Come and experience it at the UK's most exciting food event - its the biggest producers market you've ever seen. With the UK's top chefs in action, livestock ranging from water buffalo to chickens and hundreds of the best food and drink producers from across the UK and abroad - it's a celebration of everything from the farm to your plate.

Take a journey around the Festival here

"We have just returned from the
Real Food Festival... congratulations!
We attend a great deal of food
shows and events, both here and
in Italy and I am most pleased to
say brilliant, this is without doubt
the best ever event!"
Visitor quote 2008

Come and see Petal the Water Buffalo (courtesy of Laverstoke Park Farm).

Succulent beef from cattle fed on grass, with the sunshine on their backs; delicious muesli from cereals free of pesticides, grown on soil packed with a billion micronutrients; sticky toffee puddings made from the freshest ingredients in a farmhouse kitchen. It’s enough to make anyone’s mouth water.

Once again we are subsidising small producers to enable them to participate in the Real Food Festival so that they can share with you what is the largest and widest selection of produce that you won’t find anywhere else.

With cookery workshops, chef demonstrations, tasting sessions and plenty to see, do and buy it is a food lover’s heaven. And best of all you can leave with your bags bursting with real food goodies to enjoy at home.

We're getting real about food.

Join us.

Click here to see what the press said about last years Festival.

Highlights of this year's Festival...

* Over 400 Producers bringing you the best food and drink from across the UK and abroad – you won’t find this in your high street!
* Livestock – Meet Petal the Water Buffalo, see the Sheep Show, Rare Breed Pigs, Daisy the Cow and chickens.
* The UK’s Best Chefs in action - including Raymond Blanc, Willie Harcourt-Cooze, Giorgio Locatelli, Thomasina Miers and Fergus Henderson
* Barny Haughtons Bordeaux Quay Cookery School – Learn how to beat the credit crunch and still eat wonderful food
* The Real Food Debates – listen to passionate speakers like Zac Goldsmith, Patrick Holden, Joanna Blythman, Rosie Boycott and Graham Harvey debate the central issues around our food today.
* Growing Food with Garden Organic – A Kitchen Garden, with practical demonstrations on growing your own, composting and planting seeds.
* Education Area for kids – will include cookery lessons, demos of milking a cow, making butter and growing food
* And much much more

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