Were there any good freebies at foodies hampton Court today?

carray

Re Foodies at Hampton Court this weekend.
I am wondering if it is worth travelling for 1 hr to get here, after reading you can not enter the chef tents with the free ticket.

If anyone has been today please can you let me know what it is like and if the freebies are good!! Were there any money off coupons about?

Also I would be keen to know about the parking and costs.

MANY thanks

carray

anyone help???

jenniewb

Sorry- am the probably the polar-opposite of a foodie !and did not go to this- but I read that Yeovalley were doing tastings of thier new yogurts, two or three new flavors or something. I read this on the page of a freebie newspaper- I didn't at all search for details, so there may well have been more.

Gosia

Hi

If anyone's been to the festival - I too wouldn't mind knowing what it's like.

Planning to go tomorrow with the free tickets.

Is it worth going???

Fibabe

I went yesterday. It's worth going if you've got free tickets, but not worth paying for.

It's high end produce so you will not see a MOC within 100m of the place. The shoppers there are not likely to be the kind of people to use a MOC for thier oysters and champagne!

Also Yeovalley were not there, but there were a few stands doing small sample tastings.

Hopefully the masterclasses will but good. Unfortunatly there was a power cut so no cooking could be done and they were all cancelled, which was a shame.

Fibabe

Also you can get into the chefs tent and the masterclasses with the free tickets.

koksrob

where did you get the free tickets from?

many thanks

apogee123

I went today and i agree that it wasn't worth going unless if you had free tickets! you can park on the green just outside hampton court which costs £4 for the whole day. We went to some of the classes which are free but you have to book them when you pass the entry bit! get there early as classes were going pretty fast! we had some samples - you know the norm - cheese, chutney, a few drinks, but they had samples of ice-cream, really nice desserts, champagne, but they are very small samples! Didn't get any vouchers or anything!

Alison_c

I really wanted to go to this but by the time I had asked around all my friends to see if any of them had a printer all the free tickets had gone

Hope everyone has a good time there tomorrow.

FlyingDutchman

A brief word to say that this festival was worth the freebie but I wouldn't have paid to get in, as many people were.

To clarify: the free tickets were OK for the masterclasses as I attended the Chocolate and also the Decadent Puddings & Desserts ones which you had to book when you got in.

Aside from the great cooking (and drink) demonstrations the big plus was tasting the food afterwards! I even volunteered to help out and ended up stiring the mascarpone cheese for the strawberry cheesecake they were making!

The food on sale was average to expensive to buy but there were small samples being handed out at most of the stalls. If you went round enough stalls it'd save you buying lunch!

The added advantage is once you'd finished with the festival you could wander around the Hampton Court gardens (the free bits obviously) and maybe even pop in the maze, which I think was £3.50.

Hope this helps people for next year.