Food producers, local businesses and foodies came together at Kettering Park Hotel & Spa on Sunday for the fourth Northamptonshire’s Good Food and Drink Festival sponsored by Kettering law firm Wilson Browne Solicitors. Supporting this year’s event were a number of local producers and businesses with some of Northamptonshire’s well known and recognised brands from around the County serving samples and products to those in attendance. Attendees on the day were also entertained by Rushden’s Beat Route Radio in between them interviewing local businesses about their produce and helping to crea ..read more

Food producers, local businesses and foodies will be coming together at Kettering Park Hotel & Spa this Sunday for the fourth Northamptonshire’s Good Food and Drink Festival sponsored by Kettering law firm Wilson Browne Solicitors. Visitors this year will be able to see the famous Award-winning Northamptonshire Sauce from Jeyes of Earls Barton – a perfect condiment to enhance all your savoury dishes, adding a delicious spice, depth and completed with a Northamptonshire Kick! Used in a number of pubs and restaurants across the County, the sauce was featured on Channel 4 last year – Aldi’s N ..read more

Artisan Local Vegetarian/Vegan product category sponsor Daily Bread in Northampton hosted the announcement of this year’s Artisan Producer category awards.  With sponsors J Sweeney Accountants and Heygates Flour and Animal Feed, sponsors of Artisan Local Drink and Artisan Local Product respectively, it was an opportunity to spread the word that buying local is good for the economy and tastes good too! Morcea Walker MBE, Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Northamptonshire and Kristina Rhianoff (former Strictly dancer and co-owner of Soo Yoga in the town) joined the celebrations to add their support t ..read more

The Fifteenth Weetabix Northamptonshire Food and Drink Awards, launched on the first day of spring at Silverstone Circuit, have now begun the shortlisting process. 21 of the County’s best artisan food and drink products have been announced as finalists, they will now compete for Gold, Silver, and Bronze in their respective categories. J Sweeney Accountants have joined sponsors Heygates and Daily Bread to support the three Artisan producer categories: Artisan Local Drink, Artisan Local Product and Artisan Local Vegetarian/Vegan Product. The ‘Artisan’ classification includes products from compan ..read more

A new pot of funding is now open for applications – all part of a programme helping people and communities in north Northamptonshire to grow, cook and eat healthily. Grow, Cook, Eat – funded by Public Health Northamptonshire and managed by the team from Groundwork Northamptonshire – is a two-year programme focused on improving people’s physical and mental health and supporting people and community groups to grow their own food, as well as cook and eat more healthily. A key part of the programme is the launch of this new pot of ‘Seed Funding’, with community driven projects with a focus on grow ..read more

The Weetabix Northamptonshire Food and Drink Awards is back for its fifteenth year with another sensational set of categories and sponsors. The Awards are a celebration and recognition of excellence within the Northamptonshire food and drink sector. It is a toast to all that is great about local produce and drink and rewarding those who work so hard to achieve the best within the culinary sector. The team behind the Awards are delighted to announce eighteen fantastic categories this year, which includes the introduction of a debut category: Event Venue of the year and with that, welcomes a fre ..read more

The festival, as a lot of you may know was the vision of the hotel’s General Manager Andrew Hollett and brought together by local events management business Polka Dot Events. This year, however, the event will be organised by NNBN, Northamptonshire’s new Membership Organisation and supported by Desborough based Poppy Design Studio. Marie and Simon Cox, owners of NNBN are proud to be taking over the reins to keep this amazing event continuing but we could not do this without acknowledging the hard work that Kerry Bate from Polka Dot Events has put into the event. She has led and organized ..read more

The date for this year’s Northamptonshire’s Good Food and Drink Festival has been announced as Sunday 24th September 2023. The successful festival, sponsored by Kettering based Wilson Browne Solicitors, brings together local food producers and enthusiasts once again offering a variety of produce and delicacies as well as providing them with an opportunity to display their passion for food and drink. Over 40 exhibitors and 900 food enthusiasts attended the 2022 event and the expectations are for this to rise this year following the success of the previous year’s events. The fun filled day ..read more

Following the success of last year’s inaugural Northamptonshire’s Good Food and Drink Festival, the date for this year’s festival has been announced. The successful festival, sponsored by Kettering based Wilson Browne Solicitors, takes place on Sunday 13th June 2021 (date subject to change depending on government guidelines) and will be bringing together local food producers once again offering a variety of produce and delicacies as well as providing them with an opportunity to display their passion for food and drink. Over 40 exhibitors and 800 food enthusiasts attended last year’s event ..read more

Northants Food and Drink Festival The first Northamptonshire Food and Drink Festival took place on Sunday 2nd June at The Kettering Park Hotel and Spa and was a huge success! Kerry Bate, owner of Polka Dot Events, organisers of the festival, the first one of its kind to be held in Kettering said “I was delighted with the day and am sure it is the first of what will become an annual event”. The sun was shining and hundreds of people attended, sampling the diversity of food and drink on offer from the best local producers.   With free entry for everyone and food and drink to buy from a ..read more