Foodies Festival, the UK’s biggest touring celebrity food and music festival series – returns to Oxford for a huge August Bank Holiday weekend from 26th - 28th August. Featuring a star-studded line-up of celebrity chefs and chart-topping music stars, including Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Scouting For Girls and Martin Kemp
Known as Gastro-Glastonbury, the festival will take place at South Parks across the August Bank Holiday weekend. The three-day event features live cooking demonstrations from top chefs drawn from the ranks of MasterChef, Great British Bake Off and Great British Menu, plus top-rated Michelin-starred and award-winning chefs.
Star names appearing in the live cooking theatres include: MasterChef 2023 champion, Chariya Khattiyot, MasterChef: The Professionals champion, Alex Webb, MasterChef champions Thomas Frake and Dhruv Baker, Great British Menu 2023 finalist, Avinash Shashidhara, MasterChef finalist, Madeeha Qureshi, Great British Menu and Michelin starred chef-patron, Paul Welburn, from the Swan Inn and Cygnet restaurant, Islip, stars of Channel 4’s Extreme Cake Makers and founders of Black Box Cake, Christine and Phil Jensen, Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch bread expert, Jack Sturgess and TV chef and award-winning author, Manju Malhi
The musical feast is just as sumptuous with chart-topping diva, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, platinum-selling festival favourites Scouting For Girls, and Spandau Ballet and Eastenders icon Martin Kemp, who’ll be delivering the ultimate 80’s DJ party.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor said: “It’s wonderful to be joining the Foodies Festival tour again. Warm summer weekends full of lovely food and music, and families having fun together – I can’t wait!”
Showcasing the best of Oxford and beyond, many of the most-highly acclaimed Michelin and multi-award-winning chefs will also appear, including: Mike North, chef-patron of Michelin starred The Nut Tree in Murcott, multi-award winning chef, Samuel Squires, from The Old Crown Coaching Inn, Faringdon, BBC Food and Farming finalists, Yeshi and Julie Jampa, from Taste Tibet in Oxford and Mark Peregrine from the Raymond Blanc Cookery School.
Throughout the 3 day holiday weekend, visitors will enjoy a jam-packed schedule of TV cooking show champions and award-winning chefs in the interactive live theatres. In the Chefs Theatre, celebrities will create their signature dishes and share new tips and tricks, whilst in the Cake & Bake Theatre, star bakers whip up showstoppers and offer tempting sweet treats.
In The Kids Cookery School, Foodies SuperChefs make cooking fun, helping younger guests to prepare delicious food which they can take away and enjoy. Masterclasses in the Drinks Theatre include tutored Champagne, Beer, Cider, Cocktail and Wine-tasting, including presentations from BBC expert Joe Wadsack and ITV expert, Tom Surgey.
Visitors can browse the latest food trends in the Shopping Village, meet local producers in the Artisan Market and taste exotic and unusual new dishes in the Feasting Tent – which features a mouth-watering range of street food and delicacies from all four corners of the globe. Other attractions include a chilli eating competition featuring the World champion ‘Chilli Queen, Shahina Waseem, fairground, children’s activities, and family-friendly areas.
For the fifth year running, the festival is supporting Musicians Against Homelessness (MAH) with tickets raising money for UK-wide homelessness charity Crisis.
26th - 28th August 2023 Bank Holiday Weekend
Day tickets from £3 (child) and £19 (adult)
Weekend tickets from £38 (3-day)
On sale now at www.foodiesfestival.com
