New food and drink tour of Bury St Edmunds - ‘Foodie Capital of Suffolk’ - will offer bite-sized treats

A food and drink themed tour of Bury St Edmunds is to be launched with the chance to try some bite-sized treats at several businesses.

The new Bury St Edmunds Tour Guides’ two and a half hour activity will stop off at six businesses to savour bite-sized samples of food and drink, learn what they do and the history of the building and location.

The guides have worked with Our Bury St Edmunds Business Improvement District (BID) and its members on the tour which launches on Thursday, June 26 and will run on selected Thursday afternoons during the summer from 2pm to 4.30pm.

Mark Cordell, CEO of Our Bury St Edmunds, said: “I am very proud of the reputation Bury St Edmunds has as the ‘Foodie Capital of Suffolk’ and we already work closely with the fabulous tour guides, who provide a number of informative and enjoyable tours around our historical town. So, I thought, why not combine the two?

“My wife and I have enjoyed many a foodie tour whilst visiting towns and cities abroad and felt that the concept would work well here, and I am delighted that the tour guides were happy to add this tour to their repertoire.

“I am confident that the tours will become very popular and hopefully in due course their frequency and the number of businesses taking part will increase.”

The tour takes people through the heart of Bury, offering visitors a taste of the town and a chance to discover its food and drink history including Cook’s Row, the Abbot’s feasts and how a maltster almost destroyed the town.

In the first instance the guides will work with six businesses and they hope to expand this as the year progresses.

The first six are Procopio’s Pantry, Adnams, Nethergate Wines, Marimba, No5 Angel Hill and The Wine Cellar.

Adrian Tindall, chairman of Bury St Edmunds Tour Guides, said: “We shall be sharing morsels of Bury’s fascinating gastronomic history, from its medieval marketplace to the fine dining of today, while stopping off to sample some of the culinary delights of Suffolk’s Foodie Capital.”

Tickets for the Bury St Edmunds Food and Drink Tour are £25.

To book visit www.burystedmundstourguides.org