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?