On the 1st Saturday of each month (excluding January) Creake Abbey hosts its award winning market. 40+ stall holders come with fresh local meat including rare breed pork, Aberdeen Angus beef, chickens reared with no antibiotics and perfect feed, fresh trout and smoked trout products, fresh vegetables, fruit and flowers in season, cheeses, cakes, macarons, tarts (savoury and sweet), pies, fudge, artisan breads, pickles, rapeseed oil, vinegars, preserves, local ales, juices and plants.
Held in two, newly roofed old Norfolk barns and outside by the picturesque pond with music and cookery theatre demonstrations at varying times throughout the year. Each event bursts with character and life. Support for farmers and local food is of paramount importance – please come along and sample all that we have on offer.
Between May and September the market hosts the North Norfolk Food and Drink Festival’s Local Food Challenge. Chefs, below head chef level, are given the opportunity to show off their skills and knowledge of local produce and ingredients, the seasons, the producers and the tastes and recipes inspired by their surroundings. It also allows local restaurants and their chefs to promote themselves widely.
First round heats take place in May, June, July and August. The final is in September at the North Norfolk Food and Drink Festival at Holkham. At each market two local chefs will produce two dishes to be cooked in the fully equipped mobile cookery theatre on site using ingredients which they have chosen from the 45+ producers on the day. Each chef will be given £40 to spend with a shopping basket when they arrive that morning. Store cupboard ingredients will be provided; four pre-prepared items may be used in each heat. All of this will be in full view of the public and “foodie lovers” at the Farmers’ Market.
Market open from 9.30am to 1pm. Chefs on stage from 10am.
1st Saturday of each month (excluding January)
