Food and Drink

Food and drink? We've got it. And how!

The Feast has 150 food stalls, an outdoor market, a busy beer tent and, new for this year, the Feast cocktail and champagne bar and a Vegan café.
Our Cocktail and Champagne Bar is the place to party all weekend.
Sample cocktails made from local ingredients as well as classic mixes, or sip a glass of champers. You choose.
Lovely local seafood will be on sale here too.
With video projections and DJs it will be hard to miss and you will find it on the quayside.
You will find the Vegan Café in St John’s Church Hall on Rosehill Street. And hurry - they are offering free brunch and afternoon tea.
Eating out? Food from the cafes and restaurants of North Wales' five rural counties will be celebrated in our Rural Food Tent.
You can find it next to the True Taste Kitchen in Vicarage Gardens.
Our advice? Arrive at the Feast feeling hungry and bring lots and lots of shopping bags

 

The VEGAN Cafe

 

New for this year’s festival will be the vegan cafe based in St John’s Church on Rosehill Street.
A free vegan cafe, it will be serving all day lunches and puddings, as well as live music, stalls, speakers, films, massage, cooking demonstrations, poetry recitals and the chance to win a pamper hamper donated by Lush.
 

 

NB: the Vegan Cafe is a wristband entry venue only and supported by Eat Out Vegan Wales - catering (www.eatoutveganwales.org); Animal Aid (www.animalaid.org.uk); the Veg Fund (www.vegfund.org); hosted by the North Wales Vegans Group (www.north-wales-vegans.info/index.html) and the Vegan Dinner Party Club (www.facebook.com/groups/thevdclub/?ref=ts&fref=ts).
 

 

 

 

A free lunch? No such thing you say? Well here it is...


SATURDAY

 

Starter: Chestnut  and red wine soup with bread/GF bread
Mains: Cheesy squash and  broccoli pie or Puy lentil shepherds pie
Desserts: Apple polenta cake or chestnut and chocolate terrine with brandy sauce or ice cream with blueberry coulis

 


SUNDAY 

Roast dinner with all the trimmings
Desserts and ice cream
 
 
 

Music and Entertainment, demonstrations and discussions, including:

 
Laura Coxeter (Raw Vegan Chef, as seen on River Cottage) - www.coxetersfayre.co.uk
 
Dominic Berry (Unique Comedic Vegan Performance Poet) - dominicberry.net
 
lonely joe parker (Vegan Band) - www.lonelyjoeparker.com
 
The Snowdonia String Quartet (fronted by Vegan Katherine Betteridge) - menaisq.wordpress.com
 
Flashing Astraptes (solo experimental musician, and a vegan) - www.myspace.com/flashingastraptes
 
 
 

Talks and Films:

The Cove - Oscar-winning documentary film from 2010 about the dolphin cull that happens annually in a remote area of Japan,  and is still happening today - thecovemovie.com
 
Roger Yates (lecturer in sociology at University College Dublin and the University of Wales, specialising in animal rights - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Yates
 
Joe Llewelyn Blakesley Griffith - Plaid Party Member who fronts the debate on the impending badger cull - https://www.facebook.com/blakesley?fref=ts
 
+ Special Guests TBA

North Wales Vegans are a local group who meet regularly for social events, street stalls and information sharing/support on living a plant based, and a more environmentally sustainable, lifestyle.
 
 
 

Food and Drink History Trail

Gwledd Conwy Feast is the world's first food festival to feature a mobile phone trail of food and drink heritage sites!
The circuit was devised by the community-based HistoryPoints project which has placed QR barcodes on more than 50 points of interest around Conwy - each one selected not for marketing purposes but because it really is interesting!
Now more than a dozen locations have been linked as the Conwy Food & Drink walking tour. Follow the circuit in either direction to discover fascinating facts including:

  • why tasty Conwy mussels, fished since Roman times or earlier, were fed to livestock until the 20th century
  • why the legendary engineers George and Robert Stephenson banqueted in Conwy
  • how four Welsh breweries made history by getting together to run a pub
  • why a weekly pig market was held in the back yard of a tavern
  • how Conwy scientists solved the problem of food poisoning from shellfish
  • why the native Welsh fruit species Denbigh Plum should have been named Conwy Plum!

Find out how to take the tour »