Tasting Sessions

Take this chance to learn from the experts and visit one of our many tasting sessions. You will be able to sample some of the UK's finest food and learn why it is so important that we preserve our rich food heritage.

Taste Workshops presented by Slow Food UK

Slow food UK offer a series of Tasting Workshops throughout the Show. These tasting's offer a rare chance to sample the finest ingredients in the UK from producers who use traditional methods of food production.

Taste Workshops

Taste Workshops give you a chance to experience the taste of food and drink being reared, grown or brewed by some of the UK’s best small producers with love and care and generally using traditional methods.

During each of the workshops producers will explain areas of our food heritage and how that reflects in the flavour and quality of what we eat.  Our Taste Workshops are brought to you by Slow Food UK  and all the products adhere to Slow Food’s Good, Clean and Fair standards.

Last year’s workshops included Nose to Tail Eating, Slow Bread and Butter, Real Veal and Ice Cream Sensations, and 2009’s programme will be equally exciting and varied.

Slow Food chef Mark Lloyd will be working with us throughout the show to prepare exciting tasting dishes for a number of the workshops and giving a chef’s perspective on sourcing and using local, artisan products in the kitchen.

Please not that some of our workshops will contain meat and there may not always be a vegetarian option so please check before booking. 

The workshops cost just £7.50 and the daily times are below;

For more details on these workshops click here

Drinks Tasting Theatre

There were also some fantastic drinks tasting sessions with a variety of different themes. For the drinks tasting timetable click here.  

These workshops are hosted and run by specialists and experts in their field and we are currently putting together a fantastic and educational series of sessions for you. The timetables will be posted as soon as they are available.