Food Events

	Events around Tobermory Food Festival Back to the main events page The Taste of Mull & Iona Food Festival The Taste of Mull and Iona Food Festival is a week long celebration of the islands diverse local produce promoting the islands of Mull and Iona as quality food destinations. During this week all restaurants, cafes and tearooms will feature special dishes using local grown foods such as mussels, oysters, langoustine, highland beef, Iona lamb, wild venison. Events are organised to take advantage of the beautiful scenery and diverse wildlife Mull and Iona have to offer. Work up an appetite with guided wild food and historical township walks, boat trips to nearby islands, producer markets with chef demonstrations throughout Mull (including Tobermory, home of hit BBC Children’s Programme “Balamory”), BBQ's, Seafood Extravaganzas, whisky & shortbread evening cruises, musical suppers, tours of farms, cheese makers, mussels growers - something for everyone. For further details please contact Tourist Information Centre 01680 812377 or visit www.mict.co.uk and click on the food festival pages. Notes To Editors : This years sponsors include : Sea Fish Industry Authority Pan Fish Scotland Ltd Scottish Shellfish & Marketing Group Scottish Community Diet Project Glengorm Estate Bank of Scotland Holiday Mull Your evening cruise might only be with 11 other guests. Travelling back from the ceilidh on across the Sound of Iona is not on a CalMac ferry but on a beautiful wooden vessel built to take passengers but designed like a fishing boat. If you are very lucky you might be accompanied on your journey home by porpoises! If you come to view production of the world renowned Isle of Mull cheeses, you can expect to visit the animals and get muck on your shoes. Take a walk on the wild side with one of our community rangers leading small groups of visitors and you may come face to face with Britains rarest raptor the White Tailed Sea Eagle. We also include local schools - Tobermory High School senior pupils enter the Food Festival "Junior Chef of the Year" competition and this year we are introducing a new competition a "Healthy Eating Challenge" for S2 pupils to work in pairs with a local chef to plan and cook a balanced meal for £5 using local ingredients. The competitors and winners have a presentation at the Tobermory Producer market This really is a Food Festival like no other in the UK’s Wildlife Capital – Mull & Iona Event Organiser : Susie Chalupa, Mull & Iona Community Trust email susie@mict.co.uk Tel : 01688 302851 Tel / Fax 01688 302990 Scottish Charity Number SCO 25995 Co. Ltd By Guarantee Registered in Scotland Reg. No. 172897 Back to the main events page

Events around Tobermory