Top chefs join to bring Glasgow the best food and drink with a social mission

Glasgow will host the UK’s first food and drink festival with a social purpose it has been announced.

Let’s Eat Glasgow – run by Real Food, Real Folk which is a cooperative of top city chefs – brings together the best of food and drink produced across the West of Scotland while supporting social enterprises that promote food nutrition across the city.

It will take place in September at SWG3 in Finnieston and organisers say visitors will be taken on a journey from “field to fork.”

The cooperative members – Cail Bruich, Crabshakk, Guy’s Restaurant, Mother India, Ox and Finch, Stravaigin, The Gannet and Ubiquitous Chip – donate their time to the weekend-long fiesta of food.

The members of Real Food, Real Folk came together in late 2014 to find innovative, fresh and compelling ways to turn everyone on to great locally sourced food and drink and help everyone gain access to it.

A similar event was held last year and proved hugely successful.

We want folk to come along, see, smell, taste and enjoy good food - Colin Clydesdale

Colin Clydesdale, chair of Real Food, Real Folk, says: “With Let’s Eat Glasgow we want to shout about great food and inspire everyone to discover and taste the amazing produce being grown, reared and cooked across the West of Scotland.

“We want folk to come along, see, smell, taste and enjoy good food, leaving with some of the same passion we have for cooking with good, locally sourced produce.

“In Glasgow, we can’t stage a festival like this without trying to do something about the very real food inequality still prevalent across our town. We are a long way from being a place where everyone has the choice and opportunity to eat well.”

There will also be cooking and butchery demonstrations by experts and celebrities as well as live music throughout the weekend.

Interested social enterprises should email [email protected]

The deadline for applications is 3 June.