Essex Festival of Food & Drink

Join us for the most exciting weekend in the Essex food calendar!

Welcome to the third year of the Essex Festival of Food and Drink where we will be celebrating the quality, variety and abundance of food and drink local to our region.

Buoyed by the positive reactions, success and thousands of visitors in 2012, this year's festival is an even more ambitious affair with a weekend full of fabulous food and drink related events, top chef demonstrations, pastry and bread making, cake baking competitions, wine tastings and butchery demonstrations.

Add to this, the very best of local producers along with a touch of some British and overseas delicacies and there will be a wonderful selection to tempt your taste buds.

The popular 500 seater Food Court will be back again with over 20 different food and drink vendors serving freshly cooked food such as Indian street food, local seafood, and hog roast, all washed down with your favourite tipple. There will also be live music from Toucan Jam to create a lively festival atmosphere.

Paul Hollywood:
Appearing Saturday 20th July
Celebrity Baker Paul Hollywood from BBC1 The Great British Bake-Off will be on stage at the cookery theatre for two demonstrations on Saturday 20th July AND judging The Great Essex Baking Competitions.

PLUS Book Signings

Mark Baumann:
Appearing Sunday 21st July
Celebrity Chef Mark Baumann, Baumanns Brasserie, Coggeshall will be on stage at the cookery theatre on Sunday 21st July with Martin & Su from Heart Essex

There will be a full demonstration schedule at the cookery theatre on both days - celeb chefs and local chefs - Further details to follow.

Ticket Prices include:
Free Parking
Event Programme
Entrance to ALL demonstration areas, master classes, childrens' cookery classes and entry to ALL areas of the festival
(Seating in the cookery theatre will be allocated on a first come first served basis. There will be standing room available.)

Children under 13 years are free.

Car parking is free.

Sorry, no pets allowed into the event except for guide dogs

No cash dispenser on site.

Cressing Temple takes its unusual name from the medieval monks of the Knights Templar who founded the two vast wooden barns, which form the centrepiece of this delightful rural estate.

Nestled to one side of the barns is the Walled Garden. Inspired by an age when gardens combined beauty and functionality, it is the result of painstaking research and archaeological excavation, and is filled with species widely cultivated at the time.

As you step within the Tudor walls, you step back in time. Here plants have been carefully grouped according to medicinal, culinary and dyers' plants, a potager and a small orchard and nuttery. The nosegay garden is a fragrant delight with a wealth of sweetly scented plants that were grown for their perfume, whilst the arbour is planted to recall Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream with its profusion of roses, woodbine and oxlips. more

Cressing Temple Barns Details (including directions)Show Location Map

Click the button below to book your tickets for Essex Festival of Food & Drink at Cressing Temple Barns, Braintree & Great Dunmow.