"Abergavenny is to Food as Cannes is to Film – an annual festival for spotting rising stars in Britain's artistan food firmament"
Observer Food Monthly

From its inception in 1999 the festival team has kept three core principles at the heart of everything:

• We aim to celebrate craft in food-making – be it on the farm, in the factory or in the kitchen.
• We aim to celebrate the diversity of foods and traditions, both here in Wales and those of other places.
• We aim to celebrate the conviviality and sociability that surrounds eating and drinking, whether with friends or strangers – and we aim to do it all in the most special and spectacular style that we can manage.