Allington Hughes Ltd Blog: The Chester Food, Drink and Lifestyle Festival 2014

Allington Hughes sponsored the Chester, Food and Drink Festival for the second time this year over the Easter bank holiday.

It was a wonderful event yet again, and continues to bring thousands of people to Chester in order to taste some of the finest produce on offer from the surrounding area. With over 180 exhibitors and 30,000 people attending, this year was truly a record breaker and has set a marker for years to come.

We are delighted to be part of the Festival, and this year enjoyed having our own stand for all three days and getting to mingle with the fabulous people that came to sample Cheshire's finest.

From exotic meats to Italian pastries and luxurious wine to toffee vodka, there really was something for everyone, not to mention the 800 children who had their first taste of cookery lessons.

The Allington Hughes stand was lucky enough to welcome along Stuart Russell from The Kitchen to accompany us over the weekend. Stuart is founder of The Kitchen while being the nutritional Chef and brother of our sponsored sailor Chris Russell. We decided to try and increase the awareness of Chris and his campaign to reach the Rio Olympics in 2016 via our stand at the festival, so it was great when Chris managed to make a surprise appearance on the Monday to have a chat with some keen sporting enthusiasts.

We also ran a competition during the festival to win a luxury prize hamper. This was won by a gentleman from Saughall in Chester, and was delighted when we delivered it to his door.

Another fantastic year at the Chester Food, Drink and Lifestyle Festival brought to you by Allington Hughes Law is over, but the countdown to next year has begun, and it promises to be bigger and better than ever.

We would like to thank everyone involved with organising the festival and all of those who helped out over the weekend.

We have a full album of photographs from the weekend on our Facebook page, which you can visit here.