DEMONSTRATION STAGE
Throughout the weekend top chefs stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the best of regional culinary talent on the stage of Flavour Fest's Cookery Theatre, with a full programme of demonstrations and talks over the three day festival.
Check out who's coming to the chef stage this year
Friday 29 May
Peter Gorton
10am
Award-winning chef Peter Gorton opens up this year's Flavour Fest.
Opening the event
Richard Clark
11am
Richard Clark provides a pottery demonstration.
Demonstration
Richard Hunt
1pm
Devon born and bred over 35 yrs in the industry. The demo will be based on The bounty of Devon produce.
Chef Demonstration
Craig Brook-Hewitt
2pm
Introduction into the history of Mother’s Ruin 1751, plus description and tasting of our range of Gins and Rum. Don't miss the opportunity to win a bottle of gin!
Talk
JP Fairchild
3pm
JP Fairchild has been HC at the Treasury for 5 years now and leads a small brigade of 5 dedicated chefs, aiming to please our customers at all times. Known for leading and teaching his brigade, JP is a vibrant and key member of the Treasury management team often seen serving customers at their table and enjoying meeting and getting feedback on his food. As well as cooking,
Chef Demonstration
Andy White
4pm
Andy White is a local chef and British street food awards winner! He will be showcasing BBQ tips during his demonstration.
Chef Demonstration
Saturday 30 May
Peter Gorton
10am
Award-winning chef Peter Gorton opens up this day 2 of Flavour Fest.
Chef Demonstration
Michael Mortimore
11am
Kitchen Lead at The Box Kitchen and Bar Michael Mortimore enjoys taking classic, comforting flavours and giving them a modern twist, creating dishes that feel familiar with a fresh edge. He'll be cooking a crisp fishcake of locally landed gurnard, lifted with lime coriander and spring onion. Served with dressed leaves and a light coconut and lime dressing.
Chef Demonstration
Suki Pantal
12pm
Suki's demo will include traditional Indian Cookery using recipes from her new cookbook - No Worries, Just Chicken Curries
Chef Demonstration
Charlie Walters
1pm
Head Chef and Restaurateur at Narla based in Cornwall. Known for an already exciting CV, with Head Chef at the Sardine Factory to his name and working with legend Paul Ainsworth before storming national screens with his appearance on MasterChef: The Professionals, earlier this year Charlie opened his own fine dining destination Narla in Fowey.
Chef Demonstration
Craig Brook-Hewitt
2pm
Introduction into the history of Mother’s Ruin 1751, plus description and tasting of our range of Gins and Rum. Don't miss the opportunity to win a bottle of gin!
Talk
Jo Tytherleigh
3pm
A demonstration with grower Jo Tytherleigh from Harewood Farm in Calstock of seasonal dishes made with fresh produce from Tamar Valley growers and producers.
Chef Demonstration
Kit Harris
4pm
Head Chef of the Bedford Hotel, Tavistock showcases their chef's speciality dishes.
Chef Demonstration
Maya Lawrence
5pm
An elevated, everyday lunch to share with friends. I will be showing a novice, home cook how easy it is to prepare something beautiful, which is homemade but not complicated. Using (mostly) seasonal ingredients, that will impress your friends and highlight how the joy we bring to everyday cooking can transform the experience, through joyful and colourful design.
Chef Demonstration
Sunday 31 May
Michael Barber
10am
Michael Barber opens up the third day of Flavour fest
Chef Demonstration
Michael Mortimore
11am
Kitchen Lead at The Box Kitchen and Bar Michael Mortimore enjoys taking classic, comforting flavours and giving them a modern twist, creating dishes that feel familiar with a fresh edge. He'll be cooking a crisp fishcake of locally landed gurnard, lifted with lime coriander and spring onion. Served with dressed leaves and a light coconut and lime dressing.
Chef Demonstration
Clarise Mutoka
12pm
Clarise is going to demo how to cook a rich, flavour-packed curry goat served with fluffy rice and peas and sweet, golden fried plantain.
He will talk the audience through each step as he goes, from marinating the meat and building the spices, to getting perfectly tender goat, light, fragrant rice and peas, and caramelised plantain that brings the whole plate together.
Chef Demonstration
Adrian Bartlett & Matt Corner
1pm
Adrian Bartlett and Matt Corner from Seafood Plymouth will showcase local seafood. Serving up crabs, John Dory, pollock and a flat fish recipe.
Chef Demonstration
Michael Barber
2pm
Michael Barber will be hosting a talk and tasting session about the bean to bar chocolate
Talk
Frederick Alsop - The Fish Market, Looe
3pm
The Fish Market is a small, independent seafood restaurant on the harbourside in East Looe, Cornwall, run by chef-owner and Looe native Fred Alsop. Its daily changing small-plates menu showcases the freshest local catch from the Cornish and South Devon coasts, and the restaurant has quietly become a word-of-mouth hidden gem that now underpins his forthcoming Devon brasserie, Alsop’s.
Talk
