Fresh from his amazing new series Two Greedy Italians Antonio Carluccio will be leading an all star cast of cooks, chefs and food writers. The Beer, wine and cider festival has more choice than ever and with 100 producers and street food galore there should be enough to taste and try.

For more info visit the festival website here!

We were delighted to welcome so many people into the Milton Rooms and it was superb to see yet again the top quality food on show. New appearances this month were ‘Malton Fisheries’ who sold out of crab almost instantly, more next time please. Also very popular was Epicure’s larder with some delightful Yorkshire cheeses that also sold out. As always the market overs the highest quality and this is what sets us apart from other markets.

The next market will be on Sat 15th September and in the mean time we have the big annual festival on Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th May. If you would like to get involved in the running of either event please get in contact and click here!

The best food local to Malton with 30 superb stalls from within 30 Miles.

Stephanie Moon cooking at noon on the demo stage.

Street food in front of the Milton Rooms.

My personal challenge is to cook sunday lunch using only malton produce bought at the market tomorrow.

Hope to See you there

Tom Naylor-Leyland

http://www.welovemalton.co.uk/foodmarket

Saturday 3rd March 9:00 – 2:30pm, Milton Rooms, Market Place, Malton

Star in the next round of BBC Two’s “Great British Menu, Stephanie Moon will be exclusively demonstrating some of her latest dishes, at noon on Saturday, at the second indoor Food Lovers Market.

Stephanie will be demonstrating on the stage in the Milton Rooms giving lots of room for spectators and eager amateur cooks to see, ask and learn.

The fabulous environment created by the stall holders and their produce really marks this Market out as real quality. There is an impressive choice of rare breed meats, hams, breads and cakes, chocolates and biscuits, organic vegetables, honeys, chutneys, local cheeses, sloe drinks, oils, herbs and much more.

For this second event there is a new layout allowing the foodie crowd room enough to talk to the producers and easily move around the Milton Rooms. And to be assured of a warm, dry visit, and importantly, Free Entry and Free Parking.

The very popular Tasting Table will be run by Malton Relish with Sophie Legard and her Team will be giving out delicious new ways to eat and serve eggs – hens, ducks and quails. Sophie says: “There are many different ways you can cook and eat our local eggs – so come and find out our tastes with a twist!”

The annual Malton Food Lovers Festival and the more regular indoor Food Lovers Markets are both organised by Malton CIC, a community interest company.

www.welovemalton.co.uk/foodmarket

The theme of the market this time will be Easter. Stephanie Moon is cooking on the new cookery stage. The tasting table is eggs, hens, ducks and quails. It is indoor so you will be warm and dry. Entry is free as well as free parking in the square. So what are you waiting for it’s going to be a wonderful day, see you there!

For more info click below!

http://www.welovemalton.co.uk/foodmarket

Gunter and Dagmar have been working hard breathing life into the charming Victorian building and i know their food has already been a massive hit with locals. The Wienerschnitzel is unmissable, the Bratwurst sausages enormous and the wheat beer and other german delights are already proving a smash hit in town. Best of all it is priced so reasonable too. The website is coming soon but in the mean time give them a call and visit St. Michael’s Tavern, the best German beer cellar in Britain!

St. Michaels Tavern
German Restaurant & Beer Cellar
The Mount Hotel, Yorkersgate, Malton,
Phone: 01653 228 083
web: coming soon

As many of you will know, the hotel has been the subject of a £4m restoration and refurbishment which will see the 17^th century building restored to its former glory.

James Martin was born and raised in Malton so it is fantastic to see him returning home to his North Yorkshire roots.

He said of his new role at the Talbot, “North Yorkshire is in my blood and I’ve watched the town of Malton successfully build a reputation as a foodie destination, with its popular food festival and the abundance of growers and producers in the area. I’m really looking forward to working with the team behind the new Talbot Hotel. The first step is to plan the kitchen that will be equipped to cater for a 70 cover restaurant, lounge bar and private function room. I shall be looking at sourcing local suppliers and guests can look forward to finding all my favourite Yorkshire produce on the menu from Wakefield rhubarb to Whitby crab.”

