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f you’ve been pining for Grillstock – and we’ll admit to having been very partial to all that midsummer meat, music and mayhem – then a new festival coming your way may help to fill the hunger gap. Between 8-9 May, The Bristol Wing Fest will transform Lloyds Amphitheatre into a poultry-eating mecca, with music thumping, axe throwing and beer and bourbon drinking, in two days of epic proportion: sounds like bank holiday fun on a stick, no? Following successful outings in London and Manchester, the festival will showcase a range of restaurants and street food traders, including Chicken
George (current reigning wing champions), Gurt Wings (local favourites), and London’s El Pollote (part of the famous KERB street food scene). All the traders will be competing to win the Bristol vote, as they let their creativity and imagination run riot with flavours and toppings; the competition gets seriously heated with the deadly Lava Wing Challenge hosted by Clifton Chilli Club. It’s the UK’s hottest wing competition, and renowned for creating absolute carnage. Think of it as poultry in motion. Bristol Wing Fest takes place 8-9 May Lloyds Amphitheatre For more: www.wingfest.co.uk
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