Wondering at wonderful food at St Pancras
All weekend I’ve been reading tweets with envy from food festivals around the country: Ludlow, Liverpool and the Organic Food Festival in Bristol. And with immaculate bad timing I will be in the Cotswolds next weekend, just in time for the Nottingham Food & Drink Festival.
So I’m thrilled to find that over the next two weeks I’ll be able to drop into a food festival not once, but twice, and as part of the day job. Yes, instead of hanging around the depressing blank area that is the Kings Cross concourse waiting for the train north I have even more excuse than normal to hotfoot it over to St Pancras, as it is the venue for the Foodie Fortnight from 16th September.
Imagine the joy! Train gets delayed, pop over to St Panc and experience a sausage making masterclass from Laverstoke Park, a Victoria sponge masterclass from Peyton & Byrne, and cooking with Jean-Christophe Novelli, Richard Corrigan and Atul Kochhar to name a few. All this, and you can still be on 19.30 to Leeds.
All the restuarants are offering 10% off, which is worth having, and some have special menus. What I am most looking forward to is the launch of Sourced Market. Fresh seasonal product, seven days a week, right there in the middle of the station, which comes from Borough Market. It beats Marks & Spencer, with everything from fresh veg and herbs from Secrett’s Farm Direct, through to seafood, fish and organic meat.
And there’s sweet stuff too! I love the idea of very local honey from Regent’s Park, and cake and bread from Flour Power City Bakery. I can see I am going to need to be carrying extra big bags in future on my trips down to London. It was bad enough before with the temptation of L K Bennett, Foyles and Peyton & Byrne, but this takes it up to a whole new level.
And the redevelopment at Kings Cross is really going to have to be something special to stop me hotfooting it at the last minute to catch my train! Not to mention the onboard catering is going to have even less chance of enticing me now!
Stunning photograph courtesy of Unhindered by Talent on Flickr.
Hey,
looks great – but i think the link you’ve got isn’t right – i had a look and it should be:
http://www.stpancras.com/foodiefortnight
Can’t wait!
Thank you for that, I’ve corrected the link in the post.
Enjoy the festival!
Glad you found my photo useful, and thanks for kind words! I hope the event goes well – we’d certainly love to come if we were still in the UK.