RHS Show is Blooming with Blas

 Visitors to the Royal Horticultural Society’s Spring Flower Show in Cardiff (April 18-20) will be able to sample a taste of Wales with award-winning Welsh food and drink.
 
For the third year the event will feature the Welsh Assembly Government’s  180 cover ‘Blas’ self-service restaurant where visitors will be able to buy a selection of hot and cold dishes produced from a wide variety of True Taste Award-winning food and drink.
 
The RHS Show is being held in Bute Park next to Cardiff Castle, and located within the Experience Wales pavilion.
 
Experience Wales is a joint initiative between the Welsh Assembly Government and Cardiff Council. The Experience Wales pavilion will feature a wide range of *Welsh food and drink, including many True Taste winners, as well as crafts.  There will also be  ideas for holidays and days out from Visit Wales.
 
Blas, which is Welsh for ‘taste’, is an initiative to promote award winning food and drink from Wales.
 
Among the dishes available in the Blas restaurant will be True Taste winners such as Ponty Butchers Welsh Black beef steak burger, chicken and ham pie made with Gwaun Valley ham and Oaklands free range chicken, homemade soups such as the Really Welsh Company’s leek and potato cawl with Pantysgawn goat's cheese topping, and a Blas special salad of Edwards of Conwy pork pie, Gwaun Valley ham and Perl Wen cheese.
Sandwiches will include Dash shellfish crab, tuna and lime sandwich, Black Mountain smoked chicken wrap, Knobbly Carrot Company’s spicy organic egg mayo with spinach sandwich, in addition a selection of award winning cakes and desserts and hot and cold drinks will be available.
 
Howel Food Consultancy is managing Blas on behalf of the Welsh Assembly Government’s Food and Market Development Division with Capital Cuisine providing the food operation.
 
 
DETAILS: Sheila Coleman 01792 817532 / 07968 357474
Email: sheila@colemanroberts.co.uk
 
 
NOTES TO EDITORS
 
*Food & Drink Companies featured in the Experience Wales pavilion:
 
Fiona’s Fudge
Cwm Deri Vineyard
Hot Roasted Nuts
Lewis Fine Foods
Premier Welsh Hampers
Welshbrew Tea
The Really Welsh Company
The Welsh Venison Centre
Gourmet Med
Caws Teifi Cheese
Baron’s Patisserie
Dewi Roberts Butchers
Oli Oli Olives
Lazy Days Meals
The Welsh Mustard Company
Llanfaes Dairy Ice Cream
Cowpots Ice Cream
Unusual Food Company
Popty Cara
Celtic Country Wines
Gwyn Y Ddraig Cider Ltd
Wil’s Smokehouse
Homemade Country Preserves
The Chocolate House
 
 

Article published on: 17 April 2008