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Prepare for the Pontefract Liquorice Festival to go on tour, with the return of its food and drink trail!
Venues across Pontefract will be offering delicious liquorice-themed items to delight your taste buds throughout the festival weekend… from pastries and cakes to burgers and cocktails, it’s a chance to discover (or rediscover!) some of your favourite independent bars, restaurants and cafes.
Here’s a list of participating venues and treats on offer:
Alleyc’zam Cafe & Bar – Liquorice cocktails and cakes.
Cartners No. 5 – Liquorice rum, liquorice stout, sweet treats (and a surprise!)
Cromwells – Beef & liquorice stout pie, seasonal vegetables, light liquorice gravy served with chips or mashed potato. Liquorice cream tea – plain or fruit scone served with a homemade liquorice & raspberry jam, liquorice chantilly cream & Pontefract cakes.
Cryer & Stott Cheesemongers – A Yorkshire cheddar infused with Pontefract’s famous liquorice.
Farmer Copleys – Liquorice & honey gelato, liquorice stout, liquorice sausage & bacon, liquorice cupcakes, liquorice fudge, liquorice & blackcurrant jam. Also special liquorice waffles & milkshakes in The Dessertery!
The Hideaway – Homemade soup with a hint of liquorice, liquorice infused cheesecake, liquorice and gin cocktail garnished with star anais (the challenge is to drink it through a liquorice straw!) Small bag of liquorice flavoured treats for children.
House of Ales – Pontefract liquorice stout. Iron Dram – Liquorice flavoured cocktail, the ‘Pomfret Bootlegger’, containing wild berry moonshine & pernod and garnished with a Pontefract cake! Jollys – Liquorice tea, liquorice scones with liquorice jam, liquorice cake and biscuits. Liquorice Bush – The ‘Ponty Burger’ which has a hint of liquorice in the mayonnaise and liquorice cheesecake.
Myxology – ‘Liquorice Martini’, ‘Liquorice All Sort’ and ‘Raspberry Lace’ cocktails also blackcurrant liquorice brownies, candyfloss cupcakes and liquorice all sort cookies.
The Mad Ox – Liquorice cocktail.
The Old Grocers – Liquorice stout (collaboration with Chin Chin Brewery).
The Printers Draft – Liquorice gins, liquorice cocktails and free sweets for children.
You can find the full map here.
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The Pontefract Liquorice Festival is part of Our Year – Wakefield District 2024, find out more about Our Year here.
Venue Details
Find us at
Town Centre Precinct, Pontefract, WF8 1BD