A celebrity chef is staging his first ever food festival at his luxury pub in Summercourt.

Adam Handling will showcase the best aspects from his restaurants, pubs and bars for the first time at the event, which will be held at The Tartan Fox between Saturday, October 4 and Sunday, October 5.

The Adam Handling Collection will host chef demos, masterclasses, live music, wine tastings, cocktails and dishes straight from the teams at Frog by Adam Handling, Eve Bar, Ugly Butterfly 2.0, The Loch & the Tyne, The Tartan Fox, and the Adam Handling Chocolate Shop. There will also be a feasting banquet cooked over flames by Adam.

Guests can expect a range of pop-up food stalls, offering dishes from across the Adam Handling Collection including: The Loch & the Tyne’s ‘BBQ octopus hot dog’, The Tartan Fox’s ‘Smoked Cornish rump’ and ‘Stuffed Yorkshire’ as well as Michelin-starred restaurant Frog’s ‘Spicy BBQ monkfish with charred summer runner beans’ and Ugly Butterfly’s ‘Pollock, beans, fermented tomatoes’. Three or four dishes per person are recommended to experience the variety and flavour of the Collection. *

Drinks stands will be offering a selection of wines and cocktails, alongside a range of beers, and Jubel’s Land Rover will be serving their popular locally-brewed brand.

Leading chefs from each of the Adam Handling Collection, including Paul Stradling, head chocolatier from Adam Handling Chocolate Shop, as he demonstrates the artistry of chocolate-making; hand-painting bonbons and filling them with silky ganache, and revealing how our hazelnut spread is crafted from scratch.

The food demos will be taking place in the pub’s tipi from 12pm to 4pm, with each sharing tips about how to create some of the Collection’s most-loved dishes and also a surprise demo from Chef Adam himself. All food masterclasses will be complimentary.

The collection’s wine director, Kelvin McCabe, and Eve’s bar manager, Mario Hernandez will also be in the barn from 12pm to 4pm, offering wine and cocktail masterclasses including: ‘How to blind taste wines’, ‘Winter reds’, ‘Classic cocktails and methods’ and ‘Tarquin’s Cornish Gin and Cocktails’. Tickets for the wine masterclasses will be available to purchase at the event on the day and will be priced at £20 each.

Live music from the likes of local musician Josh Curnow and other Cornish bands will be playing from 6pm onwards on both days.

The Tartan Fox will also remain open as usual for food and drinks for the duration of the festival weekend. For those keen to enjoy the weekend from start to finish, camping is available through the Carvynick Holiday Park.

A spokesperson said: “Chef Adam Handling MBE is breaking new ground with his first-ever food festival. To end the summer months on a high and to say thank you to the local community for all their support over the past year,

“The weekend aims to give locals an insight into Chef Adam’s style of hospitality at its very best, which is “sustainable, local, luxury.”