Seeing as all of us just love our nosh, we thought it prudent to put together a selection of food festivals and holidays from around the world to get the juices flowing.
Hawaiian Dream 0845 277 3318 www.hawaiian-dream.co.uk
MAUI
29TH Annual Kapalua Wine and Food Festival happens from 24th – 27th July this year. It is the longest-running and most prestigious festival of its kind in Hawaii, celebrating 26 years of fine food and wine with a four-day culinary extravaganza! The Festival explores some of the most exciting trends in the gastronomic world. Festival host Fred Dame, Master Sommelier brings together world-renowned winemakers, top master sommeliers, celebrated
chefs and industry insiders in fun, themed tastings, seminars, and gala evening events. Cooking demonstrations, and winemaker dinners are just a few of the highlights at this mouth watering event.
It costs from £1,650pp to stay for 7 nights at the Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua.
Mediterranean Experience 0845 277 3303 www.medexperience.co.uk
CYPRUS
Limassol Wine Festival happens every year in late August and early September. The tradition stems from ancient times when Greeks would have spectacular celebrations dedicated to Dionysus, the God of Wine, and Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love and Beauty. The Limassol Wine Festival is today’s equivalent of the ancient celebrations with the first
wine festival organised in 1961. Cypriots and visitors alike are welcome to taste an assortment of wines from the island and local dishes. Limassol is the centre of the biggest grape-producing region of Cyprus and the festivals slogan is “Drink wine, it
gives you life”!
7 nights at the Amathus Beach Limassol costs from £1,039pp.
Regent Holidays 0845 277 3317 www.regent-holidays.co.uk
ESTONIA
The Crayfish Festival on Muhu Island in Estonia runs from 24th August until 1st September followed by Mushroom weekends in September. Muhu is the third largest island of an archipelago off the west coast of Estonia, separating the Gulf of Riga from the Baltic Sea. Every year, Padaste Manor holds this annual 'Crayfish Festival', where guests get gorge
themselves on fresh crayfish caught in the Baltic. The following weekends guests get to pick mushrooms, obtain top tips on how to prepare, cook and preserve mushrooms as well as tasting them from a menu dedicated to this fruit of the forest.
A member of The Small Luxury Hotels of the World, The Padaste Manor, dating back to the 16th century and situated on the southern tip of Muhu Island is a luxurious resort hotel. Its superb spa has a wood-burning sauna and Roman steam baths and mud and hay are used in the spa treatments. It is the dining experience, however, that really puts the Pädaste Manor on a pededstal. Every course is a work of art and fresh local ingredients, including
home-grown herbs and superb salads are used as much as possible.
It costs from £664pp for a 5 night stay at Padaste Manor twinned with a stay in 5 star Telegraaf Hotel in Tallinn.
Western & Oriental Travel 0845 277 3389 www.westernoriental.com
INDIA
The Taste of India Tour is enough to inspire anyone keen on a curry to bring all they learn back home and eat hot and spicy every night. This 16 day tour will lead you to spice plantations in Thekkady in the very South of India, a night on a newly converted
luxury Rice Barge in Kerala, visits to the market in Cochin followed by a cooking demonstration at Brunton’s Boatyard, and then a cooking lesson in Tellicherry near Calicut in the south-west. The regional cuisines of India are a gourmets dream - from Muchalai to Punjab, Moplah to Thali, and Tamil to Chettinadu. Venture up to Delhi gobbling up the
Kashmir curries, then all aboard the Shatabdi Express which will whisk you across the Ganges Plain to Lucknow for an evening of culinary inspiration in a nobleman’s mansion. In Lucknow, the famous food emporia will finish off this sensational tour and you will come home with an enviable culinary knowledge from this favoured land.
Prices start from £3,629pp for a 16 night tour.
SOUTH AFRICA
South Africa’s Winelands offer the most sensational food in highly acclaimed hotels such as the Grande Roche Hotel in Paarl, Le Quartier Francais and Franschhoek County House and Villas both in Franschhoek. Each of these gems has award winning restaurants offering a fusion of both Western and Eastern influences complimented by the much loved wine from this region.
Prices start from £874pp for 5 nights accommodation at any of the above properties.
All prices stated above include flights, transfers and accommodation on a b&b basis. |
