{"id":7347,"date":"2011-12-06T10:31:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T10:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=7347"},"modified":"2011-12-06T10:31:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T10:31:36","slug":"celebrate-christmas-in-welsh-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2011\/12\/06\/celebrate-christmas-in-welsh-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Christmas in Welsh style"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Celebrate a Welsh food inspired Christmas at Cardiff Castle<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_7503\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/12\/alt.cardiff.bigimage.castle.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7503\" title=\"alt.cardiff.bigimage.castle\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/12\/alt.cardiff.bigimage.castle.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/12\/alt.cardiff.bigimage.castle.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/12\/alt.cardiff.bigimage.castle-300x138.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7503\" title=\"alt.cardiff.bigimage.castle\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/12\/alt.cardiff.bigimage.castle.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/12\/alt.cardiff.bigimage.castle.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/12\/alt.cardiff.bigimage.castle-300x138.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Welsh Banquet at Cardiff Castle. Image courtesy of Cardiff Castle.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cardiff Castle is offering the opportunity to have a Christmas party in style this season. The Christmas Banquet is a variation of the Welsh Banquet that runs throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>The food offered on the four course menu is seasonally focused, and includes locally sourced Black Mountain liqueur and Glamorgan sausages. Marketing project manager Helen Jones says,\u00a0\u201cBanquets are popular, and as well as office parties, we have local families and visitors from abroad who are in the area on holiday or visiting family in Wales.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Helen explained that to add to the theme of the evening,\u00a0the serving staff are all dressed in traditional Welsh costume and patrons are entertained by a harpist performing some traditional songs, as well as the Christmas favourites for people to listen to and join in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrate a Welsh food inspired Christmas at Cardiff Castle Cardiff Castle is offering the opportunity to have a Christmas party in style this season. The Christmas Banquet is a variation of the Welsh Banquet that runs throughout the year. The food offered on the four course menu is seasonally focused, and includes locally sourced Black Mountain liqueur and Glamorgan sausages. Marketing project manager Helen Jones says,\u00a0\u201cBanquets are popular, and as well as office parties, we have local families and visitors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":7813,"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":[664,448,1600,1601,22],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-cardiff-castle","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-party","tag-entertainment","tag-food-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Celebrate Christmas in Welsh style - 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\/12\/06\/celebrate-christmas-in-welsh-style\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Celebrate Christmas in Welsh style - alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Celebrate a Welsh food inspired Christmas at Cardiff Castle Cardiff Castle is offering the opportunity to have a Christmas party in style this season. 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