Bowlandandbay

11/11/2024

Lancashire talents were glowing as the nights start to draw. On a winter warmer food tour with folks.

Thank you for brilliant t’pics Orchard Glamping capturing the warmth & joy of many of our small independent food & drinks folks. From enormous Castles to farm diversification on the fells, delicious bay shrimps to best Inn in Britain - Lancashire is legend.

A birthday gift from Em & Richard 🥰. A grand day out, plus v helpful start up chat & much laughter 🙌.

09/11/2024

NEW Superfoods 2025 is coming with 3 unique dates January-March. Our day will begin & their new cold press juices & all natural protein balls. Then onwards for mini masters classes in fermentation, farm visits & the best seasonal produce to boost your body.

we want to share the stories from our best artisan food & drink producers. From generations of farming folks to the latest entrepreneurial start ups in well-being.

If you would like to privately book a Superfoods Tour, for 6-8 foodies, throughout 2025, please message Katie for available dates.

Kick start the New Year with

08/11/2024

2025 New Tours are nearly ready to launch. Bowlandandbay is always on the look out for new foodie experiences for every season. Katie cannot wait to share her new monthly special food tours later this month.

Coming Soon:
“Superfoods 2025”
“Yorkshire Dales Foodie”
“The Bay”

Treat your foodie loved one to a Bowland & Bay Gift Card for a foodie year to remember & make them smile.

06/11/2024

Mid week day off with t‘chap at the Cartford Inn. In their cosy booth for two. Best British Inn for a reason 🥰.

05/11/2024

7th December Goosnargh Farmers Markets will be the festive foodie hotspot of Lancashire.

We have 40 local farmers & independent craft folks to fill your larder, decorate the house & pack Santa’s 🛷 sleigh.

Join in the fun at Whittingham & Goosnargh Social Club from 11am. Brookside Farm will be bringing the 🌲🎄🌲. More terrific raffle prizes (all proceeds to MS Research) & fantastic live music all day. See you there 🙌.

03/11/2024

Sunday festive foodie fun continues with the fabulous Cottam collective. Thank you Gary Cottam for organising a family get together. Today added in Levens Hall fresh patisserie & a steak tasting on the fells Wyresdale Dexters. So much food not enough daylight to fit it all in 🥰🙌😆.

03/11/2024

Sunday morning fresh out of 😍

02/11/2024

The Festive season has begun 🎄❄️🎄. Today Holker Hall & Gardens for the start of a private group festive foodie tour.

As well as a morning visit to the Winter fair, we visited with the best bakers in Britain Lovingly Artisan Bakery, Michelin ⭐️ Heft, Inn + Restaurant. Then on to Cartmel for cheese, wine & sticky toffee puds, So much iconic food - always the best of the best on Bowlandandbay artisan food tours. Find them first, with your Katie.

02/11/2024

Double celebration with neighbours last night for Joe’s birthday & Niamh’s Masters degree 🙌. With a pumpkin wine dispenser, farm grown apple crumble & a wicked chilli - Friday Fizz was Halloween spectacular 🎃.

Good job we had a trot around Beacon Fell to see the last of the autumn 🍂 colour in the morning 😆.

31/10/2024

🎄Join award winning food guide Katie for a day of festive foodie fun. Ideal for friends, family & work colleagues.

Email [email protected] for latest availability for private groups 4-8 guests. Or book online & join a group tour.

🎁 For the ultimate foodies in your life we have Bowland & Bay Gift vouchers for 2025 (save £20 on 2 full day tours www.bowlandandbay.co.uk). Ideal as a hamper alternative for .

Eat, drink, shop & be merry this festive season with your across rural & 🎄

Lancashire & Cumbria food tours, with foodie & folklore, expert guide, Katie. Adventures include up to 8 food & drink tastings, plus meeting the artisans behind everything from cheese, ice cream, coffee & bakes; to breweries, gin distilleries, gastro pubs & more. Includes luxury travel for up to 8 g...

