Two star chefs have been announced for this year’s Taste Cheshire Food and Drink Festival.
Taste Cheshire is thrilled to bring two huge names in the food industry to Chester as part of this Easter festival at Chester Racecourse.
Children cooking with James Holding of the Academy of Culinary Arts. Photo: Simon Warburton.
The Chester Food and Drink Festival is now in its 22nd year, with a host of celebrity chef headliners gracing the chef demonstration stage, along with incredible local chef talent from some of Cheshire’s best restaurants, pubs and hotels.
Two of the biggest names in the industry are back this year. Chefs Jon Troode and Simon Rimmer dazzle festival visitors with live cooking demonstrations that are included in the festival admission price.
Festival organizer Bryony Wilson said, “Taste Cheshire is thrilled to welcome two true friends of the festival on the chef’s demo stage.
Simon Rimmer will be at this year’s Taste Cheshire Food and Drink Festival.
“Both Simon and John are huge champions of using local ingredients and cooking from scratch at home. Not only are they famous chefs on TV, they are charming, generous people and they I can’t wait to come back to Chester for a festival.”
The Taste Cheshire Food and Drink Festival takes place April 8-10 (Easter weekend).
The kids making the treats are Sebastian Moret, 6, and Paige Jones, 7, with apprentice chef Lucy May Darcy. Photo: Simon Warburton.
The festival will include over 100 exhibitors of food, drink and lifestyle items, plus free adult cooking classes for those looking to hone their cooking skills. Kids’ cooking workshops continue to be a feature of the festival, and admission to the festival is free for children under the age of 12. This family-friendly festival is also dog-friendly.
Three-day roamer tickets are available, so visitors can take their time to see all the headliners over the weekend. Tickets are available now at chesterfoodanddrink.co.uk.
Taste Cheshire is proud that the festival contributes over £2million to the local hospitality economy each year.
It provides exposure for local businesses to highlight the extraordinary talents of Cheshire’s food and drink scene.
The festival is just a small part of Taste Cheshire’s efforts to promote local food and drink. A monthly farmers market is held outside Chester Town Hall on the third Saturday of each month. The group not only hosts the largest annual food and beverage awards of its kind in the Northwest, but also supports local food and beverage businesses throughout the year through Taste Cheshire. .com.