30/04/2026
📣 Calling all food writers, editors & content creators:
A handful of VIP press passes are still available for this weekend’s Shaftesbury Food Festival … so, if you’re after real access, unfiltered conversations, and stories at source, then this is the one 👇
Two days > two very different ways to uncover it 🔎
🥾 🌱🧀 Saturday 2nd May: Food Trail (exclusive press access, roaming multi-stop lunch + interviews)
A hosted journey through Dorset’s food landscape with time for authentic conversations with the people shaping Dorset’s food scene
🧀 Dorset Blue Vinny – meet cheesemaker Lou
A rare chance to hear the story behind this heritage blue, still crafted by hand with deep local roots
🌿 Gold Hill Organic – forest & farm walks
Regenerative farming in action, set against one of Dorset’s most iconic backdrops
🔥 🥩 Primrose Organic – all-day BBQ
Open-fire cooking, seasonal produce, relaxed farm hospitality
🍦 Madjeston – a mouthwatering selection of ice creams at source
Dairy-fresh, made steps from the herd
🍇 🥂✨🍾Breezy Ridge Vineyard – sparkling finale
A guided flight of sparkling wines overlooking the vines.
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👨🍳 Sunday 3rd May: MasterChefs Live Demo Theatre (VIP press access)
Front-row seats + exclusive interview opportunities 🎤
💃🏽 Ping Coombes – vibrant Malaysian storytelling through food
☀️ Shelina Permalloo – sun-drenched Mauritian flavours, joyful and bold
🌶️ Anurag Aggarwal – refined, modern Indian cuisine with precision and craft
… and all day long there’s the pull of the legendary Gold Hill Cheese Race, a brilliantly eccentric local tradition racing cheeses uphill over the ancient cobbles.
💥Limited press places remaining❗️
📩 DM or reply to RSVP