If the phrase ‘Wild Feasts at Oxmoor Farm’ conjures up an image of an idyllic, sharing-style banquet served up on long tables inside a gorgeous, rustic barn nestled within a patchwork of open fields and surrounded by ancient woodland …that’s not exactly a coincidence.
Because as you may have gleaned from the photos, that’s exactly what they are.
You’ll find them just 30 miles out of town in the Chiltern Hills, and they’re bringing in a rather amazing lineup of genuinely brilliant, big-name chefs through the year until December. Those chefs will be cooking up sharing-style banquets for just two nights each, making it a strictly limited and intimate affair.
Rock up to High Wycombe station after a 30-minute train from London and then hop in a taxi for just 10 minutes before arriving at an ancient woodland area that is Oxmoor Farm. It’s got rolling open fields, vegetable patches, and wood fires, but most importantly it has a beautiful huge steel barn decked out with three long wooden, banqueting tables, twinkling fairy lights intertwined with ram horns, and hay bales covered with blankets.
Everything feels quintessentially like the English countryside with dozens of terracotta plant pots on the shelves and large vases of cow parsley. On arrival, you’ll be greeted by neo-soul music, a seasonal welcome cocktail, and the setting sunshine – if you’re lucky…
Wander around, clean your lungs out with some slightly less polluted air, or perch up by one of the wood fires before being called in by the brainchildren behind Oxmoor Farm, Paddy Maynard and Harry Hope-Morley. They’ll give you a quick spiel about the Wild Feasts and thank you for coming, before the head chef of the evening comes out to walk you through the menu of the night.
The roster of chefs ready to see out the year include Leandro Carreira (former Exec Chef of The Sea, The Sea); Amy Poon (of the legendary Poons London); Lasse Petersen (the head chef at Llewelyn’s & Lulu’s); and Wild Feasts regular Sophie Gordon, whose book & supperclub ‘The Whole Vegetable’ has been a roaring success.
There all taking a weekend a-piece, and tickets are still limited, and farm or not…
…they won’t crop up for long.
NOTE: The Wild Feasts at Oxmoor Farm take place throughout the year. You can find out more, and get tickets right here.
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Oxmoor Farm | Great Missenden HP16 9RD
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