wellington on a plate logoThe Visa Wel­ling­ton On A Plate fest­iv­al was launched last night at the Saint James, in amidst lash­ings of Ruth Pretty’s whipped but­ter, ginger beer-battered fish and Whit­taker­’s chocol­ate creme bru­lee. Oh lordy, we ate like roy­alty and were still made even more hungry by read­ing about some of the events on offer. Tick­ets go on sale Thursday morn­ing, and we recom­mend poun­cing on as many of the 110 events as pos­sible, as quickly as pos­sible, and then from Aug 10–26, eat as many spe­cial menus as you can pos­sibly fit in.

We still haven’t fully diges­ted the whole pro­gramme yet (see what we did there?) but we’re intrigued by the RMS Titan­ic Last Din­ner (there isn’t a menu for the elev­en courses pos­ted, but we’re guess­ing it might be a bit like this). Blend­ing bur­gundy sounds like fun, an after­noon of Mex­ic­an food would be deli­cious, and if we had teen­agers, we’d def­in­itely put them to work mak­ing cheese for us. Even foot fet­ish­ists are catered to! Plus if someone were to offer us tick­ets to the  Logan Brown Wild Game menu, we prob­ably would­n’t mind if we were the most dan­ger­ous game served up as the last course, as long as we got to eat everything else first (In all ser­i­ous­ness, res­taur­ants and pro­moters: we’d like to review as many Wel­ling­ton On A Plate menus and events as pos­sible, and we are very very happy to accept free­bies!)

What are you excited about eat­ing this year?