Family Fun, Great Days Out and Foodie Festivals: Here’s How to Spend Your September

FABULOUS FOOD

Food lovers rejoice, Teesside Restaurant Week returns from Monday 5th September, so make sure to book to dine at a discount. Some of your favourite restaurants, including Tomahawk and The Impeccable Pig, will be offering delicious meals for £20 or less. From Caribbean flavours to country pub classics, delicious steaks and tapas small plates, there’s something for everyone.

In their penultimate event of the year, 44 Events Co. are hosting Thai Kwondo Two Nights In Bangkok, their annual Thai food event at Wylam Brewery. Over the weekend of 23–24th September North East Foodies will be coming together to sample some of the best Thai street food the region has to offer. Alongside worldly flavours served from more than 10 street food vendors, enjoy music, beers and cocktails.

There are a number of food and drink festivals taking place across Yorkshire this September. From a rum event in Leeds to cheese sampling across the Yorkshire Dales, and York’s very own 10-day food and drink festival which will see top chefs demonstrate their skills, producers offering their artisan goods and tasting trails taking place across the city. Click here to read our food festival highlights this month.

CULTURE FIX

Dali’s Christ of St John of the Cross, one of the most reproduced images of the 20th century, is on display in the North East for the first time. Don’t miss Dali’s masterpiece, on loan from Glasgow Life Museums, and El Greco’s Christ on the Cross display at the acclaimed Spanish Gallery in Bishop Auckland. Exhibition on until 4th December.

The unmissable Lindisfarne Gospels (the most spectacular manuscript to survive from Anglo-Saxon England) will be on display at the Laing Art Gallery in a contemporary exhibition exploring its meaning in our modern world from 17th September – don’t miss out!

The Great North Art Show, held every September in the magnificent surroundings of Ripon Cathedral, returns on 10th September until 6th October for its 20th anniversary. Showcasing work by some of the finest professional and emerging artists, the exhibition has gained a reputation as one of the most established premier leading art exhibitions in the North of England. Don’t miss the extensive programme of special events taking place throughout the four weeks.

Saltaire Inspired’s ever-popular Saltaire Makers Fair is returning from 17th–18th September, filling Victoria Hall with more than 45 top designer-makers from across the North and further afield, and showcasing a range of craft and design that you won’t find on the high street.