Manchester's Summer Festival

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The team behind the UK’s largest food and drink festival has a new challenge on their hands…they’re bringing a sumptuous summer to Manchester, in the form of a new festival that will celebrate everything that is excellent about food, drink and music in the region.

Summer in the Park is the first event of its kind, bringing together food, drink, and, (this being Manchester) music. Taking place 12th – 13th July in Platt Fields Park, Fallowfield (near the City Centre), the Festival will offer food, drink and music lovers two jam packed days filled with the best restaurants, chefs, food, drink and music that the region has to offer.

A veritable ‘food and drink concert’, the ‘headliners’ at this event will combine top chefs and musical talent. Split into designated areas, the Summer in the Park site will create a food and drink haven, each offering a fabulous experience:

Dine in the park: Manchester restaurant showcase

Up to 30 of Greater Manchester’s best restaurants and chefs will host their own kitchen stations serving sample portions, including Shimla Pinks, Tampopo, Carlcuccios, Chaophraya and Michael Caines Restaurants. This will bring attendees the chance try and buy a diversity of the cuisines available at Manchester’s restaurants in an affordable, relaxed Festival environment.

Learn in the Park: Cookery Theatre

For budding cooks and foodie enthusiasts, Learn in the Park is the ideal platform to pick up tips and hints from some of the UK’s leading chefs including Michael Caines and lots more to be announced. Learn in the Park will feature cookery demonstrations from the experts as well as talks, Q and As, celebrity book-signings and advice. More celebrity chefs will soon be announced.

Drink in the park: Real ale and wine village
Drink in the Park will provide a place to try and buy the region’s finest ales, and stunning wines with a local twist too!

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Manchester’s favourite independent bar ‘Odd’ will be bringing their inimitable style to the Festival, and transforming an area of the park into a wine Odd-yssey! This is attendees’ opportunity to try and buy new and old world wines, specially selected for Summer in the Park, and all with a local twist. Wine tastings will be hosted by experts throughout the weekend and a tasting table will be sampling hourly.
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Real ale
Meanwhile, a Greater Manchester Ale Bar will feature a huge showcase of the region’s brewers! Greater Manchester has the highest concentration of micro breweries in the UK, and Summer in the Park will celebrate this by allowing Festival-goers the chance to sample them all under one roof!
The summer beers showcase will be a one-off for real ale lovers, with all breweries in the region invited to take part, including Marble, Hydes, Phoenix, and Bank Top.


Produce in the park: Local producers market
The North West offers some of the best in regional produce, and no summer food festival would be complete without a regional producers market. Produce in the Park will enable festival revellers to sample and buy a fabulous and comprehensive range of regional produce to take home, as well as meet the producers themselves.


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