Foodies Festival

London food lovers can escape the city and spend a taste-bud-tickling day out in the 'capital's countryside' this summer, as Foodies Festival returns to London's Syon Park for a Bank Holiday food and fun filled festival 28th to 30th May.

Set within the stunning 200 acre grounds of Syon Park Estate, visitors can enjoy the feeling of being deep in the countryside, while being only a 30 minute train ride from Central London.

Foodies Festival also takes place in London this summer at (releases to follow):
Blackheath Common 8th - 10th July
Alexandra Palace 27th - 29th August

Cook - Aga Rangemaster Chefs Theatre
This year's festival sees the capital's culinary elite in the Aga Rangemaster Chefs Theatre, showcasing their culinary skills, sharing insight into 2016’s food trends and answering questions from the audience. Chefs taking part include (more TBC):

- Atul Kochhar - Benares (Michelin starred)
- Janos Veres - The Hindshead (Michelin starred)
- Paul Shearing - Bread Street Kitchen
- Tony Rodd - MasterChef Finalist 2015
- Davide Degiovanni – Union St Café
- Guy Betteridge – Heddon Street Kitchen
- Allan Pickett - Piquet
- Owen Sullivan & Gabriele Zanini - Maze Grill
- George Lyon - London House
- Will Stanyer - York & Albany
- Dhruv Baker - MasterChef Winner 2010
- Ben Waugh & Behzad Gotia - Maze Grill
- Rob Hunter - The Gun, Docklands
- Saiphin Moore - Rosa's Thai Cafe
- Adebola Adeshina - The Petersham Hotel
- Nigel Brown - Celebrity Chef

Discover – Feel Good and Superfoods
Visitors can enjoy a new 'Feel Good Foods' theme at Foodies Festival this summer, with healthy living chefs and food writers joining the line-up to cook with superfoods including kefir, lucuma, freekeh, kelp and banana flour, and sirt rich foods such as blueberries, kale, celery, buckwheat, turmeric, chilli and red onion.

Festival-goers can also discover the advantages of eating ‘Feel Good Foods’ such as cheese (a source of phenylethylamie - the love drug) and dark chocolate and seaweed (both sources of serotonin - the happy drug) as experts promote their nutritional and emotional benefits with energy, happiness and calm boosting recipes available to take home.

Sip - Drinks Theatre
Expert mixologists and sommeliers, including Neil Phillips and Charles Metcalfe, host champagne and wine masterclasses, and beer connoisseur and writer Melissa Cole is on-hand with craft beer tutorials.

Visitors can test their taste buds with blindfolded whisky challenges, where they will have to taste and smell to try and identify ingredients and country of origin. These classes are also a great opportunity for novices to learn about whisky and its history.

Feast – Street Food Avenue
With flavours from all corners of the world available on the Street Food Avenue, hunger will be banished and taste buds tingled with the huge array of cuisines on offer. Japanese, Thai, Malaysian, Argentinian, Turkish, Indian, Korean, Mexican, French and African are just some of the flavours to feast on this summer.

There’s a special focus on Brazilian street food this year to celebrate the Olympic host’s cuisine, including traditional Brazilian BBQ and Rio’s favourite dish Feijoada made from black beans, salted pork, trimmings, smoked sausage and jerk beef, which is cooked in a traditional clay pot. Brazil’s national cocktail Caipirinha, a mix of lime, sugar and Cachaça (made from sugarcane juice with an ABV of 48%), and Brazilian coffees will be available.

Shop – Artisan Producers Market
A glittering array of Great Taste Award winners are available to shop and sample from this year, each being hailed as a producer of ‘Exquisite, Outstanding and Simply Delicious’ food and drink – a fantastic opportunity for visitors to meet artisan producers from the local area and across the country, learn their story and stock up on award winning produce. With