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Sponsors Thank you to our supporters FESTIVAL GUIDE ABC Motor Factors, Certainly Wood, Chelsea Green Publishing, County Marquees, Enrico Messora, Flint and Flame, Gwynt Y Ddraig, Halen Môn, Joe and Seph’s, Kadai Firebowls, Land Rover, Love Lilly, Old Board Company, Parrys Estate Agents, Premium Dental Implants, Quails Interiors, Real Kombucha, Sugarloaf Catering, Timothy Oulton, Trealy Farm, Tiny Rebel Brewery, Village Dairy, Wogan Coffee. Wristbands and tickets on sale now at: www.abergavennyfoodfestival.com @afoodfestival #AFF2018 BUS STATION TASTING TASTING WORKSHOPS Priory Centre A465, M4 PICNIC AREA BAILEY PARK ‘PARK & WALK’ & ‘PARK NEW TO THE TRAINS, A40, THE TO PEDESTRIAN ACCESS FORAGES MEETING POINT BARS MARKET PRODUCERS MARKET FISH & FIZZ Timothy Oulton DRINKS THEATRE DRINKS At The Dome At THE CHAPEL NIGHT MARKET NIGHT STREET FOOD & STREET CONTACT POINT & FIRST AID POINT & FIRST CONTACT STREET MARKETS INFO & MERCHANDISE ANGEL BAKERY ENTRANCE UPPER THE CASTLE ANGEL HOTEL School BREWERY YARD BREWERY Cookery Cookery MARKET HALL MARKET Cooking Cooking Over Fire EXIT ONLY MARKET TUTORED TUTORED TASTINGS Exchange Corn Experience CHEESE & WINE CHEESE & Belazu Dining SHOP THE ART THE ART TOILETS BOX OFFICE BOX TOURIST INFO TOURIST THEATRE BOROUGH Kitchen FESTIVAL FESTIVAL MADE IN TIVERTON FARMYARD Delicious Demo ARTS MARKET MONMOUTHSHIRE MARKET PRODUCERS MARKET CASTLE STREET CASTLE STREET YARD SQUARE ST JOHN’S ST HORSINGTON’S HORSINGTON’S Kids Activities & Cookery School & Cookery ARMS THE KING’S Centre FEASTS St Michael’s N POLICE STATION MEADOWS TO CASTLE TO ‘PARK & WALK’ & ‘PARK HOSPITAL TO NEVILL HALL TO GARDENS LINDA VISTA VISTA LINDA CONTENTS INFORMATION STREET FOOD & NIGHT MARKET 56 WELCOME 2 COOKERY CLASSES FOR KIDS 57 CROESO 3 FRINGE FESTIVAL 58 ABOUT THE FESTIVAL 5 TALKS 62 ESSENTIAL INFORMATION 6 THE FESTIVAL AT A GLANCE 10 MARKETS THE CASTLE 64 EVENTS MARKET HALL 66 EVENT LISTINGS 13 CHEESE & WINE 68 THE PRIORY 70 (FISH & FIZZ, NEW PRODUCERS) HIGHLIGHTS TIVERTON PRODUCERS’ MARKET 72 FEASTS 30 CASTLE STREET 74 THE COOKERY SCHOOL 34 THE FARMYARD 77 MARKET HALL DECORATIONS 38 MADE IN MONMOUTHSHIRE 77 CHEF DEMOS 42 ARTISAN VILLAGE THE CASTLE 46 STREET MARKETS 78 THE FARMYARD 50 UPPER & LOWER BREWERY YARD 80 CASTLE STREET 54 MERCHANDISE 55 MEET THE TEAM 88 INFORMATION penwythnos. Peidiwch â cholli’r gweithgareddau INFORMATION Welcome, Croeso, ar gyfer y teulu ar fuarth y fferm rhwng 10 a 12 bob bore, bar newydd y Tiny Rebel, y bwyd A very warm welcome to this very special, 20th Croeso cynnes iawn i ŵyl Fwyd y Fenni, sy’n stryd na’r coctels dialcohol gan y noddwr edition of the Abergavenny Food Festival. It’s a dathlu ei 20fed blwyddyn eleni. Pleser o’r newydd, Seedlip. pleasure to welcome visitors, old and new, to mwyaf yw croesawu ymwelwyr, hen a newydd, Abergavenny this festival weekend. i’r Fenni y penwythnos hwn ar gyfer yr yl. ŵ Fel y gŵyr llawer ohonoch, bu dechrau 2018 yn gyfnod anodd i’r ŵyl yn sgil canslo ein gŵyl This guide aims to give you all the information Nod y canllaw hwn yw rhoi’r holl wybodaeth Nadolig flynyddol, a gostiodd