The organisers of the Stone Food and Drink Festival are making sure that a sister festival in Uttoxeter in June is a huge success. The Uttoxeter Food & Drink Festival will take place at Uttoxeter Racecourse on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th June. Fifty-five exhibitors having already confirmed their attendance, representing everything from...
Stone Food and Drink Festival has been restored to the register at Companies House, two months after it was struck off over a delay in submitting accounts. The community interest company that runs the festival was restored to the Companies House register on 7th March. Festival chairman Richard Stevens said: “While it’s great news that...
The chairman of Stone Food and Drink Festival has reassured people in the town that this year’s festival is definitely going ahead, despite the community interest company (CIC) that runs the popular event being struck off the register by Companies House. The CIC was dissolved on 17th January because of a delay in submitting...
Westbridge Park on Saturday – picture by Phil Mitchell This year’s Stone Food and Drink Festival attracted around 17,000 people, making it the biggest event in the festival’s seven-year history. The glorious weather saw people flocking into the town over the weekend to enjoy the farmers’ markets, the Gourmet Food Marquees at Westbridge Park...
Many thanks to local photographer Phil Mitchell for these great Stone Food and Drink Festival pictures taken at Westbridge Park on Saturday. If you’ve got some Food and Drink Festival 2011 pictures, send them to news@alittlebitofstone.com if you’d like to see them here!
This year’s Stone Food and Drink Festival created a real buzz on the social network Twitter, with hundreds of messages and pictures shared over the weekend. Before, during and after the festival, Twitter users shared pictures, video and their thoughts on what was going on in the town. Here’s a Storify tweet story showing...
Huge thanks to Sarah Gayton for filming this quite brilliant video of the Stone Food and Drink Festival farmers’ market on Saturday. It shows the build-up to the big day, with traders setting up and getting ready for the thousands of people who would descend on the High Street over the day. Sarah also...
One of the highlights – among many! – of this year’s Food and Drink Festival was the Titanic Brewery Best of Staffordshire beer tent. Twenty-four ales from all over the county, fruit wine, real cider, live music and George’s pies from The Blue Rooms. What more could you possibly want?! Saturday’s scorching temperatures certainly...
Stone Food and Drink Festival got off to a great start at Westbridge Park, with food lovers enjoying cookery demonstrations and enjoying the very best of Staffordshire produce. Send your pictures of the festival to news@alittlebitofstone.com
The winner of a competition to find the best Staffordshire recipe received her prize at the Stone Food and Drink Festival. Trentham Estate deli Brown and Green ran the My Staffordshire Recipe competition aimed to unearth the very best family recipes that use Staffordshire produce and ingredients to the max! The winner was Vera...