The Clovelly Lobster and Crab Feast on Sunday 6th September 2009 is one of a series of events highlighting the different aspects of life, culture, history and wildlife within the North Devon coast Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary between September 2009 and May 2010. Starting at 10am, the day provides a chance to sample the best local seafood, browse food and craft stalls, be entertained by live music and look around the steep, cobbled traffic free village where pretty cottages lead down to the harbour below.
Clovelly’s Harbour restaurant will be offering delicious platters of seafood, crab and lobster, each with a complimentary glass of Champagne and there will be a special promotion of Wolf Blass wines in the Harbour Bar at just £2 a glass.
The National Lobster Hatchery, Padstow will be exhibiting some of their baby lobsters prior to their release into Clovelly Bay at the end of the day. At the heart of the NLH’s work is their lobster restocking project whereby local fishermen bring ‘pregnant’ female lobsters to the hatchery so that their delicate offspring are given a better chance in life by being raised in captivity without predators. Young lobsters are then raised to a size where they can be released back into the sea and look after themselves.
Entertainment will include live folk music from Babelfish, Fifers Ruse and Changing Quays plus a comedy walkabout show by Fair Play. There will also be a seafood quay kitchen, wine and beer tasting and craft and food stalls offering fresh lobsters, crabs and oysters plus cooked seafood to eat on the spot. Felicity Sylvester, who appeared on Valentine Warner’s TV show, ‘What to Eat Now’ this July, will be demonstrating the art of hypnotising lobsters. There will also be a photographic exhibition and plenty of entertainment for the children. Admission is adults £5.75; children £3.65 (7-16 years); family (two adults and two children) £15.50 and under 7s free.
