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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 9.30 am to 2 pm Saturday only
Tickets (£3.50 each) available on the day (only) 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 3 pm.
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 Sausage 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 4 pm at the Festival Sausage Stall. Results will be announced at around 4.30 pm on Saturday, the awards will be presented in the castle at 3.00 pm on Sunday.
THE FESTIVAL LOAF
10am - 4 pm Saturday. Tickets £1 each 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!
REAL ALE TRAIL
sponsored by Wye Valley Brewery
Saturday and Sunday, during pub opening times (trail finishes 4 pm Sunday)
Entry form £6.50 from the Festival Box Office (by the castle entrance), on sale from Friday at 4 pm.
- 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 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 5 pm on Saturday in the Olive Stage by a panel of 'experts'. Please note: Age 18 or over only. Do not drink and drive.
WAITERS RACE
Saturday, 3 pm by the Castle.
First prize is £100 and a free trip to Ghent in Belgium to take part in the International Waiters Race held there every April. 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. Enter now.
The Ghent connection: once again Erwin Biliet, who organises the International Waiters Race Competition which takes place in Ghent (Belgium), will be present as our guest and will be accompanied by the winner of that race.
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. The People's Choice! Vote for the best window display - pick up voting forms at Festival Information Stall.
LUDLOW COUNTRY MARKET
Women's Centre off Church Street.
Saturday and Sunday 9 am - 12.30 pm. Also 10 am - 3 pm Sunday
Bettine Howes - 01584 873297
Homemade baking, preserves, plants and handicrafts.
PUDDING TASTING
10 am - 5 pm Ludlow Methodist Church, Broad Street (01584 875700). Also 2 - 5 pm 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.
THE CHOCOLATE GOURMET
Castle Square, Saturday and Sunday 12 pm - 4 pm
An opportunity to taste superb chocolate sauce combined with fresh fruit and other delicious morsels.
LADIES IN PIGS
Castle Square, Saturday and Sunday 10 pm - 5.30 pm
Outisde the castle, talks and demonstrations.
EVENING FOOD, FUN AND ENTERTAINMENT
From 3.00 until 6.30 in the square outside the castle - music, fun and entertainment for all the family.
MYRIAD ORGANICS CAFE
Myriad Organics, Corve Street. Tel: 01584 872655
Organic Cafe running as part of the Corve Street Fringe.Tasting of local organic foods.
In the castle
FOOD & DRINK FAIR in Ludlow Castle
and other castle events
10 am - 5 pm
See Throughout the weekend for details and admission prices.
List of over 130 exhibitors
INCLUDING
Talks and Demonstrations - full details
Taste Workshops - full details
On the Precious Earth Stages (Outer Bailey) and the 'Olive' magazine Stage (Inner Bailey):
Demonstrations, talks and workshops
See also Taste workshops
PANIC CIRCUS
10 am - 5 pm Circus Skills, Castle Gardens
Entertainment in the Big Top for all ages. Try your hand at circus skills.
PIZZA COOKING
10 am - 5 pm Inner Bailey
Making pizzas and cooking them in a wood-fires, open oven, Inner Bailey.
APPLE PRESSING
10 am - 5 pm Ralphs Cider, Castle Gardens
Cider press displays by Ralphs Cider in Castle Gardens.
ARMY COOKS Army Field Kitchen cooking. Field Kitchen cooking on Soyer Stoves.
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