Hello!

They say you always remember a good meal, well I’m never going to forget the feast of events that have taken place over the past two weeks as part of EAT! NewcastleGateshead.

We’ve enjoyed supper at Trinity House, a mini food festival onboard a DFDS ferry, a mysterious restaurant with no menu and who can forget the flash-mob picnic in Saltwell Park for Cakebook. 

We’ve worked with hundreds of school children through the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party and Adopt A School projects and we’ve celebrated the next generation of budding chefs with the Future Chef competition.  We’ve also worked with nearly every food producer and restaurant in the region to celebrate the incredible food industry in the North East.

If you want to re-live some of the best moments in this year’s EAT! festival, then tune into BBC Radio 4 at 12.30pm on Sunday 27 June for the Food Programme’s 30 minute programme all  about EAT!

Thank you everyone that has made the festival a success and join me in raising a glass to next year.  See you then.

Simon Preston
Festival Director

Download your copy of the 2010 Eat! NewcastleGateshead guide here.


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Check out some of the images from EAT! NewcastleGateshead Gallery 1 

Check out some of the images from EAT! NewcastleGateshead Gallery 2 

Check out some images of the Pearly Diner

Reviews

“Amazingly imaginative and eccentric….this festival is unlike any other… this is not your average food festival…. there's a general feeling that food festivals are for the forty plus white middle class group and that's not true here.”
Sheila Dillon, BBC Radio 4 Food Programme (June 2010)

“The Great North Eco-Feast can wear its green credentials on its sleeve… Before we had time for another chunk of deliciously home-baked bread, however, our mains were on their way, and we all stood up as the suckling pigs were paraded around the room.”
The Journal (June 2010)

“EAT! NewcastleGateshead has events such as the US v UK chilli challenge, a walking foodie tour, the dream meal of your choosing at the no-menu Pearly Diner or the fantastically-named Cakebook Flash Mob Picnic. Yum.”
The Guardian (12 June 2010)

“EAT! NewcastleGateshead food festival has, for three years, showcased the northeast’s finest local food producers, restaurants and culinary talent with a month of street parties, cooking competitions and, this year, restaurants set up in people’s homes.”
Lonely Planet Magazine (June 2010)