yn ddrud i ni. Dim you need to make the most of our jam-packed, y mae arnoch ei hangen i fanteisio i’r eithaf ar ond trwy gymorth sefydliadau tebyg i Gyngor food-filled programme. Note our new festival ein rhaglen llawn dop, llawn bwyd. Cymerwch Sir Fynwy a Chyngor Tref y Fenni, ynghyd â’r llu site maps, which will help you to discover the olwg ar ein mapiau newydd o safle’rŵ yl, a fydd o fusnesau bwyd sydd wedi ymuno â’n cynllun wide range of activities that the festival has to yn eich galluogi i ddod o hyd i’r amrywiaeth cefnogwyr, yr ydym wedi gallu cynnal deupen offer. Don’t forget to also look out for the big eang o weithgareddau y mae’r ŵyl yn ei chynnig. llinyn y sioe. Hoffwn fanteisio ar y cyfle hwn i maps up around town! Peidiwch ag anghofio taro golwg hefyd ar y As many of you know the festival endured a ddiolch yn fawr i bawb sydd wedi ein helpu yn mapiau mawr sydd i’w gweld o gwmpas y dref! tough time at the beginning of 2018, with the ystod 2018. This year our focus has been on celebrating cancellation of our annual Christmas festival 20 years of the Abergavenny Food Festival. Eleni, rydym wedi canolbwyntio ar ddathlu costing us dearly. It is only thanks to the Profiad gwylaidd oedd cael y cyfle i fwrw trem From showcasing the food producers who have pen-blwydd Gŵyl Fwyd y Fenni yn 20 oed. support of organisations like Monmouthshire yn ôl ar gyfnod o 20 mlynedd yn hanes yr grown their businesses on the back of coming O arddangos y cynhyrchwyr bwyd sydd wedi County Council and Abergavenny Town ŵyl fwyd, a sylweddoli cynifer o bobl y mae’r to the festival, to bringing back the chefs who meithrin eu busnesau ar sail yr arfer o ddod Council, plus the many food businesses who digwyddiad arbennig hwn wedi dylanwadu have been with us from the very beginning, to i’r ŵyl hon, i wahodd y cogyddion hynny sydd have signed up to our supporters’ scheme that arnynt. Peidiwch â cholli’r panel arbennig iawn profiling exciting new ideas and important new wedi bod gyda ni o’r dechrau’n deg yn eu we have been able to keep the show on the a fydd yn rhannu cyfrinachau’r 20 mlynedd voices in food, this year’s programme promises hôl, i amlinellu syniadau newydd, cyffrous a road. I’d like to take a moment to say a huge ddiwethaf yn Theatr y Fwrdeistref, na chwaith to be one of our best yet. rhoi llwyfan i leisiau newydd a phwysig yn y thank you to all those that have helped in 2018. Bettina Reeves – yr artist anhygoel sydd diwydiant bwyd – mae rhaglen y flwyddyn hon wrth wraidd ein prosiect addurno blynyddol We can’t welcome you to Abergavenny yn argoeli i fod yn un o’r rhaglenni gorau eto. It has been humbling to have the opportunity to yn Neuadd y Farchnad – a fydd yn gwerthu without saying a huge thank you to our festival look back over 20 years of the food festival and printiau o’r creaduriaid gwych y bu’n eu creu supporters and sponsors. You can find a full list Ni allwn eich croesawu i’r Fenni heb ddiolch realise how many people have been touched dros gyfnod o 20 mlynedd, a hynny ar ei stondin at the front of this guide, but I wanted to take yn fawr i gefnogwyr a noddwyr yr ŵyl. Gallwch by this special