• About Me
  • Adventures & Days out
  • Alphabet Dating
  • Beauty & Makeup
  • Lifestyle
  • Glorious food
  • Other
    • Christmas
    • Family Life
    • Fur Babies
    • Halloween
    • Hosting
    • My rambles
    • Photography

Elizabeth Lucy

June 4, 2017 Food glorious food

Christchurch Food Festival

2,364 total views, 1 views today

The Christchurch food festival has become such a huge event and rightly so, they up the amount of food stalls each year, there are cooking demonstrations, rides for the kids, bars and a pimms bus. plus so much more!

This year it was held on the 6th and 7th of may, which is today and yesterday. We decided to head down yesterday and joined the thousands of people that also fancied it. The festival was packed, & for someone that gets quite claustrophobic its quite a struggle down there, but we went nevertheless and did have a great time.

We love to mooch all the stalls before deciding on a place to eat, there were lots of tasters this year which was a bonus, and we  tried the best sausages from Giggly pig. They had a huge assortment and most were available to try, from hog roast, marmite, chunky bacon and some spicy sausages for those who like a bit of heat.

First purchase however was for J, who had his eyes set on some homemade biscuits which looked amazing, and he munched that down within seconds!

They were so many wonderful smells coming from every direction it was hard to pick. They had Thai food, cupcakes, paella, duck rolls, hog roast, bratwursts. There were pickles, garlic’s, and balsamic vinegar’s (they had a rose and an apple balsamic that were heavenly!) To drink there were pimms, sangria, ciders, ales, prosecco, gin and tonics, cocktails and even flavoured coconut waters on the quay out of coconuts! And thats only a bit of it, there was a food stall for everyone!

The ones that caught our eyes were the retro sweets flavoured vodkas, our friend Chris bought the cola cube vodka to try, and it tasted great. such a strong flavour of the sweets! they had so many other choices too, marshmallow, bubblegum, skittles and loads more.

Whilst the boys were queuing to get some cider, i found myself at the paella and sangria stall! The paella smelt incredible, but decided on just getting a glass of sangria, and it was lovely and had a generous amount!

Pete and Jacob then found some gorgeous looking cupcakes! Pete decided on the black forest and Jacob had the vanilla! We decided to take those to the quay. I also bought a bratwurst hot dog and took that. And as per usual it was so tasty, with a bit of curried ketchup and some chips! Delish!

This Photo cracks me up so much, its such a ok fine i’ll smile mum but i really want to eat my cake face!

We moved from the highstreet to the quay where there were even more stalls, some fairground rides, some car sellers, a band and some cooking demonstrations!

After having a good mooch and so much drooling over all the tasty food we headed back to the car via the river for a nice scenic walk. I absolutely adore walking around Christchurch, its beautiful has lots of lovely shops, places to eat and lots of scenery to look at!

We passed a cute ice cream place on the way back so not wanting to miss out I picked a mint choc chip ice cream along with a lemon meringue for Chris and a nobbly bobbly for J.

Such a wonderful weekend, and would definitely recommend it if you fancy a weekend of food & drink!


signature

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)

christchurch christchurch day out christchurch dorset christchurch food festival food and drink food and drink festival food day out food festival paella sangria

Reader Interactions

Leave a Comment Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Previous Meet Penny – Our African pygmy hedgehog
Next A few things being a mum has taught me.

Related Posts

Christmas

Blogmas Day 4 – Snowman Biscuits

READ POST
Food glorious food

Lockdown life – Pancake Breakfast

READ POST
Food glorious food

A night at the Wood Oven

READ POST
Food glorious food

I scream for ice cream

READ POST
Yes I'm massively outnumbered in our household, bu Yes I'm massively outnumbered in our household, but I love being a boy mum - don't get me wrong it's full of mud, farts, poo chat, CONSTANT conversations about cars 😴 and god knows what else but I bloody love these boys. 😂❤️
Life feels crazy overwhelming at the moment, so sa Life feels crazy overwhelming at the moment, so saying goodbye to school books and social media for the day and hello to the sunshine and these two boys ❤️
5 months of you! Tried to be a little bit sociable 5 months of you! Tried to be a little bit sociable this week (from distance of course) have seen 2 friends on seperate occasions and saw my mum and sister yesterday. After so long of seeing nobody I am exhausted 😂😂 but I'm so happy this one is getting to show off his cheeky personality in person! ❤️
Free hugs 😍 if you insist! It is also good to Free hugs 😍 if you insist!

It is also good to know that both boys have inherited squinty eyes when they smile off of me 😂
Hanging out with the locals whilst out on our walk Hanging out with the locals whilst out on our walk this morning 🦆
Good morning, I finished the boys bedroom yesterda Good morning, I finished the boys bedroom yesterday and I'm so pleased with it, this one loves his new mobile! 😍
George has now gone down for his morning nap, and J and I are finally doing some school work 😫😫 anyone else totally over being teacher, cleaner, cook, entertainer and everything else that goes with it. I love him, but this has been the most challenging 3 months and I cannot wait to do that dreaded school run again!
Meet Honey 🦔 we have a new little member to our Meet Honey 🦔 we have a new little member to our clan. She's 8 weeks old and ridiculously cute and the perfect little friend for Pixie (our albino hedgie.) ♥️
This error message is only visible to WordPress admins

Error: API requests are being delayed for this account. New posts will not be retrieved.

There may be an issue with the Instagram access token that you are using. Your server might also be unable to connect to Instagram at this time.

Copyright © 2021 Elizabeth Lucy
Theme by SheShoppes
This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish.Accept Read More
Privacy & Cookies Policy
Necessary Always Enabled