Taste of Brecon descends on the Brecon Market Hall this Saturday 3rd June, 2023 when the Brecon Food Festival comes to town. To avoid clashing dates this years’ festival a few months earlier than previously.
Brecon Food Festival has always been innovative and last year started an area called the tasting table bringing the Taste of Brecon right to its heart.
The tasting table is a superb concept and is run by local caterer Fingers and Forks. Fingers and Forks operate across mid Wales catering for corporate events, weddings, funerals and sporting events such as the Sweet Mountain Car Rally. Their premise is to use local food wherever possible so the tasting table fits so well with their own ethos about Welsh Food and Drink.
So what is the tasting table and how does it bring a taste of Brecon to the festival.
Taking a very simple analogy of three foods cheese, cracker and chutney. Whilst visiting a food festival you may have the opportunity to go around and try samples cheese at one stall, cracker at another and half an hour later chutney. The tasting table removes the guesswork of trying to imagine all three components coming together by creating treats easily made at home from combinations of the foods on sale at the Food Festival.
Fingers and Forks tell you what cheese they are using what cracker and what chutney all of which are available to buy at the festival. Best of all there is no cost to you the food festival visitor.
So over the time period of the festival enjoy:
- Jams and chutneys from local producer Black Mountain Preserves.
- Plain and flavoured savoury biscuits from Cradoc Biscuits.
- Borneo inspired sauces from Sorai.
- Delicious vegetarian and vegan foods from The Parsnipship.
- Vinegars chutneys and jams from Little Black Hen.
- Artisan chutneys, marmalade, curds, preserves, jams, mustard and spreads from Little Grandma’s Kitchen.
- Shellfish and crab from Cardigan Bay Fish.
- Organic raw milk cheeses from Caws Teifi.
- Marinated beef & venison jerky from Trailhead Fine Foods.
- Homemade chutneys, jams, pickles and sauces from Pleasantly Pickled.
- Vegetarian and vegan samosas, bhajis, empanadas, pickles, chutneys from Samosaco.
- Sheeps cheese from Dolwerdd Dairy Sheep.
- Hams from Rees of Carmarthen.
- All things charcuterie Hay Charcuterie.
- Cured meats from Gwella Cured Meats.
- Artisan and specialist breads from Caroline’s Real Bread Co.
- Bread and buns from Wigmore Bakery.
But the taste of Brecon is not just for those who like savouries , for the sweeter tooth.
- Cakes from Teifi Treats.
- Plain and flavoured welsh cakes from Fat Bottom Welsh Cakes.
- Cakes from Red Room Confectionary.
- Cheesecakes from Marie Cresci’s Cheesecakes.
- Fudge from the Fudge Foundry.
- Homemade Raw Chocolate from Shirley’s
- Traditional and flavoured welsh cakes from Lili Wen Welsh Cakes.
- Cakes and Brownies from Zoe Bakes.
- Plains and flavoured fudge from Gower Fudge.
- Cupcakes from Brecon Cupcakes.
What a treat! The taste of Brecon from the Brecon Food Festival and the Fingers and Forks tasting table.
