The first-ever Windsor Food Festival has been launched with the aim of celebrating the best of local and UK food and drink.
Being held at Alexandra Gardens on the August Bank Holiday weekend, the food festival will feature major local chefs such as Chris Wheeler from Stoke Park; Kate and Giancarlo Caldesi from Caldesi’s, David Wilby from Windsor Grill and the Royal Oak’s Paley Street head chef Leon Smith – all of whom will be offering live food demos during the course of the weekend.
The free event will provide locals and visitors to Windsor with the opportunity to enjoy some of the best of local and UK food and produce, as well as meet some of the UK’s most high-profile chefs and food suppliers.
Paul Brennan, Event OrganiserThe event will host a number of key features, including a beer tent featuring a range of real ales from several local breweries wine tasting from an English Vineyard, and mouth-watering ‘Street-Food Sellers’. Stoke Park’s executive chef Chris Wheeler will also be offering an exclusive book signing.
Suppliers will be attending from across Berkshire and from as far as Cornwall, Devon and Norfolk. Visitors will also be able to sample British-made products such as gin, wine, cheese, chocolate, meat, breads, vegetables, pies, sauces and pickles.
The event is being organised by Paul Brennan, who has previously worked in London, LA, and New York on large-scale events. Brennan, who lives in Stoke Poges, also launched the British Food Festival which was held at Windsor Racecourse in 2016.
He said: “I am absolutely delighted to launch the first ever Windsor Food Festival. We’ve been working closely with the Council to ensure that Windsor has a food festival that’s sustainable and it can be proud of.
“We have some fantastic produce and restaurants in this area and I know that there are lots of foodies locally so it made perfect sense to give them an event where they can see all of this come together.
“Windsor is buzzing at the moment and it’s a great time to be part of the local community. This event will bring the whole family together under the watchful eye of one of the world’s most iconic castles.