some tasty offers. On the menu will be a ‘Farmers Market’, a two day colourful and tantalising ‘Food Fayre’, appetizing demonstrations, a Kid’s Kitchen and a great selection of ‘Real Ales’ – have we whetted your appetite?

The Specials

Farmers Market Thursday 25 September Enjoy a delicious array of locally produced, sourced or reared food and drink from farms located within 30 miles of the town centre.

Rugby Real Ale Trail Thursday 25 to Sunday 28 September Real Ale enthusiasts will be able to follow the ‘Real Ale Trail’ throughout the festival enjoying a superb selection of real ales, beers and ciders from local and national brewers, along with some great hospitality!

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Check out the Food Fringe events on page 11

Food Fayres

Pop-Up Kitchen

Friday 26 & Saturday 27 September Both fayres will be packed full of delicious and tantalising treats offering a great selection of high quality food and drink, from local businesses, farms and producers. Much of the food will be freshly cooked, sizzling and full of mouth-watering flavours ready to eat! Make sure you also visit the pop-up Real Ale Bar!

Friday 26 & Saturday 27 September As the perfect complement to your street dining experience we’ll also have a pop-up demonstration kitchen, sponsored by Rugby Fitted Kitchens in partnership with NEFF built in appliances. The kitchen will showcase a variety of lively, informative and colourful cookery demonstrations including the Platform One ‘Omelette Challenge’ with Mark Pawsey MP, bread artisans, vegetarian specialities, Man V Food Hot Wing Challenge and much more.

Kid’s Kitchen Saturday 27 September From fruity face painting to cup cake decorating come and join in the fun in the Kid’s Kitchen.

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Don’t forget

a Farmers Market takes place the last Thursday of each month in the Market Place from 9am to 2pm!

Thursday 25 September Market Place 10am to 4pm A great chance to enjoy some fantastic fresh local produce and be tempted by award winning cakes, cheeses, meats, fish, fudge, honey, jams, olives, ciders, breads, real ales and lots more! Meet the farmers, brewers, growers and bakers who all share a passion for home grown products.

Some very tasty music Duke O’layley

Enjoy some banter and music from Duke O’layley – guitarist, vocalist and good all round chap!

Dave Broadfield

Some easy listening folk, bluegrass and Cajun music from guitarist and vocalist Dave Broadfield.

Stallho lders

19 Gales Farm Big Red Pig Co. Cathorpe Manor Fa rm Coulter Lane Farm

Fowlers Flavours Hilltop Farm Hindleys Honeyfields Bees John & Sandy Youn g (Organic advice) Long Lane Brewery Mulberry Farm Norbury Norrest Pipers Poppins Rugby Hotel Rugby Tap Spicefever Springfield Kitchen Tomlinson Poultry Woodhouse Farm Wild & Free

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Rugby Real Ale Trail Thursday 25 to Sunday 28 September Why not follow the ‘Rugby Real Ale Trail’ - an 11 stop pub trail - and enjoy a superb selection of beers and ciders along with some fantastic hospitality, music, food and games. Make sure you collect six stamps on your ‘Real Ale Trail’ passport (on the back of the guide) for a FREE festival pint glass!

What is Real Ale? Real Ale is cask conditioned or bottle conditioned beer. What does that mean? Basically after the beer has been brewed and conditioned at the brewery it is loaded into casks and sent straight to the pub. It is not filtered or pasturised like most lagers and keg beers, what difference does this make? Filtering removes half the flavour and taste and pasturising it then removes the other half, so those lagers and keg beers have had all the taste removed unlike real ale which is packed full of it.

Rugby CAMRA Rugby CAMRA campaigns to promote real ale, encourages local pubs to sell it and supports the breweries in the area that produce it. Visit www.rugbycamra.org.uk for more information.

Don’t forget to visit the Pop-up Real Ale Bar at the Food Fayres

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Foode Fayr

…the first bite The first of the flavoursome food fayres guaranteed to whet your appetite and quench your thirst!

Friday 26 September

St Andrew’s Church 10.30am to 5pm

Don’t forget to visit the Pop-up Real Ale Bar

Stallholders The Cherry Tree The Rugby Hotel Wild & Free y Nibble Nose Cheese Compan Sciolti Chocolates Harkers Fudge Natural Game Handmade Treats Rugby Tap WoodhouseFarm Norbury Norrest Hungry Toad Land Girls Platform One La Margherita

Merchants Inn Jamrock Big Red Pig Co. Springfield Kitchen Chez Raphael Nosh and Ciao Love Coffee Lawrence Sheriff/Lloyds Bar Abraxas Pixie Tiffins unds Farm Shop Gro ey Onl

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Why not drop into our pop-up demonstration kitchen sponsored by Rugby Fitted Kitchens in partnership with NEFF built in appliances. The kitchen will showcase a variety of lively, informative and colourful cookery demonstrations.

Friday 26 September St Andrew’s Church

10.30 am

Platform One

Get ready for a Platform One masterclass.

11.25am

Maria Manager and Foodie at La Margherita

Join Maria as she prepares delicious Vegan desserts.

12.20pm

NEFF

Mushroom toasties Chocolate muffins Savoury tartlets Drop pancakes

1.15pm

The Food Boutique

Salmon and Broccoli Quiche – Discover the secrets of Food Boutique’s signature quiche.

2.10pm

Landgirls Cookery School

The Land Girls are back with their Artisan bread demonstrations.

3.05pm

Ferguson’s

David Ferguson, chef patron at Ferguson’s restaurant will prepare a delicious dish of Pork fillet, sweet potato, pak choi, peanut, Asian jus.

4.00pm

NEFF

Mushroom toasties Chocolate muffins Savoury tartlets Drop pancakes