Events 2009

News imminently on our next events, which will include a charcuterie workshop and tasting at Papadeli and the launch of member Andrea Leeman’s eagerly awaited book on Gloucestershire Food, at an interesting new venue currently under negotiation.

Meanwhile, our most recent event, on the 26th of May, was our most successful in terms of attendance ever. Fifty-eight people turned out for theglittering Slow Rockfish Grill, among them UK Slow Chair Gerry Danby, who flew down from Yorkshire in Carlo Petrini’s personal Gulfstream for the evening with a bevy of starlets. The dinner marked the opening of the new Whiteladies Road successor to the old Slow favourite Fishworks, and was hosted by Mitch Tonks, chef-proprietor, who welcomed us to his smart new premises, talked about the network of West Country fishermen who supply his two restaurants, signed his new book, and, most importantly, cooked a simple but faultless meal of cuttlefish in ink, roast scallops, char-grilled monkfish, and sea bream en papillote.