Food and festivity
Aug. 8th, 2022 05:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustWe went to Seaham Food Festival on Saturday: a very small excitement, but the biggest one of our week. Not the grandest food festival in the country; not even the grandest in County Durham (that'd be Bishop Auckland, which we also enjoyed). But a bigger than usual food market combined with a stroll on the cliffs, nothing wrong with that...
Which is why my favourite photo from the day isn't any of the stall, but the view from the bench where we sat at the mid-point of our tour -
- and admired an ingenious solution to people's desire to turn all the seats along the front into memorials on which it is impossible to sit.
We used the park and ride service, which took us straight down to the festival.durham_rambler was disappointed how many of the stalls were offering street food to eat on the spot; I remembered previous festivals, and had been prepared for this. For the same reason, I wasn't disappointed how many of the stalls were selling sugar or alcohol, and how few (none at all) were selling bread or fruit and veg. I bought cheese (twice) and pigeon breasts and lemon and fennel marmalade, and buns from BreeOsh, who are now The Scandinavian Bakery (and I do see why they decided to drop their Russian branding). We talked to a lady from the County Council about the Seaham Townscape Heritage Project, then crossed the road to lunch in one of the smart cafés opposite the green - which presumably means that the project is working.
So this is the Clean Bean restaurant, demonstrating that Seaham is trendier than you'd think: reuben bagel! inspirational quotation from Hunter S. Thompson (really? citation needed)! and mussels fordurham_rambler.
On the way home we stopped at a farm shop and bought some fruit and veg, including their home grown tomatoes and some bargain strawberries, which filled some of the gaps in the festival.
Which is why my favourite photo from the day isn't any of the stall, but the view from the bench where we sat at the mid-point of our tour -
- and admired an ingenious solution to people's desire to turn all the seats along the front into memorials on which it is impossible to sit.
We used the park and ride service, which took us straight down to the festival.
durham_rambler was disappointed how many of the stalls were offering street food to eat on the spot; I remembered previous festivals, and had been prepared for this. For the same reason, I wasn't disappointed how many of the stalls were selling sugar or alcohol, and how few (none at all) were selling bread or fruit and veg. I bought cheese (twice) and pigeon breasts and lemon and fennel marmalade, and buns from BreeOsh, who are now The Scandinavian Bakery (and I do see why they decided to drop their Russian branding). We talked to a lady from the County Council about the Seaham Townscape Heritage Project, then crossed the road to lunch in one of the smart cafés opposite the green - which presumably means that the project is working.So this is the Clean Bean restaurant, demonstrating that Seaham is trendier than you'd think: reuben bagel! inspirational quotation from Hunter S. Thompson (really? citation needed)! and mussels for
durham_rambler.On the way home we stopped at a farm shop and bought some fruit and veg, including their home grown tomatoes and some bargain strawberries, which filled some of the gaps in the festival.
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