Huge Three-Day Celebrity Chef Food Festival to Launch at Bluewater this May

Bluewater is set
to host its first ever food and drink festival over the late May Bank Holiday
weekend, in partnership with Scrumptious Food Festivals. The unmissable event –
which at around 12,000 sq ft is set to be one of the biggest in the region – will
take place around the Marquee, outside the centre’s Village.

Launching on Saturday
25^th and running until Monday 27th May, guests will be spoiled for
choice with street food vendors bringing tastes from across the globe to
Bluewater for the festival’s debut event.

The bank holiday
bonanza will include artisan stalls, a street food market, and a cookery stage
with a host of celebrity chefs and TV stars which will be revealed in the
coming weeks.

The festival’s artisan
market will be filled with specially selected wares and delicacies to take
away. Traders have already confirmed their spots for the weekend, including
Kent’s very own Whitstable Oyster Trading Company, but spaces are still
available for a limited time.

Bluewater’s
Marquee will be transformed into a shopping haven, with the Humble Country team
curating a line-up of boutique independent businesses, offering unique
homewares, gifts and accessories.

The centre piece
of the festival will be the ‘Big Cookery Stage’, with a stellar lineup of
celebrity chefs and bakers demonstrating their culinary skills. As well as food
demonstrations, the stars will be signing their recipe books after their
respective slots on the stage. Phase One of the line-up will be announced soon,
with stars from The Great British Bake Off already confirmed for the not-to-be-missed
event.

Scrumptious Food
Festivals is owned and run by Jon Hackett and Lotte Duncan. Over the past 5
years they have organised the successful Bradford on Avon Food & Drink
Festival and the Thame Food Festival. Lotte has worked across many areas of the
food industry for forty years and is an experienced chef, broadcaster, food
judge and food writer. Meanwhile, Jon has an extensive background in TV and
film production and editing and is a specialist in shooting food.