Woking Food and Drink Festival

The Borough’s biggest free-to-attend event, Woking Food and Drink Festival, is set to deliver another magnificent mezze of culinary delights from Friday 31 August to Sunday 2 September 2018 inclusive.

In its sixth consecutive year, the triple award-winning, three-day festival promises to serve up a mouth-watering menu of foodie and family activities.

At the heart of the festival in Jubilee Square, celebrity and local chefs and Surrey’s top culinary talents will display their top-drawer skills and Michelin star flair in the Tante Marie Culinary Academy Theatre.

International Emmy nominated Ching He Huang will demonstrate her style of modern Chinese cooking and talk about her seven best selling cookbooks.

Adding another winning combination to the theatre line up will be BBC MasterChef Champions, Kenny Tutt and Saliha Mahmood Ahmed, who respectively triumphed over tens of contestants in front of millions of TV viewers.

Flying the flag for Surrey, Lorna Gangotra Nanda (local food business owner and one third of The Gangotra Sisters, winners of BBC2’s The Big Family Showdown 2017), will be joined by her sisters, Bobbi and Monika, to demonstrate why they’re nicknamed the ‘spice sisters’.

Representing the best of Surrey’s local culinary talent will be:

• Dougie Balish, Head Chef at the Michelin Star The Tudor Room at Great Fosters, Egham

• Steve Drake, Chef Patron of Sorrel, Dorking

• Fernando Stovell, Director and Chef Patron of Stovell’s, Chobham

• Dan Britten and Jimi Mistry, chefs and pop-up restaurateurs

• Jack Sturgess, owner of Bake with Jack owner

• Simon Taylor, Head Butcher and owner of Surrey Hill Butchers, Oxshott

• David Frear, Patissier at Le Papillion, Woking

• Steve Tremblay, private chef and caterer

• Senior instructors from Tante Marie Culinary Academy.

Visitors also have the opportunity to forage amongst over 80 trader stalls and get stuck in to a smorgasbord of foodie and family activities, including:

• Tante Marie cookery workshops*

• Magimix masterclasses*

• bite-size talks hosted by a range of local producers and gastronomes

• celebrity book signings

• live musical and street entertainment.

Taking family entertainment to stratospheric heights will be Stefan Gates, The Gastronaut! The popular BBC2 and CBBC presenter is well known for his energetic, funny, amazing and explosive live shows*, including creating plasma in a microwave, custard-powder flame-throwing and more!

(* Charity donation or fees apply.)

Event date/times:

Friday 31 August: 9.30am to 6pm

Saturday 1 September: 9.30am to 6pm

Sunday 2 September: 10am to 5.30pm