THOUSANDS of food lovers descended on Llangollen for the town’s spectacular annual food and drink festival. Hamper Llangollen 2011 is in its 14th year and over the weekend more than 8,000 visitors from across the UK and beyond savoured the delicious fayre on offer from more than 110 exhibitors. Especially popular were the demonstrations by [...]
THOUSANDS of food lovers will descend on Llangollen this weekend as the town stages its 14th annual food festival. (October 15 and 16) One of the major events on the Welsh culinary calendar, this year’s Llangollen Food Festival has attracted more than 100 independent food and drink producers and draws crowds from across North Wales [...]
SIZZLING-hot ice cream from an award-winning Anglesey producer is set to make a spicy debut at next month’s Llangollen Food Festival. Helen Holland of Mon ar Lwy, based in Bodorgan, will trial her new “Hellish Relish” ice cream with festival visitors before adding it to her range of exotic handmade desserts. A new dairy is [...]
IF you thought a beer shampoo was just something drunken lads did at a stag party, allow the Llangollen food festival to change your mind. Because as well as foaming ales on one local brewery’s stall, you will also find frothy beer shampoo and bars of beer soap! Elaine Jones, whose Corwen business Briallen specialises [...]
THE team behind a successful farmers market has set its sights on reinventing one of the longest-running food and drink festivals in North Wales. The 14th annual Llangollen food festival will repeat the success of previous years with a stronger community involvement and recognition of a growing appetite for simpler home cooking, say its organisers. [...]