30/10/2024

Out & about with food tours this week. Supporting with take home goodie bags. Unique time travel tour lined up for 2024 27th Nov. Welcome to red rose 🌹 county x.

29/10/2024

Todays breadtastic meet up at Britain’s Best Baker Lovingly Artisan Bakery. With local lasses & ladies from around the UK. Thank you Aiden & Catherine for a mini masterclass in real sourdough.

Bowlandandbay (thank you ladies for that tag) today was Bucks fizz tales over brunch, sensational sourdough, Ginger Bakers new season mince pies, Cartmel Cheeses Cumbrian delights 🧀, Cartmel Sticky Toffee Pudding, raw milk Low Sizergh Barn & epic steaks on the farm Wyresdale Dexters. 🍳 to 🥩 plus 🥂 to🍷 …..Tuesday Foodie Tours are a taste fest.

Supporting Royal British Legion poppy appeals with these fab shoppers. All packed to the hilt with local artisan produce.

28/10/2024

👻 It’s a busy Halloween week Bowlandandbay. I do have Thursday 31st free for a Private Tour 4-8 folks. So if you want to go foodie trick or treating around Lancashire & Cumbria contact Katie [email protected].

From Friday 1st November it will be Festive foodie fun all the way to Christmas, Twixmas & into early January.

For 2025 - lots more coming up with new seasonal specials for Jan to March

🍴Superfoods Tour
🦐The Bay Tour

Dates coming November 🙌

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26/10/2024

Halloween foodie trail with fabulous folks. From ghostly stacks Mrs Kirkhams Lancashire Cheese to pumpkin packed The Cartford Inn to all Hallows Eve Farm on the Fell. Welcome to a discoverie of foodies in the county of Lancashire. 🥰

24/10/2024

On food tours we welcome all dietary requirements. This was our “light lunch stop” (I take after my gran 🤣) seafood & vegan option with a choice of 4 local brewers on the bar or craft gins (or soft drinks). Just 1/7 stops on my full day tours. Gifted to this lovely couple from their son, last Christmas.

Thank you once again 😋.

24/10/2024

Hallelujah for real food 🙌 for everyone.

Often on my tours I hear folks say
“This tastes like the food of my childhood”
“We’re coming back here to share this with my friends/family”
“I cannot believe we have this on our doorstop”

From the freshest cakes & coffees (packed with fruit & nuts) to the benefits of raw Lancashire cheese, to seafood & vegan platters, to organic jersey cow milk on the farm. Welcome to country. everyday.

20/10/2024

A pumpkin packed weekend of foodies from my home village to the tip of South Africa. We magically 🪄got wall to wall blue skies Saturdays & Sunday (if a little breezy today).

Loved seeing all the Halloween foodie specials 🎃 Rinaldo's Speciality Coffee & Tea, Low Sizergh Barn & Levens Hall. Guest Lindi smashed the orange brief - ready for all seasons.

Thank you everyone for a fabulous autumn harvest. Especially Wyresdale Dexters for an epic steak tasting on the farm today 🥰.

20/10/2024

Welcome to the Lancashire Palatine. On 6th & 27th November I am running two unique time travel tours. For Lancashire Day 2024. We’ll be exploring Lancashire food classics across the Ribble Valley & Goosnargh parish & Wyre flatlands.

I’ll be sharing stories of my Great Uncle, working class historian Robert Roberts. How food has changed in last 100 years, the comfort classics and the hyper local history hidden on our doorsteps.

Along the way we’ll be discovering Lancashire Hot Pots, traditional farmhouse cheeses, Eccles v Chorley cakes, Katie’s favourite fish n chips, the cocktails of the 1920s, the legend of Benedictine & cotton mill beer halls.

Each guest will receive a Royal British Legion bag to collect provisions along the way.

Uncover the food history on our doorstep this November with Bowlandandbay.

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