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Wigan’s inaugural Food and Drink Festival,
taking place from Friday 5th to Monday 15th October, not only adds to
the borough’s rich event annual programme, but hails a remarkable new
era in the history of the borough’s culinary culture.
A major highlight of the festival is Wigan’s Fine Food Trail. Food fans
will have the chance to journey the length and breadth of Wigan Borough
and enjoy a plethora of mouth watering gastronomic delicacies.
A dozen specially selected restaurants and eating houses, stretching
from the Old Boathouse at Astley to the High Moor at Wrightington, will,
under the theme of ‘Taste and Tradition’, be serving up special menus
including their own special festival dish developed in homage to
traditional Wigan and Lancashire food.
A sample of the specially prepared dishes on offer at the restaurants
include:
• Wigan’s famed ‘Babbysyed’ – beef suet pudding with baby onion and
mushroom;
• Paul Hart’s Black Pudding in a cream and pepper cognac sauce;
• Pigeon, bacon and mushroom pie;
• Shortcrust steak and kidney pie with beer gravy;
• The Beef Cobbler – tender chunks of beef in a red wine sauce;
• Lancashire Bowland Lamb; and
• Paul Heathcote’s Bread and Butter Pudding with apricot compote and
clotted cream.
Keith Bergman, Tourism Development Manager for Wigan Leisure and Culture
Trust, said: “The quality of Wigan’s eating establishments has improved
immeasurably in recent years. An area best known for the humble pie has
so many high profile quality chefs and eating houses. We are delighted
with the quality of the food on offer and the enthusiasm shown by all of
the restaurants and pubs involved in celebrating Wigan’s culinary
heritage and future”.
“The Fine Food Trail includes many restaurants. These have been chosen
to suit all tastes, from fine dining and contemporary to cosy and
traditional. In addition to the special menus, each establishment will
put on special events including cookery demonstrations. Each venue is
also serving up a range of special festival offers to set the taste buds
trembling.”
The full list of restaurants involved in Wigan’s Fine Food Trail is:
Aspects at Holland Hall:
Lafford Lane, Upholland, Wigan. 01695 624426
www.hollandhallhotel.co.uk
The Crown at Worthington:
19-21 Platt Lane, Standish, Wigan. 01257 421354
www.thecrownatworthington.co.uk
Gallimores, Wigan:
13 The Wiend. Wigan town centre. 01942 492100
www.gallimores.com
Haigh Hall:
Copperas Lane, Haigh, Wigan. 01942 832895
www.haighhall.net
Harts of Leigh:
7 Church Street, Leigh. 01942 680650
www.hartsofleigh.co.uk
The High Moor:
High Moor Lane, Wrightington. 01257 252364
www.highmoorrestaurantwigan.co.uk
The Old Boathouse:
164 Higher Green Lane, Astley. 01942 883300
The Owls Standish:
Rectory Lane, Standish, Wigan 01257 424242
The Queen Anne:
14 Bridge Street, Golborne. 01942 726922
The Ross Arms:
130 Higher Green Lane, Astley 01942 874405
www.rossarms.co.uk
Simply Heatcotes:
Wrightington Hotel, Wrightington 01257 478244
www.heathcotes.co.uk
The Unicorn, Billinge:
190 Upholland Road, Billinge. 01695 627692
www.theunicornatbillinge.com
Wigan Borough’s Food and Drink Festival sponsored by TESCO, runs from
Friday 5th to Monday 15th October at venues across the borough. Festival
programmes will be available from the first week in September from Wigan
Tourist Information, Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust outlets and the
partner restaurants. For more information contact Wigan Tourist
Information Centre 01942 825677, or visit
www.visitwigan.com/foodfest or
www.foodanddrinkfestival.com
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NOTES TO EDITORS: For further information on this press release please
contact Chris Dunbar, Media and Public Relations Manager, on 01942
486937 or at
c.dunbar@wlct.org
Alternatively contact Phil Green, Public Relations Officer, Wigan
Council on 01942 837369 or Keith Bergman, Tourism Development Manager on
01942 486951.
Sponsors and supporters: The Wigan Food and Drink Festival (part of the
Manchester Food and Drink Festival) is organised by Wigan Leisure and
Culture Trust. The Trust would like to thank the following sponsors for
their support: Tesco, Wigan Council, Allgates Brewery, Wigan Camra,
Wigan Market and Fiswal.
Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust: Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust is a
charitable trust working on behalf of Wigan Council to manage and
support leisure and cultural facilities, initiatives and events for over
300,000 residents in the Wigan Borough. See
www.wlct.org
Getting Wigan Active: Getting Wigan Active is Wigan Leisure and Culture
Trust’s vision to help people across the Wigan Borough to become more
physically, mentally and creatively active. It also aims to increase
community activity and to encourage good citizenship.
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