event. Don’t miss a very special yn Neuadd y Farchnad. a moment to highlight the new organisations ddod o hyd i restr lawn ohonynt ar y dudalen panel in the Borough Theatre sharing secrets joining us in 2018: River Cottage, Pipers Farm, nesaf, ond hoffwn dynnu sylw at y sefydliadau from the last 20 years, or Bettina Reeves – the Ni fyddwn yn cynnal ein Ffair Nadolig yn 2018 Willy Chase ACV, Seedlip, Real Kombucha and newydd a fydd yn ymuno â ni yn 2018. Mae incredible artist behind our annual Market Hall er mwyn rhoi cyfle i’n tîm roi ambell gynllun Kadai Firebowls are all new to the event, and River Cottage, Pipers Farm, Willy Chase ACV, decorations project – who will have a stall in newydd a chyffrous ar waith. Fodd bynnag, bydd are going to add a huge amount for you to see, Seedlip, Real Kombucha a Kadai Firebowls yn the Market Hall selling prints from 20 years of y ffair yn ei hôl yn bendant yn 2019, a chewch taste and do throughout the festival. newydd, bob un, i’r digwyddiad, a byddant yn creating these wonderful creatures. wybod mwy cyn bo hir! ychwanegu cymaint at yr hyn y byddwch yn ei We are excited to be launching a new festival weld, yn ei flasu, ac yn ei wneud trwy gydol yr We won’t be running our Christmas Fair in Gan ddymuno penwythnos gwych i chi ar gyfer site in the Castle Street car park at the top ŵyl. 2018 to give our team the chance to get some yr ŵyl. of the town. Our festival farmyard has moved exciting new plans into place. However, it will here, along with an exciting new kids’ area Rydym yn falch iawn o allu lansio safle newydd definitely be back in 2019, so watch this space! complete with free cookery school, where the ar gyfer yr ŵyl eleni, sef maes parcio Stryd Aine Morris little ones can learn to get their hands dirty all y Castell yn rhan uchaf y dref. Dyma fydd Prif Weithredwr Wishing you a wonderful festival weekend. weekend long. Don’t miss the family farmyard cartref newydd buarth y fferm sy’n rhan o’r takeover from 10am-12pm each morning, the ŵyl, ynghyd ag ardal newydd a chyffrous i new Tiny Rebel bar, street food and non- Aine Morris blant, sy’n cynnwys ysgol goginio am ddim, lle alcoholic cocktails from new sponsor Seedlip. Chief Executive gallant ddysgu trochi eu dwylo trwy gydol y 2 3 INFORMATION ABOUT THE FESTIVAL Since its inception in 1999, Abergavenny Food ALL INFORMATION IN THE FESTIVAL GUIDE IS CORRECT AT Festival has grown to become the largest THE TIME OF GOING TO PRESS, BUT MAY BE SUBJECT TO food festival in Wales, attracting some of the UK’s most progressive chefs, food producers, CHANGE. farmers, cooks and campaigners to our market town. The award-winning festival exhibits over JOIN THE CONVERSATION! 250 of the finest food and drink producers, including young farmers and innovative new FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @AFOODFESTIVAL food businesses, alongside our outstanding programme of activities, including product LIKE US ON FACEBOOK tastings, chef demos, cookery classes and /AFOODFESTIVAL topical debates, all designed to get you SHARE YOUR PHOTOS ON INSTAGRAM shopping locally, growing your own and cooking @AFOODFESTIVAL up a storm.