Parking details have been announced for Porthleven Food Festival as the event returns this coming weekend after a two-year break for the pandemic.
Parking this year will be provided by Porthleven Football Club, and Methleigh Farm. Depending on weather, additional parking may be available in Porthleven Cricket Club from 8.30am each day, Friday to Sunday.
Parking for the day in any of these sites will be £5 and in order to make the process as quick as possible, it is advised to pay with cash.
Both the police and the festival team have asked people not to park on the roads in and around Porthleven, as this causes major traffic issues, and parking restrictions, enforcement and road closures will be in place over festival weekend.
Residents will not need a permit this year.
There will be a limited number of disabled parking spaces available for Blue Badge holders, and visitors should speak to a steward on the day if they need one of these.
The award-winning festival, which won gold in the Best Event category at the Cornwall Tourism Awards and silver at the South West Tourism Awards in 2020, returns this coming weekend, from Friday through to Sunday, from 10am each day.
A site map for this year's Porthleven Food Festival
For the first time, there will be chef demonstrations on the Friday also this year, with the acclaimed Michael Caines, owner of The Harbourside Refuge in Porthleven, taking to the mainstage at 1pm joined by his executive head chef Stuart Shaw.
He will be preceded on stage by Cornish chef Dan Bowden, who is about to take up the role of head chef at The Bay Hotel in Coverack.
Festival patron Antony Worrall Thompson returns on Saturday for his ever-popular cook off against Porthleven’s own Jude Kereama, owner of Kota and Kota Kai.
Jude has gathered the chefs together for this year’s show, taking over from his wife Jane, who sadly passed away just after the last food festival in 2019.
Jude Kereama, owner of Kota and Kota Kai. .has gathered the chefs together for this year's Porthleven Food Festival
This year's line-up also includes Stewart Eddy and Bryok Williams from The Square in Porthleven, Mick Smith from the Porthminster Beach café in St Ives and Dorian Janmaat, who has returned to Cornwall as executive head chef at The Idle Rocks in St Mawes after an eight-year stint at Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons with Raymond Blanc, all on the Saturday, with Sunday including Rock's St Enodoc Hotel executive chef Guy Owen, who has worked with Gordon Ramsay at his Michelin starred restaurant at Claridge’s and recently represented the South West on the BBC’s Great British Menu programme, and Michelin Bib Gourmand winner Ben Tunnicliffe from the Tolcarne Inn at Newlyn.
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On the music side, Guilty Pleasures will open up proceedings on Friday with cheesy pop classics, then Company B will headline the evening with the sounds of the 1940s brought up to date by the energetic seven-piece “jump jive” band.
Saturday will see Smokey’s King Shufflers, a Chicago blues band, and Sandy Acre 7, a six-piece band that perform everything from soul, blues and swing to ska, reggae and dance.
Company B will headline opening night of the Porthleven Food Festival
On Sunday the festival will welcome The Disappointments to the stage, featuring long-term Porthleven Food Festival Kids’ Field production manager Vicki Cox with others for a rock and roll fusion the band call 'folkabillyboogie', with local favourites Go Go Skank closing the festival, playing well-loved 80s tunes in a Rockabilly Ska style.
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There will also be a range of tastings, workshops, discount offers and limited edition festival offerings in the Shipyard Market over the weekend, with The Family Zone on the Moors Field offering arts and crafts with Sticky Fingers, circus workshops from Cirque Du Ciel, as well as a brand new venue – the Ann’s Pasty Lounge, offering reakfast pasties and Bloody Marys at the day, to live music and afternoon DJ sets throughout the early evening, including percussion and dance group Dakadoum on Saturday afternoon.
On Saturday there’s a pasty crimping workshop with Ann herself and then afternoon music from the Oggymen, Ben Bowden and the All Day Breakfast Band, while Sunday brings a breakfast cocktail masterclass, a Q&A with Ann and live DJ sets/
On Friday there will be the chance to meet a mermaid and create a gratitude shell with the Sea Sanctuary, a charity partner for this year’s festival theme of Food For Thought around mental health and blue spaces.
There’s also compassion and confidence workshops and wellbeing and mindfulness workshops all geared up to families and the announcement of the pasty flavour competition winners, after Ann’s worked with the children at Porthleven School to create the nicest and the "yuckiest" pasty flavours they can think of.
The community-run festival is free to attend this year, to keep it accessible to those who can’t afford it, although donations can be made via www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/porthlevenfoodfestival
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