Proper Food and Drink returns to Whitley Bay

One of the summer’s most popular events returns to North Tyneside later this month. The Proper Food and Drink Festival is coming to the Spanish City Plaza on the weekend of 15 and 16 June. It will provide a showcase for dozens of artisan chefs, bakers, brewers, crafts people and musicians and is expected to…

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International flavour for North Shields Bank Holiday festival

North East chefs and producers brought an international flavour to this year’s North Shields Proper Food and Drink Festival. The Bank Holiday weekend event – held in Northumberland Square for the eighth year – offered visitors tastes to try from India, the Middle East, Greece, Germany, Spain, South America and Italy. The festival also provided…

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Feast by the Sea coming to Whitley Bay this summer

Details have been released of a new series of free pop up street food events coming to Whitley Bay this summer. Over three weekends the Spanish City Plaza will be transformed – with giant yurts, stretch tents, street food trucks, bars and stalls – to become home to a Feast by the Sea, each event…

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Companies praised for festival success

The organiser of some of the summer’s most popular festivals has praised companies in South East Northumberland for helping to make them such a success. The Cramlington Proper Food and Drink Festival took place at the weekend and later this month (11 and 12 August) visits Blyth. The team behind the events – lead by…

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Chilli Fest organiser looks forward to return to Blyth

The organiser of the North East Chilli Fest, which attracted thousands of visitors over the weekend, said he is looking forward to bringing it back to Blyth next year. The Chilli Fest took place for the first time at Meggies Burn Fields at South Beach, and Mark Deakin – who, with his wife Shelley, started…

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Thousands expected at tasty Whitley Bay festival

Thousands of people are expected to visit The Proper Food and Drink Festival when it returns to Whitley Bay this weekend. They will be able to buy the very best in local produce from dozens of stalls, and try drinks and freshly cooked food which take their inspiration from all corners of the globe. The…

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All roads lead to South Shields for proper food and drink

The biggest South Shields Proper Food and Drink Festival saw the return to the town of a local couple who are starting to make a splash in the world of spirits. Steven and Sally Green grew up in South Shields before moving to London and successful careers in the television industry. Five years ago they…

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Great North Feast planning second course in South Shields

Organisers have thanked the thousands of people who flocked to the first Great North Feast. The festival was a celebration of the best food and drink produced in the North East as well as throughout the world. It took place in South Shields’ Bents Park over all three days of the Bank Holiday weekend and…

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