Beccles Food & Drink Festival Cookery Theatre 2025
Last year the Cookery Theatre was located within New Market.
Our headline chef in 2024 at the Cookery Theatre was Samantha Mattocks – the Delicate Diner.
This year, the location for our cookery theatre will once again be in New Market, in the centre of the Grazing Trail, and is based on the Local Flavours mobile unit. This bespoke vehicle has been secured through generous contributions from East Coast College Lowestoft, Fen Farm Dairy and M+A Partners.
As well as future chefs from the college, we hope to line up some exciting demonstrations from a variety of excellent chefs to provide culinary inspiration
As well as future chefs from the college, we have some exciting demonstrations from a variety of excellent chefs to provide culinary inspiration.
This year’s schedule of the Chef Demonstrations will be shown below when confirmed.
Details of the chefs confirmed to appear this year are shown below.
Prior to the Chef demonstrations we have arranged for some of the stallholders and local businesses to give brief talks about their business. A schedule for these talks can be found below and these will take place in front of the Cookery theatre van in New Market.
Last year the Cookery Theatre was located within New Market.
Our headline chef in 2024 at the Cookery Theatre was Samantha Mattocks – the Delicate Diner.
For 2025 we will once again have the pleasure of hosting the Local Flavours mobile cookery theatre. This bespoke vehicle has been secured through generous contributions from East Coast College Lowestoft, Fen Farm Dairy and M+A Partners.
As well as future chefs from the college, we have some exciting demonstrations from a variety of excellent chefs to provide culinary inspiration.
This year’s schedule of the Chef Demonstrations will be shown below when available.
Details of the chefs currently confirmed to appear this year are shown below.
Prior to the Chef demonstrations we have arranged for some of the stallholders and local businesses to give brief talks about their business. A schedule for these talks can be found below and these will take place in front of the Cookery theatre van in New Market.
2025 Cookery Theatre Food Talks Schedule
TIME: 11:15 am Mili Mendez
DESCRIPTION: Mili Mendez Cakes, which specialises in cakes made with hyper local ingredients and fine flavour Venezuelan cacao.
TIME: 12:15 pm Cake cutting
DESCRIPTION: To celebrate our 10 years anniversary, East Coast College students have made a special cake.
TIME: 1:15 pm TBC
DESCRIPTION:
TIME: 2:15 pm TBC
DESCRIPTION:
2025 Cookery Theatre Demonstration Schedule
TIME: 10:30 am
DESCRIPTION: TBC
CHEF: –
TIME: 11:30 am
DESCRIPTION: TBC
CHEF:
TIME: 12:30 pm
DESCRIPTION: TBC
CHEF:
TIME: 1:30 pm
DESCRIPTION: TBC
CHEF:
TIME: 2:30 pm
DESCRIPTION: TBC
CHEF:
2025 Chef Bios
Dave Patterson
Dave Patterson is a Chef Lecturer at East Coast College, where he trained. Now based at the Lowestoft Campus, he has spent 25 years in the industry, with the last 15 of them teaching the chefs of tomorrow.
Dave has a wealth of industry knowledge and has run his own catering company alongside his teaching role for the last 9 years.
He has run the cookery theatre at Beccles Food and Drink Festival since 2017, and helped to build the event’s reputation through his professional approach.
Loïc is a classically trained pastry and cuisine chef who worked in various fine establishments in France and London before joining an internationally renowned culinary school where he taught French cuisine and patisserie to thousands of students and entertained countless people in his cookery demonstrations on television, cruise ships and all around the globe.
Loïc now shares his passion at his cookery school, Satiate Artisan, situated in beautiful Norfolk countryside in the village of Beeston.
Satiate Artisan offer a diverse range of cooking and baking workshops, tasting demonstrations and bespoke events that are designed to awaken your passion for cooking and baking for both novice and experienced home chefs.
Satiate Artisan champions simple, delicious food presented in a friendly and professional setting that will leave you perfectly satisfied yet wanting more.
Julian Stoyel has over 40 years experience in deer handling, management, conservation, and genetics. His extensive background encompasses a deep understanding of deer behavior and habitat requirements, enabling him to implement effective management strategies.
Committed to conservation, Julian actively promotes sustainable practices that ensure healthy deer populations and ecosystems. His expertise in genetics further enhances his ability to improve deer stock quality, making him a valuable asset in the realm of wildlife management
East Coast College Students
East Coast College offers students a 3 year Hospitality and Catering course with a range of career opportunities. The course is for anyone who wants to improve their skills and knowledge in professional cookery or front of house roles.
Students that have completed Professional Cookery Level 3 have also progressed to the Edge Hotel School at the University of Essex.
Work experience is part of the course and previous students have worked for Tom Kerridge, Jamie Oliver and Raymond Blanc, as well as many prominent hospitality venues in the Norfolk and Suffolk.
