Chef Adam Handling MBE is breaking new ground with his first-ever Food Festival. To end the summer months on a high and to say thank you to the local community for all their support over the past year, the festival will be on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th October at The Tartan Fox – his luxury pub in the picturesque countryside between Truro and Newquay. This inaugural event will showcase the best of the Adam Handling Collection (AHC), bringing the restaurants, pubs and bars together for the very first time.
Set across an entire weekend of food, fun and firepits, the full force of the AHC will host two unforgettable days of chef demos, masterclasses, live music, wine tastings, cocktails and delicious dishes straight from the teams at Frog by Adam Handling, Eve Bar, Ugly Butterfly 2.0, The Loch & the Tyne, The Tartan Fox, and the Adam Handling Chocolate Shop. There’s even a feasting banquet cooked over flames by Adam on the Saturday night.
Guests can expect a range of pop-up food stalls, offering dishes from across the AHC for just £10 each, including: The Loch & the Tyne’s ‘BBQ octopus hot dog’, The Tartan Fox’s ‘Smoked Cornish rump’ and ‘Stuffed Yorkshire’ (Sunday only), as well as Michelin-starred restaurant Frog’s ‘Spicy BBQ monkfish with charred summer runner beans’ and Ugly Butterfly’s ‘Pollock, beans, fermented tomatoes’. Three or four dishes per person are recommended to experience the variety and flavour of the Collection.*
Drinks stands will be offering a selection of wines and cocktails, alongside a range of beers, and Jubel’s Land Rover will be serving their popular locally-brewed brand.
Join the leading chefs from each of the AHC, including Paul Stradling, Head Chocolatier from Adam Handling Chocolate Shop, as he demonstrates the artistry of chocolate-making; hand-painting bonbons and filling them with silky ganache, and revealing how our hazelnut spread is crafted from scratch. The food demos will be taking place in the pub’s tipi from 12-4pm, with each sharing tips about how to create some of the Collection’s most-loved dishes and also a surprise demo from Chef Adam himself. All food masterclasses will be complimentary.
The Collection’s Wine Director, Kelvin McCabe, and Eve’s Bar Manager, Mario Hernandez will also be in the barn from 12-4pm, offering wine and cocktail masterclasses including: ‘How to blind taste wines’, ‘Winter reds’, ‘Classic cocktails and methods’ and ‘Tarquin’s Cornish Gin and Cocktails’. Tickets for the wine masterclasses will be available to purchase at the event on the day and will be priced at £20 each.
The Saturday night banquet will start at 7.00 pm with an amazing sharing feast, menu to be revealed, at just £50.00 per person, bookable by contacting reservations@uglybutterfly.co.uk.
Live music from the likes of local musician Josh Curnow and other Cornish bands will be playing from 6pm onwards on both days.
This is a weekend of giving locals a true insight into Chef Adam’s style of hospitality at its very best: sustainable, local, luxury.
The Tartan Fox will also remain open as usual for food and drinks for the duration of the festival weekend. For those keen to enjoy the weekend from start to finish, camping is available through Carvynick Holiday Park.
The Tartan Fox is Chef Adam Handling’s Cornish pub that opened in June 2024, offering menus that have been created using the best Cornish produce and Adam’s pivotal zero-waste ethos, just a short distance from the Collection’s stunning coastal restaurant, Ugly Butterfly 2.0. Tucked away in the Cornish forest, the 400-year-old Grade II listed pub is a community-focused local, as well as the ultimate countryside retreat for foodies.
* Guests can purchase £10 food vouchers on the day, which can then be redeemed with any of the chefs on their food stalls.
The Tartan Fox, Carvynick Farm, A3058, Newquay, TR8 5AF
www.tartanfoxpub.co.uk
@tartanfoxpub
enquiries@adamhandling.co.uk
(Photo credit: Justin De Souza).
