{"id":18155,"date":"2011-07-31T22:08:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T21:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noexpert.co.uk\/?p=18155"},"modified":"2021-10-31T23:22:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T23:22:06","slug":"foodies-festival-battersea-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=18155","title":{"rendered":"Foodies Festival @ Battersea Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

This years London Foodies Festival<\/a> was in Battersea Park. We arrived just after 10 am, the tickets and web site (initially) showed that as the event start time.\u00a0\u00a0 Our plan had been to get in early before the crowds.\u00a0 However the festival was not able to start until 11 am due to some sort of mix up with the local council – not a good start.\u00a0\u00a0 So we killed some time in the parks cafe (definitely not a foodies destination) and returned to pick up entrance tickets for some of the events in the Chefs Theatre, Food Theatre and Drinks Theatre, only to be advised we could only get tickets for the earlier events and not those later in the day, we had to come back to the Registrations tent nearer the start times to get these tickets\u00a0 – a totally impractical option. On entering the festival area we passed the Pimms<\/a> Tent with its cute “Its Pimms O’Clock” picnic blankets<\/a> laid out on the grass, and found ourselves accepting an invitation to try some of the Coeur de Cognac<\/a> in the comfort of the Remy Martin Pagodo.<\/p>\n

The festival was not especially large, the one at Hampton Court<\/a> last year felt larger and had seemed more specialist food oriented.\u00a0\u00a0 We ended up sampling a couple of rums – a coconut one (Koko Kanu) from Jamaica and a lovely smooth Arehucas<\/a> Honey Rum from the Canary Islands.\u00a0 Then after a long chat with Chocolatier Fiona Sciolti<\/a> who was presenting one of the afternoon sessions we had originally planned to go to, we headed down to the Chefs Theatre for Jun Tanaka’s<\/a> cookery demonstration.<\/p>\n