THE 10th
ABERGAVENNY FOOD FESTIVAL
GŴYL FWD Y FENNI
Sat 20 - Sun 21 September / Medi 2008

1.00pm – St Michael’s Centre
Bord’Eaux – Ollie Couillaud
Tickets: £7.00

During his 15 years in London, chef Ollie Couillaud has worked his way around many high-profile restaurants, including La Trompette, Chez Bruce, The Square and more recently, Tom Aiken’s restaurant Tom’s Kitchen. In February 2008 Ollie launched his own restaurant, Bord’Eaux. Situated on Park Lane, the brasserie-style cooking celebrates the gutsy and earthyflavours of his native South-West France.

Sponsored by: The Bell at Skenfrith, www.skenfrith.co.uk

3.00pm – Angel Hotel Ballroom
Leon-style – Allegra McEvedy & Henry Dimbleby
Tickets: £8.00

Allegra McEvedy MBE and Henry Dimbleby are co-founders of Leon, the award-winning, healthy fast-food restaurant chain. Leon was voted "Best New Restaurant" in the 2005 Observer Food Awards. Allegra is residentchef of The Guardian G2 Magazine, and has just produced her third book, The Leon Cookbook. She was awarded the MBE in June 2008.

Sponsored by: The Bell at Skenfrith, www.skenfrith.co.uk

3.00pm – St Michael’s Centre
Bordeaux Quay – Barny Haughton
Tickets: £7.00

Barny Haughton has championed local and organic sourcing in his restaurants in Bristol for 20 years. But in the stunning waterfront warehouse conversion that is Bordeaux Quay he has taken sustainability a stage further. Strategies for waste reduction and energy saving are embedded into every level of the building’s construction and operation. And the food is terrific!

Sponsored by: Llansantffraed Court, www.llch.co.uk

5.00pm – Angel Hotel Ballroom
The Old Master – Shaun Hill
Tickets: £8.00

For many years Shaun Hill’s legendary cooking at The Merchant House underpinned Ludlow’s reputation for gastronomic excellence. It is with great pleasure that we welcome his move to The Walnut Tree, to Abergavenny, and to Wales.

Sponsored by: The Angel Hotel, www.angelhotelabergavenny.com

5.00pm – St Michael’s Centre
Cooking with Wild Food – Mark Hix & Yun Hider
Tickets: £7.00

As a chef, cookery writer and author of the highly acclaimed British Regional Food, Mark Hix is a passionate advocate of indigenous foods and dishes. He teams up with Camarthen-based forager Yun Hider to explore cooking with the most indigenous foods of all: wild foods.

Sponsored by: Glen yr Afon House Hotel, www.glen-yr-afon.co.uk

11.00am – Angel Hotel Ballroom
Not Bad for a Taff - Bryan Webb
Tickets: £8.00

Bryan Webb ran the kitchen at Hilaire for 14 successful years before he and his wife Susan took over Tyddyn Llan, the elegant Georgian Country House Hotel near Corwen, Denbighshire. He has twice won Wales True Taste gold awards. Tyddyn Llan is The Good Food Guide’s Wales Restaurant of the Year and was named in Matthew Fort’s Top 10 UK Restaurants. Not Bad for a Taff is Bryan Webb’s first collection of recipes.

Sponsored by: J Straker Chadwick & Sons, www.strakerchadwick.co.uk

11.00am – St Michael’s Centre
A Taste of Puglia - Mino Maggi and Christine Smallwood
Tickets: £7.00

Pugliese chef Mino Maggi and Welsh-born wife Carole’s celebrated cookery school is set in a complex of converted trulli - the region’s iconic whitewashed conical houses - and was recently featured in Rick Stein’s Mediterranean Escapes. Christine Smallwood is the author of An Appetite for Puglia, an introduction to the people and the cookery of this relatively unknown territorio in the heel of Italy.

Sponsored by: Bistro Prego, www.pregomonmouth.co.uk

1.00pm – Angel Hotel Ballroom
Fish-In – Mark Hix and Mitch Tonks
Tickets: £8.00

Festival favourites team up to offer a spectacular fish tasting and cookery demonstration. After years running some of the capital’s most sophisticated restaurant groups, both are opting for simplicity in their new ventures. Mark has opened the Hix Oyster and Chop House in Smithfield and the Hix Oyster and Fish House on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, while Mitch is back in the kitchen at The Seahorse at Dartmouth.

Sponsored by: The Angel Hotel, www.angelhotelabergavenny.com

1.00pm – St Michael’s Centre
What to Eat Now – Valentine Warner
Tickets: £7.00

Meet Valentine Warner, the star of BBC2’s newest cookery series What to Eat Now. Here he introduces some of the foods that are at their best right now and demonstrates delicious ways of cooking them.

Sponsored by: Lloyds TSB (Abergavenny), www.lloydstsb.com

3.00pm – St Michael’s Centre
Casa Mia – Jonray and Peter Iglesias with Charlie Hicks
Tickets: £7.00

Brothers Jonray and Peter Iglesias love to experiment. They have transformed their parents’ Bristol trattoria into a stylish award-winning restaurant, and earned themselves the title of Good Food Guide’s Up and Coming Chefs of the Year for 2008. With their friend and veg supplier Charlie Hicks they demonstrate some of the techniques and equipment that lie behind creating modern restaurant food.

Sponsored by: Three Salmons Hotel,  www.threesalmonshotelusk.co.uk

3.00pm - Angel Hotel Ballroom
Star of India - Cyrus Todiwala
Tickets: £8.00

Cyrus Todiwala, proprietor and executive chef of Cafe Spice Namaste, the award-winning London restaurant, is one of Britain's most successful and widely admired Indian chefs, no less for his achievements in the kitchen which have won him an ITV Tio Pepe Award for Outstanding Contribution to London Restaurants and a Culinary Honour of Merit from the World Chef Society, than for his tireless work to improve standards and conditions for people working in his industry. Here he demonstrates what a top Indian chef can do with local ingredients, including mutton.

Sponsored by: Pentre Court Guest House, www.pentrecourt.co.uk