This is a list of 2011 Events
In the town | In the castle | Food & Drink Fair times and prices
In the town
LUDLOW SAUSAGE TRAIL
Britain's most amazing food event!
Start from 9.30am to 2pm Saturday only
Tickets £3.50 each and will be available on the day from the Festival Box Office near the entrance to the castle. Tickets may also be available from Ludlow's butchers shops during the week leading up to the Festival.
No sausages served after 3pm.
Price includes sausage in a bread roll from the Festival Sausage Stall by the castle on completion of the trail. Ticket/voting forms with full instructions available from 9.30 am on the day from the Festival Information Stall near the castle entrance. Some are also available from the butchers in advance (personal callers only). Numbers are limited to 2,000.
Explore Ludlow and visit its celebrated independent butchers, who are each making their own recipes for the Festival Sausage of the Year. At each butcher's shop, taste the sausage and award it points out of ten.
The sausage with the most points wins the 'People's Choice' award, with an 'Experts' Choice' award to be judged by a special panel at 4pm at the Festival Sausage Stall. Results will be announced at around 4.30 pm on Saturday, the awards will be presented in the castle from 2.15pm on Sunday.
THE FESTIVAL LOAF
10am - 4pm Saturday. Tickets £1 each and will be available on the day from the Festival Box Office near the entrance to the castle, or any participating baker.
- De Greys (Broad Street)
- Prices (Castle Street)
- Swifts (Parkway)
The bread trail around the bakers of Ludlow. There is also a competition taking place for Professional Craft Bakers and also enthusiastic Home Bakers with fantastic prizes! See competitions page.
REAL ALE TRAIL
sponsored by Wye Valley Brewery
Saturday and Sunday, during pub opening times (trail finishes 4pm Sunday)
Entry form £6.50: A maximum of 200 will be on sale on Friday at 4pm from the Festival Box Office, and the remaining tickets available on the day, again from the Festival Box Office near the entrance to the castle.
- Map showing suggested trail route, list of participating pubs and bars, tasting notes, marking card.
- Free souvenir 90 ml tasting tankard
- Free taste of qualifying real ale in each outlet
- Free bottle of Wye Valley Brewery ale to entrants completing the trail
Full instructions and information on the ticket. Expect to visit 12 pubs or more, and a brewery. Award each beer marks out of 10 to vote for the People's Choice Festival Ale of the Year. There is also an Experts Choice, which will be judged at on Saturday afternoon by a panel of 'experts'. See competitions page. Please note: Age 18 or over only. Do not drink and drive.
WAITERS RACE
Saturday, 3pm, starts by the Castle entrance
This year you first have to race round some of the pubs in the town centre and then your professionalism is tested to the utmost when you try to satisfy some very odd customers in the shape of the Old Dic Theatre Company. Speed, agility and service are all tested in this tongue-in-cheek take on waiters' service.
All waiters and waitresses are welcome to join the race - please phone us on 01584 873957, or fill in the form, or else just turn up to register 10 minutes before the start.
WINDOW DRESSING COMPETITION
As you walk around the town centre, look at the many shop windows displays that have been entered in the Festival's window-dressing competition, indicated by the presence of a Festival competition card and poster. The winners will be announced on Friday morning. Which is your favourite window? We have a list so you can see them all so pick up information about participating shops at the Festival Information Stall.
AGA 'OPEN DAY'
Including cookery with Marcia Poole, who will be offering useful tips - taking place at Rickards & Son Ltd in the Bull Ring between
10 am & 4.30 pm
www.rickardsofludlow.co.uk
BOOK SIGNING by Food Writer, ELISABETH LUARD
Elisabeth Luard will be signing her new book 'A Cook's Year In A Welsh Farmhouse' between 2 pm and 4pm at Black Bough, 2 Market Street, Ludlow
www.elisabethluard.com
www.blackbough.co.uk
LUDLOW COUNTRY MARKET
Women's Centre off Church Street.
Saturday and Sunday 9am - 12.30pm. Also 10am - 3pm Sunday
Bettine Howes - 01584 873297
Homemade baking, preserves, plants and handicrafts.
PUDDING TASTING
10am - 5pm Ludlow Methodist Church, Broad Street (01584 875700). Also 2 - 5pm Sunday
The much-acclaimed pudding tasting takes place in the upstairs schoolroom, over 300 tastings. £2 to taste any 4 puddings! Refreshments are in the lower schoolroom. The church is also open to view.
PICNICS
Picnics can be bought from St Laurence's Church between 12 noon and 3pm and enjoyed on the church green.
THE CHOCOLATE GOURMET
Castle Square, Saturday and Sunday 12.30pm - 4pm
An opportunity to taste superb chocolate sauce combined with fresh fruit and other delicious morsels.
KIDS COOKING
In the Castle Street car park located just outside the castle.
Local to Ludlow’s Easy Peasy mobile cookery classes offer exciting one hour sessions teaching cookery from scratch with tasty, local and seasonal ingredients. There are only 12 spaces per session so please book when you arrive to ensure you get in.
11.00 am - 12 noon
01.00 pm - 02.00 pm
03.00 pm - 04.00 pm
05.00 pm - 06.00 pm
Also on Sunday
EVENING FOOD, FUN AND ENTERTAINMENT
From 5.30pm until 7.00pm in the Fringe Festival taking place in the Castle Street Car Park- music, fun and entertainment for all the family.
In the castle
FOOD & DRINK FAIR in Ludlow Castle
with more than 140 independent food and drink producers and suppliers: real food, ale, cider, perry, wine and more from the Marches, with samples and tastings (some free). List of exhibitors
Opening times and prices
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TALKS AND DEMONSTRATIONS - full details
TASTE WORKSHOPS - full details
On the Graeme Kidd Stage (Outer Bailey) and the 'Olive' magazine Stage (Inner Bailey):
Demonstrations, talks and workshops
See also Taste workshops
MICHELIN STARRED 'POP UP' RESTAURANT
For the 2011 Festival we are pleased to welcome back Shaun Hill,
Claude Bosi and Glynn Purnell who will be cooking throughout the weekend.
Opening times are Friday and Saturday - daytime sittings:
12 noon - 2.15 pm and 2.45 pm - 5 pm.
They will also be opening for an evening service for a tasting menu extravaganza from 7.30pm onwards.
For the Sunday the restaurant will be open for the two daytime sittings only. Lunch will be £47.50 for three courses and dinner £67.50 for the tasting menu.
Booking is strongly recommended through:
www.festival-restaurant.co.uk or on 01584 877213 9.30 am - 12 noon Monday to Saturday.
A TASTE OF ITALY
(also on Friday and Sunday) - in the garden area. Ludlow's Twin Town San Pietro in Cariano bring their Valpolicella and speciality wines, plus cheeses from their region to the Ludlow Food Festival.
PANIC CIRCUS
10am - 6.30pm Circus Skills, Castle Gardens
Entertainment in the Big Top for all ages. Try your hand at circus skills.
PIZZA COOKING
10am - 6.30pm Inner Bailey
Making pizzas and cooking them in a wood-fires, open oven, Inner Bailey.
CIDER APPLE PRESSING
10am - 6.30pm Cider press demonstrations by Ralphs Cider in the Garden Area.
ARMY COOKS - Garden Area
Army Field Kitchen cooking on Soyer Stoves.
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