Food Festival Patron - Lesley Waters
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Christhurch Food & Wine Festival has so much to offer! Welcome to the Christchurch Food Festival website

    Hi, I am delighted to be able to welcome you to the website of the Christchurch Food and Wine Festival.

    2012 sees some exciting new initiatives including an expanded Kids Kitchen, more in the Festival's Cookschool held at The Kings Hotel (see links on the left) and a great addition for the second weekend of the Festival with The Great Christchurch Bake Day and Fete.

    2012 also sees the return of the wonderful James Martin of Saturday Morning Kitchen fame.
    Come back soon and find out more. The full programme of events will be listed here in the coming weeks.

Christchurch Food Festival Market crowds
  • James Martin at the Christchurch Food and Wine Festival
  • Jo Wheatley at the Christchurch Food and Wine Festival
  • Lesley Waters at the Christchurch Food and Wine Festival
Financial sponsorship from the Rotary Club of Christchurch will increase the number of workshops offered at this year’s Kids’ Kitchen, held as part of Christchurch Food & Wine Festival. The Rotary sponsorship will also widen the age range for the workshops from three years old to 14 years old. Waitrose in Christchur...
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The fantastic Kids Kitchen will be running even better than ever this year with more workshops available for all ages of kids. The events will be at the Christchurch Priory School, where kids will be able to learn from pizzas to Rissottos and Banana bread to Smoothies. The various workshops will be run by experie...
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Plans are well advanced for next year’s Christchurch Food & Wine Festival which runs from 11 to 20 May with TV celebrities James Martin, Jo Wheatley and Lesley Waters headlining the programme. There will be major events on both weekends and a whole host of treats in restaurants, cafes, pubs and tea rooms over the te...
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