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.

    All the events being held at this year's Festival are now listed here in the Events section.

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Video preview of the 2011 Christchurch Food and Wine Festival
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
The weather gods smiled on Christchurch Food & Wine Festival as, after days of rain, the Saturday and Sunday of the International Food Market was blessed with beautiful sunshine. An estimated 70,000 crowded into the town on the two days of the market to see ...

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What an excellent kick off to the festival. The sun came out and we had perfect blue skies all day, record crowds filled Christchurch High Street enjoying the massive selection of high quality foods on offer from all the traders. The demonstrations in the T ...

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James Golding the head chef at the Pig Hotel in Brockenhurst is to demonstrate in the Marquee theatre at the Christchurch Food and Wine Festival on Monday 14 May at 12noon. He will later join Lesley Waters to judge the finals of the Young Chef of the Year comp ...

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In order to celebrate Christchurch Food and Wine Festival Highcliffe Castle is hosting an enticing evening of French food and music. On Thursday 17th May at 7pm singer songwriter Monique will return to the Castle for a Continental evening of French cabaret int ...

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