Festival of Food and Drink announces celebrity guests for 2023, including TV cooks, Bake Off star and a very popular returning favourite

The Festival of Food and Drink is back for 2023, with a new host of famous faces to impress visitors to the well-known Nottinghamshire festival for its tenth anniversary across the weekend of Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th September. It was announced last year that the popular family-friendly event, which is the largest celebration of local food and […]
BBC MasterChef Champion Eddie Scott joins Festival of Food’s tasty menu of chefs at Clumber Park

This year’s BBC MasterChef Champion Eddie Scott has joined the tasty menu of celebrity chefs appearing in the Cookery Theatre at the Festival of Food and Drink, held 17th and 18th September at Nottingham’s Clumber Park.
Rosemary Shrager and MasterChef finalists complete cookery theatre line up for Festival of Food and Drink

Legendary chef Rosemary Shrager and finalists from BBC’s MasterChef and MasterChef: The Professionals have been added to the delicious menu of famous names at this year’s Festival of Food and Drink, held at Worksop’s Clumber Park on 17th and 18th September. Rosemary will appear on Saturday causing cookery chaos with her fun but no-nonsense approach in the Cookery […]
Strictly Finalist and GBBO Winner John Whaite brings new moves to The Festival of Food & Drink

BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing finalist and The Great British Bake winner John Whaite will be bringing some new moves to this year’s Festival of Food and Drink. The dancing chef, who won the hearts and minds of the British public as he danced with Johannes Radebe on the BBC dancing competition, will appear at Nottinghamshire’s Clumber Park on […]
Great British Bake Off Finalist Chigs Parmar on the menu for Festival of Food and Drink 2022

The Great British Bake Off finalist Chigs Parmar is the first chef on the menu for this year’s Festival of Food and Drink, held at Nottinghamshire’s Clumber Park on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th September 2022. Chigs, who lives in nearby Leicester, will appear in the popular Cookery Theatre, which is free to all ticket holders, giving […]
Meet the Chefs

We can’t wait to welcome you to the Festival of Food and Drink so you can enjoy all we have to offer including our fantastic line-up of celebrity chefs. To get to know them a bit better, we asked them each a few questions about their cooking, what they’re planning to show you in the […]
Festival of Food and Drink welcomes ‘Dirty Vegan’ Matt Pritchard and expands plant based options

This year’s Festival of Food & Drink will have more plant-based food options than ever before and welcomes ‘Dirty Vegan’ chef Matt Pritchard to the cookery theatre. Matt will appear on Saturday 18 September at Worksop’s Clumber Park as part of the two-day food celebration over the weekend. He’ll join a fantastic line-up of celebrity […]
Award Winning Chef Jean-Christophe Novelli to make Clumber Park Festival of Food and Drink debut

Multi-Michelin star chef Jean-Christophe Novelli MBE will make his debut at the Festival of Food and Drink, held at Worksop’s Clumber Park on the 18th and 19th September 2021. Jean-Christophe, who will appear on Sunday 19th September, is known around the globe for his amazing cooking artistry and unique healthy cooking techniques. He’s cooked and consulted on many […]
TV Chef Joe Hurd joins the Worldwide menu for Clumber Park Festival of Food and Drink

Chef and TV presenter Joe Hurd is the latest addition to the delicious global menu of flavours for this year’s Festival of Food and Drink, held at Clumber Park, Worksop, on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 September 2021. The first chef to be announced for Saturday 18 September, Joe is a regular guest presenter on BBC […]
Celebrity Chefs – in conversation with Laurence Henry

Local chef and winner of BBC MasterChef: The Professionals Laurence Henry makes his Festival of Food and Drink debut this weekend. Living in Nottingham and having worked for the Michelin starred Restaurant Sat Bains as Sous Chef, Laurence Henry is no stranger to the area. He appears at the Festival of Food and Drink at […]