Olives Et Al Blog

Today, for one day only, we’re at the inaugural Bournemouth Food and Drink Festival. The festival runs all weekend and emulates those that take place all over Spain where visitors travel from one tapas bar to another sampling delicious food and wine.

Even though Bournemouth is not overrun with authentic tapas bars, the idea is to enable restaurants and producers from the area to highlight their signature dishes – there’ll be all sorts of food on…

Set in the beautiful surroundings of an historic estate in Cheshire, the RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park boasts some breathtaking gardens, but that’s not all there is on show this year. For the first time there is also the Great Tastes Market set up by the Guild of Fine Food, which is where you’ll find us this weekend!

Our lovely olivey Mark has been at the show since Wednesday meeting an array of people and showcasing some of our…

This is hot off the press – this year we’ve won not one, not two, not three………..(ok that would take far too long!) we’ve won 13 Great Taste Awards from The Guild of Fine Food this year – and we’re pretty chuffed about it!

In amongst the winners were two for the Captain, with his Wasabi Flaming Rice Balls and Chilli Harissa Nuts scooping awards, as well as our brand new Olives Et Al Pesto Genovese (so it turns out it was…

It’s back ………..for its 7^th year running the UK BOOGIE WOOGIE FESTIVAL will be causing a stir in Stur! From Friday 1st July – Sunday 3rd July there will be an array of talented pianists, singers, instrumentalists and dancers from all over the World performing right here in Sturminster Newton.

Us oliveers love to boogie woogie, so much so that we’re helping to sponsor the event and we’d love you to be there too. We’re giving one lucky…