“thank Gordon It’s Christmas!”

The event - launched in partnership with Taste Festivals and supported by Channel 4 - will celebrate the best in Christmas food, drink and entertaining and will be held at London’s ExCeL centre in East London from 4th-7th December.

An anticipated 25,000 visitors will be able to sample an array of delicious foodie treats and enjoy a unique Christmas shopping experience. Throughout the exhibition there will be hands on cookery demonstrations, interactive wine tastings and the chance to enjoy a fantastic line up of top chefs and drinks experts.

The Christmas Theatre will be the setting for a variety of other exciting demonstrations throughout the four-day long event which will see Gordon joined on stage by specially invited guests including Angela Hartnett and Jason Atherton (winner of this year’s Great British Menu). At the heart of the exhibition will be some of London’s finest restaurants serving a selection of specially prepared signature dishes for visitors to taste. A number of Gordon Ramsay’s restaurants will also be live on site including Maze, The Narrow, Boxwood Café, Foxtrot Oscar and the soon to launch York & Albany.

In The Wine and Spirit Experience area of the show guests will be able to interact with top wine experts and have the opportunity to sample a variety of festive tipples. The Tante Marie Christmas Cookery School will have its own specially created kitchen at the show, with cookery classes and demonstrations throughout showing visitors how to perfect a delicious party spread or Christmas Day feast. Christmas at Home will be dedicated to creating a variety of festive interiors from seasonal table decorations to traditional and contemporary Christmas displays.

On launching the event, Gordon Ramsay said, “Christmas has always been special to me, it’s such a magical time for friends and family and Taste of Christmas will be an extension of this - I’m putting some of the country’s best chefs, restaurants and merchants together in one place to offer visitors everything they need for the perfect Christmas: food, drink and most of all, fun”

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