The Fitzwilliam Estate is restoring the Talbot Hotel to its former glory, creating a stylish and classical country hotel. There will be 26 bedrooms and suites, restaurant, lounge bar, public bar, private function room and landscaped grounds.

Read the full story here and keep your eyes on:

www.talbotmalton.co.uk

Of course we will also keep you up to date with all the latest here at We Love Malton.

 The line-up of this year’s Malton Food Lovers’ Festival has been unveiled as the event carves out a burgeoning reputation for highlighting Yorkshire’s famous food and drink. Among the culinary stars set to appear are James Mackenzie, the chef-owner of the Michelin-starred Pipe and Glass Inn at South Dalton near Beverley, and Stephanie Moon, the chef consultant at Rudding Park near Harrogate. Peter Neville, from The Pheasant Inn at Harome, Richard Allen, from Create in Leeds, and Rob Green, the owner of Green’s of Whitby, will also be appearing. Organiser Tom Naylor-Leyland claimed the line-up is the “best of any up-and-coming food festival in the UK”.

The festival will be held on May 19 and 20, and has already attracted the support of patrons including Italian cook Antonio Carluccio and food columnist and television presenter Tom Parker Bowles.

Broadcaster Selina Scott was unveiled last month as the festival’s president after her outspoken criticism of the dominance of supermarket giants. She been one of the leading opponents to plans for a new superstore which is due to open in Malton.

www.maltonfoodfestival.co.uk

Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, and had a number of links with the town.

One of his friends was Charles Smithson, a lawyer who lived at Easthorpe Hall, had a practice in the town and it was his office in Chancery Lane, that is credited with the inspiration for Dickens’s most famous character, Ebeneezer Scrooge, the miser in A Christmas Carol.

The Counting House is now run by the Charles Dickens (Malton) Society and members are inviting people to have a look around the building on Saturday and next Saturday, 11am-4pm, and view new displays to mark his 200th birthday.

Entry is free with the society asking for a donation for their funds.

Members of the society, in partnership with professional actors Garry Cooper and Jane Hollington, are also performing in The Studio at the Milton Rooms on Tuesday, February 7 at 7.30pm.

A Celebration of Charles Dickens will include a series of dramatised readings from Dickens’s novels. Tickets are £5 from Malton Tourist Information Office at the library.

Members of the society will also be at Malton library on Saturday, February 11 at 4.30pm when they will be presenting Dickens and His Characters.

Linda McCarthy, from the society, said a number of shops around Malton had offered to display pictures of Dickens in their windows next week to mark the anniversary.

She said: “It is important that we mark this anniversary because we know how much Dickens enjoyed coming here and spending time with Charles Smithson.

“There is so much negativity and despondency around that people forget this connection Malton has with Dickens and it is something that is worth us all celebrating.”

Linda said the society has recently extended the lease on the Counting House “We now have the building until April 2013 which is great news,” she said.

“It is thanks to many small local donations and the funds raised by members.”

The society meets each month in The Hidden Monkey Tearooms, Market Place, Malton. For details phone Linda McCarthy on 01653 698701.

Anthony Gilham and Gemma Williams took over the tenancy of this rambling corner site last year – like most of central Malton it’s owned by the Fitzwilliam estate – and having gutted the place reopened as a squeaky clean dining pub.

It’s pleasantly done, if a wee bit bare and clinical: cream walls, wood floors,  mismatch furniture are all fine; it just needs a bit more of a signature, a bit of patina that natural ageing will bring.

The menu is long: starters, light meals, mains, sandwiches. puddings and hot drinks. I often worry that a fat menu spreads thin but on our visit Gilham managed to pull it off. Drop in for a lunchtime sandwich by the fire with the daily papers maybe prawn and crayfish with lemon mayo, or poached salmon with cucumber and dill mayonnaise or go the hole hog at lunch or dinner with starters of crab cakes with shredded mooli and pickled ginger; a charcuterie board to share;  roast artichokes and wild mushrooms salad with poached egg. Follow it up with calves’ liver, chicken and ham pie, sausage and mash or chick pea fritters.  Puds are predominantly British favourites.

All dependable stuff and sometimes better than that; I wrote recently in the Yorkshire Post that the mutton and pearl barley stew was a contender for my dish of the year.

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