Focus Spring 2015
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Cromer & Sheringham Crab & Lobster Festival: 15-17 May 2015
The Crab and Lobster Festival is a weekend celebration of two lovely coastal towns, Cromer and
Sheringham. Historically great rivals, but now joining together as two of Norfolk's premier seaside
destinations. The Festival starts on Friday evening with a grand variety concert at the famous Pier
Pavillion Theatre, followed IN CROMER by a full Saturday & Sunday of cookery theatre demonstrations,
market stalls, heritage events, crab sandwiches, live music, competitions, performers, crab dressing,
museum events, Saturday Paella & Music Night. IN SHERINGHAM by a full Sunday of events, music,
cookery demonstrations, heritage displays, streetmosphere, Morris dancers, crab shell painting, Shantymen and very much
http://www.crabandlobsterfestival.co.uk/
Festivals
Eat Cambridge: 9 - 24 May 2015.
Eat Cambridge is an annual festival of food and drink created in 2013 with the aim of showing off
fabulous local independent producers to local food fans throughout the county of Cambridgeshire. The
festival takes place in May and features a fortnight of fantastic local food and drink, a jam-packed two-
week schedule of tasty fringe events and a huge food and drink fair at the Corn Exchange in the historic
city of Cambridge. For more information:
http://
www.eat-cambridge.co.uk
East Anglian Game & Country Fair Saturday April 25 2015 to Sunday April 26 2015
There’s no other festival quite like the excellent East Anglian Game & Country Fair. Having been running for over a decade, this
event has developed into an unmissable weekend of fun, full of a wide variety of events that appeals to all.
The food hall houses a great deal of top exhibitors all of whom are there with the sole aim of showing off their premium produce.
Many of the best local chefs will also be in attendance, so everybody can marvel at how fast they chop things without losing three
fingers. The cooking demonstrations will also give you the opportunity to steal all of the recipes that are shared. Elsewhere,
attendees can peruse the hundreds of other general merchandising stalls, visit the crafts village, get involved with the multitude of
equestrian and dog events, or pop into the main arena or countryside arena to watch the likes of shooting exhibitions, falconry
demonstrations and, er, ferret racing. It’s not all about spectating,
http://www.foodfestivalfinder.co.uk/events/east-anglian-game-country-fair
Framlingham country show and The suffolk food and drink festival 11/12 April 2015
Featuring Country Pursuits, Food, Drink and Music.
This Festival is a truly homespun celebration and is inviting the people of Suffolk and beyond to indulge in all things locally sourced
and produced. Even the music will come courtesy of some the regions most promising up and coming talent at the second
Framlingham Show where enterprising Food and Drink producers will promote their craft at The Suffolk Food, Drink and Music
Festival, while rural champions demonstrate agricultural and countryside custom at the Framlingham Country Show.
The Show promises to be an exhibition of some of the best the region has to offer and running alongside the Framlingham Country
Show is The Suffolk Food, Drink and Music Festival. As well as demonstration rings showcasing everything from dog agility to
falconry and even geese herding, the event will feature the best of Suffolk’s food and drink and will have live cookery demonstra-
tions all day on both days from top local chefs, butchers and bakers. Meet and chat to local producers and find out where your
food comes from.
http://www.suffolkfoodfest.co.uk/
Ely Food and Drink Festival Friday May 01 2015 to Monday May 04 2015
Do you consider yourself an adventurous festival-goer? Are you keen to experience every kind of event going next summer? Do you
long for a food festival that’s as crazy as you are? Then head to the lovely city of Ely in Cambridgeshire for the famous Eel Festival.
This free, four-day
event
will be back from 1st May to 4th May 2015, with plenty of food and drink events thrown in for good
measure. Last year, for example, had the fabulous cookery theatre, where Master Chef finalist Andrew Kojima whipped up some
delicious eel recipes that everyone wanted to try,. So what else is likely to return? Well, the festival will be held on the Palace Green
overlooking the beautiful Ely Cathedral again, where an abundance of entertainment will certainly be put on for your benefit.
2014’s festival had a fun fair for the kids
and
a food safari for all the family, where some of the local restaurants and cafés took to
the theme of the festival to create all sorts of special dishes (a lot based around eel, of course) that you can sample.
http://www.foodfestivalfinder.co.uk/events/ely-food-and-drink-festival