I missed out on many of the culinary seminars due to not knowing what was being prepared. Being a vegetarian, I could not sign up online for anything but the known dessert ones.
This is one advantage of not booking in advance.
It would be nice to have an idea in advance when you are booking of what the dish will be, but if you show up at 9am on the day there are tickets for all the events and you can see what is on the menu before you buy.
I ended up booking things I would not have otherwise, like the stacked breakfast.
I would never have booked this based on the chef.
I ended up really liking her, the food and the drink.
Also they were flexible in allowing people to cancel and change even though they said they said would not be.
I had made a mistake on the very user friendly web site
and double booked the champagne seminar and not booked the rum seminar. They swapped the tickets for me no problem. I also know their people who were vegetarian were allowed to make changes day of. Obviously YMMV, but I felt they were really better than I had expected about these type of things.
In the end I don’t think that the F&W festival is very vegetarian friendly and that is one of many reason my wife no longer goes.
I don’t want them to change it too much (I enjoy just about any type of meat within reason), but a few vegetarian options might be nice.
Most people would be happy with a nice vegetarian Indian or Asian dish for example.
Maybe I just missed them.