Friday 8th to Saturday 16th July Food delight and entertainment!
The Oundle Food Festival, part of the Oundle International Festival, has become one of the region’s top gastronomic events. The Street Market on Saturday 16th July completes the week’s celebration of good food and drink in many of the local establishments with many restaurants and pubs show-casing a wealth of regional fayre. The opportunity to dine out before one of the International Festival’s lunchtime recitals or evening concerts, cinema and theatre, makes Oundle a great destination this summer!
The bunting and bustle of the Street Market in the picturesque Market Square is a sight to behold. Around 70 stalls selling some of the country’s finest foods and drink provides a chance for both locals and visitors to meet the people who raise, make or grow their delicious products – knowing the provenance of what you are consuming makes it taste that little bit nicer!
This year’s sponsor, the Hambleton Bakery, which has recently reopened a shop at Oundle Wharf, is one of the many stall holders who return by popular demand. There are also some new-comers: Bakers Bangers, who produce cold and smoked sausages and home-cured bacon; The Little Smoke House, who sell a selection of home-smoked cheeses and spices; The Cuckoo Coffee Company; Profumo Coffee Company and The Teaspoon Tea Company.
Festival favourites, the Oundle Fringe performers, will provide entertainment throughout the day. The ever-popular Tap & Sync, Oundle’s local Appalachian dance formation and American traditional formation dance team, Kick Start, will take to the stage in between short sets by local duos Matt Carter & Lottie Dolby and Lesley Curtis & Tony Harris and the band Short Measures. Street performers will mingle with the crowd, adding to the atmosphere. A park and ride service, provided through Oundle School, will be available from the Oundle Wharf.
Throughout the week the Falcon Inn in Fotheringhay and the Tap and Kitchen restaurant in Oundle are running special Food Festival menus which highlight local produce, and Seven Wells Butchers and Stu- Pots of Oundle are offering 10% discounts on certain products. On Saturday 16th July between 11.30am and 2.30pm Barnwell Park will once again be holding their very popular Teddy Bear’s Picnic and local author, Barbara Cousins, will be signing her new book Easy Tasty Healthy in the Oundle Book Shop between 10am-2pm.
The fun doesn’t stop here; in the evening you can take your Food Festival picnic down to the Oundle International Festival’s first ever Outdoor Cinema event – a screening of Grease by LUNA FLIX.
Gates open at 8pm, the screening starts at 9.45pm. Sponsored by The Beauty Room, there will be stylists on hand to assist you to get into character!
For full details, please visit www.oundlefoodfestival.co.uk
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