{"id":6628,"date":"2011-11-29T11:35:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T11:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=6628"},"modified":"2011-11-29T11:35:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T11:35:57","slug":"medieval-banquet-at-illuminata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2011\/11\/29\/medieval-banquet-at-illuminata\/","title":{"rendered":"Medieval banquet at Illuminata"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif\">Experience a different kind of Christmas dinner at Caerphilly Castle<\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_6629\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/11\/Food_9_Medieval_Big_SW.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6629\" title=\"Food_9_Medieval_Big_SW\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/11\/Food_9_Medieval_Big_SW.jpg\" alt=\"Picture courtesy of Cadw\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/11\/Food_9_Medieval_Big_SW.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/11\/Food_9_Medieval_Big_SW-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6629\" title=\"Food_9_Medieval_Big_SW\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/11\/Food_9_Medieval_Big_SW.jpg\" alt=\"Picture courtesy of Cadw\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/11\/Food_9_Medieval_Big_SW.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/11\/Food_9_Medieval_Big_SW-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Celebrate Caerphilly&#039;s history at the Illuminata medieval banquet. Picture courtesy of Cadw.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif\">Caerphilly Castle invites visitors on a culinary journey back in time at specially catered medieval-style Christmas banquets for this year&#8217;s Illuminata event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif\">Illuminata is the annual event hosted by Caerphilly Castle which celebrates its history. From December 9-11, the five-course medieval meal will be served in the Great Hall for \u00a330 per plate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rhodri Ellis Owen, Spokesperson for the Welsh Government\u2019s historic environment service (<a href=\"http:\/\/cadw.wales.gov.uk\/events_folder\/5512462\/medievalchristmasbanquet?skip=1&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cadw<\/a>), says, \u201cThe banquets aim to capture the atmosphere of the period, and guests will only eat food available during medieval times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The menus have been designed by Cadw and experienced medieval food chefs, and the meal will be served with medieval ales and meads served in traditional goblets. So-called serving wenches and jesters will be on hand to entertain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experience a different kind of Christmas dinner at Caerphilly Castle Caerphilly Castle invites visitors on a culinary journey back in time at specially catered medieval-style Christmas banquets for this year&#8217;s Illuminata event. Illuminata is the annual event hosted by Caerphilly Castle which celebrates its history. From December 9-11, the five-course medieval meal will be served in the Great Hall for \u00a330 per plate. Rhodri Ellis Owen, Spokesperson for the Welsh Government\u2019s historic environment service (Cadw), says, \u201cThe banquets aim to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":6632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[172,1481,1482,1483,884,1484,1485,1486,1487,1488,1489,1247],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-caerphilly","tag-caerphilly-castle","tag-castle","tag-christmas-banquet","tag-christmas-dinner","tag-illuminata","tag-illuminata-2011","tag-medieval","tag-medieval-banquet","tag-medieval-food","tag-wales-history","tag-welsh-history"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Medieval banquet at Illuminata - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2011\/11\/29\/medieval-banquet-at-illuminata\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Medieval banquet at Illuminata - alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Experience a different kind of Christmas dinner at Caerphilly Castle Caerphilly Castle invites visitors on a culinary journey back in time at specially catered medieval-style Christmas banquets for this year&#8217;s Illuminata event. 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