Chefs Sign up for Summer Festivals in the UK

The UK’s major festival organisers are looking forward to a fruitful summer after a year of lockdown, and are planning on staging their events as early as May, with chefs and restaurant brands signing up to feed the merrymakers.

The Reading Festival announced last week that it is planning on going ahead from 27 to 29 August, after the government announced its roadmap for an easing of restrictions. Over 100,000 tickets for the music festival have been sold, however organisers and local government were eager to strike a cautious note, saying that any licence for the event would be contingent on a significant improvement of Covid-19 figures over the coming months.

Nearer on the horizon, however, are a number of smaller festivals, such as the Kantina Weekender festival, to be held over the May bank holiday weekend, and a whole host of chefs have signed on to provide food, including Sam Buckley, Mary Ellen McTague, Simon Martin, Stosie Madi, Brad Carter and Gary Usher.

Restaurants on the bill at Kantina will include Higher Ground, Tash, Ombra and Dishoom, with wines supplied by Top Cuvee’s Shop Cuvee and cocktails by Three Sheets.

Also lined up for 18-20 June is Bigfoot Festival, which gets its chance after its inaugural event was cancelled last year. The craft beer and music festival is slated to happen at stately home Ragely Hall, Warwickshire, with chefs and restaurants including 10 Greek Street, Patty and Bun, Scully, Andrew Clarke and Club Mexicana, among others.