Welcome to the Dales Festival of Food and Drink

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Planning for the 2013 Festival is now well under way. The Food Hall Marquee this year will have some new and interesting traders to delight your taste buds. In the Richard Whiteley Pavilion we will be introducing two new local writers Andy Seed and Susan Parry with stories around their experience and knowledge of the Dales.

Our popular Beer Tent is run by Daleside Brewery who will be producing a special Festival Ale for the event along with their first lager. There will also be a selection of ciders from six local producers. Corks and Cases from Masham will be hosting the wine bar from their own wine bar marquee on the Festival site.

We are looking forward to a great weekend and would like you to join us.

Available from April 2013. Tickets can be purchased on the day at the Festival site ticket office or in advance at the Tourist Information Point at Dales Haven Guest House in Leyburn 01969 622317

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Exhibitors

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The food hall is the main venue for food and drink stands, with over eighty exhibitors, sited in a 14,000 sq ft marquee.

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Farming for Food

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These fun displays show how what the farmer grows becomes food in our shops, with live animals and interactivity.

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Theatre

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Free cookery demonstrations by leading local chefs throughout the day, held in our Theatre Marquee.

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Real Ale Festival

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Over thirty wonderful ales from a selection of local breweries.

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Speakers Corner

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The high point of each day, 2.00pm at the Richard Whiteley Pavilion, is an interesting and entertaining talk by a different guest speaker.

Find out more about Speakers Corner

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Foreword by Gervase Phinn

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Gervase Phinn

"...There is no better way of spending the May Day Bank Holiday weekend than a visit to beautiful Wensleydale for there is something for everyone at this varied and colourful pageant and the hospitality is of the very best."

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